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Tendring Council and BT Expand Superfast Broadband Cabinet Coverage

17th July, 2012 (2 Comments)

The Tendring District Council (TDC) in Essex (UK) has reached an agreement with BT that will see the operator expand its existing coverage of superfast broadband (FTTC) services to include the rural villages of Kirby-le-Soken, Kirby Cross and Great Holland via three new and previously unplanned street cabinets.

Ripley Town Residents Challenge Obstructive BT FTTC Broadband Cabinets

12th July, 2012 (82 Comments)

Some 60 residents in the Derbyshire UK town of Ripley have handed a petition to BTOpenreach that calls for one of its new superfast broadband (FTTC) street cabinets, which is placed on a corner at the very end of Leamington Street, to be moved because, they claim, it could cause a potentially fatal car crash.

UPD AAISP UK Run First Live Trial of New FTTC Etherway Business Broadband

10th July, 2012 (12 Comments)

Bracknell-based ISP Andrews & Arnold (AAISP) has this week claimed to be the first UK provider to trial BT’s new FTTC based Etherway service, which combines the low cost of Fibre-to-the-Cabinet technology with the “simplicity, high reliability and performance” of Ethernet for a more affordable and faster business broadband product.

Sky UK Make 76Mb Superfast Broadband Fibre Pro Service Available to All

6th July, 2012 (33 Comments)

Sky Broadband (BSkyB) has today informed ISPreview.co.uk that its hidden superfast 76Mbps capable Sky Fibre Unlimited Pro broadband (FTTC) service, which still isn’t shown on their website, is now available to “all customers – new and existing“.

BT Preps New UK Superfast Broadband Cabinets for Exchange Only Lines

29th June, 2012 (18 Comments)

BTOpenreach has informed UK ISPs of a small, but potentially quite important, development that will allow it to deploy superfast broadband (FTTC) services on Exchange Only (EO) lines. This is where the phone line for a home is connected directly to a telephone exchange and does not go through a street cabinet.

BT List Next 98 UK Locations for its Superfast Broadband Deployment

26th June, 2012 (57 Comments)

BTOpenreach, which provides rival internet providers (ISP) with access to BT’s telecoms network, has today revealed the next batch of 98 telephone exchange upgrades for its national £2.5bn UK roll-out of 80Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC) and 330Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based superfast broadband services.

CityFibre Accuse BT of Soft Peddling on the Rollout of True Fibre Broadband

23rd June, 2012 (235 Comments)

CityFibre Holdings, which builds UK fibre optic broadband infrastructure (FTTP) for business, public sector and domestic needs, has criticised BT for choosing to “soft-pedal” on the roll-out of true Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband services because of an “overwhelming bias” towards slower FTTC technology.

UPD BT Infinity UK Working Hard to Resolve Super Slow FTTC Broadband Bug

22nd June, 2012 (41 Comments)

BT Retail has confirmed to ISPreview.co.uk that the super slow broadband bug, which resulted in some of their up to 38-78Mbps capable BTInfinity superfast broadband (FTTC) customers experiencing sub-1Mbps speeds, is caused by a fault on the ISPs HomeHub3 (HH3) router and a fix will be released “as soon as possible“.

UPDATE2 Super Slow Broadband Bug Hits UK BT Infinity FTTC ISP Subscribers

19th June, 2012 (22 Comments)

Some of BT’s superfast broadband (BTInfinity) customers are reporting that an intermittent bug with either their HomeHub 3 (HH3) router or VDSL modem device is causing service speeds to crash, in many cases falling from upwards of 70Mbps (Megabits per second) to sub-1Mbps levels.

Hyperoptic Attacks BT Opposition to National UK Fibre Broadband Rollout

18th June, 2012 (28 Comments)

The boss of urban fibre optic broadband ISP Hyperoptic, Dana Pressman-Tobak, has warned that last week’s comments by BT’s Strategy Director (here), Sean Williams, whom suggested that there was “no business case to support” a full UK roll-out of true fibre broadband (e.g. FTTP) services, could be “very dangerous“.

UPD2 BT Claim Ofcom Rules Hamper UK Superfast Broadband Investment

13th June, 2012 (27 Comments)

BT has told the Lords Select Committee Inquiry into the UK governments superfast broadband strategy that its new fibre optic based network (FTTC , FTTP) will need more freedom from Ofcom’s changing regulation and price controls if it is to make a bigger “long-term investment” in related services.

ISP BE Broadband UK Confirms Date for Delayed Core Network Upgrade

13th June, 2012 (16 Comments)

Internet provider BE Broadband (O2 UK) has finally revealed a date for the start of its migration over to a new core network, which was originally supposed to get underway by the end of February 2012 but has since faced delays. This has also affected its FTTC superfast broadband plan.

XILO Quietly Launch New 80Mbps UK Superfast Broadband Packages

12th June, 2012 (0 Comments)

Broadband ISP XILO UK (Uno Broadband) has this week finalised and launched a new range of up to 80Mbps (Megabits per second) capable “Fibre+” superfast broadband packages using the Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC) technology.

UK ISP ADSL24 Launches New 80Mbps Superfast Broadband Packages

11th June, 2012 (0 Comments)

Broadband provider ADSL24 has introduced a series of new “Fibre” superfast broadband (FTTC) packages, which come with greater usage allowance flexibility and faster internet download speeds of up to 80Mbps (previously 40Mbps).

UK ISP FidoNet Offers 6 Months 80Mbps Superfast Broadband for FREE

11th June, 2012 (0 Comments)

Business focused internet provider FidoNet has today launched a surprisingly good promotion that offers 6 months of free superfast broadband, half price installation (i.e. £50 +vat), free SIP account and a free wireless router (wifi) to new customers.

UPD2 BT Withdraw from Superfast Broadband Rollout in Kensington and Chelsea

31st May, 2012 (89 Comments)

BTOpenreach has shocked local residents and businesses in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (London, UK) after it sensationally pulled out of plans to deploy superfast broadband (FTTC) services at 108 local street cabinets (covering 34,200 premises).

UPD Virgin Media Slams UK Government for Gifting BT a Huge Public Subsidy

22nd May, 2012 (38 Comments)

The Chief Operating Officer (COO) of cable and broadband giant Virgin Media, Andrew Barron, will today tell the House of Lords Select Committee Inquiry into the UK’s national superfast broadband strategy that BT are effectively being subsidised by government policy and thus “freezing out new entrants” from the market.