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Ofcom Disappointed by Breach in BT’s Regulatory Undertakings

7th Oct 2015 (2 Comments)

Ofcom are “disappointed” after a screw-up forced BT to request the temporary use of shared computer systems across their divisions with BTOpenreach, which is a breach of the 2005 Undertakings and their commitment to “functional separation” of systems and processes.

The UK PostOffice Confirms Line Rental and Phone Call Price Hikes

7th Oct 2015 (0 Comments)

Consumers who take one of the PostOffice’s phone bundles, most often alongside a broadband bundle, are being informed this week that from 9th November 2015 they too will become the latest ISP subscribers to suffer from the dreaded annual price hikes in line rental and call charges.

UK ISP TalkTalk’s 4G Femtocell Broadband Routers Still Some Way Off

7th Oct 2015 (1 Comment)

TalkTalk’s plans for launching a new home broadband ISP router with small cell based 4G (LTE) femtocell technology inside, which could help to cut mobile costs and boost indoor network coverage, continue to show huge promise, but we’re unlikely to see a final product anytime soon.

Vodafone Signs Deal to Access Cityfibre’s UK Fibre Optic Network

6th Oct 2015 (2 Comments)

Fibre optic developer Cityfibre has today signed the first deal under a new Master Services Agreement (MSA) with Vodafone, which will give the mobile giant access to their various networks across the United Kingdom.

Standalone Naked FTTC “Fibre Broadband” Unlikely to Launch Until 2017

6th Oct 2015 (16 Comments)

A recent update from BTWholesale suggests that the newly proposed SoGEA (Naked VDSL) product, which would give you the ability to order a standalone superfast “fibre broadband” (FTTC) line without also having to pay a separate fee for the phone service, might not see a commercial launch until late 2017.

UK ISP Timico Scraps Unmetered Offpeak Usage for Coms Customers

5th Oct 2015 (1 Comment)

Former broadband customers of business ISP Coms (including many ex-ADSL24 subscribers), which was gobbled by Timico in a £2.5m deal during May 2015 (here), have been told that as part of the migration process they will lose their unmetered off-peak data allowance.

Vodafone UK Launch Project to Bring 3G Mobile to Remote Rural Pubs

5th Oct 2015 (3 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone and Pub is The Hub have today launched a new Rural Community Pub programme, which aims to bring decent indoor 3G mobile voice and data (mobile broadband) services to digitally isolated rural pubs.

Hampshire UK Reveals New Phase 2 Fibre Broadband Rollout Areas

5th Oct 2015 (0 Comments)

The Hampshire Superfast Broadband project in England has revealed a roll-out plan (locations and time-scales) for their new extension contract with BT, which will push superfast broadband (24Mbps+) out to another 34,500 premises (“at least” 95% of the local population) by “mid 2019 or earlier“.

Spectrum Internet Says Government Broadband Rollout is “5 years too late”

5th Oct 2015 (4 Comments)

The Managing Director of Cardiff-based ISP Spectrum Internet, Giles Phelps, has told ISPreview.co.uk as part our exclusive interview that the Government’s roll-out of superfast broadband is “about 5 years too late” and that future projects should focus on ultra-fast FTTH/P broadband with fixed wireless for remote rural areas.

Sky Broadband Becomes Latest to Hike the Price of Phone Line Rental

4th Oct 2015 (10 Comments)

Just like clockwork Sky Broadband will shortly become the latest of the big broadband ISPs to announce a hike in the monthly price of their standard phone and line rental service, which is set to rise from £16.40 to £17.40 per month from 1st December 2015. But that’s not the only change.

Another GBP4.2M Spent on Broadband Delivery UK Marketing

3rd Oct 2015 (24 Comments)

The government’s national Broadband Delivery UK project, which is working to make fixed line superfast broadband (24Mbps+) services available to 95% of the country by 2017/18, spent £4.2m on marketing and £850,000 on other admin costs between March and July 2015.

CMA Calls for Significant Competition Review of Three UK and O2 Deal

2nd Oct 2015 (7 Comments)

The £10.25bn Hutchison Whampoa (Three UK) deal to buy O2 from debt-laden Telefonica looks set to face a big hurdle after the Competition and Markets Authority preliminarily ruled that the “transaction threatens to significantly [affect] competition” in the United Kingdom’s mobile market.

Three UK Resolves National Mobile Internet Connectivity Woes

2nd Oct 2015 (1 Comment)

Customers of mobile network operator Three UK have struggled to use their 3G and 4G based data (Mobile Broadband) connectivity since around 9am this morning and the fault appears to have sporadically affected subscribers across the United Kingdom.

Look Out – UK Internet Users Braced for More Piracy Threat Letters

2nd Oct 2015 (10 Comments)

Thousands of broadband ISP subscribers could soon be hit by a new wave of bullying Internet piracy threat letters (“Speculative Invoicing“) after Maverick Eye, which scours public P2P (BitTorrent) networks for unlawful sharing of copyright content, began “the UK’s largest anti-piracy campaign ever“.

Nearly Done – EU Rules to Protect Net Neutrality and Free Mobile Roaming

2nd Oct 2015 (1 Comment)

The Council of the European Union, which is represented by ministers from each of the member states including the United Kingdom, has approved without debate new rules that aim to protect open Internet access (Net Neutrality) from unfair restrictions and put an end to mobile roaming charges.

UPDATE5 Virgin Media Customers Swamped by SPAM After Email Migration

1st Oct 2015 (110 Comments)

Customers of Virgin Media’s broadband service, specifically those who have been migrated from their old Google (Gmail) based email platform and on to the new in-house solution (here), are being swamped by a seemingly endless mountain of junk mail (SPAM).

Consumer Rights Act 2015 Could Aid Clarity on Broadband Prices

1st Oct 2015 (2 Comments)

The new Consumer Rights Act 2015 has today been officially introduced and, while most of its measures are focused on “goods“, there are a few changes that will affect consumer “services” like broadband, mobile and phone connectivity in the United Kingdom.

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