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Sky’s UK CEO Ignores Weekend Reports – Makes Final Plea to Split BT

22nd February, 2016 (62 Comments)

The CEO of Sky UK (Sky Broadband), Jeremy Darroch, has today made a final plea in the hope of encouraging Ofcom to split BT from control of their national telecoms network (Openreach), which Darroch claims is the only way to encourage investment in 1Gbps+ FTTH/P broadband and to stop BT “[sweating] its copper assets” for slower connectivity.

BT Set to Avoid Openreach Split as Ofcom Opts for the Middle Ground

21st February, 2016 (70 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulatory will publish the outcome of their ‘Strategic Review of Digital Communications‘ on Thursday and unsurprisingly there have been some leaks, which appear to confirm our expectation that Ofcom will NOT move to split BT from control of its national phone and broadband network (Openreach).

Lancashire Villages Accuse BT of Overbuilding their Community Network

20th February, 2016 (91 Comments)

Residents of three villages in rural Lancashire (England) – Inglewhite, Whitechapel and Bleasdale – have accused BT and the council of wasting public money after the community built its own B4RN 1000Mbps FTTH broadband network only for BT to suddenly turn up and overbuild it with 40-80Mbps FTTC.

UPDATE BT Trial Exchange Based FTTP Broadband with 500 Swindon Homes

18th February, 2016 (52 Comments)

BTOpenreach has announced that they are conducting a new trial of 330Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband technology with 500 homes on the North Swindon development of Haydon Wick. This will involve building fibre optic lines direct from the local telephone exchange.

BT and EE to Create 1,400 New UK Apprenticeship and Graduate Jobs

18th February, 2016 (13 Comments)

Telecoms operator BT has today announced that it is set to create “around” 1,400 new apprenticeship and graduate jobs in 2016, which will involve related employees working in a range of roles from cybersecurity to engineering.

BDUK Confirm Extra 3.62m UK Premises Can Get Superfast Broadband

18th February, 2016 (8 Comments)

The Government’s Broadband Deliver UK programme has today published its latest quarterly performance report to the end of 2015, which reveals a bit more detail about the project’s progress. Overall 3,625,369 extra premises have now benefited and can order superfast broadband, with £406,918,848 of BDUK funding spent.

UPDATE Centre for Policy Studies Calls for Ofcom to Initiate BT Breakup

17th February, 2016 (44 Comments)

The Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) has joined a growing chorus of people and organisations calling for BT to be separated from control of their national UK broadband and phone (Openreach) network, which the group suggests could “provide a market with a level playing field between all players.”

UPDATE Scotland UK Reveals its Next “Fibre Broadband” Rollout Areas

17th February, 2016 (6 Comments)

The £410 million Digital Scotland project has so far helped to make BT’s “high-speed fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network available to an additional 115,000 premises and this week the next batch of upgrade areas have been confirmed, including for the remote Highlands and Islands region.

Whoopsie – BT Openreach Advert Claims UK Invented the Internet

16th February, 2016 (3 Comments)

Most people with IT knowledge know that the Internet stemmed from a 1960’s project in the United States (ARPANET), but apparently nobody told BTOpenreach (you know.. that company responsible for phone and Internet services) after one of their adverts hailed the UK as the “country that invented the internet“. Oops.

The Knives Come Out as BT Strikes Back at MPs Demanding Separation

13th February, 2016 (68 Comments)

Instead of going on a charm offensive BT’s CEO, Gavin Patterson, appears to have taken a more confrontational approach by privately writing to every (650) elected UK Member of Parliament and highlighting how he felt that many of their recent claims against the operator were “inaccurate and misleading“.

BT Confirm Next Areas to Get Superfast Broadband in the Black Country

11th February, 2016 (12 Comments)

The £12.2 million Black Country Broadband Project (England’s West Midlands) has made good progress since it began deploying last year and has already expanded BT’s “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network to an additional 10,000 premises. Today the next batch of upgrades have been confirmed.

BT Test Uses G.fast Broadband to Supply New C-RAN Mobile Network

9th February, 2016 (3 Comments)

BT’s forthcoming 300-500Mbps G.fast broadband technology won’t just be used to upgrade homes. The operator has also claimed a “world first” by using the G.fast to supply a cellular Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN) over copper lines, which could be used to support 4G and future 5G mobile services.

UPDATE A Quick Look at BT Openreach’s New NTE5C Master Socket

8th February, 2016 (4 Comments)

Over the coming months BTOpenreach will start to introduce a new NTE5C Master Socket, which could make life a lot easier both for consumers who like to tinker and Openreach engineers who have no choice but to work with the existing sockets (NTE5 A / B) or even far older ones.

Government and BT Deal to Put Superfast Broadband into UK New Builds

5th February, 2016 (20 Comments)

The Government has today unveiled a new agreement with BT (Openreach) and the Home Builders Federation (HBF) that aims to deliver “fibre based” (FTTC/P/H) superfast or ultrafast broadband connectivity into new build properties across the United Kingdom, either for free or co-funded.

Gigaclear and Hyperoptic Highlight Problems with UK Broadband and BT

4th February, 2016 (27 Comments)

Pure fibre optic ISPs Gigaclear and Hyperoptic have offered a unique insight into the current challenges with rolling out new ultrafast broadband infrastructure across the United Kingdom, not least in regards to the difficulties of going up against a state aid supported BT and the question of whether or not to separate Openreach.

UPDATE9 BT’s National UK Network Suffers Serious Broadband Outage

2nd February, 2016 (48 Comments)

Reports are coming in of sporadic problems with gaining access to BT’s websites and also an apparent nationwide fault affecting broadband connectivity on their network, which at the present time does not appear to be hitting TalkTalk or Sky Broadband’s unbundled lines.

BT Updates on UK G.fast, SoGEA and “Slow Speed” Broadband Plans

2nd February, 2016 (27 Comments)

BT has revealed some interesting new information on their UK plans for deploying ultrafast 300-500Mbps G.fast broadband technology, as well as SoGEA’s trial status, a possible extension of VDSL (FTTC) Vectoring, a new 18Mbps “Slow Speed” product for upgrading sub-2Mbps rural lines and more.