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Rural and Countryside Groups Oppose Planning Changes to Boost Broadband

5th November, 2012 (2 Comments)

The English National Park Authorities Association (ENPAA), Open Spaces Society (OSS) and Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) have warned that the government’s plan to relax planning rules, which could boost the deployment of UK superfast broadband and 4G mobile services, risks damaging the countryside and other green spaces.

BT Brings UK Superfast Broadband Rollout Forward to Spring 2014

1st November, 2012 (14 Comments)

BT has today confirmed that its national £2.5bn plan, which aims to deploy fibre optic based superfast broadband (FTTC , FTTP) ISP services to 66% of the UK, has once again been brought forward and will now complete during Spring 2014 (i.e. passing 19 million homes and businesses).

MetroNet UK Fibre and Wireless Broadband Covers all of Greater Manchester

1st November, 2012 (0 Comments)

Business ISP Metronet UK has today announced that its hybrid superfast fibre optic (Dark Fibre) and carrier grade wireless network, which is understood to have cost £3 million to build, has finally achieved “ubiquitous coverage” across the entire Greater Manchester region.

ISP TalkTalk Wants Gov to Worry About Lack of Fibre Broadband Competition

31st October, 2012 (8 Comments)

The CEO of budget ISP TalkTalk, Dido Harding, has warned a Westminster panel session that the UK government should “start to worry” about the lack of competition in the new market for fibre optic based superfast broadband services; where a true alternative to BT and cheaper fibre-based local loop unbundling (LLU) remains absent.

Shetland Telecom Boss Slams UK’s Broadband Strategy as “Madness”

29th October, 2012 (12 Comments)

The project manager for Shetland Telecom, which is busy improving internet capacity on the remote Shetland Islands via a new fibre optic link with Scotland, has told ISPreview.co.uk that it’s “complete madness” for the UK government to spend millions attempting to “squeeze more life” out of BT’s existing copper broadband ISP network.

Openreach to Withdraw Old Ultrafast FTTP Broadband ISP Products by 2014

26th October, 2012 (65 Comments)

BTOpenreach, which manages access to BT’s UK telecoms network, has outlined plans to streamline its portfolio by slashing the number of ultrafast fibre optic broadband (FTTP) products from ten to five by March 2014. This includes the anticipated introduction of a new 220Mbps service in summer 2013.

UPD2 UK ISP BT Push FTTP Infinity Superfast Broadband Service to 160Mbps

24th October, 2012 (18 Comments)

ISP BT Retail has quietly upgraded its top 100Mbps capable fibre optic superfast broadband BTInfinity package to offer UK internet download speeds of up to 160Mbps (Megabits per second) from £35 inc. VAT a month to home consumers (upload speeds have also boosted from 15Mbps to 20Mbps).

Official Government Response Shuns Lords UK Superfast Broadband Inquiry

24th October, 2012 (6 Comments)

The UK government’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has released its official response to July’s controversial Lords Inquiry into the UK government’s superfast broadband strategy, which called for a more competitive national fibre optic network to be built. But anybody expecting to see big changes will be disappointed.

Rural Ewelme Village Secures UK Rural Community Broadband Funding

22nd October, 2012 (1 Comment)

The civil parish village of Ewelme in southern Oxfordshire (England) has won a decade long battle to secure faster broadband connectivity after the UK government’s £20m Rural Community Broadband Fund(RCBF) preliminarily approved plans for a new network.

ISP Gigler Trial 1Gbps Fibre Optic Broadband for Bournemouth UK Businesses

22nd October, 2012 (2 Comments)

Gigler has today begun fresh trials of a new symmetric 1Gbps (Gigabits per second) capable business service in the English south coast town of Bournemouth, which will harness the power of CityFibre’s local Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) based fibre optic broadband ISP network.

Recycled Fibre Optic Network Brings 10Gbps Broadband to Manchester UK

19th October, 2012 (2 Comments)

An old 77km long fibre optic network that stretches across Greater Manchester, which was originally installed by Atlantic Telecom to support the 2002 Commonwealth Games (i.e. just before the operator went bust), has been brought back to life by another ISP.

Broadband Rollout to be Boosted as New Infrastructure Bill Reaches Parliament

19th October, 2012 (1 Comment)

The Growth and Infrastructure Bill (GIB), which among other things contains plans to help “fast-track” the deployment of superfast broadband (25Mbps+) services around the United Kingdom by cutting red tape in the existing planning system, has now gone before parliament.

BT Makes Progress with First UK Fibre Only Broadband Pilot in Deddington

18th October, 2012 (7 Comments)

BTOpenreach, which manages access to BT’s UK telecoms network, appears to be making good progress with its first Fibre-Only Exchange (FOX) trial in the rural civil parish village of Deddington (Oxfordshire). The project aims to replace the old copper line products with ultra-fast fibre optic phone and broadband (e.g. 100Mbps+ FTTP) services.

Growth Slows as Global Broadband Subscribers Total 624.1M in Q2 2012

17th October, 2012 (0 Comments)

Analyst firm Point Topic UK has reported that the total number of broadband lines globally reached 624.1 Million in Q2 2012 (quarterly growth of 2.1%), which represents a “significant decline” in growth versus the 2.7% increase seen during Q1. Thankfully superfast fibre optic (FTTx) based connections showed more promise.

FTTH Ultrafast Fibre Optic Broadband Connections Pass 175000 UK Homes

16th October, 2012 (45 Comments)

The FTTH Council Europe has released its latest global ranking of ultrafast Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) based fibre optic broadband ISP internet connections. Sadly the UK still doesn’t have enough true fibre connections to show in the main list but related services have now passed 175,000 homes.

Ofcom Propose to Let Sea Fibre Networks Expand UK Fibre Optic Platform

12th October, 2012 (1 Comment)

The UK communications regulator, Ofcom, has today proposed to grant Code Powers to Sea Fibre Networks Limited. The move would allow the firm to carry out street works in Wales and Staffordshire (England) that should improve the country’s existing fibre optic link with Ireland.

BSG Study is Optimistic About Initial UK Demand for Superfast Broadband

11th October, 2012 (4 Comments)

The Broadband Stakeholders Group (BSG), a government think-tank, has published a new study that examines the predicted demand for superfast broadband ISP products. The good news is that it “gives cause for optimism and confidence“, with the UK comparing well on the international stage, but big challenges remain.