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UK Labour Party Joins Calls for Ofcom to Split BT from Openreach

24th Aug, 2015 (1 Comment)

The Labour Party’s Shadow Culture Secretary, Chris Bryant MP, has joined the debate over Ofcom’s strategic review of the United Kingdom’s digital communications market and come down on the side of those who want to see the regulator split BT from their network access division, Openreach.

BT Sport TV Grabs Ashes Cricket from Sky and Related Tournaments

24th Aug, 2015 (6 Comments)

The battle over who controls the rights to premium live TV sports content in the United Kingdom has continued today after BT announced that they had outbid Sky (Sky Broadband) to secure the exclusive broadcast rights for the Ashes series in Australia from 2016 to 2021.

Langton Matravers Homes Left Without Broadband and Phone for 3 Months

24th Aug, 2015 (2 Comments)

Owners of several new homes in the rural village of Langton Matravers (Dorset, England) have been struggling to get access to a working phone line and broadband for around three months due to a problem with blocked cable ducts on BTOpenreach’s telecoms infrastructure.

Ultrafast Virgin Media Customers Called Upon to Take Part in Short Film

22nd Aug, 2015 (18 Comments)

Virgin Media has put the feelers out to find existing customers and small business owners whose work or “everyday lives have been made better” and or “changed” by their “ultrafast” cable broadband service. Apparently the end goal is to create a short film, which seems likely to form part of a PR exercise.

BT Openreach – No Plans for ADSL2 Broadband from Street Cabinets

21st Aug, 2015 (33 Comments)

Last year BTOpenreach revealed an interesting new technology that would have enabled them to deploy ADSL2+ (up to 20Mbps) broadband directly from FTTC street cabinets instead of telephone exchanges (here), which could push faster speeds to the most remote premises. But sadly there are no plans to deploy it.

A Quick Note – TalkTalk’s Latest UK Personal Data Breach and Website Woe

21st Aug, 2015 (5 Comments)

The Carphone Warehouse (CPW) recently suffered a massive breach of its customers personal data, which is believed to have potentially affected 2.4 million people, but not everybody seems to be aware of how this also affected other communications providers like TalkTalk.

Cityfibre Expand Hull Fibre Optic Network to Help Wireless ISP Connexin

20th Aug, 2015 (10 Comments)

Fibre optic developer Cityfibre has signed a new £0.6m 10-year deal that will see their network in Hull (East Yorkshire, England) being expanded even further to reach 19 hub sites for local “fibre-over-wireless” broadband ISP Connexin.

INCA Demands Share of GBP129m Clawback for Alternative Broadband ISPs

20th Aug, 2015 (7 Comments)

The Independent Networks Co-operative Association has called on the Government’s Broadband Delivery UK programme to ensure that up to around £129m of reinvestment funding from clawback (gain share) be put to competitive tender rather than hand it back to BT to further enhance their “fibre broadband” coverage.

UK Begins Review of Voluntary ISP Code to Protect Open Internet

20th Aug, 2015 (0 Comments)

The Broadband Stakeholders Group, a think-tank for government policy, has announced that its Voluntary Code of Practice for protecting the Open Internet (Net Neutrality) is to be reviewed as part of Europe’s wider efforts to protect consumers from unnecessary ISP blocking of Internet content and or traffic.

Government to Build More Rural Homes, But What of Broadband?

20th Aug, 2015 (25 Comments)

The Chancellor, George Osborne, has set out a new 10-point plan for boosting productivity in England’s rural areas by, among other things, amending the planning rules to allow new homes on Rural Exception Sites. But what about the need for faster broadband and mobile? We hope you like Satellite.

Devon and Somerset Businesses Demand Say in Local Broadband Inquiry

19th Aug, 2015 (5 Comments)

The Federation of Small Business (FSB), Blackdown Hills Business Association (BHBA) and the Country Land and Business Association (CLA) have vented frustration after their views were excluded from an inquiry into the recent collapse of a major broadband expansion deal between BT and the Devon and Somerset councils.

O2 and Vodafone UK to Miss 98 Percent UK 4G Coverage Target for 2015

19th Aug, 2015 (5 Comments)

In an unsurprising development it looks as if Vodafone and O2 will not achieve their original target to roll-out 4G (LTE) based Mobile Broadband network connectivity to 98% of the United Kingdom’s population by the end of 2015, although the Government doesn’t expect it to be done until 2017 anyway.

Churches in Bath and Wells to Help Spread Superfast Wireless Broadband

19th Aug, 2015 (0 Comments)

Rural communities in Bath and Wells (Somerset, England) could soon be getting fasted broadband from wireless transceivers installed on top of local churches. The development follows a new deal between fixed wireless ISP Wild West Net and the Bath and Wells Diocese.

Map – Sky and TalkTalk’s 940Mbps UFO FTTH Broadband Coverage of York

19th Aug, 2015 (10 Comments)

The coverage of Sky Broadband and TalkTalk’s joint 940Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH/P) broadband network in the city of York (Ultra Fibre Optic), which is being deployed with the help of Cityfibre, is continuing to expand and new coverage has recently been added to the project’s map.

UPDATE2 TalkTalk Call on Rival ISPs to BAN Capped Broadband Packages

19th Aug, 2015 (19 Comments)

Budget ISP TalkTalk has used a new YouGov survey to claim that consumers who pick broadband packages with a capped usage allowance risk excess data charges, which could be worth £140m across the industry. The provider wants rivals to BAN such products in favour of “unlimited” services.

Virgin Media Business Given Preferred Supplier Status by UK Government

18th Aug, 2015 (3 Comments)

Cable operator Virgin Media Business has been awarded preferred supplier status in all ten categories of the Government’s new Network Service Framework (NSF), which is expected to attract a big dollop public sector ICT spend by the end of this year.

Hyperoptic Deploys 1000Mbps Broadband to First Buildings in Nottingham

18th Aug, 2015 (1 Comment)

Fibre optic ISP Hyperoptic has today announced that their Gigabit (1000Mbps) capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network is now being deployed across parts of Nottingham city in Nottinghamshire (England), with the first large building to go live being Marco Island.