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The Curious Broadband Speed Confusion of a Rural Lincolnshire Community

20th April, 2015 (19 Comments)

A tiny rural community called Metheringham Fen in Lincolnshire (England’s East Midlands) has complained that their broadband speeds have actually gotten worse since BT is alleged to have upgraded the local connectivity. The situation has forced some locals to shell out on an expensive and restrictive Satellite solution instead.

Satellite ISP Avonline Broadband Give Free Installs to UK Rural Areas

17th April, 2015 (0 Comments)

One of the biggest hindrances to taking a Satellite broadband connection is the high cost of hardware and installation. The UK Government is currently mooting a subsidy scheme to tackle this, but in the meantime one ISP has said that they’ll offer free installation and activation (saving £150) to those in rural areas.

Ofcom UK Warns Inmarsat and Solaris Mobile – Use Your Spectrum.. OR ELSE

19th March, 2015 (0 Comments)

Back in 2009 the European Commission picked Inmarsat Ventues and Solaris Mobile to provide Mobile Satellite Services (MSS) across Europe using the 1980-2010MHz and 2170-2200MHz radio spectrum bands. But so far neither company has provided the services and the UK telecoms regulator has now issued both with a strict ultimatum, use it or £ lose it.

Somerset Villagers Unhappy with Government Satellite Broadband Pilot

4th March, 2015 (21 Comments)

A group of residents in the Somerset village of Priddy have expressed displeasure at the Government’s attempt to fix the community’s broadband “slow spots” by spending public money on a new Satellite Internet service, which locals complain is too limited, expensive to run and is not up to the task of catering for business demands.

UPDATE Teesdale Valley Locals Angered by SHOCK Withdrawal of Broadband

20th February, 2015 (19 Comments)

Last year’s effort by the ITS Technology Group to save a struggling fixed wireless broadband network (Digital Teesdale), which was serving fixed wireless broadband to homes across rural parts of the Teesdale valley (east of the Pennines in England), appears to have stumbled after a hike in the spectrum licence made the service economically unviable.

DEFRA UK Report Calls for 10Mbps Universal Broadband Commitment

3rd February, 2015 (15 Comments)

The Commons Select Committee for the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has today published the results of their inquiry into the roll-out of faster broadband Internet access to rural areas, which among other things calls for the current Universal Service Commitment (USC) speed of at least 2Mbps (Megabits) to be increased to 10Mbps.

EU Satellite Operator SES Launches ASTRA 2G Broadband Spacecraft

29th December, 2014 (11 Comments)

Satellite operator SES has proudly reported that the last from a new batch of spacecraft, ASTRA 2G (all 6.6 tons of it – based on the Eurostar E3000 platform), has been successfully launched into space by a Russian-made ILS Proton Breeze M rocket from Kazakhstan (i.e. more broadband Internet capacity for Europe, the Middle East and Africa).

£700K for Faster Broadband in Dartmoor and Exmoor National Parks

16th December, 2014 (0 Comments)

The Connecting Devon and Somerset (CDS) project in England has successfully raised an extra £700,000 to help roll-out “superfast fibre broadband” (although curiously the speeds are stated as sub-superfast “up to 24Mbps“) across hard to reach communities in the Dartmoor and Exmoor National Parks.

Digital Agenda Publishes 2014 Study on Broadband Coverage in Europe

16th December, 2014 (4 Comments)

The European Commission has published its annual report into the coverage of superfast broadband (Next Generation Access) services around the EU, which again shows that the United Kingdom is making good progress on 30Mbps+ capable Next Gen (NGA) service delivery but still lags miles behind most other EU28 countries in terms of pure fibre optic connectivity (FTTH/P/B).

Virgin Atlantic’s EU Aircraft to Get 70Mbps In-Flight Broadband

18th September, 2014 (0 Comments)

Travellers looking to fly with Virgin Atlantic may be pleased to learn that Richard Branson’s airline has become the first European carrier to deploy Gogo’s new in-flight connectivity technology (2Ku), which uses a mix of ground and space (satellite) based stations to deliver on-board Internet access speeds of up to 70Mbps over a local WiFi network.

EuropaSat Cuts UK Satellite Broadband Prices in Half for 3 Months

23rd July, 2014 (0 Comments)

Oxfordshire-based broadband Satellite ISP EuropaSat has announced that customers who take either their Tooway (Eutelsat) or SES based packages will now be able to benefit from half-price monthly rental for the first three months of service.

WiFi and Satellite Equipped Tractors to Follow Yorkshire’s Tour de France

24th June, 2014 (0 Comments)

The National Farmers Union (NFU), satellite broadband ISP Avonline and farming retailer Massey Ferguson have teamed up to modify two tractors, which will be positioned at key locations along Yorkshire’s (England) Tour de France route, to act as free wifi wireless Internet hotspots with a considerably wider than usual area of coverage.

IET – Combining Tech and Mobile Spectrum Could Fix UK Rural Broadband

6th June, 2014 (43 Comments)

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IEF) will next week host a Rural Broadband Debate that will look at current government policy and propose a solution for bringing “reasonable” broadband access to the most remote communities at a “reasonable” price, which could involve combining technologies and greater mobile spectrum sharing between network operators.

BA to Help Inmarsat UK Deploy EU-Wide In-Flight Passenger Broadband

5th June, 2014 (2 Comments)

England-based Inmarsat, a global Satellite communications provider, has announced that they’re in “advanced discussions” with British Airways in the hope that the airline will become the first to adopt their new in-flight passenger broadband service, which is due to be rolled out across the 28 Member States of Europe by 2016.

ISP Broadband Everywhere Brings 20Mbps Satellite Service to Scotland

4th June, 2014 (5 Comments)

Internet provider Broadband Everywhere (Box Limited) has announced that its SES (Astra Connect) based broadband Satellite platform (ASTRA 2E at 28.2 degrees East), which offers download speeds of up to 20Mbps, has now also become available to rural communities in Scotland.

UK Satellite ISP Avonline and Avanti Sign Broadband Improvement Deal

30th April, 2014 (3 Comments)

Satellite operator Avanti has signed a new partnership deal with ISP Avonline that should result in the latter being able to introduce a range of new broadband services and a “promise” to give all Avanti-based customers a minimum average download speed of 9Mbps and an upgrade to a “fibre alternative” when it becomes accessible.

Eutelsat Trains Ex-British Army to Install Satellite Broadband in UK Homes

14th April, 2014 (1 Comment)

European Satellite operator Eutelsat, which supplies the United Kingdom’s “Tooway” (KA-SAT) based ISPs, has confirmed that they’re helping to retrain almost 50 former British Armed Forces personnel in the fine art of installing Satellite broadband infrastructure for homes and businesses.