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Whack a Mole Game Continues as UK ISP Clamps Down on Pirate Proxies

3rd Jun, 2013 (13 Comments)

Sky Broadband (BSkyB) appears to have become the first major UK ISP to extend its court ordered censorship of specific websites that facilitate internet piracy (e.g. The Pirate Bay) to include a wide range of proxy servers, which allows users to bypass such blocks without needing to use a VPN or other solution.

Ofcom Set to Unveil New UK Phone and Broadband ISP Switching Solution

3rd Jun, 2013 (3 Comments)

It’s been a long time coming but the UK communications regulator, Ofcom, has informed ISPreview.co.uk that their chosen method for making it both “simpler and more reliable” for consumers to switch phone or broadband ISP is finally close to being announced. No really, this time it’ll actually happen. We hope.

MetroNet UK Brings Hybrid Fibre and Wireless Broadband to Chester

3rd Jun, 2013 (0 Comments)

As expected ISP Metronet UK has expanded the coverage of its “ultrafast” hybrid fibre optic (Dark Fibre) and carrier grade wireless broadband network to reach businesses in the city of Chester (North West England).

BT Hikes Annual Price of UK Phone Line Rental Saver Plan to GBP141

3rd Jun, 2013 (41 Comments)

Customers who take BT’s Line Rental Saver solution alongside their phone or broadband bundles, which allows you to save a fair bit of money by paying for a year’s line rental in advance, will be displeased to learn that the cost has just risen from £129 to £141 (up 9%). ISPs around the UK are likely to follow suit.

BT Openreach Make New 220Mbps FTTP Broadband Product Available

1st Jun, 2013 (87 Comments)

BTOpenreach has today officially made its new 220Mbps (20Mbps upload) capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based ultrafast broadband service, which will eventually replace its old 110Mbps/100Mbps products, available to UK ISPs and their customers.

UK ISP TalkTalk Confirms Removal of Peak Time Traffic Management

31st May, 2013 (3 Comments)

Internet and phone provider TalkTalk has confirmed that its Plus and entry-level Essentials fixed line broadband products will no longer apply Traffic Management during peak times, which effectively makes the products “totally unlimited” instead of merely “unlimited“. Yes there’s a difference.

East Sussex UK Sign GBP35.44m BDUK Contract for BT Superfast Broadband

31st May, 2013 (5 Comments)

The East Sussex County Council (ESCC) in partnership with Brighton and Hove City Councils (Southern England) has signed a new £35.44 million state aid supported contract with BT to roll-out superfast broadband (25Mbps+) ISP services to 96% of local premises “within the next three years” (mid-2016).

UPD Virgin Media UK Claims New SuperHub Broadband Router is the Fastest

31st May, 2013 (7 Comments)

Cable operator Virgin Media (Liberty Global) has today announced the official launch of its new SuperHub V2 wireless broadband modem and router, which it describes as being the “fastest wireless hub in the UK” thanks to their new concurrent dual band wifi (5GHz and 2.4GHz) technology.

EVIL Badgers Stall BDUK BT Fibre Broadband Rollout in North Yorkshire UK

31st May, 2013 (4 Comments)

Part of North Yorkshire’s (England) state aid supported rollout of superfast broadband services came to a grinding halt recently but it wasn’t because of funding concerns or bureaucratic delays. No. This time BTOpenreach’s telecoms engineers were stopped in their tracks by Badger setts, which may or may not contain said Badgers.

Arthur D. Little Says UK Could Adopt Ultrafast FTTH Broadband in 5 Years

31st May, 2013 (9 Comments)

Management consultancy giant Arthur D. Little has published a new paper that examines the importance of investing in better telecoms infrastructure. It also predicts that the UK might need to adopt ultrafast (100Mbps+) fibre optic FTTH broadband “over the next five years“, unless G.Fast is realised to expand the life of FTTC.

UPD O2 UK Scrap Free BT Hotspots in Favour of its Own WiFi Network

31st May, 2013 (5 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 UK has abandoned their existing agreement with BTOpenzone (BTWiFi), which gave their customers access to thousands of BT’s additional national UK hotspots, in favour of their own O2Wifi network (8,000 free hotspots).

Virgin Media UK Deploy R38 SuperHub Firmware Update to Fix Bugs

31st May, 2013 (1 Comment)

Cable ISP Virgin Media UK should today completed the national roll-out of their latest R38 Firmware update for the troubled SuperHub (NetGear) wireless router and modem device, which fixes a couple of nasty bugs.

Bell Labs Boost Fibre Optic Speeds to 400Gbps Using Phase Conjugation

30th May, 2013 (0 Comments)

Bell Labs, the New Jersey (USA) based research and development subsidiary of telecoms giant Alcatel-Lucent, has found a way of boosting data speeds down fibre optic cables by using two light beams in opposing phases to cancel out interference that would ordinarily slow the transfer.

Wireless ISP Airband Bring Broadband to 14 Worcestershire UK Parishes

30th May, 2013 (0 Comments)

Fixed wireless ISP Airband has announced that over 100 customers in three parishes across rural parts of Worcestershire (England’s West Midlands) can now access faster broadband connections “for the first time” thanks to a £700k scheme supported by the Worcestershire County Council (WCC).

UPD BT Denies Delaying its 90% UK Fibre Broadband Ambition from 2017 to 2020

30th May, 2013 (40 Comments)

The publication of BT’s new Better Future programme has caused confusion after one of its aspirations promised to make their “fibre based” (FTTC/P) superfast broadband ISP products available to “nine out of ten premises” in the UK by 2020, which appears to be three years behind the original aim of 2017.

BT Switch Millions of UK Customer Email Accounts to New BTMail Service

30th May, 2013 (3 Comments)

Customers of BT Retail’s fixed line broadband service have today been told that they will be moved to the operators new BTMail service (an email solution supplied by Critical Path) later this year, which will follow the imminent closure of their existing BTYahoo! portal this summer.

Superfast Broadband Passed 19.6 Million UK Premises at the End of 2012

30th May, 2013 (0 Comments)

Telecoms analyst Point Topic reports that, at the end of last year, superfast broadband ISP connections had passed 19.6 Million premises in the United Kingdom (up from 16.9m in June 2012) and 3.3 Million had subscribed to one of the related services.