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UK ISP Sky Broadband Unveils New 4G Sky Mobile Plans and Prices

29th Nov 2016 (8 Comments)

Sky (Sky Broadband) has today officially soft launched their new 4G based Sky Mobile service in the United Kingdom, which is powered by a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) agreement with O2 (Telefonica UK). The move will turn Sky into a true quad-play provider.

Ofcom Probes Three UK Over Network Availability Blip

29th Nov 2016 (0 Comments)

Mobile operator Three UK is being investigated by Ofcom after the operator voluntarily notified the UK telecoms regulator about a “temporary reduction in the availability of its network“, which may have hindered the ability of some customers to contact the Emergency Services (police, fire, ambulance etc.).

BT Openreach Offer 5 Months Free FTTC for Slow Broadband Lines

29th Nov 2016 (9 Comments)

Openreach has announced that they will soon give UK ISPs the ability to offer 5 months of free rental on their 40Mbps FTTC (VDSL2) based “fibre broadband” service, which will apply to customers who currently only receive sub-10Mbps speeds via their existing copper lines (e.g. ADSL).

UPDATE Three of Jersey’s Vital Undersea Fibre Optic Cables Cut by Ship

29th Nov 2016 (4 Comments)

Reports are coming in that the English Channel Island of Jersey has suffered major telecoms and broadband disruption after a ship, which was dragging its anchor along the seabed, broken through three of the islands main undersea fibre optic cables.

Cityfibre to Roll-out Fibre Optic Broadband to 500 UK Business Parks

29th Nov 2016 (3 Comments)

Urban fibre optic network developer Cityfibre has today announced that their Gigabit (1Gbps+) capable Fibre-to-the-Premise (FTTP) Ethernet and broadband network will be rolled out to around 500 business parks across its footprint of 40 cities in the United Kingdom, which could benefit 22,000 SMEs.

UPDATE3 TalkTalk and Other ISP Routers Potentially Vulnerable to New Mirai Worm

29th Nov 2016 (17 Comments)

It’s spreading fast! A newly modified version of the malicious Mirai worm, which has recently been remotely infecting masses of different broadband routers at other European ISPs (900,000+ in Germany), may soon begin to hit devices in the United Kingdom too, such as TalkTalk’s D-Link DSL-3780 kit.

UPDATE4 Ofcom UK Forces BT to Adopt Legal Separation of Openreach

29th Nov 2016 (66 Comments)

Bad news for BT today. Ofcom confirms that it has been unable to reach a voluntary agreement over the future of Openreach and would now force the operator to adopt “legal separation“. A new UK framework for the next decade of telecoms and broadband regulation will now be established.

UK ISPs Say New Website Blocking Powers Lack “thought or consultation”

28th Nov 2016 (6 Comments)

The United Kingdom’s Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has criticised the Government’s sudden decision to include mandatory blocking of all “adult” websites into the forthcoming Digital Economy Bill 2017, which they say has “the potential to significantly harm the digital economy.”

UPD Ofcom UK Finds Broadband ISP Plusnet May Have Botched its Bills

28th Nov 2016 (14 Comments)

A probe by telecoms industry regulator Ofcom has today found “reasonable grounds to believe” that Plusnet may have continued to incorrectly bill customers of their fixed line broadband and phone services between 7th March 2008 and 3rd September 2015, even after they left.

Aylesbury Vale Broadband Begins FTTH Roll-out to Oving and Stewkley

28th Nov 2016 (2 Comments)

The publicly funded Aylesbury Vale Broadband project has this week started the next phase of expansion in rural Buckinghamshire (England), which will expand their 300Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH/P) network to the villages of Oving and Stewkley.

Kaspersky Lab Reports 25% of WiFi Internet Hotspots are Unsecured

28th Nov 2016 (2 Comments)

Internet security firm Kaspersky Lab has analysed 31 million WiFi hotspots from around the world and found that 22% have no security (i.e. no password or encryption), while a further 2.7% only adopt the weakest form of Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) encryption that is easily hacked.

Three UK Launches Fun Public Campaign for a 30% Mobile Spectrum Cap

28th Nov 2016 (5 Comments)

Mobile operator Three UK has taken a leaf out of TalkTalk’s “Fix Britain’s Internet” book and launched a new campaign (‘Make the Air Fair‘), which adopts the image of Ofcom’s CEO, Sharon White, and calls on her to impose a spectrum ownership cap of 30% that would hit EE (BT) and Vodafone.

UK ISP Hyperoptic Offers Extra 20% Discount on FTTB Ultrafast Broadband

25th Nov 2016 (1 Comment)

At present new customers of Hyperoptic’s 1Gbps capable FTTB/P broadband network can already benefit from a 9 month discount, but now you can also get another 20% off that by using the promo code BLACK9 during the sign-up.

MS3 Starts Build of Trial FTTH Ultrafast Broadband Network in Hull UK

25th Nov 2016 (7 Comments)

Communications provider MS3 has today begun the roll-out of their new “ultrafast” Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH/P) based broadband network in West Hull (East Yorkshire, England), which is supported by an initial investment of £500K and will cover a trial area of roughly 1,200 homes.

30Mbps Wireless Broadband Network Goes Live in Dartmoor and Exmoor

25th Nov 2016 (0 Comments)

Fixed wireless ISP Airband, which last year won a £4.6m contract with the Connecting Devon and Somerset project to roll-out their 30Mbps+ “superfast broadband” network to 5,800 premises in the Dartmoor and Exmoor National Parks (here), can celebrate today after their service went live. But the roll-out isn’t complete.

Voneus Bring 60-80Mbps Broadband to Dunton in Rural Bedfordshire

25th Nov 2016 (3 Comments)

Some 300 homes and businesses in the digitally isolated rural Bedfordshire (England) village of Dunton can now access broadband speeds of up to 100Mbps after Voneus built a new wireless network, which is distributed via eight small transmitters on top the local St Mary Magdalene church.

Broadband ISP TalkTalk Removes Setup Fees for Black Friday

25th Nov 2016 (0 Comments)

TalkTalk has informed us that their Black Friday offer removes all setup fees from their broadband packages and TV bundles, which for example could save £25 off their ‘up to’ 38Mbps “Faster Fibre Broadband” (FTTC) service. Various half-price TV offers will also run on their Sky Cinema and Sports content.

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