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Virgin Media Average Broadband Speeds Showing Improvement

19th Feb, 2018 (47 Comments)

Cable ISP Virgin Media looks to be in a good shape ahead of the forthcoming change in UK advertising rules. The provider has published a monthly update that reveals the “average” speeds of their broadband packages and in most cases they’re now delivering faster than the headline rate.

Multi Room TV Trial Gets Underway at UK Broadband ISP TalkTalk UPDATE

19th Feb, 2018 (8 Comments)

Broadband customers who signed-up last year to trial TalkTalk’s new YouView (IPTV) based Multi-Room TV service are finally starting to receive their kit. The ISP is aiming to launch the service commercially during early 2018 (most likely around late March or April).

Churches to Help Spread Wireless Broadband into Rural England

18th Feb, 2018 (12 Comments)

The UK Government has reached a new accord with the National Church Institutions (NCIs) of the Church of England, which should make it easier for churches to be used in order to help distribute faster wireless broadband and WiFi services across rural communities.

ISP Dyfed Superfast Brings Wireless Broadband to Yscir in Wales

16th Feb, 2018 (1 Comment)

The remote rural community of Yscir in the county of Powys (Wales) looks set to gain access to “superfast broadband” speeds of 30Mbps+ after Carmarthenshire-based ISP Dyfed Superfast (Dyfed IT) announced that it had won a contract to deploy a series of masts across the region.

Microsoft and ip.access Test 4G White Space Wireless Broadband Tech

16th Feb, 2018 (5 Comments)

Small cell provider ip.access has joined Microsoft’s on-going Project Belgrade, which is using the City of Cambridge UK as a testbed to demonstrate that TV White Space (TVWS) technology can be used to connect residential homes to affordable WiFi style wireless broadband services.

7200 Hereford and Gloucestershire Premises to Get Fibre Broadband UPDATE

15th Feb, 2018 (9 Comments)

Openreach today confirmed they will deploy their “superfast fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network to cover a further 7,200 homes and businesses in the UK counties of Herefordshire and Gloucestershire (completion by the end of 2019), which comes after BT signed a new £5.1m contract under the Fastershire project.

Inflationary Mobile Price Rises for Three UK, EE, O2 and Vodafone

15th Feb, 2018 (32 Comments)

Mobile operators Three UK, EE, O2 and Vodafone have all confirmed that they’ll introduce mid-contract price rises for subscribers, which as usual will be conducted in line with inflation as measured via the Retail Price Index (RPI). The RPI figure for January 2018 was 4%.

UK Fails to Enter 2018 FTTH Ultrafast Broadband Country Ranking

15th Feb, 2018 (66 Comments)

The FTTH Council Europe, which campaigns for the adoption of pure fibre optic based Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH/P/B) style ultrafast broadband technologies, has published their latest 2018 country ranking and sadly the United Kingdom remains notable for its continued absence.

£1.5m Brings Free WiFi to Every Arriva Trains Wales Route

15th Feb, 2018 (3 Comments)

An investment of £1.5 million by the Welsh Government means that passengers across Wales can now benefit from free WiFi on all Arriva Trains Wales (ATW) services, which has been retrofitted to ATW’s entire fleet including Pacer trains, Class 153’s and the carriages used on the north-south Express.

Virgin Media UK to Launch 350Mbps Home Broadband Package UPDATE2

15th Feb, 2018 (59 Comments)

Cable ISP Virgin Media (Liberty Global) has published their latest Q4 2017 (calendar) results, which saw them pledge to introduce a new 350Mbps broadband tier and add 159,000 premises to their UK network coverage. Virgin’s total broadband base also grew by +24K in the quarter to total 5,104,300.

Little Known UK Web Host and Broadband ISP Hotchilli to Close

15th Feb, 2018 (1 Comment)

Little known UK ISP Hotchilli, which offered a mix of website hosting and some very out-of-date ‘up to’ 8Mbps ADSLMax based copper broadband packages, has finally kicked the bucket and will discontinue the services it provides on 30th March 2018.

Customers of ISP Sky Broadband Braced for Annual Price Hike

14th Feb, 2018 (17 Comments)

Sky has quietly updated their UK website to note that “some” of their Sky Broadband prices will “increase” on 1st April 2018, which we predict could result in an average rise of around +£1-2 per month on the standard rental charge. Unfortunately Sky aren’t expected to reveal the exact details until next week.

CEO of Gigaclear Wins Award for Contribution to FTTH in Europe UPDATE

14th Feb, 2018 (5 Comments)

The CEO of rural focused UK fibre optic ISP Gigaclear, Matthew Hare, has this afternoon been presented by the FTTH Council Europe with an award for his “outstanding contributions” to the acceleration of Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) ultrafast broadband technology in Europe.

SpaceX Set to Launch 2 Starlink Satellites to Test Gigabit Broadband

14th Feb, 2018 (5 Comments)

Rocket company SpaceX will on Saturday launch a pair of small Low Earth Orbit (LEO) test satellites for their proposed Starlink service, which could in theory deliver ultrafast broadband speeds of up to 1Gbps and low latency times of just 25-35ms (milliseconds) across the world.

5G Mobile Spectrum Auction Proceeds After Appeal by Three UK Fails

14th Feb, 2018 (6 Comments)

Last night the Court of Appeal in London rejected Three UK’s final attempt to have Ofcom impose a 30% spectrum cap on their forthcoming auction of 4G and 5G friendly radio spectrum in the 2.3GHz and 3.4GHz bands, which would have stopped EE (BT) from bidding and hampered Vodafone.

Study Claims UK Mobile Users Wasting 3.4GB of Data Every Month

14th Feb, 2018 (7 Comments)

A new online survey of 5,603 UK adults has found that the average (mean) amount of Mobile Broadband data included with a Mobile plan is 5.9GB (GigaBytes) and yet subscribers only consume an average of 2.5GB, which suggests that some could save money by choosing a cheaper tariff.

BT and Sky in £4.46bn Deal to Show 160 Premier League TV Matches

13th Feb, 2018 (25 Comments)

Both BT and Sky UK (Sky Broadband) will continue to spend big on their respective UK Pay TV platforms after tonight reaching a £4.464bn deal, which will allow them to show Premier League Football matches for a further 3 years from the 2019/20 season onwards.