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Entanet Unconvinced by BT’s Plan to Scrap Traditional Phone Services

1st July, 2015 (3 Comments)

Entanet, which supplies broadband and telecoms services to a number of UK ISPs and businesses, says they’re “not convinced” by BT’s hope of being able to replace their old traditional phone services, including a relaxation of related regulation, with a new pure IP based network within the next 10 years.

Cumbria UK Council Signs Extended BT Superfast Broadband Contract

30th June, 2015 (0 Comments)

The Cumbria County Council in England has today signed a new Superfast Extension Programme (SEP) contract that will extend the reach of BT’s superfast broadband services to several thousand additional homes and businesses in the area.

West Sussex UK and BT Sign Extended Superfast Broadband Rollout Deal

30th June, 2015 (6 Comments)

The West Sussex Better Connected scheme in England, which is working with BT to expand the coverage of “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) to around 98% of local homes and businesses by Spring 2016 (90% will get “superfast” speeds of 24Mbps+), has signed a new deal that will extend this to another 3,000+ premises by the end of 2017.

EE Top of the Worst in Ofcom’s Q1 UK Telecoms and TV Complaints Report

30th June, 2015 (1 Comment)

The communications regulator has today published their latest Q1-2015 consumer complaints report, which saw overall complaint volumes continue to fall across most of the major UK mobile, pay tv, fixed line phone and broadband sectors. But the news isn’t so good for EE, which has seen gripes surge.

UPDATE West Yorkshire and BT Agree Extended Fibre Broadband Deal

29th June, 2015 (6 Comments)

The Superfast West Yorkshire project in England, which is aiming to roll-out BT’s “high-speed fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) services to 97% of local homes and businesses by the end of September 2015 (708,000 total premises), has signed a new £13m deal to extend this to another 28,000 premises.

UPDATE Sky Demand Ofcom Open UK Competition Inquiry into BT Openreach

29th June, 2015 (16 Comments)

Sky (Sky Broadband) has used the backdrop of Ofcom’s on-going strategic review of the UK’s digital communications market to formally demand that the national telecoms regulator launch a competition review of BTOpenreach, which manages BT’s underlying broadband and phone infrastructure.

UPDATE3 BT’s Broadband Rollout Deal for Devon and Somerset Collapses

26th June, 2015 (31 Comments)

The second round of contracts for the Government’s Superfast Extension Programme (SEP), which is designed to push UK coverage of superfast broadband (24Mbps+) services from 90% in early 2016 to 95% by the end of 2017, has in some cases struggled to reach a deal with BT and the latest contract to fall foul is for Devon and Somerset in England.

PlusNet, Virgin Media and Post Office Rated Best for Customer Service

26th June, 2015 (6 Comments)

Broadband and phone providers PlusNet, Virgin Media and the Post Office have come top of a new survey of customer service quality, which questioned some 14,000 respondents about their experiences. Sadly TalkTalk / AOL and EE could all be found at the lowest rated end of the scale.

Gigaclear Deal Brings 1Gbps FTTP Broadband to 4,500 Essex Premises

25th June, 2015 (13 Comments)

The state aid fuelled Superfast Essex project in England has become to latest to break with the tradition of BT contracts by agreeing to a new £7.5m deal with Gigaclear, which will see 4,500 premises in the Epping Forest area benefit from their “ultrafast” 1000Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network.

BT, Virgin Media and TalkTalk to Work on New Business Broadband Code

25th June, 2015 (0 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulator claims Virgin Media, BT and TalkTalk have all agreed to help address the problem of poor business broadband speeds by jointly working to build a new Code of Practice, which is similar to the code that already works to protect consumers from slow Internet speeds.

BT Raises Price of Superfast Broadband 76Mbps BTInfinity Option 2

25th June, 2015 (16 Comments)

The word went out this morning that the standard price of BT’s superfast broadband (up to 76Mbps) BTInfinity Option 2 (FTTC) package has increased by +£2 to £30 per month, which is in addition to the cost of Phone Line Rental from £16.99 per month (or £15.29 if you pre-pay for a year in advance).

BT Wants to Scrap Traditional UK Phone Services Within 10 Years

25th June, 2015 (13 Comments)

Hands up how many of you still make regular use of your fixed line phone to make calls? Probably not many. In that sense the news that BT are pushing Ofcom to relax their regulation so they can close their traditional phone network and move customers to a new Internet-based system will not come as a shock.

BT Openreach to Recruit 112 New Telecoms Engineers for Scotland

23rd June, 2015 (4 Comments)

BT plans to recruit another 500 or so broadband and phone engineers from across the United Kingdom this year and they’ve today confirmed that 112 of those will be focused in Scotland, including from areas around Orkney, Oban, Greenock, Galashiels and in the Highlands and Islands and North East.

Ofcom Attempt to Finally Resolve BT Ethernet Overcharging Dispute

22nd June, 2015 (0 Comments)

After several years and various legal challenges the UK telecoms regulator has proposed what could be the final resolution to a long running dispute relating to BT’s overcharging for business Ethernet services, which initially required them to repay £94.8m to Sky (Sky Broadband), TalkTalk, Virgin Media, Cable & Wireless Worldwide (Vodafone) and Verizon.

Superfast Cornwall Confirms 85,000 Premises Can Get FTTP Broadband

20th June, 2015 (48 Comments)

The Superfast Cornwall project has confirmed that the rural English county continues to have the largest deployment of ultrafast 330Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband technology anywhere in the United Kingdom, with the total number of premises passed increasing from 62,000 one year ago to 85,000 now.

MPs Setup Rural Broadband All-Party Parliamentary Group to Tackle BT

20th June, 2015 (39 Comments)

A group of MPs, primarily from Devon and Somerset in England’s South West, have established a new All-Party Parliamentary Group that will investigate the roll-out of superfast broadband (24Mbps+) services. The group also intends to “put pressure” on BT to stop the operators alleged “delaying antics” and be more transparent with their coverage plans.

UPDATE East Riding of Yorkshire UK Signs New Superfast Broadband Deal

19th June, 2015 (2 Comments)

The Broadband East Riding project in Yorkshire (England) has signed a new Superfast Extension Programme contract with the government’s Broadband Delivery UK office, which should help the area to meet the goal of putting superfast broadband (24Mbps+) within reach of 95% by 2017.