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Northamptonshire UK to Offer Secured Business Loans for Superfast Broadband

26th November, 2013 (3 Comments)

The Northamptonshire County Council has today announced the Superfast Northamptonshire Access to Finance (SNAF) initiative, which will complement the local authority’s existing investment of £16.26m with BT under the national Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) scheme by offering secured loans to businesses.

BT Recruit 165 New Staff for Contact Centre in Northern Ireland

25th November, 2013 (0 Comments)

BT has announced that it will add another 165 new jobs to their latest Belfast based ‘Flex’ contact centre, which will shortly be opening at Riverside Tower.

BT Openreach CEO Liv Garfield to Exit in Spring 2014 for Water Utility Firm

18th November, 2013 (14 Comments)

Liv Garfield has confirmed that she will step down from her role as the boss of BTOpenreach during spring 2014 and will instead become the new CEO of water company Severn Trent. Openreach is responsible for maintaining and providing access to BT’s national telecoms and broadband ISP network across the United Kingdom.

TalkTalk Edges Slowly to 4.076m UK Broadband Subscribers as FTTC Booms

12th November, 2013 (0 Comments)

Budget conscious Internet and phone provider TalkTalk has today posted its latest results to Q3-2013 (calendar) and revealed that they only added +5,000 broadband subscribers (down from +8k in Q2 and +10k in Q3) to total 4,076,000. But the uptake of their superfast broadband (FTTC) product has continued to skyrocket.

Virgin Media UK Scrapes Upwards to Reach 4.48m Broadband Subscribers

6th November, 2013 (5 Comments)

Cable operator Virgin Media (Liberty Global) has today published its latest Q3-2013 (calendar) results and confirmed that their total broadband ISP subscriber base has crept upwards by +13,600 in the quarter to total 4,488,600, which follows a slight fall of -15.5k during the prior Q2 period. Network coverage has also improved.

Vodafone UK Funded Report Blasts Ofcom for Allowing Excess BT Profits

4th November, 2013 (3 Comments)

A new Vodafone UK commissioned report from consulting firm Frontier Economics has accused BT of being in breach of its regulatory commitments by allegedly making profits of nearly £5bn more than the level that Ofcom is claimed to deem acceptable.

O2 Wholesale Closure Begins to Hurt UK ISPs – Aquiss Broadband Hit

1st November, 2013 (4 Comments)

Last week’s announcement that O2 UK were to close their wholesale division (BE/O2Wholesale) in February 2014 (here) has naturally caused problems for ISPs that offer broadband via the platform. Aquiss have now become one of the first to confirm the discontinuation of related services pending a replacement.

BT Grabs 6.96 Million UK Retail Broadband Subscribers as 1.7m Take FTTC

31st October, 2013 (7 Comments)

BT Group’s latest Q3-2013 (calendar) results reveal that the operators consumer and business ISP divisions have grown their fixed line broadband subscriber base by +156k in the quarter to total 6.961m (up from +95k added in Q2 and +136k in Q1), which includes 1.7m superfast BTInfinity (FTTC) customers (up by +195k in Q3 vs +197k added in Q2).

O2 Wholesale UK Announce Plans to Close Broadband Platform

25th October, 2013 (0 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 UK (Telefonica) has confirmed that its O2/BE Wholesale platform, which was retained after Sky (Sky Broadband) gobbled up the providers fixed line broadband and phone customers earlier this year, will now be closed in February 2014.

UK Broadband ISP Cotswold Satellite Ceases Trading

24th October, 2013 (1 Comment)

Internet provider Cotswold Satellite (Company No. 08182706) has confirmed to ISPreview.co.uk that the business, which operates in a market full of samey clone ISPs with near-identical prices and speeds, officially agreed to cease trading over one month ago.

London Firms Seek Open Fibre Network to Replace Costly Private Circuits

23rd October, 2013 (9 Comments)

Perseverance Works, which is a unique company and community that represents around 400 people running their own businesses from the creative hub of Shoreditch in London, has put out a new tender document in the hope of attracting a supplier that could deliver an ultrafast open access fibre optic network into the area.

EE UK Grows to 714K Home Broadband Customers as 4G Users Hit 1.2M

22nd October, 2013 (0 Comments)

Mobile operator and ISP EE (Orange UK and T-Mobile) has published its latest Q3-2013 financial results and revealed that their fixed line Home Broadband subscriber base has continued its slow but steady growth to total 714,000 users (up +10,000 during Q3, the same level as Q2). Meanwhile 4G mobile customers have jumped from 687,000 in Q2 to 1.18 million now.

UK ISP Sky Broadband Breaks the 5 Million Subscriber Milestone

17th October, 2013 (0 Comments)

Sky Broadband (BSkyB) has today published its latest quarterly results to 30th September 2013, which saw their consumer broadband subscribers grow by +111,000 during Q3 to total 5,017,000. Naturally this is sharply down from the +519,000 added in Q2 when O2 and BE Broadband’s former fixed line customers were merged into the total.

Government Invites UK ISPs to Discuss Broadband Connection Vouchers

8th October, 2013 (0 Comments)

The Department of Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) has invited ISPs to two imminent industry day events in order to help them shape the final design of the Connection Vouchers scheme, which uses part of the £150m+ Urban Broadband Fund (“Super-Connected Cities“) to help businesses install a superfast broadband service.

£100m Boost for UK Enterprise Zones Could Help Business Broadband

7th October, 2013 (0 Comments)

The government has announced an additional injection of £100 million to aid their Enterprise Zones, which were setup in 2011 to help predominantly disadvantaged urban areas and businesses to benefit from better transport networks, superfast broadband, various tax breaks and simplified planning rules.

Business ISP Vaioni UK Secures GBP500k of Investment

1st October, 2013 (0 Comments)

Manchester-based communications provider Vaioni has become the first to benefit from the Greater Manchester Loan Fund, which has put a significant investment of £500,000 into the ISP to help fuel its future growth.

UK ISP Eclipse Internet Plans to Double its Size via New Investment

26th September, 2013 (0 Comments)

Communications provider Eclipse Internet, which hasn’t really featured in our news for a while (they seem to have been keeping a low profile), appears to have been gifted a new multi-million pound injection of cash from its parent KCOM Group (KC) and plans are now afoot to “double the size” of its UK business.