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Budget UK ISP TalkTalk Hikes Out of Contract Broadband Prices

3rd May, 2019 (4 Comments)

Out-of-contract customers with budget ISP TalkTalk, specifically those who take either their “Fast Broadband” (ADSL) or “Faster Fibre” (FTTC / VDSL2) and phone line packages, have been told by the provider that their post contract prices will be hiked by up to £3 extra per month.

ISP BT Launch Stay Fast Guarantee for Home Broadband Customers

3rd May, 2019 (9 Comments)

UK ISP BT has today effectively extended the “speed guarantee” on their ultrafast broadband (FTTP and G.fast) packages to the rest of their slower ADSL and FTTC (VDSL2) based services. The new “Stay Fast Guarantee” will see them trying to correct a fault with speeds and then giving £20 back (up to 4 times a year) if they fail.

BT Ask UK Communities to Adopt Old Local Phone Boxes for £1.. Again

2nd May, 2019 (14 Comments)

BT has once again called upon local communities from across England and Wales to help adopt one of their old public phone boxes, many of which are now standing disused, for just £1 in order to “turn them into something inspirational” for their local area (i.e. a change of use from being adopted as a public toilet by revellers).

Ofcom Finds Full Fibre Broadband Available to 7% of UK Premises

2nd May, 2019 (23 Comments)

Ofcom has published a Spring 2019 update to last year’s Connected Nations 2018 report, which uses more recent data to provide the latest coverage statistics for UK mobile and fixed line broadband networks. The key change is that “full fibre” (FTTP) coverage has risen to 7% (i.e. over 300K premises in the last 4 months, nearly 1.8 million total).

UK ISP Exascale Extend MPLS Network to Wolverhampton and Telford

2nd May, 2019 (0 Comments)

Business ISP Exascale has announced that “unprecedented demand” during Q1 2019 has caused them to extend their carrier grade MPLS network to Wolverhampton and Telford, which they say will support a range of “competitively priced” uncontented gigabit Point-to-Point Ethernet and contended FTTP services in selected areas.

ITSPA Name the 2019 Best UK VoIP Provider Award Winners

1st May, 2019 (1 Comment)

The Internet Telephony Services Providers Association, which represents the United Kingdom’s Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) phone industry, has today unveiled the winners of this year’s 2019 ITSPA Awards event. The awards were presented across 12 categories at Glaziers Hall in central London.

New UK Laws to Make Broadband Routers and IoT Kit More Secure

1st May, 2019 (14 Comments)

The Government has today launched a new consultation on their proposal to introduce new laws that would seek to improve the security of internet connected devices, such as smart TVs, broadband ISP routers, smart speakers and other Internet of Things (IoT) style devices. But “initially” these will only be voluntary.

EE UK Launch Lifetime Smartphone Warranty and Swappable Benefits

1st May, 2019 (18 Comments)

Mobile operator EE (BT) has today launched a new range of “Smart” 4G plans for Pay Monthly customers that come with the UK’s first “swappable benefits” (comprised of the Video Pass, Music Pass, access to the BT Sport app and Extended roaming), as well as the first “lifetime smartphone warranty” from a network.

Sure Mobile Ads Banned for Claiming to be Jersey’s Fastest Network

1st May, 2019 (2 Comments)

A complaint by JT (Jersey Telecom) has prompted the UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) to ban a “misleading” Facebook and website advert for mobile operator Sure, which claimed to be both “Jersey’s fastest mobile network” (mobile broadband) and also “officially the fastest in the Channel Islands.”

Cityfibre Begin 1Gbps FTTH Broadband Rollout in Cambridge UK

1st May, 2019 (1 Comment)

Some 60,000 homes and businesses across the city of Cambridge (Cambridgeshire, England) look set to benefit after Cityfibre announced the start of their £20m 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband roll-out, which is being supported by UK ISP partner Vodafone and is due to complete by the end of 2021.

ISP Cerberus Networks Launch UK 1Gbps Openreach FTTP Packages

1st May, 2019 (15 Comments)

Business and consumer ISP Cerberus Networks has today become one of the very few UK internet providers to launch both a 500Mbps and 1Gbps broadband tier using Openreach’s (BT) premium Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) products. On top of that they’ve also reduced the price of their hybrid fibre G.fast packages.

Business ISP IFB Restructures Following Management Buyout

1st May, 2019 (0 Comments)

Aberdeen-based UK broadband and telecoms provider Internet for Business (IFB) has confirmed that a partial management buyout has taken place from its founder and Chairman, John Michie, resulting in a restructuring of share ownership.

Post Office Seek Suppliers to Support its UK Broadband ISP Products

30th Apr, 2019 (4 Comments)

The Post Office, which has around 500,000 customers on their UK home phone and broadband products, appears to have recently issued a new Prior Information Notice (PIN) that seeks suppliers for “a range of goods and services in order to continue to provide telecommunications services” to consumers.

All UK GPs, Hospitals and Community Care Facilities to Get Full Fibre

30th Apr, 2019 (12 Comments)

The Government’s Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Matt Hancock MP, has today announced his intention to upgrade the National Health Service (NHS) with better digital connectivity, not least by ensuring that all GPs and Hospitals are connected to Gigabit capable “full fibre” connections (FTTP or leased lines).

SSE Enterprise Telecoms to Launch Jisc’s Janet South Fibre Network

30th Apr, 2019 (2 Comments)

Fibre optic comms provider SSE Enterprise Telecoms has been chosen by Jisc to launch the Janet South network. The rollout will see 7 more BT exchanges unbundled and will utilise 4 existing Points of Presence (PoPs) to provide improved connectivity to 11 UK universities and 80 local colleges.

Which? Criticise Broadband Speeds in Scotland – Ignores Availability

30th Apr, 2019 (13 Comments)

Consumer magazine Which? has used data from its consumer speedtests to warn that just 13 constituencies in Scotland (unclear if they mean burgh or county constituencies) are achieving a broadband speed of over 20Mbps and half of tests across the UK failed to hit 10Mbps. But this interpretation has some big flaws.

Ofcom Shame TalkTalk and Tesco for Broadband and Mobile Quality

30th Apr, 2019 (2 Comments)

Ofcom has today published their 2019 survey of UK service quality, call waiting times, complaints and install times among the largest broadband ISPs and mobile operators. Overall TalkTalk attracted the lowest satisfaction for home broadband (79%) and Tesco Mobile did the same for mobile (90%).