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UPDATE2 UK Telecoms Giant BT Retail Splits Into Two Separate Businesses

30th July, 2013 (10 Comments)

In a surprise announcement BT has revealed that its UK consumer division, BT Retail, will be split into two separate businesses – BTConsumer and BTBusiness – effective from 1st September 2013. But BT will continue to report figures for BTRetail as a whole until the end of the current financial year.

Annual Broadband Delivery UK Administrative Costs Reach GBP5.9 Million

30th July, 2013 (8 Comments)

The government’s Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) office, which is responsible for overseeing the national and £1.2bn publicly funded roll-out of fixed line superfast broadband (25Mbps+) services to about 88% of people by the end of 2015 and 95% by 2017, spent £5.979m on admin costs in the last tax year (April 2012 – Late March 2013).

UPDATE2 Spectrum Internet Bring Cheap 1Gbps Broadband to Cardiff Firms

29th July, 2013 (19 Comments)

Welsh ISP Spectrum Internet claims to have launched the United Kingdom’s “first” affordable 1Gbps Ethernet broadband (1000 Megabits per second) service for small and medium sized enterprises (SME) in Cardiff (Wales), which will be priced from just £50 per month.

Gigaclear Opens UK Rural Fibre Optic Broadband Network to More ISPs

26th July, 2013 (6 Comments)

Gigaclear, which has installed several 1000Mbps capable fibre optic broadband (FTTP) networks in rural communities around England, has partnered up to adopt Fluidata’s Service Exchange Platform (SEP) that should give those covered by the operators network a greater choice of around 50 ISPs.

UK ISP Sky Broadband Tops 4.9M Subscribers After Gobbling O2 and BE

26th July, 2013 (6 Comments)

Sky Broadband (BSkyB) has officially leapfrogged Virgin Media to become the country’s second largest consumer broadband ISP after it saw a sharp acceleration of growth by gobbling up O2’s fixed line subscribers. As a result Sky’s latest Q2-2013 report saw related customers grow by +519,000 in the quarter to total 4.906m (up from +152k added in Q1).

Vodafone UK Enters Our Top 10 with 85000 Fixed Broadband Subscribers

25th July, 2013 (0 Comments)

Telecoms operator Vodafone UK has quietly slipped into our Top 10 UK ISPs By Subscriber Size table after last year’s £1.044bn deal to buy telecoms giant Cable & Wireless Worldwide (CWW) revealed that the group had 85,000 fixed line broadband customers (Q2-2013), which is down by -2k from 87,000 in Q1.

UK ISP BT Retail Tops 6.8M Broadband Subscribers and 1.5m Adopt FTTC

25th July, 2013 (39 Comments)

BT Group has today released their latest financial results to 30th June 2013 (Q2), which saw the operators retail ISP division increase their fixed line broadband subscribers by +95,000 in the quarter to total 6,799,000 (down from the +136k added in Q1-2013 and +122k in Q4-2012).

Entanet Based UK ISPs to Offer FREE FTTC Broadband Installation

24th July, 2013 (2 Comments)

Business ISP Entanet, which supplies internet access and related services to a number of ISPs and businesses across the United Kingdom, has launched a special promotion that will allow their resellers to offer a free superfast broadband installation or migration on FTTC packages.

EE Rise to 704K UK Home Broadband Users and Doubles 4G Customers

24th July, 2013 (2 Comments)

Mobile operator and ISP EE (Orange UK) has today reported that their fixed line Home Broadband subscriber base has grown by +10,000 customers in Q2-2013 to reach a total of 704,000 (up sharply from the +1k added in Q1). Meanwhile their 4G based mobile customers have doubled from 318,000 in Q1 to 687,000 now.

TalkTalk Grows to 4.071m UK Broadband Users with 95K on Superfast FTTC

24th July, 2013 (0 Comments)

Budget internet provider TalkTalk has released its latest Q2-2013 results today, which saw them add another +8,000 broadband subscribers (down from 10k in Q1-2013) to total 4,071,000 customers. The number of consumers taking their Superfast Fibre (FTTC) product also grew by a steady +22k in the quarter to 95,000.

UK ISP PlusNets Growth and Security Needs to Create 250 Jobs in Leeds

23rd July, 2013 (3 Comments)

Sheffield-based Internet and phone provider PlusNet has announced that it will open a new office in Leeds (England) during October 2013 that should, over the next three years, result in the creation of at least 250 new jobs (making for a total of 1100 employees by 2016).

Managed IT Firm hSo Acquires UK ISP Goscomb Technologies

15th July, 2013 (0 Comments)

The “entire share capital” of business ISP Goscomb Technologies has been acquired by rival hSo (HighSpeed Office Limited), a little known UK managed IT and cloud services provider, for an undisclosed sum.

Virgin Media Details UK Fibre Capacity Deal to Boost 4G Mobile from O2

12th July, 2013 (7 Comments)

Virgin Media Business has today released more information about its “significant” ten-year deal with O2 (Telefonica UK) for the provision of new backhaul network capacity to 1,500 sites, which is intended to help “supercharge data speeds” and support the operators imminent launch of 4G based mobile broadband services.

MetroNet UK Expand Hybrid Fibre and Wireless Broadband to St Helens

11th July, 2013 (2 Comments)

ISP Metronet UK has once again expanded the coverage of its “ultrafast” 1Mbps – 10Gbps capable hybrid fibre optic (Dark Fibre) and carrier grade wireless broadband network to reach businesses in St Helen’s (Merseyside, England).

CBI Report Tells UK to Fix Rural and Urban Broadband Divide Before 2015

10th July, 2013 (1 Comment)

The Confederation of British Industry (CBI), which lobbies on behalf of some 240,000 businesses (around a third of the private sector workforce), has published a new Let’s Get Digital! report that calls on the government to stop “short-term thinking” and adopt a cross-party approach to solve the national roll-out of superfast broadband before 2015.

UPDATE National Audit Office Scalds 2 Years Late Broadband Delivery UK Project

5th July, 2013 (9 Comments)

The National Audit Office (NAO), which is responsible for scrutinising the value for money of public spending in the United Kingdom, has described the government’s national £1.2bn superfast broadband roll-out scheme as “moving forward late“, lacking “strong competition to protect public value” and being underfunded.

Deloitte Study Finds Big Broadband Speed Divide in North West England

3rd July, 2013 (8 Comments)

A new study from global financial services firm Deloitte has unsurprisingly revealed a big Digital Speed Divide between the performance of broadband internet connections across the North West of England, which it fears could damage business. Speeds were found to vary between a low of 3.94Mbps and a peak of 60Mbps+.