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Black Friday – TalkTalk Cuts 67Mbps FTTC Broadband to £21.95

15th November, 2019 (11 Comments)

Last week saw UK ISP TalkTalk discount the price of their 38Mbps (average peak time speed) “Faster Fibre” FTTC broadband and phone bundle to £21.95 and this week they’ve decided to do exactly the same with their “Superfast Fibre” 67Mbps package, which oddly makes them both the same price for the first 18 months of service.

ISP Plusnet Discounts UK Broadband and Phone for Black Friday

13th November, 2019 (4 Comments)

Low cost ISP Plusnet has become the latest provider to tweak their existing discounts a little lower ahead of the annual Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales event. The main bonus is an included offer of £75 cashback on every package and a slight reduction in monthly price over their prior promotions.

Welsh Government Quietly Unveil £10m Rural Broadband Fund

13th November, 2019 (3 Comments)

The Welsh Government (WG) yesterday announced – during a debate on Digital Connectivity – a new £10 million fund that will be targeted to help bring “superfast broadband” (30Mbps+) ISP networks to poorly served communities in the mostly rural final 5% of Wales.

Vodafone UK Grows to 667,000 Fixed Broadband Users as 5G Expands

12th November, 2019 (5 Comments)

Mobile giant and UK ISP Vodafone has today published their latest quarterly results to the end of September (Q2 FY20), which revealed that they managed to add an impressive 61,000 new fixed broadband customers in the quarter (total base of 667,000) and that’s up from +31K in the previous quarter.

ISP Andrews & Arnold Boost Home Broadband Usage to 300GB

8th November, 2019 (69 Comments)

New and existing customers of UK ISP Andrews & Arnold (AAISP), specifically their standard Home::1 based fixed line broadband packages (sold via ADSL, FTTC, G.fast and FTTP), may be pleased to know that their monthly usage allowances will be boosted from 200GB (GigaBytes) to 300GB from December 2019.

ISP TalkTalk UK Discounts 38Mbps FTTC Broadband to £21.95

8th November, 2019 (7 Comments)

Budget UK ISP TalkTalk has launched a new promotion ahead of the Black Friday event, which drops the monthly price of their 38Mbps (average peak time speed) “Faster Fibre” FTTC broadband and phone bundle to £21.95 and their 67Mbps “Superfast Fibre” option to £24.45 for new subscribers. Both include free setup.

BT Halo is Live – Converged Unlimited 5G and Fixed Broadband

8th November, 2019 (11 Comments)

Customers of UK ISP BT (EE) can from today adopt the provider’s new converged “Halo” and “No Limits” plans, which aims to seamlessly bring together both their 5G mobile and fixed line home broadband (FTTC, FTTP, G.fast) networks. Existing 5G customers with BT Plus plans will be automatically upgraded to benefit from Halo.

Zen Internet UK ISP Drops Small Business Broadband Prices

6th November, 2019 (0 Comments)

After reducing their residential broadband prices Zen Internet has today announced further price drops – varying from between 8% and 22% – across their range of small business focused packages. This mostly appears to impact their standard ADSL, “superfast” FTTC and “ultrafast” G.fast based bundles (FTTP plans are unchanged).

Shell Energy Cuts UK Home Broadband Prices for Black Friday

6th November, 2019 (2 Comments)

Energy provider and UK ISP Shell Energy has launched a new Black Friday promotion, which discounts the monthly prices of their broadband and phone packages for new subscribers and also offers two months of free service on their “superfast” Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC / VDSL2) based plans.

ISP Pulse8 Cut FTTC Broadband and Phone Prices for Customers

5th November, 2019 (4 Comments)

UK ISP Pulse8 Broadband has today announced that, for the second time this year, they’ve been able to drop the monthly prices of their unlimited home “fibre broadband” (FTTC / VDSL2) packages, which applies to both new and existing customers (these also only attach a short 1 month contract term).

Ofcom Consult on Funding for the 10Mbps UK Broadband USO

5th November, 2019 (10 Comments)

Ofcom has today opened a new consultation on the funding (compensation) arrangements for BT and KCOM’s forthcoming Universal Service Obligation (USO), which is due to begin on the 20th March 2020 and aims to ensure that everybody can request a minimum broadband speed of “at least” 10Mbps (1Mbps upload).

Rural Oxfordshire UK Set for £6.3m Ultrafast Broadband Boost UPDATE

1st November, 2019 (1 Comment)

The Oxfordshire County Council (OCC) has announced that UK ISP Airband and network operator Openreach (BT) have won several new contracts – supported by a funding boost of £6.3m from DEFRA – to help rollout “ultrafast broadband” (mostly FTTP) across more homes and businesses in the county.

BT FTTP and G.fast Broadband Cover Tops 4.2 Million UK Premises

31st October, 2019 (15 Comments)

BT Group’s latest results to the end of September 2019 (Q2 19/20 financial) confirm that Openreach’s “ultrafast broadband” (100Mbps+) ISP network has increased its coverage to total 4.2 million premises (up from 3.7m last quarter), which includes 1.81m on FTTP (up from 1.51m) and 2.42m on hybrid fibre G.fast (up from 2.16m).

ISP TalkTalk Business Relaunch UK Ethernet over FTTC Service

29th October, 2019 (12 Comments)

Internet provider TalkTalk Business has today relaunched their uncontended Ethernet over FTTC (EoFTTC) service to partners with improved features for small business customers. This is not to be confused with the broadband focused Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC / VDSL2) product that consumers buy.

ISP Vodafone UK Set to Increase Home Fibre Broadband Prices

22nd October, 2019 (47 Comments)

Mobile operator and ISP Vodafone UK has started to inform their existing customers that the standard price of their fixed line home broadband packages will be increasing from December 2019, with the underlying monthly cost being set to rise by £2.50 extra per month.

Sky UK’s New G.fast Ultrafast Broadband ISP Package is Live

21st October, 2019 (24 Comments)

UK ISP Sky Broadband (Comcast) has today officially made their new G.fast powered Ultrafast 1 (145Mbps) broadband and VoIP (SOGEA) phone packages available for both new and existing customers to order. Prices start from £39 per month and there’s a £39.95 one-off setup fee (we think it’s a free upgrade for existing customers).

Welsh Government Publish Review of Superfast Broadband Project

17th October, 2019 (5 Comments)

The Welsh Government has quietly published an evaluation report into their Superfast Cymru project with BT (Openreach), which put around £225m of public funding toward an extended roll-out of “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) in order to help cover poorly served parts of the country. Overall it’s a positive outcome.