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15th Mar, 2013 (4 Comments)

Digital Mobile Spectrum Limited (DMSL), which was setup by mobile operators and the government to tackle any Digital Terrestrial TV (Freeview) related reception problems caused by interference from the new 4G (LTE) based Mobile Broadband services in the 800MHz band, have announced a pilot project to assess the issue in two towns.

14th Mar, 2013 (2 Comments)

The national telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today revealed that the average fixed line broadband internet download speed in the United Kingdom have reached 12Mbps (Megabits per second), which represents a rise of 34% from the 9Mbps reported in their previous August 2012 study and just 3.6Mbps in November 2008.

14th Mar, 2013 (16 Comments)

London’s 33 local authorities have today warned that the UK government’s new Growth and Infrastructure Bill, which is designed boost the roll-out of faster broadband ISP services by cutting red tape in the planning system, could pass additional costs onto city boroughs and “endanger road users” by obstructing pedestrian walkways and reducing sightlines.

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14th Mar, 2013 (4 Comments)

Lincoln-based Fixed Wireless ISP AB Internet has won £300,000 of public funding from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) to help it roll-out a 50Mbps capable broadband service to two rural areas (encompassing several villages) on the east coast of Lincolnshire (England, UK).

13th Mar, 2013 (14 Comments)

A new report from Doncaster Council’s finance wing has warned that the debt-ridden Digital Region (DRL) network, which has made superfast broadband available to 80% of premises in South Yorkshire (England, UK), will need another £15m in public funding to stay afloat or it could be “closed down“.

13th Mar, 2013 (14 Comments)

A new study from telecoms analyst Point Topic UK has suggested that there is a ceiling to the broadband speeds that residential consumers are prepared to pay for, with hybrid-fibre (e.g. FTTC, FTTN) solutions tending to dominate the “superfast” market and demand for “bandwidths of a gigabit” being “relatively low“.

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13th Mar, 2013 (0 Comments)

The government will amend its controversial Growth and Infrastructure Bill, which is designed to help “fast-track” the roll-out of superfast broadband services around the United Kingdom by cutting red tape in the planning system, in order to protect national parks and other “areas of outstanding natural beauty“.

13th Mar, 2013 (4 Comments)

BT and the Lincolnshire County Council (LCC) have today announced details of how they intend to make superfast broadband (25Mbps+) available to “at least” 88% of all homes and businesses in the English East Midlands county by April 2016 (everybody else will get speeds of at least 2Mbps).

13th Mar, 2013 (21 Comments)

Just because your local authority has promised to cover 98% of homes and businesses with “fibre-based broadband” does not mean that you’re going to get a superfast broadband (25Mbps+) speed and, according to at least one council, you might only get downloads from upwards of 2Mbps.

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12th Mar, 2013 (2 Comments)

The joint public and privately funded £132m Superfast Cornwall scheme, which originally aimed to deploy BT fibre optic (FTTC etc.) based broadband ISP services to “at least” 80% of homes and businesses in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly by the end of 2014, has now expanded its target to cover 95%.

12th Mar, 2013 (30 Comments)

The CTO of business ISP Timico UK, Trefor Davies, whom last week praised BT’s telecoms engineers for fixing his superfast broadband (FTTC) line, has today criticised the national telecoms operator for missing too many appointments with customers and mishandling his fault report.

12th Mar, 2013 (2 Comments)

The Body of European Regulators of Electronic Communications (BEREC), which represents Europe’s national telecoms regulators (e.g. Ofcom in the UK), has given its preliminary support to new EU rules that are intended to boost investment and competition in the roll-out of superfast broadband ISP services.

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12th Mar, 2013 (7 Comments)

BTOpenreach, which manages access to BT’s national telecoms network in the United Kingdom, appears to have found a new way of using customised Vinyl Wraps to help camouflage some of their superfast broadband (FTTC) street cabinets.

12th Mar, 2013 (0 Comments)

Netflix UK, the unlimited movie and TV video streaming service, has launched a new Netflix ISP Speed Index website that is designed to give consumers “insight into which Internet Service Providers [deliver] the best streaming experience“.

11th Mar, 2013 (5 Comments)

A regulatory filing has revealed that the boss of UK cable operator Virgin Media, Neil Berkett, will leave the business with the equivalent of £58 million ($86.8m) in his pocket after Liberty Global completes its £15bn acquisition (here) of the group.

11th Mar, 2013 (0 Comments)

The results from 782 respondents to our latest monthly reader survey have revealed that over two thirds (70.8%) think the UK government is making “poor” progress towards its goal of improving the country’s national broadband infrastructure by 2015 (just 7.5% felt progress was “good“).

11th Mar, 2013 (43 Comments)

BT has threatened legal action against the owner of spoof website Superfarce Wales (Cymru), which parodied the official Superfast Wales project that is designed to inform the public about their plans to make superfast broadband services available to 96% of premises in Wales (UK) by the end of 2015.

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