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Have a HAPPY CHRISTMAS 2013 from ISPreview.co.uk

23rd Dec, 2013 (12 Comments)

It’s that time of year again. The queues, those often annoyingly repetitive songs, the need for several warm jumpers, a weakening bank balance and those awkward family silences during the evening hours all combine to mean one thing.. Christmas is finally upon us (or things have gone horribly wrong and you’ve found yourself in jail!).

Hampshire UK Extends BDUK FTTC Broadband Rollout to Reach 95%

23rd Dec, 2013 (14 Comments)

Leaders of the Hampshire County Council have voted to release £9.2 million to help extend their state aid supported roll-out of BT’s superfast broadband (FTTC/P) services from its current target of 90% to 95%, which of course mirrors the new national UK target.

BT Sign £27m Subsea Fibre Optic Contract for Scotlands Highlands and Islands

23rd Dec, 2013 (3 Comments)

BT has signed a £26.9 million deal with three companies – including Global Marine Systems, Orange Marine and A-2-Sea Solutions – to help build 20 new fibre optic submarine cables around the Highlands and Islands region, which will be used to deliver on the Scottish Government’s £264m Digital Scotland project.

Milton Keynes and Bedfordshire UK Update BT Broadband Deployment Map

23rd Dec, 2013 (29 Comments)

The joint £12 million+ Central Superfast project between the Milton Keynes Council, Central Bedfordshire Council and Bedford Borough Council in England, which aims to rollout BT’s FTTC/P service to cover “around” 91% of local premises by spring 2016 (97% in Milton Keynes), has released a revised deployment map following new funding.

Seethelight Confirm New Year Price Hike for its UK FTTH Broadband Service

21st Dec, 2013 (3 Comments)

Fibre optic ISP Seethelight, which offers a 200Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) package to several parts of the UK via the Independent Fibre Networks Limited platform, has followed the big ISPs to announce a series of New Year price hikes of its own. On the bright side some users will be getting a 300Mbps upgrade.

BT Link 1000 Apartments at New Capital Quay to 300Mbps FTTP Broadband

21st Dec, 2013 (8 Comments)

BT might have dramatically scaled back its national plans to deploy 300Mbps+ capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband technology across the United Kingdom (here) but it hasn’t completely stopped and the next area to benefit will be the huge New Capital Quay development in South London.

Ofcom Refine New UK Phone and Broadband ISP Switching Proposal

20th Dec, 2013 (1 Comment)

The UK telecoms regulator has today made a few changes to its initial August 2013 proposal (here), which set out the introduction of a “simpler and more reliable” method for helping consumers to migrate between different broadband and phone providers.

Global Broadband Users Hit 670m as UK Comes Top for Fibre Growth

20th Dec, 2013 (0 Comments)

The total number of global broadband subscribers in Q3-2013 has grown by 1.8% in the quarter to reach 670 Million (up from just 0.7% added in Q2). But the data also reveals that the UK has a 132.1% annual growth rate for fibre optic based broadband (FTTC/P/H etc.) and that puts us top of the table.

Ofcom UK Satisfaction Survey Puts TalkTalk Bottom for Broadband

20th Dec, 2013 (10 Comments)

The latest survey of consumer satisfaction, which was conducted by the communications regulator with 6,000 respondents between July and September 2013, has found that Sky Broadband and Virgin Media both score the highest (71%) for broadband but TalkTalk is at the bottom on 62%.

Gov Detail UK City Broadband Connection Voucher Scheme Changes

20th Dec, 2013 (0 Comments)

The Department for Culture, Media & Sport has today confirmed all of the changes that have been made to its Broadband Connection Vouchers scheme since the autumn trial. The vouchers have been live since earlier this month (here), although there have been a few small changes under the hood.

UPDATE BT Openreach Tweaks Line Rental Prices for UK ISPs

20th Dec, 2013 (0 Comments)

BTOpenreach, which manages BT’s national telecoms network in the United Kingdom, has today tweaked the price of its unbundled (LLU MPF / SMPF) and Wholesale Line Rental products for phone and broadband providers. This follows the conclusion of appeals against Ofcom’s 2012 LLU/WLR charge control.

UK ISP PlusNet Opens YouView TV Trials to Unlimited Fibre Customers

20th Dec, 2013 (5 Comments)

As expected PlusNet has started to move forward with its plans to launch a YouView (IPTV) based TV product to their UK broadband customers by opening up the closed staff trial to existing customers with an Unlimited Fibre (FTTC) package.

UPDATE Fibre GarDen Name ITS Technology as FTTP Broadband Supplier

19th Dec, 2013 (7 Comments)

The community Fibre GarDen (Digital Dales) project, which aims to build a new fibre optic (FTTP) based superfast broadband network to help connect rural homes in Garsdale and Dentdale (Cumbria, England), has signed a new Memorandum of Understanding with the ITS Technology Group to help build, deliver and manage the service.

UK ISP BT Makes Home Hub 4 Broadband Router Available to Everybody

19th Dec, 2013 (12 Comments)

In a curious twist BT has decided to make its Home Hub 4 broadband ISP routers available to non-customers, which means that it can be used with any Internet provider just like a router brought in the shops. But is it worth the £99.99 inc. VAT asking price?

UPDATE ISPs BT, Sky and TalkTalk in Compensation Dispute over LLU Lines

19th Dec, 2013 (0 Comments)

Ofcom has today opened two similar but semi-separate disputes that concern BT’s provision of fully unbundled (MPF LLU) phone and broadband lines to TalkTalk and Sky Broadband, which the national telecoms operator is required to offer on “fair and reasonable terms“.

UPDATE BBC Find UK ISP Filters Fail to Block Porn and Catch Legit Websites

19th Dec, 2013 (5 Comments)

An investigation by the BBC’s Newsnight programme has unsurprisingly discovered that the new generation of network-level Internet filtering (censorship) technologies, which are being adopted by all of the major broadband ISPs, often catch legitimate websites in their net and can also fail to block porn. Big SHOCK? Nope.

UPD Ofcom UK Propose Faster Line Repairs and Installs from BT Openreach

19th Dec, 2013 (3 Comments)

The communications regulator has launched a new consultation on proposals that would require BTOpenreach, the company responsible for maintaining BT’s national UK telecoms and broadband network, to meet better “minimum performance standards“. Faster service installations and repairs could be two of the benefits but it won’t help FTTC/P lines.