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Altnet UK Business ISP M247 Doubles Size of its Manchester HQ

7th Jan, 2019 (4 Comments)

Business ISP M247 (Metronet UK and Venus Business Communications), which offers a range of fibre optic and wireless broadband based connectivity solutions, has almost doubled its existing headquarters footprint to nearly 12,000sq ft at the Manchester Science Partnerships’ Turing House building.

2018 H2 – UK Superfast Broadband Coverage Slowly Edges to 96%

7th Jan, 2019 (18 Comments)

A new independent model has estimated that the coverage of fixed “superfast broadband” (24Mbps+) ISP networks across the United Kingdom has grown to 95.8% at the end of 2018 (up from 95.3% in H1 2018), while “full fibre” (FTTP/H) networks now reach 5.47% of premises (up from 3.82% in H1).

ISP BT Trials New Way of Checking User Broadband Line Speeds UPDATE

7th Jan, 2019 (41 Comments)

Consumer UK ISP BT has begun to trial a new way of checking customer broadband speeds, which sounds like it will require special code (firmware) to be added on to the end-users router (Smart Hub etc.) in order to test and monitor their line. This could help them to comply with Ofcom’s forthcoming changes.

The 2019 Best UK Home Broadband ISP Choices by ISPreview

7th Jan, 2019 (22 Comments)

Comparing fixed line broadband and phone providers can often result in a headache of confusing choices and not everybody shops around for the best deal, even though they probably should. In this guide we aim to simplify the options and quicken the process of choosing an ISP with our own picks.

Party of Wales Criticises Welsh Government for 2 Year Broadband Delay

5th Jan, 2019 (9 Comments)

The Party of Wales (Plaid Cymru) has criticised the Welsh Government (WG) over delays to their “fast broadband” roll-out project (Superfast Cymru), which they claim means that some parts of the country “will not see any work done to install broadband connections for almost two years.”

Ofcom Moot Phone Number for Life as Broadband Changes UK Calling

5th Jan, 2019 (19 Comments)

New research from Ofcom has today suggested that remembering phone numbers – or even needing to dial them – could soon become a thing of the past as consumers are changing how they communicate and making greater use of broadband internet and mobile services. The landline phone era is slowly coming to an end.

Watered Down £150m N.Ireland Broadband Project Faces Uncertainty

4th Jan, 2019 (12 Comments)

Back in 2017 the Conservative UK government committed £150m to “help provide ultra-fast broadband” (100Mbps+) across Northern Ireland, which formed part of a deal with the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) to secure the support of their MPs. But the plan now focuses upon 30Mbps+ speeds and is stuck in limbo.

Havering in London UK Secures £800k to Build Fibre Optic Broadband

4th Jan, 2019 (0 Comments)

The Greater London Authority’s Strategic Investment Pot has awarded £800,000 to the Borough of Havering, which will be used to deploy a new ultrafast fibre optic network into the Rainham area. This could be used for improving connectivity to both public sector sites and businesses.

Delay to New Gigaclear FTTP Plan for Gloucestershire and Herefordshire

3rd Jan, 2019 (2 Comments)

The Fastershire scheme in Gloucestershire and Herefordshire (England) has confirmed that they’ve sent Gigaclear’s revised Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband roll-out plan back to the drawing board. The move follows last year’s news (here), which revealed that the UK ISP’s contract had suffered “unexpected delays.”

Nextgenaccess Appoint Former Gamma CEO as Non-Executive Director

3rd Jan, 2019 (0 Comments)

Network builder Nextgenaccess, which recently secured £22m from the UK National Digital Infrastructure Fund (NDIF) to help spread its 10Gbps fibre optic broadband to businesses in South Wales and South West England (here), has appointed the former CEO of ISP Gamma (Bob Falconer) to be its new Non-Executive Director.

Real Estate Firm Tells UK Farmers to Build their own Broadband

3rd Jan, 2019 (21 Comments)

Real estate company Strutt & Parker has suggested that UK farmers, many of which aren’t exactly swimming in lots of spare cash, should consider investing to build their own “private” broadband networks instead of waiting for whatever the Government’s 10Mbps+ Universal Service Obligation (USO) will deliver.

Broadband and Telecoms are a Bigger Worry than Brexit in Somerset

3rd Jan, 2019 (7 Comments)

A new survey of 92 businesses in the UK county of Somerset, which was conducted by the Somerset Chamber of Commerce (SCC), has revealed that local firms are more concerned about issues around education and skills (56%) and digital infrastructure (52%) than the imminent arrival of Brexit (42%).

Consumers Switch Broadband ISP for Savings and Faster Speeds

3rd Jan, 2019 (4 Comments)

A new online survey of 1,380 ISPreview.co.uk readers, which was conducted between 16th November 2018 and 2nd January 2019, has found that the top reasons why most UK respondents switched broadband ISP in 2018 were to save money (29.9%) or get access to faster speeds (25.4%), while 18.3% simply sought better quality.

ISP B4B Connect First Apartments in Belfast to 1Gbps FTTH Broadband

2nd Jan, 2019 (0 Comments)

ISP B4B Networks, which until now has largely only focused upon catering for business premises in Northern Ireland, appears to have connected up its first residential apartment block to their new Gigabit capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband network in the city of Belfast. More will soon follow.

Netflix UK’s 2018 to 2014 Video Streaming Broadband Speed Index

31st Dec, 2018 (6 Comments)

Internet Movie and TV video streaming giant Netflix UK has recently published the latest update of their broadband ISP speed index, which reveals that cable operator Virgin Media is still the fastest provider for their service in 2018 and also going all the way back to 2014. But being the fastest here doesn’t really matter.

Rival UK ISPs Raise Alarm Over Full Fibre Competition and Openreach

30th Dec, 2018 (194 Comments)

A number of broadband ISPs including TalkTalk, Hyperoptic, Cityfibre and Gigaclear, as well as the Independent Networks Co-operative Association (INCA), have written to the UK Government and Ofcom in the hope of encouraging tougher measures to prevent Openreach (BT) from hampering “full fibre” (FTTP) competition.

BT Mobile UK Trials Auto-PAC Process for Easier Operator Switching

28th Dec, 2018 (16 Comments)

The Mobile division of BT (BT Mobile / EE) has begun recruiting for a new “Auto-PAC Switching” trial, which they say aims to ensure that the “improvements we are putting in place give the best customer experience possible when porting a mobile number / account from one supplier to another.”