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UPD West Sussex UK Sign £20.1m BDUK Contract for BT Superfast Broadband

15th May, 2013 (6 Comments)

The West Sussex County Council (WSCC) in southern England has today signed a new £20.1 million state aid supported contract with BT that will aim to make superfast broadband (25Mbps+) ISP connections available to 98% of local premises by the “start” of Spring 2016 (the rest will get at least 2Mbps).

UPD London Tests Find Fears of 4G Knocking Out TV Signals are Overblown

15th May, 2013 (2 Comments)

The at800.tv (DMSL) group, which is jointly funded by £180m from UK mobile network operators, reports that preliminary results from 170,000 homes in South East London (England) have identified NO cases where 4G (LTE) based mobile services in the 800MHz band have disrupted terrestrial TV services.

Sky Broadband Tells Staff to Handle Fear of Rupert Murdoch with Sensitivity

15th May, 2013 (6 Comments)

Some of O2 UK’s fixed line home broadband and phone customers are reportedly refusing to be shifted onto the network of new owner Sky Broadband (BSkyB) because it’s partly owned by Rupert Murdoch’s infamous News Corporation.

EE and Three UK Named Fastest Mobile Broadband Operators in Hull

14th May, 2013 (0 Comments)

A new RootMetrics study of Mobile Broadband performance in Hull (East Yorkshire, England) has revealed that EE was the fastest mobile operator with an average download speed of 9.6Mbps and an upload of 5.5Mbps (Megabits per second). Three UK became the distant runner-up with O2 and Vodafone delivering the slowest performance.

UPD Point Topic Post Goldmine of Data for UK Broadband Speed and Coverage

14th May, 2013 (8 Comments)

Telecoms analyst Point Topic has today released a veritable treasure trove of useful information by making their full local authority broadband speeds and coverage database available to non-subscribers, which allows you to compare the quality of internet access in your area with the rest of the United Kingdom.

ScotRail Expands its FREE WiFi Service to 25 Railway Stations in Scotland

14th May, 2013 (0 Comments)

ScotRail preps expanded plans to roll-out a free wifi service to all 38 of its class 380 trains and at 25 railway stations across Scotland by spring 2014. Just make sure to avoid any “bandwidth heavy” websites.

BT Wi-Fi Bring Public Wireless Internet to 5 Million UK and Ireland Hotspots

14th May, 2013 (0 Comments)

BT WiFi has announced that it’s now home to a network of 5 Million public Wi-Fi hotspots in the United Kingdom and Ireland. But most of those come from customers of BT’s Total Broadband packages and its FON supporting routers that automatically turn home connections into public wifi access points.

Camden is First of 17 London UK Boroughs to Deploy Free Public Wi-Fi

14th May, 2013 (2 Comments)

The London Borough of Camden in England has today become the first of seventeen councils in the capital city to confirm a free public Wi-Fi (wireless internet) service to streets and open spaces across the borough, though it’s only free for the first 30 minutes of use (daily).

UPD £150m Contract to Boost UK Mobile Broadband Coverage Won by Arqiva

13th May, 2013 (3 Comments)

A contract for the £150 million Mobile Infrastructure Project (MIP), which was established as part of the 4G auction process to help build new mobile masts for those who live in areas of poor or non-existent mobile coverage, has been won by Arqiva.

ISPA UK Seeks Nominations for the 2013 Internet Hero and Villain Awards

13th May, 2013 (0 Comments)

The UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) have asked the public to help nominate this year’s Internet Hero and Internet Villain gongs for their 15th annual 2013 ISPA Awards event.

UK Labour Party Pledge £75m to Boost Rural Superfast Broadband

13th May, 2013 (0 Comments)

The British Labour Party appears to have begun its early campaigning for the next general election in 2015 by proposing that £75 million from the floundering £150 million “super-connected cities” (Urban Broadband Fund) programme be diverted to help connect those in most need (i.e. the last 10% of neglected rural areas).

UK Internet Users Reluctant to Recommend their Broadband ISP

13th May, 2013 (1 Comment)

Less than half (47.6%) of the 779 respondents to our latest monthly reader poll have said that they’d definitely recommend their broadband ISP to others and 26.9% felt that the service they received was still too expensive, which is despite the UK being home to some of the most affordable broadband services in the world.

ISP BT Tops 6.7 Million UK Broadband Subscribers as 1.3m Users Take FTTC

10th May, 2013 (26 Comments)

Telecoms giant BT has today posted their latest financial results to 31st March 2013 (Q1-2013), which revealed that the operators retail ISP division had increased its fixed line broadband subscribers by +136,000 in the quarter to total 6,704,000 (up from the +122k added in Q4-2012 and +88k in Q3-2012).

UPDATE3 Virgin Media UK Unveil Next Gen SuperHub WiFi Broadband Router

9th May, 2013 (25 Comments)

Cable ISP Virgin Media (Liberty Global), perhaps in an attempt to steal some of the thunder from BT’s recent FREE Sport and Hub 4 announcements (here and here), has today unveiled a next generation Super Hub (V2) wireless router of its own for their broadband customers.

UK ISP Zen Internet Hints at Cheaper and Unlimited Fibre Optic Broadband

9th May, 2013 (3 Comments)

Rochdale-based ISP Zen Internet has today hinted that the on-going investment of £3.5 million into their core infrastructure, which will build a new network of local telephone exchange PoPs (Points of Presence), will also result in “lower priced Fibre Optic Broadband services” and unlimited usage options.

UPDATE2 UK Accuses EU of Delaying Urban Broadband Funding Approval

9th May, 2013 (4 Comments)

The Project Director for the government’s £150m Urban Broadband Fund (UBF), which aims to help expand the coverage of “ultra-fast” broadband (80-100Mbps+) and “high speed” public wifi services into neglected areas, has blamed Brussels for once again delaying funding approvals and forcing selected cities to “urgently find a Plan B“.

Global Residential Broadband Prices Continue to Fall During Q1 2013

8th May, 2013 (0 Comments)

Telecoms analyst Point Topic has reported that global prices for residential broadband ISP services and bundles are continuing to fall. The United Kingdom also remains one of the cheapest country’s in the world. Follow the link to see how we compare.