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Zen Internet UK Confirm Plan to Launch 330Mbps FTTP Broadband Service

3rd Jul, 2012 (2 Comments)

Rochdale-based ISP Zen Internet has today confirmed to ISPreview.co.uk that they’re planning to launch a 330Mbps (Megabits per second) capable fibre optic broadband package using the latest Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) technology upgrade, which was yesterday made commercially available (here) to the UK market.

CLA Expects UK Government to Miss its 2015 Superfast Broadband Target

3rd Jul, 2012 (13 Comments)

The Country Land and Business Association (CLA), a land owners lobby group for England and Wales, has warned that the UK governments plan to help roll-out superfast broadband (24-30Mbps+) services to 90% of the country by 2015 (the last 10% will get at least 2Mbps) could be missed because of a “slow funding process” and “reliance on fibre optic networks“.

UPD UK Satellite ISP Tooway Direct Launches 18Mbps Broadband Package

3rd Jul, 2012 (5 Comments)

Satellite ISP Tooway Direct (SSW), which uses Eutelsat’s KA-SAT spacecraft at 9° East to deliver broadband to almost anywhere in the UK, has revamped its services and launched a new Tooway 18 MAX package that pushes the top download rate up to 18Mbps (6Mbps uploads) alongside FREE hardware and connection.

Top 9 UK Fastest Broadband ISPs by Internet Speed for June 2012

3rd Jul, 2012 (10 Comments)

The latest anecdotal monthly consumer broadband ISP speed testing results from Broadband.co.uk, which covers the past month of June 2012, reveals that the average UK internet download speed has shot up yet again from 15.286Mbps (Megabits per second) during May 2012 to 17.662Mbps now.

Three UK Come Top in Roaming Mobile Broadband Performance Study

2nd Jul, 2012 (0 Comments)

Mobile operator Three UK has been named the best overall provider in this year’s Broadband Genie Road Trip 2012 study, which tested all of the five main Mobile Broadband operators (plus Virgin Mobile) for reliability and performance while roaming on a 2:30hr trip from King’s Cross to Exeter in England.

Fake UK ISP Internet Piracy Warning Letters Expose Obvious DEAct Flaw

2nd Jul, 2012 (1 Comment)

The Open Rights Group (ORG) has warned of a new email phishing attack that takes advantage of the governments Digital Economy Act (DEAct) by attempting to extort money from innocent internet users in the UK via FAKE notification letters, which allege to have detected copyright infringement (piracy) on the users broadband connection.

BT Makes 330Mbps Fibre Optic Broadband Available to UK Consumers

2nd Jul, 2012 (7 Comments)

BTOpenreach, which manages ISP access to BT’s UK telecoms network, has today made its new “premium” ultra-fast 330Mbps (Megabits per second) capable fibre optic (FTTP) broadband service fully available to the market and consumers.

AAISP Boss Fears Costly Technical Nightmare of UK Internet Snooping Law

2nd Jul, 2012 (10 Comments)

The boss of broadband ISP Andrews & Arnold (AAISP), Adrian Kennard, has warned that the UK governments new Communications Data Bill, which will expand existing internet snooping laws and force ISPs into monitoring a much bigger slice of everybody’s online activity, is “technically a nightmare” and will require providers to introduce “stupidly expensive black boxes“.

MP Claims Ofcom Slow to Save 2Million UK Freeview Homes from 4G Woe

30th Jun, 2012 (5 Comments)

The Shadow Minister for Media, Helen Goodman MP (Labour), has today warned that both the UK government and Ofcom are “running out of time” to find a solution for the “4G” (LTE) Mobile Broadband interference problem, which could leave up to 2 million UK households without a full ability to watch Freeview based Digital TV (DTV) services.

BT Preps New UK Superfast Broadband Cabinets for Exchange Only Lines

29th Jun, 2012 (18 Comments)

BTOpenreach has informed UK ISPs of a small, but potentially quite important, development that will allow it to deploy superfast broadband (FTTC) services on Exchange Only (EO) lines. This is where the phone line for a home is connected directly to a telephone exchange and does not go through a street cabinet.

Google and Bing Help Children to Bypass UK ISP Based Adult Website Blocks

29th Jun, 2012 (4 Comments)

As the UK government consults on whether or not to force broadband ISPs into imposing default censorship of adult websites (here), it’s worth remembering just how ineffective such measures can be. One of the biggest problems is with internet search engines, such as Google and Microsoft’s Bing, which often maintain cached copies of related images and sometimes even videos.

Fluidata Boosts Capacity of its Broadband ISP Solution for UK Rural Areas

29th Jun, 2012 (2 Comments)

Business ISP Fluidata has invested a further £2.5 million to massively boost the capacity of its new Service Exchange Platform (SEP), which makes it easier for a range of competitive broadband ISPs (i.e. not just BT based providers) to reach rural homes and businesses through a specially aggregated open access wholesale network.

UPD4 Government Consult on 3 Options for UK ISP Adult Website Censorship

28th Jun, 2012 (4 Comments)

The UK governments Department for Education (DfE) has, in response to the recent Parliamentary Inquiry into Online Child Protection, today launched a new public consultation that proposes three potential options for handling the censorship of adult websites and related internet content by broadband ISPs.

Griffin Wins Best UK ISP at Comms Business Awards 2012

28th Jun, 2012 (2 Comments)

The annual Comms Business Awards 2012 event has awarded Griffin the Best Internet Service Provider of the Year gong for the 4th time at London’s Lancaster Hotel in Hyde Park. Separately Vodafone also won the Best Mobile Network of the Year award.

Government Approves Two More UK Superfast Broadband Rollout Plans

27th Jun, 2012 (15 Comments)

The UK governments Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt MP, appears to have confirmed to this week’s annual reception of the All-Party Parliamentary Media Group (APPMG) that he has now approved a further 2 local authorities that failed to get their Local Broadband Plans (LBP) done before the original deadline in April.

BTOpenzone and Fon UK WiFi Hotspot Services Renamed to BT Wi-fi

27th Jun, 2012 (9 Comments)

BT has, without much fanfare, rebranded its public wireless (wifi) hotspot business from BTOpenzone to the more understandable title of BT Wi-fi. The move will also bring its BTFon service together under the same name.

BT Announce UK Pilot Locations for 330Mbps FTTP on Demand Service

27th Jun, 2012 (27 Comments)

BTOpenreach has today announced a list of 8 telephone exchanges that will be used to conduct the first pilot of their unique FTTP-On-Demand service, which allows BT to deploy “ultra-fast” 330Mbps capable fibre optic broadband speeds to almost anywhere that their existing FTTC service has covered (66% of the UK by the end of 2014).