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Tfl Expand FREE Wireless Internet to 50 London Overground Train Stations

18th Feb, 2013 (2 Comments)

Transport for London (Tfl) has announced that passengers at 50 London Overground stations can now access The Cloud’s (BSkyB) free wireless internet (wifi) service and the final seven stations are due to be enabled by the end of June 2013.

EU Release Updated Broadband Access Coverage Report to July 2012

18th Feb, 2013 (0 Comments)

The European Commission (EC) has today published new data on the number of broadband lines and ISP speed in Member States, including the UK, gathered to July 2012. Overall 95.7% of EU homes are already passed by at least one fixed broadband ISP but 9.1 million homes still do not have coverage (over 90% of which are in rural areas).

UK Analyst Criticises Super Expensive FTTH Broadband ISP Solutions

18th Feb, 2013 (2 Comments)

The boss of telecoms analyst firm Point Topic, Oliver Johnson, has warned that blowing true fibre optic lines (FTTH / P) along the streets and across the fields of Europe and the United Kingdom is ultimately “super-expensive” and thus no longer the “first choice” when it comes to building new superfast broadband networks.

Barclays UK Banks to Deploy FREE Wireless Internet WiFi Access

18th Feb, 2013 (0 Comments)

Customers and visitors to 1,500 of Barclays branches (banks) across the United Kingdom will soon be able to benefit from free wireless internet (wifi) access thanks to a new deal with BT Wifi.

BT Extends 20Mbps 21CN Broadband ISP Services to 92 Percent of the UK

18th Feb, 2013 (45 Comments)

BTWholesale, the wholesale division of national UK telecoms operator BT, has confirmed to ISPreview.co.uk that its up to 20Mbps (ADSL2+) capable 21CN based Wholesale Broadband Connect (WBC) platform will be extended beyond their current targets and into more rural areas to reach over 92% of the country.

4G Might Not Work as a Substitute for Fixed Broadband in Rural Areas

16th Feb, 2013 (26 Comments)

Consultancy group Analysys Mason has warned that the UK government’s plan to make faster 4G (LTE) based Mobile Broadband services available to “at least 98%” of the country by the end of 2017 may not work as a viable “replacement” for slower legacy copper based fixed line services in rural areas.

IoD Study Criticises BT and Says Faster Broadband Delivers More Jobs

15th Feb, 2013 (15 Comments)

The Institute of Directors, an organisation for EU business leaders, polled 1,147 of its members to reveal that faster broadband could improve productivity at 83% of companies, encourage 31% to invest more in their business and cause 15% of firms to hire more staff. But it also criticised BTOpenreach in the UK for low service satisfaction levels.

Virgin Media Creates 400 New UK Engineer and Support Jobs

15th Feb, 2013 (8 Comments)

Cable operator Virgin Media has moved to “support the government’s ambitions for the country” by announcing the creation of 400 new jobs across the United Kingdom. Overall they will add 90 new engineers, 80 customer care assistants and 230 customer service and technical support staff.

AAISP Warns UK Firms to Think of Broadband Before Culling FAX Lines

15th Feb, 2013 (0 Comments)

The boss of business ISP Andrews and Arnold (AAISP) has warned companies to think of their broadband connection before ceasing an old fax line (facsimile). The warning comes after the internet provider noticed a trend where some firms would cancel fax services without realising that the same line was also being used for broadband.

Humax Release New Silver YouView Broadband TV Box and Still NO WiFi

14th Feb, 2013 (9 Comments)

Humax has announced the retail release of its new DTR-T1010 set-top-box for the YouView (IPTV) service, which offers broadband based catch-up TV and video-on-demand services via several UK ISPs (BT, TalkTalk, KC and JT); it can also be purchased separately from £299.99. But don’t expect anything too new.

UK ISP Vispa Boosts City Wireless Broadband Capacity in Warrington

14th Feb, 2013 (1 Comment)

Cheshire-based ISP Vispa claims to be “working hard to fix the problems” that have recently impacted customers on its new up to 60Mbps (Megabits per second) capable City Wireless broadband network in Burtonwood, Winwick and Chapelford (Warrington, England).

UK Researchers Working to End Internet Video Buffering on ISP Connections

14th Feb, 2013 (1 Comment)

Researchers at the University of Aberdeen (UA) in Scotland, supported by BT and Alcatel-Lucent, are seeking to “increase the speed of the Internet” by re-writing the way computers and network devices (e.g. routers) talk to each other so as to improve latency times (ping) and potentially make multiplayer games and video streaming smoother.

Isle of Wight Cable Operator Slams Councils Biased BT Broadband Plan

13th Feb, 2013 (2 Comments)

The Isle of Wight’s (England, UK) only provider of commercial and residential cable based TV, phone and broadband products, WightFibre (formerly WightCable), has accused the councils delayed roll-out plan for superfast broadband ISP services of being “biased in favour of BT” and of having shunned alternatives.

Telefonica and Infinera Demo 10Tbps Super Channel Fibre Optic Network

13th Feb, 2013 (0 Comments)

Network operator Telefónica and Infinera claim to have demonstrated the “first” super-channel fibre optic network running at a speed of 10Tbps (Terabits per second) via ten 1Tbps channels and a whole heap of both old and new modulation methods combined.

UK ISP Sky Broadband Migrates Google Email Platform to Yahoo Alternative

13th Feb, 2013 (7 Comments)

Customers of Sky Broadband (BSkyB), specifically those that use the ISPs existing Sky Email service, have been advised that they will shortly be migrated to a new Yahoo! based webmail platform (Sky Yahoo! Mail) because “Google is no longer able to provide Sky with an email platform that caters for our requirements“.

Calix Help Rural UK Overbury Estate Homes Get 1Gbps Fibre Broadband

12th Feb, 2013 (1 Comment)

Communications equipment provider Calix has helped two small farming villages in the heart of rural England, Overbury and Conderton (Cotswolds), gain access to “ultra-fast” fibre optic broadband (FTTP) services by deploying its E7-2 Ethernet Service Access Platform (ESAP).

RootMetrics Tests EE 4G Mobile Broadband Speeds in 3 UK Cities

12th Feb, 2013 (11 Comments)

RootMetrics has posted the results from 95,672 separate speedtests of EE’s new 4G (LTE 1800MHz) based Mobile Broadband network in the UK cities of Liverpool, Cardiff and Sheffield. The study found that EE was broadly living up to its promise of delivering internet speeds that range from 8-12Mbps (Megabits per second).