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Deloitte – Patchy Broadband Putting Northern Powerhouse At Risk

25th Sep 2015 (10 Comments)

A new study from financial firm Deloitte has warned that slow / patchy broadband connectivity could be leaving small and medium sized businesses in the North West of England at a disadvantage, particularly those in the more urban areas of Liverpool and Manchester.

UPDATE Ofcom Clear Manually Configured White Space Wireless Kit

25th Sep 2015 (3 Comments)

Remember White Space technology? In case you’ve forgotten, it allows the gaps in radio spectrum that exist between Digital Terrestrial TV (470MHz to 790MHz) channels to be harnessed and used for broadband or other communication services. Sadly developers have struggled to meet Ofcom’s licensing requirements, so the regulator has had to cut a few corners.

Positive Feedback for Broadband Delivery UK’s Market Test Pilots

24th Sep 2015 (26 Comments)

Recently the Government’s Broadband Delivery UK office gave an update on the progress of their 7 Market Test Pilots, which are testing alternative solutions (fibre optic, satellite, wireless etc.) for bringing broadband to remote rural areas. The good news is that early customers appear to be happy.

Fluidata ISP Boss Warns of Phantom UK “Fibre Broadband” Availability

24th Sep 2015 (20 Comments)

The Managing Director of Fluidata, Piers Daniell, has highlighted one of the most frustrating and often overlooked problems with BTOpenreach’s roll-out of Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC) based “fibre broadband” services. When the service is technically available, but due to a capacity shortage you can’t get it.

Ofcom Finalise Reduced 3G and 4G Mobile Spectrum Licence Fee Hike

24th Sep 2015 (3 Comments)

The United Kingdom’s national telecoms regulator has today published its final assessment on their much delayed plans to hike the annual licence fees for the 900MHz and 1800MHz radio spectrum bands, which has seen the costs come down again.. but only a little.

UPDATE3 BT to Deploy IPv6 Across Entire Network by December 2016

23rd Sep 2015 (21 Comments)

The first hints that something significant was about to happen surfaced in July 2015 (here) and now BT’s Consumer division has just confirmed that they intend to deploy the Internet Protocol v6 (IPv6) Internet addressing standard across their entire network by December 2016.

Q2 2015 UK Average Broadband Speeds Top 11.8Mbps vs 5.1Mbps Globally

23rd Sep 2015 (3 Comments)

Akamai has today published their latest Q2 2015 State of the Internet (SotI) report to reveal that the world’s average fixed line broadband download speed is now 5.1Mbps (up from 5Mbps in Q1), which compares with 11.8Mbps in the United Kingdom (up from 11.6Mbps). The UK’s overall country ranking has also improved from 21nd to 19th.

BTOpenreach Maps Out its UK Telegraph Pole Locations for ISPs

23rd Sep 2015 (6 Comments)

Alternative network providers that make use of BTOpenreach’s pricey Physical Infrastructure Access (PIA) solution, which allows ISPs to share the operators network infrastructure in order to deploy new services (e.g. faster broadband), can now access an up-to-date map of the overhead network (telegraph poles).

Wiltshire UK Details BT and BDUK Superfast Broadband Extension Plan

23rd Sep 2015 (0 Comments)

It’s been many months since a new state aid supported Superfast Extension Programme (SEP) contract was signed in Wiltshire (England) to extend the local roll-out of BT’s superfast broadband (24Mbps+) network beyond the current target of 91% by March 2016 and today we’re finally given the details.

First Trial Users Live on Sky and TalkTalk’s 940Mbps Broadband in York

23rd Sep 2015 (17 Comments)

As expected TalkTalk has confirmed that the first trial customers are now live on their joint 940Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH/P) broadband network in the city of York, which is being built alongside Sky Broadband and Cityfibre. An early 2016 commercial launch has also been set.

Wales Commits GBP12.5m to Help Businesses Get More Out of Broadband

22nd Sep 2015 (0 Comments)

The Welsh Government has today committed another £12.5 million to help businesses across Wales take advantage of superfast broadband, which is currently being deployed across the country.

ISP PlusNet Scraps Free UK Calls from Broadband and Phone Bundles

22nd Sep 2015 (2 Comments)

Budget ISP PlusNet, which have this year made a habit of removing useful features from their service (e.g. 24/7 support calls, 20Mbps fibre upload speeds etc.), has now followed the big providers by removing free UK weekend and or evening calls from their broadband and phone bundles.

Ofcom Names the Worst UK Telecoms and Broadband ISPs for Q2 2015

22nd Sep 2015 (4 Comments)

The telecoms regulator has published its latest quarterly report into the volume of complaints experienced by all of the United Kingdom’s largest broadband, phone, mobile and TV providers. As usual the news is good for some providers (e.g. Sky Broadband, Virgin Media) and bad for others (e.g. EE).

UPDATE3 BT Unveil Universal 5-10Mb Broadband and 500Mb G.fast Rollout

22nd Sep 2015 (121 Comments)

As predicted yesterday BT has today announced a new roll-out plan for delivering faster broadband (at least 5-10Mbps) connections to the hardest to reach final 5% of premises in the United Kingdom (mostly rural homes) and an aim to push “ultrafast” 300-500Mbps G.fast to 10 million premises.

Broadband in the UK to Stay Top of the 5 Major EU Countries Until 2020

22nd Sep 2015 (10 Comments)

A new BT commissioned report from telecoms analyst firm Analysys Mason has perhaps unsurprisingly found that the take-up and availability of superfast broadband (30Mbps+) connectivity in the United Kingdom is ahead of Spain, Germany, Italy and France, and will remain there until at least 2020.

Progress Update – UN Falls Short on Global Universal Broadband Goals

21st Sep 2015 (0 Comments)

Five years ago the United Nations (UN) set four key global digital development targets for Internet access and broadband connectivity, which were supposed to be achieved by 2015. But the latest report from the UN’s Broadband Commission reveals that they’ve still got a lot of work to do.

“Danger Will Robinson” – Internet Capacity Crunch in 8 Years Time

21st Sep 2015 (9 Comments)

Professor Andrew Ellis of Aston University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science has once again warned that the Internet “could be on the brink … of a capacity crunch“, which might force ISPs to throttle your broadband and it could happen within the next 8 years. Best get that tinfoil hat.

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