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GTC Deploy 300Mbps Broadband to Cumbria’s Story Homes Development

19th November, 2015 (0 Comments)

Utility infrastructure provider GTC, which last year made their 300Mbps Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) network the standard broadband technology across all of their future new build homes (here), has confirmed that they’re now rolling out to the new Story Homes development in West Cumbria (England).

UPDATE Uncertainty for BT as Ofcom Lift Sky’s Pay TV Sport Regulation

19th November, 2015 (9 Comments)

The 2010 decision that helped to grow BT’s broadband based TV business, which involved Ofcom imposing regulation that required Sky to offer wholesale access (“Wholesale Must Offer“) to their Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2 channels (at prices set by the regulator), has today been removed.

UPDATE Sky Broadband Launch New Sky Q Hub Router and Internet TV

18th November, 2015 (5 Comments)

Sky (Sky Broadband) has today soft launched a new range of devices and a more dynamic approach to distributing TV content, both online and via Satellite, through the launch of their next-generation entertainment and Internet system called Sky Q (available in the UK from early 2016).

ASA Ban Misleading “FREE” BT Sport TV and Broadband Bundle Adverts

18th November, 2015 (1 Comment)

Several members of the public and Sky (Sky Broadband) have succeeded in getting the Advertising Standards Authority to ban a press, website, poster and TV ad for BT’s various TV and broadband bundles, all of which claimed that BTSport was “free” even though there were caveats and contradictions galore.

Golden Eye Targets Sky Broadband Customers with Piracy Threat Letters

17th November, 2015 (9 Comments)

Customers of Sky Broadband will soon become the latest to be targeted by Golden Eye International (part of the ‘Ben Dover’ porn brand), which intends to send letters to the ISPs subscribers that will demand compensation for the alleged sharing of copyright material on P2P file sharing networks.

Boss of Sky UK Warns of Scope for Future Price Rises

13th November, 2015 (4 Comments)

As a CEO there are probably some things you shouldn’t say so soon after leaving your customers reeling from another round of price rises (here). Never the less Sky’s boss, Jeremy Darroch, has warned that growing competition from BT and Netflix won’t stop it raising prices again.

Sky Broadband Adverts Banned for False “Best Customer Service” Claim

11th November, 2015 (0 Comments)

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned both a regional press and website advert for the Sky Broadband and Talk services after Virgin Media complained that the promotions misleadingly claimed that Sky offered the “best customer service” of any ISP, which could not be fully substantiated.

ISP TalkTalk Falls to 4.1M On-net Broadband Users and Offers Incentives

11th November, 2015 (5 Comments)

After the recent cyber-attack TalkTalk, which dubiously skipped their previous Q2 2015 report (here), has today published a financial update for Q3 2015 (calendar) and revealed that they’ve lost -80K broadband subscribers in the past 6 months to make for a total of 4.1 million (on-net).

Sky and Amazon Settle Differences – Prime Instant Video Arrives on Roku

10th November, 2015 (2 Comments)

Sky (Sky Broadband), which has a big investment in Roku UK’s popular video streaming kit and uses the hardware for their own Internet-based NOW TV video streaming service, appears to have finally reached a compromise with Amazon’s rival Prime Instant Video.

Sky Broadband Defends Move to Push Users on to GBP4 Sky Talk Service

2nd November, 2015 (5 Comments)

Ofcom has said that they’re in contact with Sky Broadband after the ISP earlier announced that they planned to unilaterally move their existing free Sky Talk (voice calls) customers on to a new £4 per month package, albeit via the controversial approach of presumed consent.

Government Moots Law Change to Keep UK ISP Internet Porn Filters

28th October, 2015 (0 Comments)

The Government has confirmed that they’re considering the introduction of a “domestic law” that could prevent Europe’s new Net Neutrality rules from overriding their policy of requiring all of the United Kingdom’s major broadband ISPs to block adult Internet content.

UK ISP Sky Broadband Tops 5.75 Million Internet Subscribers

21st October, 2015 (0 Comments)

Sky has today published the company’s latest results for Q3 2015, which reveals that their Sky Broadband division in the UK and Ireland added another +133,000 Internet subscribers in the quarter to total more than 5.75 million (up from the +96,000 added during Q2).

UPD Vodafone, TalkTalk and Sky Deliver Last Minute BT Pinata Bashing

14th October, 2015 (24 Comments)

The on-going attempts to turn BT into a pinata continue this week as both Vodafone and Sky (Sky Broadband) have taken another opportunity to prod the telecoms giant ahead of Ofcom’s Strategic Review decision, with one demanding a national Gigabit broadband network and the other attacking the operator’s excess profits.

After 1 Week Sky Broadband Finally Fixes Access to PS4 Rocket League

8th October, 2015 (0 Comments)

A fix introduced earlier this morning means that customers of Sky Broadband should finally be able to access the PlayStation 4 based online multiplayer video game called ‘Rocket League’, which has been largely inaccessible since the end of last month

Sky Broadband Becomes Latest to Hike the Price of Phone Line Rental

4th October, 2015 (10 Comments)

Just like clockwork Sky Broadband will shortly become the latest of the big broadband ISPs to announce a hike in the monthly price of their standard phone and line rental service, which is set to rise from £16.40 to £17.40 per month from 1st December 2015. But that’s not the only change.

Look Out – UK Internet Users Braced for More Piracy Threat Letters

2nd October, 2015 (10 Comments)

Thousands of broadband ISP subscribers could soon be hit by a new wave of bullying Internet piracy threat letters (“Speculative Invoicing“) after Maverick Eye, which scours public P2P (BitTorrent) networks for unlawful sharing of copyright content, began “the UK’s largest anti-piracy campaign ever“.

UPDATE2 Sky Broadband Suffers Outage in North West England

29th September, 2015 (0 Comments)

A large number of Sky Broadband and related Sky Talk (phone) customers in parts of North West England (mostly in and around Cheshire) appear to be suffering from a Major Service Outage (MSO), which began last night at around 8pm and is continuing this morning.