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Huge Virgin Media UK Cable Broadband Expansion Begins in Manchester

22nd Jun 2015 (7 Comments)

Some 150,000 homes and businesses in the city of Manchester (England) will be the first to benefit from Virgin Media’s new £3bn scheme (Project Lightning) to expand the reach of their 152Mbps capable cable broadband, TV and phone network to around 60% of the United Kingdom by 2020 (currently 44%).

Superfast Cornwall Confirms 85,000 Premises Can Get FTTP Broadband

20th Jun 2015 (48 Comments)

The Superfast Cornwall project has confirmed that the rural English county continues to have the largest deployment of ultrafast 330Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband technology anywhere in the United Kingdom, with the total number of premises passed increasing from 62,000 one year ago to 85,000 now.

MPs Setup Rural Broadband All-Party Parliamentary Group to Tackle BT

20th Jun 2015 (39 Comments)

A group of MPs, primarily from Devon and Somerset in England’s South West, have established a new All-Party Parliamentary Group that will investigate the roll-out of superfast broadband (24Mbps+) services. The group also intends to “put pressure” on BT to stop the operators alleged “delaying antics” and be more transparent with their coverage plans.

Happy Easier UK Phone and Broadband ISP Switching Day – Maybe

20th Jun 2015 (0 Comments)

As a little reminder, the process of switching between broadband and phone providers, specifically those who use the BT Openreach telecoms network (e.g. BT, EE, Sky Broadband and TalkTalk etc.), has today become a little easier thanks to the introduction of Ofcom’s new harmonised migration rules.

UPDATE East Riding of Yorkshire UK Signs New Superfast Broadband Deal

19th Jun 2015 (2 Comments)

The Broadband East Riding project in Yorkshire (England) has signed a new Superfast Extension Programme contract with the government’s Broadband Delivery UK office, which should help the area to meet the goal of putting superfast broadband (24Mbps+) within reach of 95% by 2017.

Loch Tay Gets Community 50Mbps Wireless Broadband from Public Funding

19th Jun 2015 (5 Comments)

Some £109,078 of funding from the Scottish Government’s Community Broadband Scotland (CBS) initiative has enabled the fixed wireless broadband ISP AB Internet to work with the local Loch Tay community (Perth and Kinross) and roll-out a faster Internet service to around 350 people in 150+ premises.

Hereford Enterprise Zone Hunts for Ultrafast Fibre Optic Broadband Fix

19th Jun 2015 (1 Comment)

The Herefordshire County Council are working to deliver an alternative “ultrafast broadband” solution to help businesses within the Hereford Enterprise Zone at Rotherwas, which can already receive expensive leased lines or cheaper FTTC connectivity from BT; but apparently neither of those are good enough.

EU Says Governments Can’t Force Universe Mobile Broadband Coverage

19th Jun 2015 (0 Comments)

Efforts by the Government to force UK mobile operators into offering universal coverage have been dealt a blow after the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) ruled that such a legally binding Universal Service Obligation (USO) cannot, under current EU rules, be forced upon providers.

Shropshire’s Deputy Leader Attacks Critics of Local Broadband Project

19th Jun 2015 (7 Comments)

The deputy leader of Shropshire County Council in England, Steve Charmley, has taken the unusual step of published an Open Letter in order to “dispel some of the myths perpetrated by detractors” of the local Connecting Shropshire project, which is working with BT to roll-out “fibre broadband” services.

New Award Sees Europe Hunt for the Top 5 European Broadband Projects

19th Jun 2015 (0 Comments)

The European Commission has started a new competition (‘European Broadband Award‘) that aims to identify the five best “high-speed” (30Mbps+) broadband projects that are delivering in urban, suburban and rural areas. But the EC’s “Good Practice” examples are.. less encouraging.

UK Falls One Place in 2015 EU Digital Agenda Broadband Progress Report

18th Jun 2015 (23 Comments)

The European Commission has updated their EU Broadband Scorecard, which uses data from Dec 2014 and Jan 2015 to reveal the United Kingdom’s progress toward Europe’s overall Digital Agenda goals (e.g. ensuring 100% coverage of 30Mbps+ Internet speeds, with 50% take-up of 100Mbps+). But we’re now ranked 5th for connectivity, down one place from 4th last year.

ISPA Reveals UK Internet Hero and Villain Shortlist for 2015 Awards

18th Jun 2015 (0 Comments)

The UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has today revealed the final shortlist of potential winners for their annual Internet Hero and Internet Villain gongs at the forthcoming 2015 Internet industry awards and it’s no surprise to find that both lists are once again being dominated by Internet snooping.

Which? Report Slams Big UK Broadband ISPs for Misleading Service Speeds

18th Jun 2015 (11 Comments)

Consumer magazine Which? has published a new report that attacks some of the biggest broadband ISPs, particularly BT, TalkTalk and PlusNet, for allegedly continuing to promote Internet download speeds that the majority of their customers will never be able to achieve. But are tougher advertising rules the best fix?

New Map of London UK Shows Slow Broadband is Like a Digital Cancer

17th Jun 2015 (32 Comments)

The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has today launched a “major drive” to boost broadband connectivity in the capital, although it’s mostly the same stuff as we saw being announced last year. At least there’s now a map to depict just how bad the situation is, especially in the city centre.

O2 UK to Deploy New 100Gigabit Backbone Network to Boost Capacity

17th Jun 2015 (4 Comments)

Mobile operator O2, which is currently in the process of being gobbled by the parent of Three UK for £10.25bn (here), has picked Ciena’s 6500 converged packet optical solutions to help it roll-out a new 100G (Gigabits) based backbone network around major cities, including London, Manchester, Edinburgh and Liverpool.

UPDATE Fibre Optic Cable Break Disrupts Shetland Islands Broadband

17th Jun 2015 (10 Comments)

Broadband Internet connectivity on the remote Shetland Islands (Northern Scotland) has been seriously impacted after one of BT’s contractors accidentally cut through a vital fibre optic cable link between Maywick and the centre of Lerwick.

ISP PlusNet Tweaks UK Fibre Broadband Prices and Cuts Upload Speed

17th Jun 2015 (9 Comments)

New customers who sign-up to PlusNet’s superfast broadband (FTTC) capable packages should note that the operator has reduced some of their standard prices for the first 6 months of service and, much more strangely, dropped the upload speed of their “Unlimited Fibre” option from 19.5Mbps to just 2Mbps.

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