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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.

Shropshire’s Deputy Leader Attacks Critics of Local Broadband Project

19th June, 2015 (7 Comments)

The deputy leader of Shropshire County Council in England, Steve Charmley, has taken the unusual step of published an Open Letter in order to “dispel some of the myths perpetrated by detractors” of the local Connecting Shropshire project, which is working with BT to roll-out “fibre broadband” services.

Which? Report Slams Big UK Broadband ISPs for Misleading Service Speeds

18th June, 2015 (11 Comments)

Consumer magazine Which? has published a new report that attacks some of the biggest broadband ISPs, particularly BT, TalkTalk and PlusNet, for allegedly continuing to promote Internet download speeds that the majority of their customers will never be able to achieve. But are tougher advertising rules the best fix?

New Map of London UK Shows Slow Broadband is Like a Digital Cancer

17th June, 2015 (32 Comments)

The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has today launched a “major drive” to boost broadband connectivity in the capital, although it’s mostly the same stuff as we saw being announced last year. At least there’s now a map to depict just how bad the situation is, especially in the city centre.

UPDATE Fibre Optic Cable Break Disrupts Shetland Islands Broadband

17th June, 2015 (10 Comments)

Broadband Internet connectivity on the remote Shetland Islands (Northern Scotland) has been seriously impacted after one of BT’s contractors accidentally cut through a vital fibre optic cable link between Maywick and the centre of Lerwick.

Broadband Quotes from Virgin Media Confuse Elberton Business

17th June, 2015 (5 Comments)

A business operating out of Redhill Farm Business Park in Elberton (South Gloucestershire) has been left confused after they were suddenly told by Virgin Media that it would cost £19,849.19 to upgrade their old 0.8Mbps ADSL broadband line to a faster service, which is up sharply from the original quote of £3,500.

North Lincolnshire UK Finishes First BT Fibre Broadband Rollout Contract

16th June, 2015 (7 Comments)

The Northern Lincs Broadband (NLBB) project has just become the latest Broadband Delivery UK scheme to complete its first contract, which means that BT’s superfast broadband (24Mbps+) services have successfully been put within reach of an additional 31,000 local homes and businesses in North Lincolnshire (England).

UPD BT Begin Rollout of Vectoring to Fix FTTC “Fibre Broadband” Speeds

16th June, 2015 (16 Comments)

BTOpenreach has confirmed that VDSL2 Vectoring (ITU-T G.993.5), which reduces crosstalk interference on ‘up to’ 40-80Mbps FTTC “fibre broadband” lines and thus improves service speeds, is now being deployed beyond trial areas; specifically focusing on “areas where it delivers the most benefit to customers“.

BT TV Scoops ‘Walking Dead’ Spinoff Series ‘Fear the Walking Dead’

16th June, 2015 (3 Comments)

It’s not all about Sport, you see. BT’s YouView (IPTV) based broadband TV service has taken another shot at arch-rival Sky (Sky Broadband) by announcing a new agreement to launch the AMC TV channel in the UK this September 2015, which includes the “exclusive” UK television premiere of “Fear the Walking Dead“.

WiFi Networks to Carry 60 Percent of Mobile Data Traffic by 2019

16th June, 2015 (0 Comments)

A new report from Juniper Research has predicted that Mobile Network Operators (MNO) will offload 60% of their Smartphone and Tablet based Mobile Broadband (3G, 4G) data traffic to WiFi networks by 2019 (equivalent to 115,000 Petabytes), which is up almost four-fold from 30,000PB this year.

UPDATE Ofcom Propose Big Price Cuts for BT’s UK Wholesale Leased Lines

12th June, 2015 (2 Comments)

The national telecoms regulator has today proposed a raft of “significant real-terms price reductions” for mobile operators, broadband ISPs, public sector organisations and businesses that buy BT’s high-speed wholesale Leased Line links, which form part of a market worth £2bn across the United Kingdom.

Cornwall UK Signs BT Contract for 99 Percent Superfast Broadband Cover

11th June, 2015 (0 Comments)

As expected the Cornwall Council in south west England has today signed a new £7.6m contract with BT to make “superfast broadband” (24Mbps+) speeds available to 99% of the county within the next few years.

Ofcom Consult on BTSport Tweaks to FTTC Broadband Margin Squeeze Test

11th June, 2015 (0 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulator has today launched a consultation on several new tweaks to the FTTC “margin squeeze” test, which is designed to keep the BT’s “fibre broadband” prices under control by forcing them to “maintain a sufficient margin between [their] wholesale and retail superfast broadband charges“.

BT Claims Future G.fast Broadband Delivers 300Mbps Speeds at 350 Metres

11th June, 2015 (61 Comments)

The CTO of BT’s Wholesale division, Colin Bannon, has revealed that their future G.fast (ITU G.9701) broadband technology has also been tested on longer copper lines of 350 metres and the operator found that at this distance it was still able to deliver Internet speeds of 300Mbps.

UK Competition Regulator to “Fast Track” GBP12.5bn BT and EE Merger

9th June, 2015 (6 Comments)

The Competition and Markets Authority has predictably approved last month’s request by BT for their £12.5bn merger with mobile telecoms giant EE to be “fast-tracked” to a full in-depth phase 2 investigation of the acquisition, which should save a little time.

UPDATE BT Confirm Broadband Customers to Pay GBP5 for European Football

9th June, 2015 (28 Comments)

UK ISP BT has today confirmed that customers of their broadband service, which currently benefit from receiving BTSport TV content for free, will in the future have to pay an extra £5 if they also want to watch European football (Champions League etc.). But it will still be free for BT TV subscribers and there’s a 4K TV channel coming too.

UPD 1Gbps FTTP Broadband Coming to 6,495 Premises in Gloucestershire UK

8th June, 2015 (19 Comments)

The national UK telecoms operator BT appears to have lost out after rival pure fibre optic ISP Gigaclear signed a major new £10 million contract to deploy their “ultra fast” 1000Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) technology to 6,495 homes and businesses in Gloucestershire (England).