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Ofcom Effectively Gives Green Light to GBP12.5bn EE and BT Merger

14th August, 2015 (6 Comments)

BT’s proposed £12.5bn UK merger with mobile giant EE has been given a boost after the national telecoms regulator, Ofcom, advised the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) that it didn’t have any major objections to the deal and suggested that existing regulation could tackle most concerns.

Virgin Media Reaches 4.57 Million UK Cable Broadband Subscribers

5th August, 2015 (8 Comments)

National UK cable operator Virgin Media (Liberty Global) has today published their latest results to the end of Q2 2015, which reveals that they’ve reached a total of 4,570,300 broadband customers, with 40% of those now taking their “ultrafast” 100Mbps+ services.

Metronet UK Expand Hybrid Fibre Optic and Wireless Network to Bradford

3rd August, 2015 (0 Comments)

Manchester-based ISP Metronet UK has announced that their hybrid superfast fibre optic and wireless broadband network has now been expanded to cater for businesses within the city of Bradford in West Yorkshire (England).

BT Reach 7.8M Broadband Customers and 80 Percent UK Fibre FTTC Cover

30th July, 2015 (3 Comments)

BT has released the latest results for Q2-2015 (calendar) and confirmed that their retail business added +85K new broadband subscribers in the quarter (down sharply from +121K in Q1) to total 7,798,000, which includes 3,226,000 on BTInfinity “fibre broadband” (up by +217K vs +266K in Q1). Incidentally FTTC/P is now available to 23 million premises (80% of the UK).

Sky Broadband UK Growth Stable to Reach 5.62 Million Internet Users

29th July, 2015 (0 Comments)

Sky Broadband is holding its own against increasing pressure from BT and this is demonstrated by their Q2 2015 results reporting another +96,000 increase in Internet subscribers for the UK and Ireland (total 5.62 million), which is only a small dip from the +100k added in Q1 2015 and +106k in Q4-2014.

EE Home Broadband Growth Slows as UK 4G Coverage Hits 90 Percent

27th July, 2015 (3 Comments)

Mobile giant EE has reported their latest Q2 2015 results today, which revealed that the operators 4G network coverage had reached the 90% (population) milestone. Elsewhere their fixed line home broadband subscriber growth slowed to total 919,000 (up by +35K in Q2 vs +50K in Q1 and +44K in Q4 2014).

Vodafone UK Report 70K Fixed Broadband Users and Moot National FTTH

25th July, 2015 (14 Comments)

Mobile giant Vodafone UK has just reported their latest results to the end of June 2015 (Q2), which reveals that their fixed broadband customer base has increased by +4,000 to total 70,000 and 4G subscribers have grown from 3M in Q1 to 4.7M now, with related outdoor network coverage reaching 68%.

Vodafone UK Does Deal to Harness MS3 Fibre Optic Network in Hull

24th July, 2015 (0 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone has signed a 10-year deal to harness MS3’s new fibre optic infrastructure in Hull (East Yorkshire, England), which will help to feed their network with capacity and support the introduction of new business services.

WiSpire Secure Investment to Expand Wireless Broadband in Norfolk UK

22nd July, 2015 (6 Comments)

The WiSpire network, which works alongside the Diocese of Norwich to offer faster wireless broadband services to isolated parts of rural Norfolk and north Suffolk (England, UK), has secured new investment that should improve its Internet performance and coverage.

ITS Technology Invests Extra GBP1m into its UK Broadband Infrastructure

22nd July, 2015 (1 Comment)

The ITS Technology Group, which builds and runs various superfast wireless and fixed line broadband networks around the United Kingdom, has announced that it’s investing another £1 million into upgrading and expanding their national broadband footprint.

UK ISP TalkTalk Issues Unusually Vague Trading Update for Q2 2015

22nd July, 2015 (0 Comments)

ISP TalkTalk appears to have somewhat broken with tradition this morning by issuing a surprisingly vague trading update for the second quarter of 2015, which reveals very little except to confirm that the migration of Tesco’s broadband customers onto their network has “begun well” and should complete over the coming months.

ISP TalkTalk and Vodafone in Big Competition Spat Over UK Mobile Market

21st July, 2015 (5 Comments)

A row over competition in the UK market for Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) services has erupted after broadband ISP TalkTalk accused Vodafone of “withdrawing entirely from the MVNO market“, which would seriously limit the choices for BT and EE’s rivals when hunting for an alternative supplier.

7 Colchester Business Parks to Benefit from GBP200k Broadband Boost

21st July, 2015 (0 Comments)

It’s not uncommon to read about how business parks are sometimes overlooked by the state aid supported roll-out of superfast broadband services, although it now appears as if seven such parks in Colchester (Essex, England) will at least benefit from a new investment of £200,000.

UK ISP XILO Revives Broadband Service Under Uno Branding

21st July, 2015 (2 Comments)

Internet and hosting provider XILO, which a short while back removed the fixed line broadband and phone services from their website, has revived the related products under their long-in-development Uno branding.

C4L and TalkTalk Expand UK Reach of Uncontended Ethernet over FTTC

20th July, 2015 (0 Comments)

Internet provider TalkTalk Business has joined forces with Bournemouth-based ISP C4L to roll-out their unlimited usage “zero contention” Ethernet over FTTC (EoFTTC) service across the United Kingdom.

Zen Internet Touts UK Growth and Explains Accounts Blip

17th July, 2015 (1 Comment)

UK ISP Zen Internet, which is now home to 430 staff, has revealed that their operating profits surged 34% from £760,000 to £1.02m in the year to the end of September 2014 and revenues rose 6.8% from £47.36m (2013) to £50.62m. But there were also a few blips for the accounts department to tackle.

CityFibre Connect First Customers to 1Gbps Aberdeen Fibre Optic Network

16th July, 2015 (4 Comments)

Fibre optic network builder CityFibre has today announced that the first business customers have now gone live on their new 1000Mbps capable fibre optic broadband (FTTP) network in the city of Aberdeen (Aberdeen Core), which has also just completed the first city centre construction phase.