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Rural Norfolk UK Farmers Report Slow Broadband and Poor Mobile

10th February, 2016 (1 Comment)

A new survey of over 800 businesses and farmers in the Anglia region of England (e.g. Norfolk) has found that 57% suffer from “poor” or “very poor” mobile phone signals and 31% can only receive a basic home broadband connection that delivers a download speed of less than 2Mbps.

Vodafone UK Fixed Broadband Users Push to 89,000 as 4G Surges

4th February, 2016 (4 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone UK has today published their results to the end of last year (financial Q3 15/16), which saw their fixed line broadband customers increase by +14k to total 89,000 (up from +5k added in the previous quarter) and 4G cover reach 79% of the UK (86% using Ofcom’s definition) with 6.3 million subscribers.

UK Mobile Data Speeds Average 5.8Mbps in 2015, Will Hit 18.1Mbps by 2020

3rd February, 2016 (1 Comment)

Cisco’s annual Mobile Data Traffic Forecast (2015 – 2020) has today been published, which found that mobile data traffic in the United Kingdom reached 86.2 PetaBytes per month in 2015 and the average mobile connection speed topped 5.8Mbps (forecast to reach 18.1Mbps in 2020).

Government Hails Alternative UK Rural Broadband Pilots a Success

3rd February, 2016 (22 Comments)

The Government has today published a new report on the “successful” outcome of their recent Market Test Pilots, which were setup in 2014 to help trial alternative network solutions (fibre optic, satellite, wireless etc.) for bringing superfast broadband (24Mbps+) to remote rural areas.

BT Nears 8 Million Broadband Subs and Touts EE Mobile Fuelled Future

1st February, 2016 (11 Comments)

BT has today released its latest Q4 2015 results (calendar) and confirmed that their retail division has a total of 7,996,000 broadband subscribers (up by +130K vs +82K in Q3), with 3,689,000 of those on their superfast BTInfinity (FTTC) service (up by +250K in Q4 vs +212K in Q3). The operator has also revealed some more details about their post EE merger plans.

Ookla Accuses UK Broadband ISP of Manipulating its Internet Speedtests

27th January, 2016 (12 Comments)

Ookla, the company behind the popular Speedtest.net service, has accused a broadband ISP in the United Kingdom of “intentional manipulation” by “prioritizing port 8080” Internet traffic in order to return a better performance result for their subscribers. But the reality may be more complicated.

BDUK Publish Data on Premises Passed for sub-24Mbps Broadband

25th January, 2016 (15 Comments)

At the end of last year the Government announced that their Broadband Delivery UK project with BT had so far managed to expand the availability of superfast broadband (24Mbps+) capable lines to 3.5 million premises (here), but we now know that this figure is closer to 4 million when you include sub-24Mbps premises.

Study Claims TalkTalk Suffered 200-300K Customer Exodus After Attack

21st January, 2016 (14 Comments)

The next set of financial results from TalkTalk aren’t due until 2nd February 2016, but that hasn’t stopped a new Kantar Worldpanel report from predicting that the ISP may have lost up to 7% (200,000 – 300,000) of its broadband base in the final quarter of 2015 after last October’s Cyber-Attack.

West Somerset Tops New Index of Broadband Digital Deprivation

20th January, 2016 (12 Comments)

Point Topic has updated their Digital Deprivation Index that attempts to identify which parts of the UK are most likely to struggle with the take-up of superfast broadband (30Mbps+) services, often due to issues such as low income or disability. Sadly West Somerset and Hull come top of the table.

Copper Declines as Fibre Boosts Global Broadband Users to 738 Million

13th January, 2016 (0 Comments)

The latest statistics from Point Topic reveal that the total number of world fixed broadband subscriptions reached approximately 738 million in Q3 2015, with the vast majority of growth being driven by fibre optic (FTTH/C/P) based technologies; albeit mostly in parts of Asia, Africa and Latin America.

BT Reveals Rising Broadband and WiFi Usage Over Christmas

12th January, 2016 (0 Comments)

The consumer division of BT has today revealed that home broadband and WiFi usage on their national UK network “increased substantially” over the festive season and almost doubled (95%) year-on-year on Christmas Day.

Planning to Switch Home Broadband ISP in 2016? You’re Not Alone

12th January, 2016 (1 Comment)

It’s the beginning of a New Year and as such we’ve surveyed 1,200 readers to discover that 39% of respondents feel “Very Likely” to switch their Internet access provider in 2016, although in reality only a much smaller proportion will ever actually jump ship.

UPDATE Government Close to Achieving 90% UK Superfast Broadband Goal

8th January, 2016 (23 Comments)

The Government’s Broadband Delivery UK project takes a lot of flak, but this often overlooks some of the good progress that has been made. New data now appears to confirm that the original 90% coverage target for “superfast broadband” (24Mbps+) availability is finally within touching distance.

Good Broadband Helps Find the Top 69 UK Cities for Starting a Business

6th January, 2016 (0 Comments)

A recent study from Quality Formations has ranked 69 of the United Kingdom’s cities by how attractive they are for starting a new company. Overall Derby came top and unsurprisingly the quality of local broadband plays an important part, both in terms of the best and worst cities.

24 Million Internet Devices Connect to Virgin Media on Christmas Day

31st December, 2015 (14 Comments)

Cable operator Virgin Media reports that the average household in the United Kingdom had five different Internet-enabled gadgets connected to their broadband network on Christmas day, which peaked at 10pm and the majority of devices were identified as being Smartphones connected via WiFi.

Examining the Changing Cost of UK Phone Line Rental and its Future

30th December, 2015 (21 Comments)

Home phone lines aren’t as popular as they once were, with consumers increasingly turning to mobile and VoIP (e.g. Skype) alternatives. At the same time ISPs have been gutting free voice call options from related broadband bundles and yet despite all of this the price of line rental continues to soar.

BDUK Brings Superfast Broadband to 3.5 Million Extra UK Premises

27th December, 2015 (0 Comments)

The Government’s Broadband Delivery UK programme, which is primarily working with BT to make fixed line superfast broadband (24Mbps+) services available to 95% of the United Kingdom by 2017/18, has officially helped to cover an additional 3.5 million homes and businesses.