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UPDATE All BT Broadband Lines Now Support IPv6 Internet Addresses

4th November, 2016 (24 Comments)

BT’s Chief Network Architect, Neil McRae, has told the UK IPv6 Council that their roll-out of the Internet Protocol v6 (IPv6) addressing standard was completed for “all BT Broadband lines” in October 2016 (except IPstream connections.. so not quite “all“), provided you have a compatible router.

EE Makes Progress on IPv6 Upgrade for their UK Mobile Network

3rd November, 2016 (6 Comments)

Mobile operator EE has revealed that they’ve “switched on” IPv6 Internet addresses for new subscribers during 2016 H2 (a mix of dual-stack with IPv4 and some IPv6-only), at least for those with supporting devices (legacy devices remain on IPv4). Work will now begin to migrate their existing users.

UK ISP BT Tops 9.2 Mill Broadband Users and BDUK Sees Clawback Boost

27th October, 2016 (36 Comments)

The latest quarterly (Q3 2016 calendar) results have been published by BT today, which reveal that their retail broadband base now tops 9,193,000 customers (up by +76K, unchanged from Q2) and 4,473,000 of those take their ‘Infinity‘ (FTTC/P) superfast broadband (up by +216K vs +181K in Q2).

Sky Broadband Preps UK Launch of New MVNO Sky Mobile Service

13th October, 2016 (2 Comments)

Sky has today published their latest quarterly trading update, which is very vague and sadly includes no new information on the size of their Sky Broadband base. On the upside we finally get a progress update on the imminent launch of their new O2 (MVNO) based Sky Mobile service.

UK ISP Hyperoptic Scraps Static IP for Shared CGNAT Internet Addresses

27th September, 2016 (10 Comments)

Fibre optic ISP Hyperoptic, which is rolling out a 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Building (FTTP/B) broadband network to 500,000 UK premises in 20 UK cities, has stopped giving customers a Static IP (IPv4) address and instead become one of the first to adopt Internet address sharing (Carrier Grade NAT).

UK ISP Sky Broadband Officially “Completes” the Roll-Out of IPv6

6th September, 2016 (2 Comments)

Last year Sky Broadband became the first of the major ISPs in the United Kingdom to begin a wide-scale roll-out of the Internet Protocol v6 (IPv6) addressing standard and today they’ve confirmed that their work is “almost completed“, with over 90% of their broadband customers being IPv6 enabled.

UK ISP BT Confirm IPv6 to Officially Go Live on their Network this Autumn

22nd August, 2016 (38 Comments)

BT’s consumer division has confirmed to ISPreview.co.uk that the Internet Protocol v6 (IPv6) Internet addressing standard will finally be enabled on their network from this Autumn 2016, but it will be early 2017 before all of their customers can use it.

UPDATE6 Unusual Internet Routing Problem Hits Sky Broadband Users

2nd August, 2016 (16 Comments)

Customers of Sky Broadband (Fibre) are this morning reporting an unusual Internet routing or Domain Name System (DNS) related problem, which means that some websites and online servers work (e.g. IPv6 versions of Google, Facebook and YouTube) and many others (e.g. IPv4 sites) do not.

UK ISP Sky Broadband Expects Strong Progress in IPv6 Rollout

20th January, 2016 (0 Comments)

Customers of Sky Broadband will soon start to see the Internet Protocol v6 (IPv6) addressing standard being enabled on their connections as the ISP begins to progress beyond last year’s large scale trials, with the final firmware update for Sky’s routers likely to be rolled out during Q1 – Q2 2016.

UPDATE3 BT to Deploy IPv6 Across Entire Network by December 2016

23rd September, 2015 (21 Comments)

The first hints that something significant was about to happen surfaced in July 2015 (here) and now BT’s Consumer division has just confirmed that they intend to deploy the Internet Protocol v6 (IPv6) Internet addressing standard across their entire network by December 2016.

UK ISP Zen Internet Expands IPv6 Trial to Entire Customer Base

7th August, 2015 (1 Comment)

Rochdale ISP Zen Internet has announced that their previously limited trial of Internet Protocol v6 (IPv6), which is designed to replace the old IPv4 Internet addressing standard, is now being opened up to all of their 95,000 or so broadband subscribers.

UK ISP Zen Internet Launches Limited IPv6 Trial

27th July, 2015 (6 Comments)

Rochdale-based ISP Zen Internet has just become the latest broadband and phone provider to announce a trial of Internet Protocol v6 (IPv6), which is designed to replace the old IPv4 Internet addressing standard.

Hints of IPv6 Trial as BT Broadband Customers Spot Unusual Activity

10th July, 2015 (3 Comments)

Some of BT’s residential broadband subscribers report that their connections have recently been assigned an IPv6 Internet address, which has caused a few to speculate that the ISP might soon be ready to begin full scale customer trials. But you might have to wait a little bit longer for that.

UPDATE Sky Broadband Push Router Firmware Update with IPv6 Support

12th June, 2015 (8 Comments)

Customers of Sky Broadband have informed us that the ISP is pushing out a new firmware update for their “Sky Hub” SR101 broadband routers, which appears to finally add support for the new “new” IPv6 Internet addressing standard that Sky plan to trial.

ISP Sky Broadband Prepares First UK Customer Trials of IPv6

10th April, 2015 (5 Comments)

The past couple of years have seen all of the major consumer broadband ISPs in the United Kingdom remain fairly silent on the impending need to support the “new” IPv6 Internet addressing standard. But now one of the biggest providers, Sky Broadband, is finally preparing to take the matter seriously by initiating its first customer trials.

Wi-Manx Granted Full Telecoms Licence to Operate on the Isle of Man

6th November, 2014 (0 Comments)

Douglas-based ISP Wi-Manx can today celebrate after they were officially granted a license amendment, which will turn them into the third full telecoms operator on the Isle of Man (this is a British Crown dependency / island located in the Irish Sea).

UPD2 London Fixed Wireless ISP Relish Tackles Stability and CGNAT Concern

27th August, 2014 (30 Comments)

Fixed 4G wireless broadband ISP Relish (UK Broadband Ltd.), which launched in June, claims to have put right a problem that caused connection drops for some of their early subscribers and has promised to release a limited block of public IPv4 addresses to their consumer customers (at cost) in order to cater for those frustrated by the network’s use of IP address sharing (CGNAT).