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2nd January, 2014 (46 Comments)

The United Kingdom is home to several million hybrid fibre FTTC superfast broadband ISP subscribers but to date most of those have been forced to connect to the service by linking an existing router to one of BTOpenreach’s VDSL modems. Now a new breed of router has emerged that integrates VDSL and here are some of the options.

31st December, 2013 (6 Comments)

BTOpenreach has moved to comply with the requirements of Ofcom’s earlier Leased Lines Charge Control (LLCC), which was published as part of the telecom regulators Business Connectivity Market Review, and has raised its Excess Construction Charges (ECC) by just over 1%.

24th December, 2013 (39 Comments)

BTOpenreach has announced the addition of 42 new “high-speed fibre broadband” telecoms engineers to serve areas including Exeter, Taunton, Plymouth, Bristol and Salisbury in England.

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23rd December, 2013 (14 Comments)

Leaders of the Hampshire County Council have voted to release £9.2 million to help extend their state aid supported roll-out of BT’s superfast broadband (FTTC/P) services from its current target of 90% to 95%, which of course mirrors the new national UK target.

23rd December, 2013 (3 Comments)

BT has signed a £26.9 million deal with three companies – including Global Marine Systems, Orange Marine and A-2-Sea Solutions – to help build 20 new fibre optic submarine cables around the Highlands and Islands region, which will be used to deliver on the Scottish Government’s £264m Digital Scotland project.

23rd December, 2013 (29 Comments)

The joint £12 million+ Central Superfast project between the Milton Keynes Council, Central Bedfordshire Council and Bedford Borough Council in England, which aims to rollout BT’s FTTC/P service to cover “around” 91% of local premises by spring 2016 (97% in Milton Keynes), has released a revised deployment map following new funding.

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21st December, 2013 (8 Comments)

BT might have dramatically scaled back its national plans to deploy 300Mbps+ capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband technology across the United Kingdom (here) but it hasn’t completely stopped and the next area to benefit will be the huge New Capital Quay development in South London.

20th December, 2013 (0 Comments)

BTOpenreach, which manages BT’s national telecoms network in the United Kingdom, has today tweaked the price of its unbundled (LLU MPF / SMPF) and Wholesale Line Rental products for phone and broadband providers. This follows the conclusion of appeals against Ofcom’s 2012 LLU/WLR charge control.

19th December, 2013 (3 Comments)

The communications regulator has launched a new consultation on proposals that would require BTOpenreach, the company responsible for maintaining BT’s national UK telecoms and broadband network, to meet better “minimum performance standards“. Faster service installations and repairs could be two of the benefits but it won’t help FTTC/P lines.

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18th December, 2013 (36 Comments)

The Government has flushed out a bit of new PR spin today by labelling the 18th December 2013 as “Super Switch on Day“, which apparently marks how the first BT Street Cabinets in a number of local Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) projects have finally gone live with “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) services.

18th December, 2013 (9 Comments)

BTOpenreach has announced that its LIVE cable monitoring system, which proactively notifies broadband ISPs and phone operators about Major Service Outage’s on BT’s national UK telecoms network (specifically those that stem from cable damage or theft), is now out of its long trial and has been made available to ISPs.

17th December, 2013 (48 Comments)

As promised BTOpenreach has today unveiled the next batch of telephone exchange upgrades for the FTTP on Demand (FoD / FTTPoD) service, which makes their “ultra-fast” 330Mbps (30Mbps uploads) capable fibre optic broadband product available via FTTC capable lines.

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17th December, 2013 (1 Comment)

Several Greater Manchester authorities including Stockport, Bolton, Wigan, Bury, Tameside, Oldham, Trafford and Rochdale have signed a new £15 million deal that will see BT extend their “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network to a further 39,000 local premises by the end of March 2016 (900k have already been passed).

17th December, 2013 (15 Comments)

Computer networks, especially the Internet, are complicated animals that can at times be difficult to understand, which may explain why a recent report that claims to have uncovered a secret backdoor for UK GCHQ and US NSA spies in BTOpenreach’s FTTC (VDSL) modems has gained such traction. But is it really a backdoor?

13th December, 2013 (2 Comments)

Tens of thousands of Sky Broadband customers in the South and West London area have been left without broadband and phone connectivity after thieves, whom attempted to steal vital copper telecoms cable from a site in West London (Great West Road) on 10th December, cut several vital fibre optic links.

13th December, 2013 (47 Comments)

BT is being taken to court by Bridgend County Borough Council in Glamorgan (South Wales) for putting allegedly illegal advertising for its latest superfast broadband (FTTC) product on the front of its new Street Cabinets, which is a reference to the text and stickers that many of you will have already seen stating: “Fibre broadband is here“.

11th December, 2013 (10 Comments)

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU-T) Study Group 15 has given its formal “consent” to the start of the final approval process for the next generation G.fast (aka – FTTC2 / ITU G.9700) broadband standard, which could one day deliver speeds of up to 1000Mbps (1Gbps) over some BT hybrid fibre (mixed copper and fibre optic) lines.

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