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South Gloucestershire and Wiltshire UK Name 13 New BT Fibre Rollout Areas

23rd January, 2014 (1 Comment)

The joint £35.6m superfast broadband roll-out project between South Gloucestershire and Wiltshire in England has today announced another batch of local communities that can expect to receive an upgrade to BT’s “fibre broadband“(FTTC/P) network from summer 2014.

Shropshire Reveals Next 18 Areas for BT Superfast Broadband Rollout

22nd January, 2014 (0 Comments)

The £24.6m Connecting Shropshire (England) programme, which is working to deploy BT’s “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network to 93% of local premises by the end of Spring 2016 (except Telford & Wrekin), has named the next 18 communities to benefit from the project.

Derbyshire UK and BT Launch Website and Map of its Fibre Broadband Rollout

21st January, 2014 (2 Comments)

The £27m state aid supported scheme to help BT deploy their fibre optic (FTTC/P) based broadband network, which aims to reach 95% of local premises in Derbyshire (England) by the end of 2016, has now launched a new website and predicted map of future coverage.

KC Fibre Engineer in Hull UK Exposes Unencrypted User Passwords

17th January, 2014 (2 Comments)

At least one of KC’s fibre optic broadband engineers in Hull (East Yorkshire, England) could be in hot water after demonstrating a worrying lack of personal data security by effectively exposing the ISPs unencrypted user passwords (and other personal data) during an on-site service installation visit.

Digital Scotland Reveals Next BT Superfast Broadband Rollout Areas

16th January, 2014 (2 Comments)

The £409.8 million Digital Scotland scheme, which seeks to make BT’s “high-speed fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network available to 85% of local premises by the end of 2015 and “around” 95% by the end of 2017 (84% by 2016 for HIE), has named the next communities and local authority areas to be upgraded by summer 2014.

Fluidata Boss Slams Use of Old BT Copper Broadband for New UK Builds

15th January, 2014 (108 Comments)

The Managing Director of UK business ISP Fluidata, Piers Daniell, has criticised BT for “short-sighted and self-absorbed behaviour” after he completed on a new flat in London only to find that the operator was installing older copper phone and broadband cables into the premises instead of true fibre optic.

Government Moot BDUK Fibre Broadband Plan for South Yorkshire UK

13th January, 2014 (19 Comments)

The Government has proposed a new £10 million scheme, which would be based off its existing Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) programme, to help deploy superfast broadband services across 90% of South Yorkshire in England (most likely with BT’s help). The region suffered a £155m failure last year when the alternative Digital Region network collapsed.

Berkhamsted UK Businesses Complain BT FTTC Broadband is Ignoring Them

10th January, 2014 (29 Comments)

Brash Solutions, an IT services company, has heavily criticised BT’s wholesale division (they probably also mean BTOpenreach) for rolling out superfast broadband (FTTC) services to residential parts of Berkhamsted in West Hertfordshire (England) while ignoring the “majority of the High Street and business offices“.

ZyXEL Predicts Big Demand for Broadband FTTC and VDSL Vectoring Kit

9th January, 2014 (5 Comments)

Telecoms and networking kit manufacturer ZyXEL has predicted a “steep rise” in demand for superfast broadband FTTC (VDSL) based Vectoring (ITU-T G.993.5 / G.vector) services and hardware across Europe during 2014 as network operators, such as BT, move out of the pilot phase and seek to improve Internet speeds.

Wales UK Confirm New Areas for BT Fibre Broadband Rollout to March 2015

9th January, 2014 (8 Comments)

The state aid supported Superfast Cymru project, which aims to make faster “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) speeds of up to 80Mbps available to 96% of Welsh premises by the end of spring 2016, has revealed a new list of communities that are scheduled to be enabled with BT’s new network by the end of March 2015.

Residents of St Kew in Cornwall UK Start Petition for Superfast Broadband

3rd January, 2014 (19 Comments)

Locals residing in the Cornish parish of St Kew, which includes various smaller hamlets and villages, have launched a new petition that calls upon the joint BT and EU funded £132 million Superfast Cornwall project to extend its faster broadband connectivity into the area.

Broadband Router Options for UK FTTC ISPs – Integrated VDSL Modem

2nd January, 2014 (46 Comments)

The United Kingdom is home to several million hybrid fibre FTTC superfast broadband ISP subscribers but to date most of those have been forced to connect to the service by linking an existing router to one of BTOpenreach’s VDSL modems. Now a new breed of router has emerged that integrates VDSL and here are some of the options.

BT Openreach Recruits 42 New UK Engineers in the South West

24th December, 2013 (39 Comments)

BTOpenreach has announced the addition of 42 new “high-speed fibre broadband” telecoms engineers to serve areas including Exeter, Taunton, Plymouth, Bristol and Salisbury in England.

Hampshire UK Extends BDUK FTTC Broadband Rollout to Reach 95%

23rd December, 2013 (14 Comments)

Leaders of the Hampshire County Council have voted to release £9.2 million to help extend their state aid supported roll-out of BT’s superfast broadband (FTTC/P) services from its current target of 90% to 95%, which of course mirrors the new national UK target.

Milton Keynes and Bedfordshire UK Update BT Broadband Deployment Map

23rd December, 2013 (29 Comments)

The joint £12 million+ Central Superfast project between the Milton Keynes Council, Central Bedfordshire Council and Bedford Borough Council in England, which aims to rollout BT’s FTTC/P service to cover “around” 91% of local premises by spring 2016 (97% in Milton Keynes), has released a revised deployment map following new funding.

Global Broadband Users Hit 670m as UK Comes Top for Fibre Growth

20th December, 2013 (0 Comments)

The total number of global broadband subscribers in Q3-2013 has grown by 1.8% in the quarter to reach 670 Million (up from just 0.7% added in Q2). But the data also reveals that the UK has a 132.1% annual growth rate for fibre optic based broadband (FTTC/P/H etc.) and that puts us top of the table.

UK ISP PlusNet Opens YouView TV Trials to Unlimited Fibre Customers

20th December, 2013 (5 Comments)

As expected PlusNet has started to move forward with its plans to launch a YouView (IPTV) based TV product to their UK broadband customers by opening up the closed staff trial to existing customers with an Unlimited Fibre (FTTC) package.