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UPD BT Sign £24m BDUK Deal to Boost Superfast Broadband in Durham UK

26th April, 2013 (2 Comments)

The Durham County Council (DCC) in North East England (UK) has today signed a new state aid supported £24 million deal with BT that will see “high-speed fibre broadband” (FTTC and FTTP) services being rolled out to “around” 94% of local premises by the end of 2016.

BT Abandons Original Rollout Target for Native UK FTTP Broadband

25th April, 2013 (17 Comments)

BT has unsurprisingly abandoned their original 2009 commitment to make ultrafast fibre optic FTTP broadband ISP services available to 2.5 million premises in the United Kingdom and will instead focus on the more economical but slower FTTC solution and the expensive new FTTP-on-Demand (FTTPoD) service.

BT Openreach Set UK ISP Launch Date for 220Mbps FTTP Broadband

25th April, 2013 (1 Comment)

BTOpenreach has announced that ISPs in the United Kingdom will be able to offer its new 220Mbps (20Mbps upload) capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based ultrafast broadband product to their customers from 1st June 2013. Final prices have also been confirmed.

UPD BT Confirm UK Trial Areas for Superfast Broadband FTTC Vectoring Tech

24th April, 2013 (10 Comments)

BTOpenreach has confirmed to ISPreview.co.uk that the first locations to trial its FTTC (VDSL2) Vectoring (ITU-T G.993.5) technology in the United Kingdom, which could eventually help ISPs to deliver download speeds of up to 200Mbps (Megabits), will take place in Barnet (London) and Braintree (Essex) in England.

UPDATE3 BT Reveal UK FTTC Self Install and Vectoring Broadband Trial

19th April, 2013 (91 Comments)

BTWholesale has revealed the seemingly imminent launch of a new ISP trial to test the operators first wires-only self install superfast broadband service (no engineer required), which could dramatically cut the setup cost and contract length of UK FTTC lines. A trial of VDSL Vectoring (faster FTTC speeds) is also on the cards.

BT UK Sign GBP18.9 Million Superfast Broadband Deal for Northumberland

17th April, 2013 (3 Comments)

The Northumberland County Council (NCC) in North East England has today signed a new £18.9 million state aid supported deal with BT that will make superfast broadband (25Mbps+) speeds available to 91% of premises by early 2016 (95% will be covered by the fibre optic based FTTC network but some won’t be “superfast“).

BT Nears Final Phase of UK Retirement for 20CN Broadband ISP Services

17th April, 2013 (5 Comments)

BT’s strategy to retire their older 20th Century Network (20CN) based broadband ISP services (e.g. 8Mbps ADSL / IPStream Connect products) remains on course to begin its final phase in October 2013, which by 31st March 2014 should see related services being removed from a total of 2549 telephone exchanges around the United Kingdom.

BT Sorry for Two Week Broadband and Phone Outage in Cheltenham UK

12th April, 2013 (1 Comment)

BT has apologised to around 1,600 homes and businesses in Cheltenham (Gloucestershire, England) after an attempted cable theft from under a manhole cover in Bath Parade resulted in many premises being left without broadband and phone services for two weeks.

BT Expands its Fibre Broadband ISP Network to Pass 15 Million UK Premises

9th April, 2013 (24 Comments)

BT has today confirmed that its national £2.5bn commercial rollout of fibre optic based superfast broadband (FTTC / FTTP) ISP services, which is set to reach 66% of the UK by spring 2014 (18 months ahead of schedule), has now passed more than 15 million premises (the operators 2014 target is for 19m).

BT Openreach Publishes Cheaper Ethernet Leased Line Prices for the UK

3rd April, 2013 (4 Comments)

BTOpenreach, which manages access to BT’s national broadband and phone network in the United Kingdom, has published “substantial price reductions” of up to 50% for its 100Mbps to 10Gbps capable Ethernet and Leased Line services to business customers, ISPs and mobile operators.

BT Confirm Final UK ISP Prices and Launch of 330Mbps FTTP on Demand

28th March, 2013 (91 Comments)

BTOpenreach, which manages access to BT’s national telecoms network in the United Kingdom, has today confirmed the final pricing and launch date for its premium “ultra-fast” 330Mbps (30Mbps uploads) capable FTTP-on-Demand (FTTPoD) based fibre optic broadband service (this will be available to all FTTC supporting lines).

Kensington and Chelsea UK Reverse Earlier Refusal of BT FTTC Cabinets

27th March, 2013 (3 Comments)

It’s back on. The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London (England) has finally resolved last year’s dispute over street cabinet placement with BT (here), which saw the operator withdraw from plans to make superfast broadband (FTTC) ISP services available to 34,200 premises in the area.

UPDATE2 Ofcom UK Find BT in Breach of its 2005 Regulatory Undertakings

21st March, 2013 (2 Comments)

Ofcom has warned that a delay with moving Customer Side Records (CSR) to separated computer systems means that BT is now in breach of its 2005 Undertakings, which committed the operator to a “functional separation” of systems and processes to support the development of “effective competition” in the UK telecoms market.

BT Help 88 Percent of Lincolnshire UK to Get Superfast Broadband by 2016

13th March, 2013 (4 Comments)

BT and the Lincolnshire County Council (LCC) have today announced details of how they intend to make superfast broadband (25Mbps+) available to “at least” 88% of all homes and businesses in the English East Midlands county by April 2016 (everybody else will get speeds of at least 2Mbps).

Cornwall UK Expands Superfast Broadband Coverage Target to 95%

12th March, 2013 (2 Comments)

The joint public and privately funded £132m Superfast Cornwall scheme, which originally aimed to deploy BT fibre optic (FTTC etc.) based broadband ISP services to “at least” 80% of homes and businesses in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly by the end of 2014, has now expanded its target to cover 95%.

UPD ISP Chief Vents Anger at Missed BT UK Engineer Appointments

12th March, 2013 (30 Comments)

The CTO of business ISP Timico UK, Trefor Davies, whom last week praised BT’s telecoms engineers for fixing his superfast broadband (FTTC) line, has today criticised the national telecoms operator for missing too many appointments with customers and mishandling his fault report.

BT Disguise UK Superfast Broadband Street Cabinets with Vinyl Wraps

12th March, 2013 (7 Comments)

BTOpenreach, which manages access to BT’s national telecoms network in the United Kingdom, appears to have found a new way of using customised Vinyl Wraps to help camouflage some of their superfast broadband (FTTC) street cabinets.