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Europe Confirms Move to Harmonise 700MHz for Mobile Broadband

2nd February, 2016 (1 Comment)

The European Commission has today moved to follow by Ofcom’s example and ensure that more radio spectrum will be made available for Mobile Broadband (3G, 4G and possibly 5G) services in the 700MHz band (694-790MHz) by 30th June 2020 “at the latest” (in all EU countries).

UPD Last Ditch Warning – Ofcom Tell EU to Reject O2 and Three UK Merger

1st February, 2016 (20 Comments)

The CEO of UK telecoms regulator Ofcom, Sharon White, has made one last ditch attempt to block the merger of mobile operators O2 and Three UK by calling on the European Commission’s competition regulator, which has the final say, not to ignore the serious competition concerns.

UPDATE UK Gov Consults on New Broadband Supplier Procurement Process

26th January, 2016 (0 Comments)

The Government has launched a consultation to help it decide upon a new procurement approach for future state aid supported broadband deployment projects under the national Broadband Delivery UK programme, which is unable to sign new contracts until an agreement can be reached.

UPDATE UK Government – No Consensus on Deploying FTTP Broadband

18th January, 2016 (54 Comments)

The Central Government has disappointed those calling for ultrafast pure fibre optic broadband connections (FTTH/P) to be rolled out across the United Kingdom by rebuffing the idea as part of its response to a European Commission consultation on connectivity needs post-2020.

Council of Europe Sets Out Net Neutrality Guidelines for Broadband ISPs

14th January, 2016 (1 Comment)

The Council of Europe has today issued a set of “network neutrality guidelines” that call for mobile and broadband providers to treat Internet traffic equally, without discrimination or restriction, and for member states (e.g. UK) to support this via the “development of national legal frameworks“.

Mixed Results as Ofcom Compares UK Broadband to 18 Major Countries

10th December, 2015 (16 Comments)

The telecoms regulator has today published their annual International Communications Market Report 2015 (ICMR), which among other things compares the performance of broadband and telecoms networks in the United Kingdom with 18 other key countries around the world.

EU State Aid Clearance Problem Delays BDUK Broadband Contracts

9th December, 2015 (6 Comments)

The Government’s Broadband Delivery UK programme is close to securing a new approval from Europe for the use of state aid in their national roll-out of “superfast broadband” (24Mbps+) services, which has been stalled since the original umbrella agreement expired at the end of June 2015.

UK Government Consults on New Rules to Cut Broadband Rollout Costs

1st December, 2015 (6 Comments)

Last year Europe adopted new rules that are designed to make it both “easier and cheaper” to roll-out ultrafast broadband networks, which included a voluntary “High-Speed Broadband Ready” label for new build homes. Today a new consultation has been launch on UK implementation of the rules.

Virgin Media Complains to EU Over State Aid for BT Broadband Rollout

30th November, 2015 (15 Comments)

Cable operator Virgin Media (Liberty Global) has called on the European Commission to help stop any future allocations of state aid going towards BTOpenreach’s “fibre broadband” network expansion, which they fear would create an “unacceptable risk of overbuild of existing networks.”

UK Government Propose New Broadband Investment Fund for Altnet ISPs

25th November, 2015 (19 Comments)

The Chancellor of the United Kingdom, George Osborne, has today given his Autumn Statement 2015 (Spending Review) and unfortunately there wasn’t much in terms of new support for broadband and mobile infrastructure, but we did get word of a new investment fund for alternative network ISPs.

Small Changes as BSG Stiffens UK ISP Open Internet Code of Practice

17th November, 2015 (0 Comments)

The Broadband Stakeholders Group, a think-tank for UK government policy, has today completed a review of its Voluntary Open Internet and Traffic Management Codes of Practice for ISPs and proposed a number of changes to help keep the commitments in line with Europe’s new Net Neutrality stance.

No Sign of UK as Europe Reveals their Top 5 Broadband Projects

17th November, 2015 (1 Comment)

Last night in Brussels the European Commission announced the winners of their inaugural European Broadband Award event, which aimed to identify the unions top 5 “high-speed” (30Mbps+) broadband projects. Sadly none of the United Kingdom’s excellent projects made it on to the winners list.

BDUK and BT Push Superfast Broadband to 3.31 Million Extra UK Premises

12th November, 2015 (32 Comments)

The Government’s Broadband Delivery UK initiative, which is primarily working with BT to make fixed line superfast broadband (24Mbps+) services available to 95% of the United Kingdom by 2017/18, has ended Q3 2015 by confirming that 3,311,843 extra premises have now benefited from the effort.

Government Moots Law Change to Keep UK ISP Internet Porn Filters

28th October, 2015 (0 Comments)

The Government has confirmed that they’re considering the introduction of a “domestic law” that could prevent Europe’s new Net Neutrality rules from overriding their policy of requiring all of the United Kingdom’s major broadband ISPs to block adult Internet content.

EU Approves Law to Protect Net Neutrality and Free Mobile Roaming

27th October, 2015 (3 Comments)

As expected the European Parliament has, without further change, today given the final approval needed for new rules to be introduced that aim to protect open Internet access (Net Neutrality) from unfair restrictions and put an end to costly mobile roaming charges, but there are plenty of loop holes.

Mixed UK Results in EU Study of Broadband Speeds, Price and Coverage

22nd October, 2015 (9 Comments)

The European Commission’s (EC) Digital Agenda project has today published three separate studies that examine the real-world Internet speeds, coverage and prices of broadband services across most of the EU states, which also reveals how well the United Kingdom is doing.

Nearly Done – EU Rules to Protect Net Neutrality and Free Mobile Roaming

2nd October, 2015 (1 Comment)

The Council of the European Union, which is represented by ministers from each of the member states including the United Kingdom, has approved without debate new rules that aim to protect open Internet access (Net Neutrality) from unfair restrictions and put an end to mobile roaming charges.