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BT and SEGRO to Help 450 Businesses Get Superfast Broadband in Slough

28th January, 2014 (6 Comments)

BT and property development firm SEGRO have teamed up to help 450 companies on the Slough Trading Estate in Berkshire (England) gain access to their up to 80Mbps capable “fibre broadband” FTTC network through private funding.

MetroNet UK Brings Fibre and Wireless Broadband Network to Burnley

22nd January, 2014 (0 Comments)

Business Internet provider Metronet UK has extended the reach of their hybrid fibre optic (Dark Fibre) and “high capacity” carrier grade wireless network, which offers service speeds of between 1Mbps to 10Gbps, into the market town of Burnley in Lancashire (England).

Level 3 Accuses BT of Overcharging it for UK Partial Private Circuits

20th January, 2014 (0 Comments)

Ofcom has today opened a new dispute after network operator Level 3 Communications UK accused BT of overcharging it for Partial Private Circuit services, including a 2Mbps local end service and Point of Handover additional charges, between 2009 and 2011.

Sky and Vodafone UK in Possible Merger or Joint Collaboration Talks

20th January, 2014 (1 Comment)

Last week’s speculation that BSkyB (Sky Broadband) could potentially merge with O2 or Vodafone UK (here) might have been based on some truth. A new report indicates that Vodafone and Sky have held joint high-level talks concerning a collaboration against BT, which could take any one of several different forms.

CityFibre UK Raise GBP16.5m as it Floats onto the London Stock Exchange

17th January, 2014 (0 Comments)

CityFibre, which builds and manages true ultra-fast fibre optic (FTTH/P) networks in several large towns and cities around the United Kingdom, has raised approximately £16.5m this morning after confirming their admission to and trading of its Ordinary Shares on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange.

UBS Analysts Speculate on BSkyB Merger with Vodafone or O2 UK

14th January, 2014 (5 Comments)

Global financial services firm UBS has triggered an uplift in BSkyB’s (Sky Broadband) stock price after suggesting that the company could merge its European pay-TV assets to form Sky Europe and or then pick-up a mobile operator by merging O2 (Telefonica UK) or Vodafone UK into their operations.

BT Openreach UK Appoints Joe Garner as CEO to Replace Liv Garfield

13th January, 2014 (16 Comments)

BT has today announced the appointment of Joe Garner (aged 44), the former head of HSBC’s UK bank, to be the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of its Openreach division when current boss, Liv Garfield, steps down to become CEO of water company Severn Trent.

Berkhamsted UK Businesses Complain BT FTTC Broadband is Ignoring Them

10th January, 2014 (29 Comments)

Brash Solutions, an IT services company, has heavily criticised BT’s wholesale division (they probably also mean BTOpenreach) for rolling out superfast broadband (FTTC) services to residential parts of Berkhamsted in West Hertfordshire (England) while ignoring the “majority of the High Street and business offices“.

BT Openreach UK Raises Ethernet and Excess Construction Charges

31st December, 2013 (6 Comments)

BTOpenreach has moved to comply with the requirements of Ofcom’s earlier Leased Lines Charge Control (LLCC), which was published as part of the telecom regulators Business Connectivity Market Review, and has raised its Excess Construction Charges (ECC) by just over 1%.

UK People Want Superfast Broadband More than New Airports and HS2

28th December, 2013 (5 Comments)

A new survey of 2,011 British citizens (aged 16-75) by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has reported that 43% saw more economic benefit in extending the reach of superfast broadband to all premises in the UK than they did from building new Nuclear Power plants, airports or high speed trains.

Gov Detail UK City Broadband Connection Voucher Scheme Changes

20th December, 2013 (0 Comments)

The Department for Culture, Media & Sport has today confirmed all of the changes that have been made to its Broadband Connection Vouchers scheme since the autumn trial. The vouchers have been live since earlier this month (here), although there have been a few small changes under the hood.

UPDATE ISPs BT, Sky and TalkTalk in Compensation Dispute over LLU Lines

19th December, 2013 (0 Comments)

Ofcom has today opened two similar but semi-separate disputes that concern BT’s provision of fully unbundled (MPF LLU) phone and broadband lines to TalkTalk and Sky Broadband, which the national telecoms operator is required to offer on “fair and reasonable terms“.

FibreSpeed Now Operating as an Independent Commercial Business

13th December, 2013 (1 Comment)

FibreSpeed, which was established in 2009 as a Welsh Government, GEO Networks and EU funded project to build a fibre optic communications and broadband network across North Wales (UK), has announced that it’s now operating as an independent commercial business.

ISP XLN Forces UK Customers to Pay for Insurance against BT Engineers

9th December, 2013 (3 Comments)

Business ISP XLN Telecom has taken the unique, if controversial, approach of attaching a new monthly “Business Assurance” charge of +£1.95 to their customers broadband and phone bills in order to protect against the increasingly hefty engineer charges that BTOpenreach levy for fixing service faults (SFI).

Broadband Connection Voucher Scheme Goes Live in First UK Cities

7th December, 2013 (11 Comments)

The Department for Business, Innovation & Skills has announced that the Government’s Connection Vouchers scheme, which uses part of the £150m Urban Broadband Fund (“Super-Connected Cities“) to help SME businesses install superfast broadband (30Mbps+), has finally started to go live in 22 cities across the United Kingdom.

Mobile Operator Three UK Hints Towards Interest in O2 Acquisition

6th December, 2013 (7 Comments)

The boss of mobile operator Three UK, David Dyson, has added fuel to the growing fire of rumours that surround their alleged interest in a merger with O2 by saying that “under the right circumstances” the United Kingdom could operate competitively with fewer operators. But there are significant complications to consider.

Just 8% of UK Businesses Suffer Broadband Speeds of Below 2Mbps

5th December, 2013 (0 Comments)

The latest annual E-Commerce and ICT Activity study from the Office for National Statistics has revealed that the vast majority (96%) of businesses in the United Kingdom have Internet access (95% use broadband) and (85.5%) of those continue to use DSL broadband technology. But superfast connectivity is growing.