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UK ISP Sky Broadband Tops 4.9M Subscribers After Gobbling O2 and BE

26th Jul, 2013 (6 Comments)

Sky Broadband (BSkyB) has officially leapfrogged Virgin Media to become the country’s second largest consumer broadband ISP after it saw a sharp acceleration of growth by gobbling up O2’s fixed line subscribers. As a result Sky’s latest Q2-2013 report saw related customers grow by +519,000 in the quarter to total 4.906m (up from +152k added in Q1).

ISP Sky Broadband Ruins UK Customers Google Play Accounts

25th Jul, 2013 (5 Comments)

Some of Sky Broadband’s (BSkyB) customers are angry after discovering that the ISPs recent and much-troubled migration of their email platform from Google (Gmail) to a new Yahoo! based alternative (Sky Yahoo! Mail) appears to have also damaged their Google Play store accounts and thus lost £100’s worth of digital purchases (apps etc.).

IET Warns UK ISP Internet Porn Filter will be Ineffective and Harmful

25th Jul, 2013 (7 Comments)

The influential Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), which is a professional society for 150,000 members of the global engineering and technology community, has warned that the UK government’s move to force big ISPs into blocking adult websites “will be ineffective and harmful“.

Vodafone UK Enters Our Top 10 with 85000 Fixed Broadband Subscribers

25th Jul, 2013 (0 Comments)

Telecoms operator Vodafone UK has quietly slipped into our Top 10 UK ISPs By Subscriber Size table after last year’s £1.044bn deal to buy telecoms giant Cable & Wireless Worldwide (CWW) revealed that the group had 85,000 fixed line broadband customers (Q2-2013), which is down by -2k from 87,000 in Q1.

UK ISP BT Retail Tops 6.8M Broadband Subscribers and 1.5m Adopt FTTC

25th Jul, 2013 (39 Comments)

BT Group has today released their latest financial results to 30th June 2013 (Q2), which saw the operators retail ISP division increase their fixed line broadband subscribers by +95,000 in the quarter to total 6,799,000 (down from the +136k added in Q1-2013 and +122k in Q4-2012).

Entanet Based UK ISPs to Offer FREE FTTC Broadband Installation

24th Jul, 2013 (2 Comments)

Business ISP Entanet, which supplies internet access and related services to a number of ISPs and businesses across the United Kingdom, has launched a special promotion that will allow their resellers to offer a free superfast broadband installation or migration on FTTC packages.

EE Rise to 704K UK Home Broadband Users and Doubles 4G Customers

24th Jul, 2013 (2 Comments)

Mobile operator and ISP EE (Orange UK) has today reported that their fixed line Home Broadband subscriber base has grown by +10,000 customers in Q2-2013 to reach a total of 704,000 (up sharply from the +1k added in Q1). Meanwhile their 4G based mobile customers have doubled from 318,000 in Q1 to 687,000 now.

TalkTalk Grows to 4.071m UK Broadband Users with 95K on Superfast FTTC

24th Jul, 2013 (0 Comments)

Budget internet provider TalkTalk has released its latest Q2-2013 results today, which saw them add another +8,000 broadband subscribers (down from 10k in Q1-2013) to total 4,071,000 customers. The number of consumers taking their Superfast Fibre (FTTC) product also grew by a steady +22k in the quarter to 95,000.

A Need for 1Gbps Broadband by 2020 Could Deepen the UK Digital Divide

24th Jul, 2013 (38 Comments)

Telecoms analyst firm Point Topic has today published a short health check of the United Kingdom’s drive towards making superfast broadband (25-30Mbps+) speeds available across the country, which warns that the future demand for 1000Mbps (Gigabit) broadband connections will widen the digital speed divide between urban and rural areas. So is it time for FTTH?

UPD Rural Communities Report Says 2Mbps for All Target Must be the Priority

24th Jul, 2013 (2 Comments)

The government’s Department for the Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has today been criticised by a new select committee report for its late delivery of the Universal Service Commitment (USC), which aims to ensure that 100% can access a minimum broadband speed of 2Mbps by 2015. The inquiry said this must now be “prioritised over increasing speeds“.

UPDATE Eutelsat and Skylogic Scrap Unlimited Tooway Satellite Broadband

24th Jul, 2013 (18 Comments)

Satellite operator Eutelsat (Skylogic) appears to be feeling a strain on its broadband capacity after it began advising ISPs in the UK, and we assume the rest of Europe too, that their current top-end unlimited usage package would be withdrawn by the end of August 2013.

UK ISP PlusNets Growth and Security Needs to Create 250 Jobs in Leeds

23rd Jul, 2013 (3 Comments)

Sheffield-based Internet and phone provider PlusNet has announced that it will open a new office in Leeds (England) during October 2013 that should, over the next three years, result in the creation of at least 250 new jobs (making for a total of 1100 employees by 2016).

UPDATE Court Forces Big UK ISPs to Block EZTV and Yify-Torrents Websites

23rd Jul, 2013 (12 Comments)

The Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) and Motion Picture Association (MPA) have won yet another court case that will force all of the country’s largest broadband ISPs to block their customers from accessing EZTV and Yify-Torrents, which were both found to be facilitating internet copyright infringement (piracy).

UPD BT Add 9 Final UK Exchanges to its Commercial Fibre Broadband Rollout

23rd Jul, 2013 (44 Comments)

BT has just announced that they’ve been able to squeeze an additional 9 telephone exchanges into their national £2.5bn roll-out of up to 80Mbps (Megabits per second) capable Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC) based superfast broadband ISP products around the United Kingdom.

Average Global Internet Speeds Climb to 3.1Mbps as UK Tops 7.9Mbps

23rd Jul, 2013 (3 Comments)

Akamai, a global content delivery network, has revealed in its latest State of the Internet (Q1 2013) report that the worlds average internet download speed hit 3.1Mbps (up 4% from 2.9Mbps in the quarter). Meanwhile the UK topped 7.9Mbps (up 7.3% from 6.5Mbps) and is ranked 12th fastest globally (up from 18th).

Ofcom Calls on UK ISPs to Improve their Broadband Speed Info and Support

23rd Jul, 2013 (0 Comments)

Ofcom has published the outcome from their latest mystery shopping study into fixed line ISP compliance with the regulators rules concerning how broadband speeds should be sold and communicated to consumers. Suffice to say that some providers (TalkTalk and O2) have fallen short of expectations but overall the market has improved.

Birmingham UK Signs Deal to Blanket City Centre with FREE Virgin WiFi

23rd Jul, 2013 (0 Comments)

As expected the Birmingham City Council (BCC) has signed a new deal with Virgin Media Business (VMB) that will result in the operator rolling out an unlimited free wireless internet (wifi) zone across key parts of the city centre. The latest 3G and 4G (mobile) based small cell technology will also be deployed.