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UPDATE OTA Reveal Final Stumbling Blocks for BT’s UK Dark Fibre Product

2nd November, 2016 (3 Comments)

Openreach (BT) hope to publish a final reference offer for their new Dark Fibre Access (DFA) product by the end of 2016, which will give rival ISPs “physical access” to their fibre optic cables. But a recent progress update reveals that disagreements over contracts, repair times and fees have yet to be resolved.

15,000 Extra Premises in the Tees Valley to Get Superfast Broadband

2nd November, 2016 (0 Comments)

The Tees Valley Combined Authority (TVCA) has announced that a new deal will result in more than 15,000 extra homes and businesses around the North East of England being put within reach of a “superfast broadband” (24Mbps+) capable network by the end of 2018.

Clawback to Boost Scotland’s Highlands Fibre Broadband Cover to 86%

31st October, 2016 (27 Comments)

Good news for those living in the rural Highlands and Islands region of Scotland. The £410m Digital Scotland programme with Openreach (BT) has announced that strong take-up of “fibre broadband” means an extra 6,000 premises will be covered via a reinvestment of £2.3m.

New 10Gbps BT Link Boosts Broadband Capacity to the Shetland Islands

31st October, 2016 (7 Comments)

Telecoms operator BT has today switched-on a new 10Gbps link to the remote Scottish island of Shetland in the North Sea, which will serve to both improve local network resilience and boost capacity for Openreach’s on-going roll-out of FTTC/P based superfast broadband connectivity.

UPD Anger with BT and CALA as New Homes in Reading Lack Fibre Broadband

31st October, 2016 (33 Comments)

Residents of the new Parklands Development in Reading (Berkshire), which is being built by CALA, have told ISPreview.co.uk of their frustration after they were promised access to Openreach’s (BT) “fibre broadband” services but have instead waited months for a working phone line and slow ADSL2+.

UK ISP BT Tops 9.2 Mill Broadband Users and BDUK Sees Clawback Boost

27th October, 2016 (36 Comments)

The latest quarterly (Q3 2016 calendar) results have been published by BT today, which reveal that their retail broadband base now tops 9,193,000 customers (up by +76K, unchanged from Q2) and 4,473,000 of those take their ‘Infinity‘ (FTTC/P) superfast broadband (up by +216K vs +181K in Q2).

BT Publish First UK Prices for the 160-330Mbps G.fast Broadband Pilot

27th October, 2016 (37 Comments)

After a long wait Openreach (BT) has today revealed the tentative wholesale cost of their new ‘up to’ 330Mbps capable G.fast broadband technology for UK homes and businesses, which from January 2017 will be piloted in 17 locations across the country (reaching 138,000 UK premises by the end of March 2017).

Cowling Suffers 2-3 Week Broadband Outage After Car Hits Local Cabinet

25th October, 2016 (14 Comments)

Residents of a rural village in North Yorkshire (England), Cowling, have complained about the “fiasco” of Openreach’s (BT) response after some were left without broadband connectivity for around 2-3 weeks, which started when a car crashed into one of the operator’s local FTTC cabinets.

UK Government Offers Advice on Community Broadband Projects

21st October, 2016 (6 Comments)

The Government’s Department for Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) has today uploaded a batch of reports and case studies that are designed to provide help and information for anybody looking to establish their own community broadband solutions.

Network Rail Breaks Broadband for Uxbridge and West Drayton

21st October, 2016 (13 Comments)

Engineers working for Network Rail have damaged a mass of BTOpenreach’s cable ducts near Uxbridge (West London) because they “were not highlighted in the thorough surveys we carried out prior to the work.” As a result broadband and phone services in the area, including West Drayton, are suffering a major outage.

ITU Boosts Top G.fast Copper and Coax Broadband Speeds to 2000Mbps

21st October, 2016 (7 Comments)

The International Telecommunication Union, specifically ITU-T Study Group 15, has doubled the best speeds achievable via the new G.fast broadband standard to 2Gbps and added support for coaxial cable. Openreach (BT) are due to begin the commercial UK roll-out of this service in late 2017.

Ofcom UK Extend and Tweak BT Openreach’s Quality of Service Rules

19th October, 2016 (0 Comments)

The Quality of Service (i.e. minimum standards for repairs and new line provision) targets that Ofcom imposed upon Openreach (BT) in 2014 (here) look set to be extended until 31st March 2018 and the regulator will also make some additional tweaks.

BT and Huawei in New UK Trial of 40Gbps Ultrafast FTTP Broadband

18th October, 2016 (30 Comments)

Openreach (BT) and Huawei have today claimed to be the “first companies in Europe” to trial three new ultrafast fibre optic broadband technologies, including 40Gbps (Gigabits per second) capable NG-PON2, 10Gbps XGS-PON and 2.5Gbps GPON (Gigabit Passive Optical Network) over a single fibre.

New nbn XG.Fast Broadband Tech Trial Delivers 8Gbps via Copper Lines

18th October, 2016 (34 Comments)

A new trial of the future XG.FAST technology, which could one day replace Openreach’s forthcoming G.fast based ultrafast broadband service, has beaten last year’s BT trial by pushing a peak aggregate speed of 8000Mbps over 30 metres of twisted-pair copper (BT achieved 5.6Gbps at a similar distance).

Report Finds Poor SME Broadband Hampers the “Northern Powerhouse”

13th October, 2016 (1 Comment)

A new report from the IPPR North think-tank has claimed that small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) are lagging behind other businesses in the “Northern Powerhouse” (northern England) region due to a “double-whammy of patchy … broadband connectivity” and lack of digital skills.

UPD Study Challenges Ofcom’s Strategy to Grow New Broadband Networks

13th October, 2016 (2 Comments)

A new BT commissioned report from Analysys Mason has perhaps unsurprisingly warned that Ofcom’s effort to encourage alternative network (AltNet) ISPs to build rival ultrafast broadband networks, such as by opening up access to Openreach’s cable ducts, may fail to achieve the desired result.

BT Openreach Enhance 18Mbps FTTC Broadband Trial for Slow ADSL Lines

12th October, 2016 (7 Comments)

Openreach (BT) has announced some enhancements and an extension of their new 18Mbps (2Mbps upload) Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC) based product trial, which began in July 2016 (here) and is designed to help people stuck on slow ADSL based pure copper broadband lines.