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20Mbps Wireless Broadband Comes to Kettlewell, Starbotton and Buckden

13th Nov, 2012 (1 Comment)

LN Communications (I Love Broadband) has announced that the North Yorkshire (England, UK) communities of Kettlewell, Starbotton and Buckden can now access faster wireless broadband speeds of more than 20Mbps (Megabits per second).

Wandsworth UK Moots Superfast Fibre Optic Broadband for Council Flats

13th Nov, 2012 (3 Comments)

Wandsworth Council has announced it is “considering options” for partnering up with an ISP that could help to make superfast fibre optic (FTTH/P) broadband services available to the borough’s council flats and possibly also local businesses. But will doing so boost broadband uptake?

ISP TalkTalk UK Falls to 4.043m Broadband Users as Fibre Connections Double

13th Nov, 2012 (1 Comment)

Budget internet, tv and phone provider TalkTalk has today released its latest Q3-2012 financial results, which reveal that their broadband subscriber base declined by -4,000 in the quarter to total 4,043,000 (that’s a big improvement from the -19k lost in Q2). Thankfully superfast broadband (FTTC) customers doubled to 30,000.

UK Government Spent GBP9.8m on 70 External BDUK Broadband Consultants

13th Nov, 2012 (8 Comments)

The government’s Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) office, which is responsible for overseeing the national and publicly funded roll-out of superfast broadband services, has revealed that a whopping £9.8m of its £680m budget until 2015 has been spent on 70 external consultants (between May 2010 and September 2012).

BT Claim UK is Already in the Vanguard of EU Fibre Broadband Deployment

13th Nov, 2012 (5 Comments)

BT has said that the United Kingdom is already in the “vanguard of fibre deployment” within Europe and called upon the European Parliament’s ITRE Committee to release detailed economic modelling to support their latest proposal, which demands speeds of 100Mbps for every home in the EU by 2020.

South Gloucestershire and Wiltshire Pick BT for Superfast Broadband Contract

12th Nov, 2012 (3 Comments)

The South Gloucestershire Council (SGC), in partnership with Wiltshire Council (WC), have become the latest local authorities to pick BT as the “preferred bidder” for their joint UK Local Broadband Plan (LBP), which aims to make superfast broadband speeds of 24Mbps+ available to 90% of local people by spring 2015.

Point Topic Release Map of Superfast Broadband Coverage in UK and Europe

12th Nov, 2012 (0 Comments)

Analyst firm Point Topic has released its report into the coverage of superfast broadband (Next Generation Access) services in the EU, which is intended to assess how close Europe is to achieving its Digital Agenda goals. Apparently the EU as a whole is just “half-way towards the goal” of 30Mbps+ for all by 2020.

Ofcom Reveal Final UK 4G Mobile Broadband Auction Rules and Timetable

12th Nov, 2012 (0 Comments)

Ofcom has today announced the final regulations, reserve prices and timetable for its imminent auction of superfast 4G (LTE or WiMAX) compatible Mobile Broadband spectrum (800MHz and 2.6GHz), which will officially get underway on 11th December 2012 with the first services to launch in May or June 2013.

BT Broadband Regenerators Could Boost ADSL ISP Service Speeds

10th Nov, 2012 (7 Comments)

The network director for BT’s Superfast Cornwall project, Jeremy Stevenson-Barnes, has suggested that the operators trial of new Broadband Regenerator equipment could in the future be used to boost some of the slowest copper ADSL or ADSL2+ broadband speeds from hundreds of kilobits per second (Kbps) to 3-4Mbps (Megabits).

UK ISP PlusNet Scoops Best Broadband Supplier of the Year Award

9th Nov, 2012 (4 Comments)

The editors and readers of Computer Shopper magazine have awarded PlusNet the Best Broadband Supplier of the Year accolade at their annual 2012 awards ceremony.

Ofcom Start Review of UK Fixed Line and Wholesale Broadband Markets

9th Nov, 2012 (4 Comments)

The UK communications regulator, Ofcom, has today launched two new reviews that aim to examine the effectiveness of competition between telecoms operators in both the Fixed Access Market and the Wholesale Broadband Access Market (WBA). A major focus will be on the impact of new super-fast broadband services.

UPD BT Demo 10Gbps Fibre Optic FTTP Broadband ISP Speeds in Cornwall

9th Nov, 2012 (53 Comments)

BT has used the latest XG-PON (i.e. 10G-PON or ITU-T G.987) hardware from ZTE to demonstrate its “hyper-fast” Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband service delivering speeds of up to 10Gbps (Gigabits per second) to a business in Cornwall (Arcol – based outside Truro), which equates to around 10,000Mbps (Megabits).

UPDATE Ofcom UK to Improve its Identification of Slamming and Mis-selling

9th Nov, 2012 (0 Comments)

A new report created by Mott MacDonald (MM) has advised Ofcom on how to improve its identification of mis-selling and slamming in the UK phone and broadband market. The research found several issues with the regulators tracking of such complaints and revealed some interesting details about the scale of related problems.

Wales to Prioritise Superfast Broadband in the Powys Local Growth Zone

8th Nov, 2012 (4 Comments)

The Welsh Government (WG) has announced that its £425m Next Generation Broadband Wales project will prioritise faster internet connectivity to the Powys Local Growth Zone (PLGZ), albeit only after the country’s seven Enterprise Zones have received similar treatment.

VIDEO BT and Timico CTO Showcase an FTTC Superfast Broadband Install

8th Nov, 2012 (3 Comments)

The Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of business ISP Timico UK, Trefor Davies, recently had a BT film crew turn up to record the events as his local street cabinet and home connectivity were upgraded to support superfast broadband (FTTC) technology; that video has now been posted.

UK Culture Secretary to Lobby EU Over Delayed Broadband Funding Approval

8th Nov, 2012 (8 Comments)

The UK government’s Culture Secretary, Maria Miller MP, will today fly out to Brussels with the hope of persuading the European Commission (EC) to grant final approval for the release of state aid funding, which would allow local authorities to proceed with their national roll-out of superfast broadband services.

Go ON UK Say 16 Million People Need Basic Internet Skills to Help Boost GDP

8th Nov, 2012 (0 Comments)

Charity Go ON UK (RaceOnline 2012) has estimated that 16 million people in the UK still don’t have the basic online skills needed to benefit fully from the internet. The economy (GDP) could, it claims, be £63 billion better off if the nation reversed this. The solution? A new Digital Skills Charter.