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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).

Global Internet Suffers Slowdown Blip After Cisco Kit Hits Routing Limit

13th August, 2014 (2 Comments)

Most of you probably won’t have noticed but a sizeable chunk of the global Internet suffered a brief period of instability and slowdown today (around 9am BST), which occurred after an error with Verizon’s autonomous systems and Cisco’s older routers caused a critical Internet routing limit to be reached. It will probably happen again too.

Global IPv4 Internet Address Supply Hits Critical Level – ISPs Must Prep IPv6

22nd May, 2014 (8 Comments)

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which among other things is the international organisation that has responsibility for Internet Protocol (IP) address space allocation (IANA use to do this), has warned that the global supply of IPv4 addresses has now reached a “critical level” and thus IPv6 adoption has become a “requirement for any network that needs to survive“.

Government Moots Future UK Digital Infrastructure Needs for 2025-30

6th February, 2014 (6 Comments)

The Government has today called for feedback on their plans to develop a future digital communications infrastructure strategy, which aims to design a long-term plan for building even faster broadband networks, supporting the roll-out of IPv6 Internet addresses and developing 5G based Mobile Broadband technology etc.

VIDEO Microsoft Claims ISP IPv6 Support Will Make XBox One Faster

11th October, 2013 (8 Comments)

Microsoft has revealed new details about the changes to its Xbox One network architecture, including improvements to its Peer to Peer (P2P) based multiplayer component and claims that the adoption of IPv6 Internet addresses should make the system faster and more secure (IPsec). But you’ll need a compatible broadband ISP in order to benefit.