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UK Moots Switching Off Copper Phone Networks and Fostering FTTP

6th August, 2014 (42 Comments)

The Government has today launched a new Digital Communications Infrastructure Strategy consultation document, which forms part of their effort to develop a long term strategy for helping to ensure that the United Kingdom has the “best connectivity” by 2025-2030 (phone, broadband, mobile etc.).

Bradley Stoke’s Exchange Only Lines Finally Get BT Superfast Broadband

5th August, 2014 (19 Comments)

After years of waiting it now looks as if at least some of the 22,000 strong population of Bradley Stoke, a busy town in South Gloucestershire where many of BT’s copper wire based telephone and broadband services are delivered via Exchange Only Lines (i.e. no street cabinets), are finally getting access to superfast broadband (FTTC) connectivity.

BT Openreach Launch UK Street Cabinet Level FTTC Broadband Check

4th August, 2014 (90 Comments)

Consumers wanting to know whether or not they are covered by and can receive a superfast broadband connection using BTOpenreach’s ‘up to’ 80Mbps Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC) technology will, from today, now be given a more useful result after the national UK telecoms operator updates their availability test to include Street Cabinet status.

UPDATE PlusNet Cuts Price of Superfast Unlimited Fibre Broadband

4th August, 2014 (4 Comments)

Internet provider PlusNet has reduced the price of their superfast ‘up to’ 38Mbps capable Unlimited Fibre (FTTC) broadband and Home Phone product, with packages now starting from just £3.75 per month for the first 6 months (£14.99 thereafter).

BT Infinity Cuts UK Superfast Broadband Package to GBP5 Per Month

2nd August, 2014 (40 Comments)

BT has, for next week only, added a £75 Sainsbury’s voucher to all new standard broadband bundles and a £125 voucher for their superfast (FTTC) packages. In addition, the entry-level price of their superfast BTInfinity 1 service has been reduced to just £5 per month for the first 6 months (£15 thereafter) and a series of new student deals with 9 month contract terms are now available.

BT UK Employees Open Arms for Huge GBP1.1bn Share Plan Pay Out

1st August, 2014 (4 Comments)

Some 23,000 of BT’s employees, specifically those that joined the operators five-year “saveshare” plan in 2009 under which they’ve saved between £5 and £225 every month until now, look set to receive a pay-out in shares that will be worth an average of over £49,000 each as the plan matures (assumes a saving of £124 per month was made).

UPDATE BT Reach 7.4m Broadband Customers as FTTrn Pilot Hits London

31st July, 2014 (23 Comments)

BT has today published their latest Q2-2014 (calendar) results and confirmed that its retail broadband base suffered a slowing of growth (+104k in Q2 vs +170k in Q1-2014) to total 7,385,000 customers. The operator has also revealed a new trial of superfast broadband FTTrn technology in London and confirmed that its FTTC network now reaches 20 million UK homes and businesses (premises passed).

Wales UK Confirms Next 66 Locations for BT Fibre Broadband by June 2015

30th July, 2014 (7 Comments)

The Superfast Cymru scheme, which is working to make faster broadband speeds of up to 80Mbps available to 96% of premises in Wales by the end of spring 2016, has today announced the next 66 new locations across 10 local authority areas that will be enabled for “high speed fibre” (FTTC) by BT in time for June 2015.

Do We Really Need “Superfast” Broadband?

27th July, 2014 (62 Comments)

Do we really need 1Mbps, 10Mbps, 100Mbps or even 1000Mbps (1Gbps) of Internet download and upload speed to enjoy the online world? It’s an interesting question and one with many different answers, usually depending upon both your perspective and personal expectations. But how much Internet speed is really enough?

EE UK Sees Home Broadband Surge to 775000 Users and 4G Tops 4.2m

25th July, 2014 (0 Comments)

Mobile and Internet provider EE UK has reported that their fixed line home broadband ISP subscribers grew by an impressive +30k in Q2-2014 (calendar) to total 775,000 customers, which is up from the +19k added during Q1-2014 and also better than the +12k in Q4-2013. Meanwhile their 4G (LTE) users grew +1.3m in the quarter to top 4.183m (way up from the +889k added in Q1).

UK ISP Primus Saver to Scrap and Revamp Home Broadband Packages

24th July, 2014 (2 Comments)

Bargain hunters looking to take Primus Saver’s ultra-cheap £1.20 per month (plus £13.99 line rental) broadband and phone bundle, which comes with a 20GB usage allowance, free router and free UK evening and weekend calls, should take note that the ISP will soon withdraw it in favour of new “totally unlimited” packages. The existing fibre (FTTC) deals will also soon be gone.

Hampshire UK Confirm Phase 3 BDUK and BT FTTC Broadband Rollout

23rd July, 2014 (0 Comments)

The Hampshire Superfast Broadband Programme in England has today confirmed the next round (Phase 3) of areas that can expect to benefit from the councils state aid supported roll-out of BT’s superfast broadband (FTTC/P) services, which aim to reach “at least” 90% of local premises by the end of 2015 and 95% by 2017.

Cable Ship “Resolute” Brings Fibre Optic Broadband to the Isles of Scilly

23rd July, 2014 (0 Comments)

The £132m Superfast Cornwall project has announced that the cable ship called ‘Resolute’ will today complete the first major phase of a £3.7m effort to divert two unused submarine fibre optic cables to the Isles of Scilly (the cables had previously been used for communications between the UK, Ireland and Spain).

OECD Rank UK 8th for Fixed Broadband Penetration as Fibre Optic Grows

23rd July, 2014 (0 Comments)

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, which covers 34 countries that support democracy and a market economy, has reported that at the end of 2013 the United Kingdom ranked 8th for fixed line broadband penetration (i.e. 35.2 subscribers per 100 inhabitants). Fibre optic (FTTH/P/B) connections also continued to grow.

TalkTalk UK Creep to 4.206m Broadband Users as York FTTP Plan Progresses

23rd July, 2014 (1 Comment)

Budget ISP TalkTalk has revealed the latest results for Q2-2014 (calendar), which saw their broadband subscriber base grow by +10,000 in the quarter to total 4,206,000 (i.e. stable growth from +10k added in Q1). Meanwhile their planned roll-out of ultrafast FTTP broadband in the city of York is also making progress.

Phase 2 – 3 Broadband Rollout Areas for East Riding of Yorkshire Named

21st July, 2014 (1 Comment)

The £14 million Broadband East Riding Project in Yorkshire (England) has confirmed the next batch of areas that will shortly begin to receive an upgrade to superfast broadband (24Mbps+) speeds via BT’s FTTC/P network.

BT Openreach UK Delays Start Date for Cheaper FTTC Migrations

21st July, 2014 (6 Comments)

Consumers hoping to benefit from cheaper migration fees (reduced from £50 to £11 +vat) between FTTC superfast broadband ISPs on BT’s national UK telecoms network will need to wait a little longer before they can benefit after BTOpenreach corrected the start date to 31st July 2014.