Latest UK ISP Reviews
 |
AAISP (A&A) (gnb) | Broadband Fixed Line | By: gnb | 
|
 |
Zen Internet (Markw) | Broadband Fixed Line | By: Markw |
|
 |
uno (MarkEd) | Broadband Fixed Line | By: MarkEd |
|
View: Top 10 ISPs | Review Your ISP
See our '
Best UK Broadband ISPs for 2025
' guide for help choosing an ISP.Most Popular UK ISP News (Week)
Cheapest Big ISPs for 100Mbps+
Latest UK ISP and Telecoms News
30th Jul 2015 (2 Comments)
Cable operator Virgin Media (Liberty Global), fresh from kicking off the deployment of their new £3bn “Project Lightning” network expansion in Manchester last month (here), has announced that 80,000 premises in Leeds (West Yorkshire, England) will be the next to benefit.
30th Jul 2015 (3 Comments)
BT has released the latest results for Q2-2015 (calendar) and confirmed that their retail business added +85K new broadband subscribers in the quarter (down sharply from +121K in Q1) to total 7,798,000, which includes 3,226,000 on BTInfinity “fibre broadband” (up by +217K vs +266K in Q1). Incidentally FTTC/P is now available to 23 million premises (80% of the UK).
29th Jul 2015 (1 Comment)
Last year the Court of Appeal ruled that BT’s Next Generation Access (NGA) Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC / BTInfinity) superfast broadband technology had infringed upon parts of two patents owned by California-based ISP ASSIA, which related to the field of Dynamic Spectrum Management.
Advertisement
29th Jul 2015 (0 Comments)
Vodafone has found a fix for some of the communities in their Rural Open Sure Signal (ROSS100) project, which until recently had been unable to benefit from the Femtocell tech (i.e. uses fixed line services to boost local mobile signals) because the related areas suffered from a lack of good fixed line broadband.
29th Jul 2015 (3 Comments)
The UK telecoms regulator has today fined Unicom (Universal Utilities) £200,000 for misleading consumers over the sale of their fixed line telecommunications services (between the 1st March 2013 and 8th July 2014).
29th Jul 2015 (1 Comment)
The telecoms regulator has re-run its FTTC / VULA “margin squeeze” test, which was introduced earlier this year as a mechanism for keeping BT’s “fibre broadband” prices fair by ensuring they “maintain a sufficient margin between wholesale and retail … charges“, and found that the operator is not in breach.
Advertisement
29th Jul 2015 (9 Comments)
The debate over whether or not broadband ISPs that don’t sell a pure “fibre optic” (FTTH/P) broadband connection should be allowed to use such terminology in their adverts is nothing new, but a new ruling by the Government of France shows that some countries are taking a stand.
29th Jul 2015 (0 Comments)
Sky Broadband is holding its own against increasing pressure from BT and this is demonstrated by their Q2 2015 results reporting another +96,000 increase in Internet subscribers for the UK and Ireland (total 5.62 million), which is only a small dip from the +100k added in Q1 2015 and +106k in Q4-2014.
28th Jul 2015 (1 Comment)
Online retailer Amazon UK has expanded their existing unlimited TV and Movie streaming service by adding Prime Music at no extra cost, which gives the service a slight edge over rivals like NOW TV and Netflix that tend to focus more exclusively on video streaming.
Advertisement
28th Jul 2015 (1 Comment)
28th Jul 2015 (19 Comments)
A House of Commons Select Committee for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has launched yet another inquiry into the national Broadband Delivery UK programme, which will focus on the coverage, delivery and speed of superfast broadband and mobile connectivity across the UK.
28th Jul 2015 (5 Comments)
Switching to a different Mobile Network Operator (MNO) in the United Kingdom could soon become even easier after the national telecoms regulator, Ofcom, proposed a number of changes that they claim would harmonise and thus simplify the process by taking a cue from home broadband ISP migrations.
Advertisement
28th Jul 2015 (2 Comments)
New customers who take BT’s entry-level FTTC superfast broadband bundle (BTInfinity 1 + Weekend Calls) for £10 per month should note that the ISP has increased its monthly usage allowance from 20GB to 40GB, albeit only for a limited time. On top of that they also intend to re-add the £75 and £125 Sainsbury’s gift vouchers to their packages.
27th Jul 2015 (5 Comments)
Hybrid fibre optic and wireless broadband ISP BLAZE Wireless has announced that their network, which launched last year with coverage around parts of Chichester in West Sussex (here), now looks set to be expanded to reach slowspots in the Arun Valley area.
27th Jul 2015 (6 Comments)
Rochdale-based ISP Zen Internet has just become the latest broadband and phone provider to announce a trial of Internet Protocol v6 (IPv6), which is designed to replace the old IPv4 Internet addressing standard.
27th Jul 2015 (3 Comments)
Mobile giant EE has reported their latest Q2 2015 results today, which revealed that the operators 4G network coverage had reached the 90% (population) milestone. Elsewhere their fixed line home broadband subscriber growth slowed to total 919,000 (up by +35K in Q2 vs +50K in Q1 and +44K in Q4 2014).
27th Jul 2015 (3 Comments)
The latest survey of 748 ISPreview.co.uk readers has found that 85.2% of respondents have at some point switched their Internet or phone provider, although just 15.2% anticipate that Ofcom’s simplified new broadband and phone switching process will make them more likely to migrate to another ISP in the future.
Latest ISP Reviews
|
AAISP (A&A) (gnb) | Broadband Fixed Line | By: gnb |
|
|
Zen Internet (Markw) | Broadband Fixed Line | By: Markw |
|
|
uno (MarkEd) | Broadband Fixed Line | By: MarkEd |
|
Top ISP News of the Week
Sponsored Links
Latest Forum Topics
Cheapest ISPs for 100Mbps+
Sponsored Links
Helpful Tips and Guides
Latest UK ISP News
Cheapest ISPs for 100Mbps+
Large Availability | View All
Helpful ISP Guides and Tips
Promotion
Cheap Unlimited Mobile SIMs
Latest Interviews
Sponsored
Copyright © 1999 to Present - ISPreview.co.uk - All Rights Reserved - Terms , Privacy and Cookie Policy , Links , Website Rules , Contact