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Briton Ferry Residents Vent Anger at New BT Superfast Broadband Cabinet

16th November, 2012 (12 Comments)

Two residents of Shelone Road in the south Wales (UK) town of Briton Ferry (Llansawel) have expressed anger and frustration towards BTOpenreach engineers, whom were allegedly rude to them, after one of BT’s new superfast broadband (FTTC) street cabinets was installed outside their home.

BT WiFi Expands Public Wireless Internet to 7.5 Million Global Hotspots

13th November, 2012 (0 Comments)

BT WiFi has announced that its global wifi network is now home to 7.5 million public wireless internet hotspots (4.5m in the UK), which are offered free to the ISPs existing fixed-line broadband ISP customers but everybody else has to pay a small fee.

BT Claim UK is Already in the Vanguard of EU Fibre Broadband Deployment

13th November, 2012 (5 Comments)

BT has said that the United Kingdom is already in the “vanguard of fibre deployment” within Europe and called upon the European Parliament’s ITRE Committee to release detailed economic modelling to support their latest proposal, which demands speeds of 100Mbps for every home in the EU by 2020.

South Gloucestershire and Wiltshire Pick BT for Superfast Broadband Contract

12th November, 2012 (3 Comments)

The South Gloucestershire Council (SGC), in partnership with Wiltshire Council (WC), have become the latest local authorities to pick BT as the “preferred bidder” for their joint UK Local Broadband Plan (LBP), which aims to make superfast broadband speeds of 24Mbps+ available to 90% of local people by spring 2015.

BT Broadband Regenerators Could Boost ADSL ISP Service Speeds

10th November, 2012 (7 Comments)

The network director for BT’s Superfast Cornwall project, Jeremy Stevenson-Barnes, has suggested that the operators trial of new Broadband Regenerator equipment could in the future be used to boost some of the slowest copper ADSL or ADSL2+ broadband speeds from hundreds of kilobits per second (Kbps) to 3-4Mbps (Megabits).

UPD BT Demo 10Gbps Fibre Optic FTTP Broadband ISP Speeds in Cornwall

9th November, 2012 (53 Comments)

BT has used the latest XG-PON (i.e. 10G-PON or ITU-T G.987) hardware from ZTE to demonstrate its “hyper-fast” Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband service delivering speeds of up to 10Gbps (Gigabits per second) to a business in Cornwall (Arcol – based outside Truro), which equates to around 10,000Mbps (Megabits).

VIDEO BT and Timico CTO Showcase an FTTC Superfast Broadband Install

8th November, 2012 (3 Comments)

The Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of business ISP Timico UK, Trefor Davies, recently had a BT film crew turn up to record the events as his local street cabinet and home connectivity were upgraded to support superfast broadband (FTTC) technology; that video has now been posted.

UK Culture Secretary to Lobby EU Over Delayed Broadband Funding Approval

8th November, 2012 (8 Comments)

The UK government’s Culture Secretary, Maria Miller MP, will today fly out to Brussels with the hope of persuading the European Commission (EC) to grant final approval for the release of state aid funding, which would allow local authorities to proceed with their national roll-out of superfast broadband services.

UK Power Networks Refutes BT Claim that it’s a Monopoly in the Fibre Space

3rd November, 2012 (6 Comments)

UK Power Networks, which delivers electricity to 8 million homes and businesses across London, the South East and East of England, has angrily refuted claims by the CEO of BTOpenreach, Liv Garfield, that it’s acting as a “monopoly” by making some of BT’s street cabinets too commercially unviable to upgrade with superfast broadband (FTTC).

UPD Openreach Criticise UK Power Networks for Costly FTTC Cabinet Installs

2nd November, 2012 (7 Comments)

The boss of BTOpenreach has described UK Power Networks, which maintains the electricity network for London, the East and South East of England, as a “monopoly” because of the huge disparity of costs for supplying power to BT’s superfast broadband (FTTC) street cabinets.

ISP BT Retail Tops 6.44 Million Broadband Internet Subscribers

1st November, 2012 (0 Comments)

BT’s latest Q3 financial results to 30th September 2012 have today revealed that their UK retail broadband ISP subscriber base grew by +81,000 to reach a total of 6,446,000 (875,000 of which are FTTC/P superfast BTInfinity subscribers). This represents a slight slowdown from the +136k added in Q1 and +85k in Q2.

BT Brings UK Superfast Broadband Rollout Forward to Spring 2014

1st November, 2012 (14 Comments)

BT has today confirmed that its national £2.5bn plan, which aims to deploy fibre optic based superfast broadband (FTTC , FTTP) ISP services to 66% of the UK, has once again been brought forward and will now complete during Spring 2014 (i.e. passing 19 million homes and businesses).

UPD Fibre for Middleton Broadband Campaign Criticise BT Viability Assessments

1st November, 2012 (16 Comments)

The Fibre for Middleton group, which started campaigning for better broadband earlier this year and has been working with BT to get several street cabinets in the Leeds suburb upgraded to support its 80Mbps capable FTTC tech, has questioned the operators commercial viability assessments after finding contradictions in its methodology.

UPDATE Software Upgrade Improves Broadband ISP YouView TV Boxes

31st October, 2012 (1 Comment)

The YouView (IPTV) product, which offers broadband based video-on-demand and catch-up TV services via several big UK ISPs (BT and TalkTalk), has started rolling out a new software update for its Humax set-top-boxes that will deliver various speed, sound and feature improvements.

ISP TalkTalk Wants Gov to Worry About Lack of Fibre Broadband Competition

31st October, 2012 (8 Comments)

The CEO of budget ISP TalkTalk, Dido Harding, has warned a Westminster panel session that the UK government should “start to worry” about the lack of competition in the new market for fibre optic based superfast broadband services; where a true alternative to BT and cheaper fibre-based local loop unbundling (LLU) remains absent.

ISP BT Retail Add FREE YouView TV Box to their Superfast Broadband Bundles

27th October, 2012 (1 Comment)

ISP BT Retail has quietly revamped its triple-play broadband, phone and television bundles with the new introduction of a FREE YouView IPTV box (normally £299) that includes 500GB of storage for video recording and effectively appears to replace their old BTVision solution.

Eligibility Change to Hit Low Cost BT Basic Phone Line Rental Service

26th October, 2012 (0 Comments)

The low cost BT Basic service, which reduces the price of telephone line rental to the equivalent of £4.80 a month for those on state benefits (e.g. the unemployed), is changing its eligibility criteria in 2013 to reflect the government’s stricter policy. Oh and there’s a price rise.