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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.

Former BT Wifi Boss Becomes the New CEO of UK ISP PlusNet

3rd December, 2013 (0 Comments)

Internet and phone provider PlusNet, which is a semi-independent sibling of BT, has appointed Andy Baker (Aged 41) to be its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Andy replaces the ISPs current CEO, Jamie Ford, whom is leaving to pursue a role as the Managing Director of IT Services at BT Business.

CityFibre UK Target Market Value of GBP50m with AIM Stock Market Float

2nd December, 2013 (1 Comment)

CityFibre, which manages and builds ultrafast pure fibre optic networks in several large towns and cities around the United Kingdom, hopes to boost its expansion plans and achieve a total market value of £50 million by floating through AIM.

UK ISP Sky Broadband Keeping an Open Mind for Wholesale Services

2nd December, 2013 (2 Comments)

The rumour mill rarely stops turning and the latest to blast through our inbox, supported by reports from several usually credible sources, suggest that BSkyB (Sky Broadband) has held discussions with some ISPs about the prospect of launching a wholesale or business solution via their fixed line network.

SSE Telecoms Expands Fibre Optic Network in Big UK Towns and Cities

28th November, 2013 (4 Comments)

Network infrastructure developer SSE Telecoms has launched ‘Project Edge’, which will expand the reach of their up to 10Gbps (Gigabits per second) per customer capable “enterprise-class” fibre optic network to 54 new Points of Presence (PoPs) in most of the United Kingdom’s busiest towns and cities.

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.