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WarwickNet Brings Superfast Broadband to 70 Stoneleigh Park Firms

1st April, 2016 (1 Comment)

Some 70 businesses on Stoneleigh Park in Warwickshire can now access superfast broadband of up to 100Mbps, as well as Gigabit capable leased lines, after local ISP WarwickNet took over the management of the campus-wide network during 2013 and gave it a big upgrade.

Liverpool to Rent Out Underground Ducts to Foster Fibre Optic Broadband

29th March, 2016 (3 Comments)

The city of Liverpool is already well covered by “superfast” (24Mbps+) capable broadband services, but the local authority are now looking to further boost connectivity to “ultrafast” levels (usually 100Mbps+ or Gigabit territory) by renting out their underground cable ducts to private investment.

Business ISP XLN Telecom Hikes Line Rental, But Cuts Broadband Prices

24th March, 2016 (0 Comments)

Business focused Internet provider XLN Telecom will today increase their monthly phone line rental charge from £15.45 to £16.95 +vat, but they’ve also partly compensated for this by cutting the price of their broadband and phone bundles with a new range of special discounts.

Vodafone UK’s Consumer Broadband and TV Director Quits

23rd March, 2016 (1 Comment)

It’s fair to say that Vodafone’s return to the UK home broadband market has been a quiet one, much like their first failed attempt, and the plans to introduce a TV product alongside have yet to materialise. As such some may see the departure of Cindy Rose (Consumer Director) as a bad sign.

Ofcom Business Review Forces BT Dark Fibre, Low Prices and Fast Installs

22nd March, 2016 (5 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulator has today published the final outcome of its Business Connectivity Market Review 2016 (BCMR2016), which has proposed changes that among other things would open up access to BT’s national Dark Fibre network, cut leased line (Ethernet) prices and deliver quicker installs.

Sky UK Raises TV Prices and Promotes Andrew Griffith to COO

21st March, 2016 (17 Comments)

Happy Easter. Customers of Sky’s (Sky Broadband) TV packages will be unhappy to learn that the price they pay will be going up by between +£1 and £2 extra per month from 1st June 2016, with the Sky Complete bundle rising by an extra +£4.25.

KCOM Group Re-brand Hull ISP KC and All Siblings to Just “KCOM”

21st March, 2016 (4 Comments)

The KCOM Group (formerly Kingston Communications), which owns Hull and East Yorkshire’s incumbent broadband provider KC and several other brands (Smart421, Eclipse Internet and Kcom), has begun informing customers of their decision to re-brand everything under the single name of just “KCOM“.

Unicom’s Parent VERASTAR Gobbles UK ISP Business Comms Solutions

19th March, 2016 (2 Comments)

Telecoms and broadband company VERASTAR (aka – Universal Utilities / Unicom), which was fined £200k by Ofcom last year after they were found to have mislead consumers (here and here), has confirmed that they’ve finalised the purchase of Premier Calls parent company, Business Comms Solution.

Cityfibre to Build 50km Ultrafast Fibre Optic Network in Southend-on-Sea

17th March, 2016 (0 Comments)

Fibre optic builder Cityfibre has today won a new 10-year and £3.24 million contract to build a new 50km long Dark Fibre network in Southend-on-Sea (Essex, England), which will provide ultrafast broadband and data services to 120 key public sector sites and local businesses.

BT Take Flak for Missed Appointments, FTTP and UK Broadband Maps

16th March, 2016 (45 Comments)

The on-going cross party Culture, Media and Sport Committee inquiry into UK digital infrastructure produced another interesting evidence session yesterday after BT and sibling Openreach were both grilled over the country’s broadband quality, 1,000 missed appointments per week and USO plans etc.

Ofcom Warns of 20 Percent Price Hike from Three UK and O2 Merger

15th March, 2016 (12 Comments)

The regulator has published an “econometric analysis” of the effect of disruptive firms (e.g. Three UK) on mobile pricing, which among other things suggests that the proposed £10.25bn merger between Three UK and O2 could result in consumer prices going up by between 17.2% and 20.5% on average.

IHS Claim Cityfibre FTTP to Cover 20 Percent of UK Homes by 2020

9th March, 2016 (4 Comments)

A new report from IHS has said that Cityfibre’s Gigabit fibre optic (FTTP) broadband network will increase its coverage area from “15% of all UK households to 20%” by 2020, which will help to boost NGA Internet connections to 15.5 million. But the figures do require some clarification.

UPDATE Cityfibre and Updata Sign UK Fibre Optic Network Access Agreement

9th March, 2016 (0 Comments)

Updata Infrastructure, which is part of Capita IT Enterprise Services and delivers public sector focused network connectivity solutions, has today signed a new deal that will allow them to access Cityfibre’s existing UK network of urban focused ultrafast fibre optic (FTTP) cables and related infrastructure.

1000ft Masts for Financial Trades Could Boost Broadband in Kent

1st March, 2016 (10 Comments)

Vigilant Global and New Line Networks (NLN) have proposed to build two new 1,000ft (304 metres) tall and 3 metre wide towers in the South Thanet area of Kent (England) in order to make large financial trades fractionally faster, but they could also be used to improve local broadband connectivity.

IoD Demands 10,000Mbps Ultrafast Broadband to Cover UK by 2030

29th February, 2016 (39 Comments)

Not an iceberg’s chance in hell. The Institute of Directors, which represents around 35,000 business leaders and directors, has called on the Government to go beyond their current ambition to deliver a Universal Service Obligation of 10Mbps broadband for all by 2020 and take us to 10,000Mbps by 2030.

Businesses Say Infrastructure Commission Needs TEETH to Help 5G Mobile

29th February, 2016 (1 Comment)

The Confederation of British Industry has called on the UK Government to give the new Infrastructure Commission “strong teeth” so that it can overcome political obstacles and focus on long-term planning to facilitate the roll-out of future 5G mobile broadband and other improvements.

A Closer Look at Ofcom’s Proposed BT Openreach Duct and Pole Access

28th February, 2016 (22 Comments)

One of the key changes in last week’s Strategic Review, which saw Ofcom move to increase the separation between BT and the division responsible for its UK phone and broadband network (Openreach), was the proposal to introduce a new wholesale Duct and Pole Access (DPA) solution to help ISPs build alternative networks.