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Poor Showing for Telecoms in Top 50 UK Customer Satisfaction Index

6th Jul, 2018 (3 Comments)

Telecommunications (mobile, broadband ISP and phone) providers have this year given a poor showing in the top 50 UK customer satisfaction index, although two Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNO) did at least make it into the top list. The highest ranked was Tesco Mobile at 7th, while giffgaff trailed far behind in 44th.

Dorchester Town Centre in Dorset UK Deploys Free Public WiFi

6th Jul, 2018 (1 Comment)

Investment from the Dorchester Business Improvement District (BID), local councils and Brewery Square has enabled a free public WiFi wireless internet network to be deployed by a company called Fusion Wi-Fi across Dorchester’s town centre in Dorset (England).

Customers of UK ISP TalkTalk Unable to Reach UK2 Web Hosting UPDATE

5th Jul, 2018 (2 Comments)

An unspecified network problem has been preventing TalkTalk’s broadband ISP customers from accessing any servers belonging to the website hosting company UK2.net since earlier this morning. At the time of writing nobody appears to know quite when it will be resolved.

Boundless Networks and Networx3 Deploy 1Gbps FTTP to Haslingden

5th Jul, 2018 (6 Comments)

Alternative network ISP Boundless Networks has teamed-up with Networx3 to bring 1Gbps capable “full fibre” broadband and Ethernet services to businesses in the town of Haslingden (Lancashire, England), specifically those based on the Courtyard business site along Grane Road.

Gigaclear and EE Examine World Cup Impact on UK Internet Traffic

5th Jul, 2018 (12 Comments)

Rural fibre optic broadband ISP Gigaclear has claimed that fever over the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia is turning into “white-hot rage over terrible internet connections.” Meanwhile mobile operator EE saw broadband usage “drop drastically” throughout all matches, while 4G mobile traffic did the opposite.

Ofcom Publish 5 Year Plan for UK Fixed Wireless Spectrum

5th Jul, 2018 (0 Comments)

Fixed wireless networks are used across the UK for supplying broadband ISP connections to homes, providing backhaul capacity for mobile networks, distributing TV and so forth. As such Ofcom’s review of related services, which sets out their key decisions and a 5 year plan for the spectrum, is very important.

ITS Technology Secure More Funding to Fuel UK Full Fibre Network

5th Jul, 2018 (0 Comments)

The ITS Technology Group, which has built a mix of fibre optic and wireless broadband ISP networks around the UK, has secured another round of investment from private equity firms. The new funding will be used to support the growth and commercialisation of their “full fibre” network in metro and rural areas.

Scientists Use Fibre Optic Broadband Cables to Detect Earthquakes

5th Jul, 2018 (0 Comments)

Underground optical fibre networks aren’t just brilliant at delivering ultrafast broadband ISP speeds to UK homes. A team of German scientists have found that they can also be used to detect Earthquakes, as well as other seismic signals from hammer shots, passing cars or wave movements in the ocean.

BDUK Dispute Leaves Cumbria Villages Waiting for Faster Broadband

5th Jul, 2018 (21 Comments)

A dispute between Openreach (BT), the Government’s Broadband Delivery UK programme and the local authority’s Connecting Cumbria project appears to be stalling a plan that could otherwise see fixed line “superfast broadband” (24Mbps+) ISP services extended to a number of previously excluded villages.

Internet Piracy – 6.52 Million UK People Downloaded Illegal Content

4th Jul, 2018 (13 Comments)

The Government’s Intellectual Property Office has today published its 8th study into the extent of online copyright infringement by broadband ISP and mobile users, which estimates that 15% of UK Internet users aged 12+ (6.525 million people) had downloaded at least one item of “illegal” online content (unchanged from 2017).

Ofcom UK Appoints New Group Strategy and Research Director

4th Jul, 2018 (2 Comments)

The national UK telecommunications and media regulator, Ofcom, has promoted their existing Competition Director, Yih-Choung Teh, to be the new Group Strategy and Research Director. Yih-Choung was previously Ofcom’s Competition Director and replaces Dr Steve Unger in the strategy role.

Openreach and UK ISPs Still Far Apart on Automatic Compensation

4th Jul, 2018 (24 Comments)

The Office of the Telecoms Adjudicator (OTA) has said that ISPs and Openreach “remain some distance apart” from an agreement on payments as part of Ofcom’s forthcoming automatic compensation system, which will force providers to compensate consumers for a total loss of broadband connectivity.

Councils Warn UK Rural Areas Face Perfect Storm of Poor Broadband

4th Jul, 2018 (18 Comments)

A new report published by the Local Government Association, which represents around 370 councils across England and Wales, has warned that rural communities could face a post-Brexit “perfect storm” from poor broadband ISP and mobile connectivity, unaffordable homes, skills haps and weak healthcare etc.

CableLabs Spec Brings Terabit Fibre Optic Speeds to Access Networks

2nd Jul, 2018 (0 Comments)

CableLabs, which is best known for creating the DOCSIS standard that underpins modern cable networks (e.g. Virgin Media in the UK), has today released two new specifications that bring “hyper speed” Point-to-Point Coherent Optics technology to the access network and that means more capacity.

Investors Warn UK Infrastructure Projects are too Politicised

2nd Jul, 2018 (4 Comments)

A new report from global law firm DLA Piper has warned that “excessive politicisation” of major UK infrastructure projects (broadband, energy etc.) is becoming a “significant turn-off” for risk averse investors, which comes at a time when the Government are trying to attract private investment to help upgrade the country.

Virgin Media UK Extend to Ballyclare and Portadown in Northern Ireland

2nd Jul, 2018 (0 Comments)

Cable ISP Virgin Media has announced that up to 5,000 properties in Ballyclare and 1,200 in Portadown, Northern Ireland, will be the next to gain access to their 350Mbps capable ultrafast broadband and TV services under the on-going £3bn Project Lightning network extension.

Lancashire Council Stall B4RN’s 1Gbps Broadband Build for Schools

2nd Jul, 2018 (96 Comments)

The B4RN (Broadband for the Rural North) ISP project, which has been deploying a 1Gbps community built and funded Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) network to rural UK homes since 2012, appears to have hit a snag with Lancashire County Council hampering their UK rollout in both Caton and Halton.