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BDUK Expand FTTC Broadband Rollout in Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire

25th November, 2013 (0 Comments)

The £14.57m CSW Broadband partnership of 8 local authorities, which aims to ensure that BT’s “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network is made available to 92% of Coventry, 96% of Solihull and 91% of Warwickshire in England (overall 91% will get speeds of 24Mbps+) by spring 2016, has been expanded by +6,480 additional premises.

Wales BT and BDUK Contract Reveals Actual Broadband Speed Commitment

25th November, 2013 (12 Comments)

A time consuming Freedom of Information (FoI) request conducted by Richard Brown has successfully secured a redacted version of the Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) supported ‘Next Generation Broadband’ roll-out contract for Wales, which was agreed between BT and the Welsh Government and contains a lot of interesting details about service speed.

Staffordshire UK Publish BDUK and BT Superfast Broadband Rollout Map

22nd November, 2013 (4 Comments)

The £27.3 million Superfast Staffordshire project in England (West Midlands), which aims to make BT’s “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network available to 97% (95% will get superfast speeds of 25Mbps+) of local premises by Spring 2016, has today published its official deployment map.

BT Openreach to Conduct UK Field Trial of Rural Mobile Infill Solution

21st November, 2013 (7 Comments)

BTOpenreach, which maintains BT’s national UK telecoms network, has announced plans to launch a full field trial of its new Mobile Infill Infrastructure Solution (MiiS). The small cells based product is designed to leverage the existing fixed line network to provide mobile services into parts of the country that suffer from “non-existent or patchy” coverage.

Dodworth Village Locals Raise GBP11k to Help BT Build Superfast Broadband

19th November, 2013 (3 Comments)

Residents of Dodworth village in Barnsley (South Yorkshire, England) have successfully clubbed together and raised £11,000 in order to help BT upgrade local telephone lines in the area with support for ‘up to’ 80Mbps capable superfast broadband (FTTC).

BT Openreach CEO Liv Garfield to Exit in Spring 2014 for Water Utility Firm

18th November, 2013 (14 Comments)

Liv Garfield has confirmed that she will step down from her role as the boss of BTOpenreach during spring 2014 and will instead become the new CEO of water company Severn Trent. Openreach is responsible for maintaining and providing access to BT’s national telecoms and broadband ISP network across the United Kingdom.

Oxfordshire County Council Rejects Cotswolds Broadband Scheme for BT

13th November, 2013 (8 Comments)

The promising Cotswolds Broadband project, which aimed to roll-out an open access and 100Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to 90% of homes and businesses (5000 premises) in the Chipping Norton area of west Oxfordshire (England), has joined a similar project in Dorset (Trailways) to be rejected by local councils in favour of BT.

Cheshire UK Council Publish BDUK Superfast Broadband Deployment Map

12th November, 2013 (3 Comments)

The £28.5 million Connecting Cheshire project, which aims to make BT’s “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network available to “around” 96% of premises across Cheshire, Halton and Warrington, has today become the latest Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) project to publish a roll-out map.

UPDATE BT Admit BDUK Broadband Speed and Coverage Data is Confidential

11th November, 2013 (29 Comments)

The Managing Director of BT’s Next Generation Access (NGA) division, Bill Murphy, has said that it and not Local Authorities are responsible for withholding the vital broadband speed and coverage (SCT) data as part of the publicly funded Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) roll-out process.

Businesses Benefit as BT Fibre Broadband Reaches 82% of Cornwall UK

11th November, 2013 (2 Comments)

The latest update from the £132 million public and privately funded Superfast Cornwall project has confirmed that 82% of Cornwall in England (206,000 homes and businesses) can now access BT’s superfast broadband (FTTC/P) service and this is apparently providing a “major economic boost” to local businesses.

BT Publish Latest 21CN WBC 20Mbps UK Copper Broadband Rollout Update

8th November, 2013 (101 Comments)

BTWholesale has today furnished ISPreview.co.uk with their latest telephone exchange based roll-out update for the on-going deployment of the 21CN based Wholesale Broadband Connect (WBC) platform; specifically the part that supports their up to 20Mbps capable ADSL2+ solution.

UPD2 BT Openreach FTTC Superfast Broadband Modems Break VPN Access

5th November, 2013 (2 Comments)

The Director of broadband ISP Andrews & Arnold (AAISP), Adrian Kennard, claims to have discovered a fault with the superfast broadband FTTC (VDSL) modems that BTOpenreach distributes to new subscribers, which can affect “almost anyone running any sort of VPN” (Virtual Private Network) Internet service.

ISPreview Study Finds Dissatisfaction with UK Telecoms Engineers

4th November, 2013 (12 Comments)

A new survey of 1,534 ISPreview.co.uk readers has found that 89.4% of respondents have at some point needed to call out a telecoms engineer (such as those dispatched by BTOpenreach or Virgin Media) to help resolve a broadband or phone issue. Sadly the majority (75.7%) said they were often dissatisfied with the final outcome.

Gov Still Hopes for 90% Superfast Broadband in 2015 Despite BT Bung Fear

1st November, 2013 (11 Comments)

The UK Government’s Communications Minister, Ed Vaizey, told a debate in the House of Commons yesterday that “half” of the local Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) projects were running “ahead of schedule” and thus there was still a strong possibility of reaching the original target for 90% to be within reach of superfast broadband (25Mbps+) in 2015.

BBC Watchdog Hammers BT Openreach for Poor Communication and Delays

30th October, 2013 (60 Comments)

Tonight’s episode of the BBC’s popular consumer affairs TV show, Watchdog, took BTOpenreach’s “promises to keep the nation connected” to task and heavily criticised the group for failing to fix broadband and phone problems and for not being directly contactable.

BT Openreach to Deliver Slightly Sooner UK Engineer Appointments

30th October, 2013 (0 Comments)

BTOpenreach has announced that consumers who order a new Wholesale Line Rental (WLR), ISDN2 or fully unbundled / LLU (MPF) copper line product through their broadband ISP should, from 1st November 2013, benefit from a slightly sooner engineer visit for their installation.

BT Openreach Confirm Commercial Launch for Fibre Based GEA Multicast

26th October, 2013 (0 Comments)

BTOpenreach has announced that its GEA Multicast product, which is a point-to-multipoint network layer service that enables operators to deliver IP data streams (e.g. IPTV traffic) more efficiently to their customers, will finally become a full commercial product on 25th November 2013.