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UK ISP Internet Snooping Confusion Reigns Over 2013 Queens Speech

8th May, 2013 (3 Comments)

Is it or isn’t it still alive? The State Opening of Parliament took place this morning and everybody was watching to, among other things, see if the UK government’s hugely controversial internet snooping legislation (Communications Data Bill) was still alive. The result.. confusion.

SKY Sale Triggers Exodus of O2 UK Home Broadband Subscribers

8th May, 2013 (3 Comments)

The latest quarterly results from O2 UK (BE Broadband) appear to suggest that the ISPs fixed line home broadband customers have been climbing over themselves to escape the forthcoming migration to Sky Broadband (BSkyB) as subscriber figures fell by a staggering -40,700 in Q1-2013 to total 519,400.

UPDATE AAISP Accuse Ofcom of Destroying Competition for UK VoIP

8th May, 2013 (8 Comments)

The often outspoken boss of business ISP Andrews and Arnold (AAISP), Adrian Kennard, has today accused the communications regulator, Ofcom, of “destroying competition” in the UK market for Voice-over-IP (VoIP) telephone services.

Northern Ireland Plough GBP5m Into Last Few Rural Broadband Notspots

8th May, 2013 (2 Comments)

The Northern Ireland Executive (NIE) has announced plans to invest a further £5 million to help plug the regions last remaining broadband “not spots” in remote rural areas by supporting new fixed line internet connectivity solutions from “third party companies“.

ASA UK Ban TalkTalk National Press Ad for Misleading Best Value ISP Claim

8th May, 2013 (1 Comment)

A complaint from Sky Broadband (BSkyB) has prompted the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) to ban a national press advert for TalkTalk’s triple-play Plus TV bundle of unlimited broadband, phone and TV services after it misleadingly claimed to be “Britain’s best value” package.

UPDATE BT Refute TalkTalk Commissioned Study of its FTTC ISP Prices

8th May, 2013 (11 Comments)

National UK telecoms operator BT has said that they “completely refute the basis” of a controversial new TalkTalk commissioned study into its superfast broadband charges as bearing “little resemblance to the actual costs incurred“.

UPDATE Entanet Based UK ISPs to Offer Unlimited Broadband Packages

7th May, 2013 (8 Comments)

Communications provider Entanet, which supplies internet access and other telecoms services to a number of ISPs and businesses across the United Kingdom, has this afternoon announced the addition of a new unlimited broadband product to its BTWholesale (WBC) based ADSL, ADSL2+ and FTTC platform.

Survey Work Starts on New Isles of Scilly Fibre Optic Broadband Cable

7th May, 2013 (3 Comments)

BTOpenreach has this week dispatched one of its survey teams to begin preliminary work on their previously announced £3.7m project to divert two unused submarine fibre optic cables to the Isles of Scilly (here), which will support the rollout of superfast broadband (FTTC and FTTP) ISP products on the islands.

UPDATE Ofcom Reveals UK Broadband Connections Rise to 21.7 Million

7th May, 2013 (1 Comment)

The communications regulator, Ofcom, has today published its latest Telecoms Market Data Tables Q4 2012 update and confirmed that the United Kingdom is now home to 22,174,000 21,680,000 fixed line broadband ISP connections (excluding corporate lines), which is up sharply by +659,000 +356,00 in the quarter.

UPDATE2 UK ISP BT Reveal New Smarter Hub 4 Broadband Wireless Router

7th May, 2013 (15 Comments)

BT Retail has today unveiled a new Hub 4 wireless broadband router, which will be rolled out to replace its existing HomeHub3 kit from 10th May 2013. Key highlights of the new device are its concurrent dual band wi-fi wireless (2.4GHz and 5GHz) and upgraded Smart Wireless technology, which should improve performance.

UK Superfast Broadband Take-Up Expected to Skyrocket by 2020

7th May, 2013 (20 Comments)

A leaked TalkTalk commissioned report from German analyst Wik Consult has predicted that take-up of superfast broadband (FTTC / P) services on BT’s (Openreach) platform will reach a “maximum” of 65% of addressable customers by 2019 and Virgin Media will hit 100% in 2017. But are BT’s prices anti-competitive?

England Hopes to Boost 4G Mobile Rollout via New Planning Consultation

7th May, 2013 (0 Comments)

The Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) has launched a new Technical Consultation that is designed to “boost the roll-out” of new 4G (LTE) based Mobile Broadband services in England by softening the existing planning regulations to allow for easier building of new masts and antennas.

Prospect Union Slams Ofcom UK Probe of BT Superfast Broadband Prices

3rd May, 2013 (21 Comments)

Prospect, which claims to be an independent union for professionals like engineers, scientists and managers, has warned that Ofcom’s new TalkTalk supported investigation into BT’s “alleged margin squeeze in superfast broadband pricing” could damage investment in the UK telecoms network.

UK ISP BT Quietly Forces CGNAT IPv4 Internet Address Sharing Pilot

3rd May, 2013 (14 Comments)

Customers of BT Retail’s Total Broadband Option 1 package have reportedly become experimental subjects for the ISP’s new pilot of the controversial IPv4 internet address sharing (Carrier Grade NAT) technology, which could cause problems because it allows a single IP address to be shared between several users.

So Purple UK Sells its Broadband ISP Division for GBP800k to Fund WiFi

3rd May, 2013 (0 Comments)

The So Purple Group (Company No. 06272441 and 08187142), which ISPreview.co.uk revealed last year had quietly merged internet provider ADSL24 into its operations (here), has now sold its broadband division to business telecoms firm Coms.

The Top 8 UK Fastest Fixed Line Home Broadband ISPs for April 2013

3rd May, 2013 (9 Comments)

The latest monthly Broadband.co.uk survey of anecdotal consumer broadband ISP speed testing data for April 2013 has reported that the average download speed in the United Kingdom increased slightly from 18.831Mbps in March to 19.014Mbps now. The average upload speed also hit 3.068Mbps (up from 2.945Mbps).

Brighton UK Homes Join Trial to Help Test for 4G and TV Interference

2nd May, 2013 (0 Comments)

Some 80,000 premises in Brighton (England) have joined at800.tv‘s (DMSL) trial to test whether or not the new generation of 4G (LTE) based Mobile Broadband services in the 800MHz band will disrupt Digital Terrestrial TV (Freeview) services. But the new trial will be a little bit different.