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ONS Reports 7.0 Million UK Adults Have Never Used the Internet

13th November, 2013 (0 Comments)

The Government’s Office for National Statistics has published their latest Internet Access Quarterly Update Q3-2013, which reveals that the number of adults in the United Kingdom that have never gone online has shrunk from 7.1 million six months ago (Q1) to 7 million now (14% of the population).

TalkTalk Edges Slowly to 4.076m UK Broadband Subscribers as FTTC Booms

12th November, 2013 (0 Comments)

Budget conscious Internet and phone provider TalkTalk has today posted its latest results to Q3-2013 (calendar) and revealed that they only added +5,000 broadband subscribers (down from +8k in Q2 and +10k in Q3) to total 4,076,000. But the uptake of their superfast broadband (FTTC) product has continued to skyrocket.

Ericsson Report Shows 80% Mobile Broadband Data Traffic Surge Since 2012

12th November, 2013 (0 Comments)

Global telecoms giant Ericsson has published its latest Mobility Report (Q3-2013) and revealed that the world is currently home to 2 billion Mobile Broadband subscribers (total mobile subscriptions of around 6.6bn) and that this will reach 8bn by 2019 (9.3bn total mobile subs) when 2.6bn will also be on 4G LTE services.

Virgin Media UK Scrapes Upwards to Reach 4.48m Broadband Subscribers

6th November, 2013 (5 Comments)

Cable operator Virgin Media (Liberty Global) has today published its latest Q3-2013 (calendar) results and confirmed that their total broadband ISP subscriber base has crept upwards by +13,600 in the quarter to total 4,488,600, which follows a slight fall of -15.5k during the prior Q2 period. Network coverage has also improved.

BSG Claims UK Homes to Only Need 19Mbps Broadband Speeds by 2023

5th November, 2013 (104 Comments)

The Broadband Stakeholder Group (BSG), which advises the Government on broadband matters, has published a new report that claims to outline a “new way for measuring and forecasting demand for bandwidth in UK homes“. The research concludes that the “median household” will require bandwidth of 19Mbps (Megabits per second) by 2023.

Ofcom Start Publishing Raw UK Fixed Line Broadband ISP Speedtest Data

5th November, 2013 (0 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has decided to publish some of the raw data that’s used to construct their bi-annual fixed line broadband speeds report (e.g. the August 2013 Report) and have made it available to the public via XLS (MS Excel) and CSV format.

ISPreview Study Finds Dissatisfaction with UK Telecoms Engineers

4th November, 2013 (12 Comments)

A new survey of 1,534 ISPreview.co.uk readers has found that 89.4% of respondents have at some point needed to call out a telecoms engineer (such as those dispatched by BTOpenreach or Virgin Media) to help resolve a broadband or phone issue. Sadly the majority (75.7%) said they were often dissatisfied with the final outcome.

The Top 7 Fastest UK Home Broadband ISPs for October 2013

2nd November, 2013 (2 Comments)

The latest anecdotal survey of big fixed line home broadband ISP performance in the United Kingdom for October 2013 has found that the average download speed is now 16.842Mbps and the average upload speed topped 2.896Mbps. Both results have held fairly steady since September.

The Average Cost Per Megabit by Broadband Tech and Country for Q3 2013

31st October, 2013 (0 Comments)

The latest Q3-2013 analysis of global broadband tariffs has found that the cost of slower copper based (ADSL) broadband ISP services has increased in Western Europe. Meanwhile the Megabit price of superfast fibre optic and cable (FTTH, FTTC, DOCSIS3 etc.) based technologies has become even cheaper.

BT Grabs 6.96 Million UK Retail Broadband Subscribers as 1.7m Take FTTC

31st October, 2013 (7 Comments)

BT Group’s latest Q3-2013 (calendar) results reveal that the operators consumer and business ISP divisions have grown their fixed line broadband subscriber base by +156k in the quarter to total 6.961m (up from +95k added in Q2 and +136k in Q1), which includes 1.7m superfast BTInfinity (FTTC) customers (up by +195k in Q3 vs +197k added in Q2).

The Fastest Top 50 Big UK Towns and Cities for Broadband Internet Speed

31st October, 2013 (4 Comments)

A new study from uSwitch, which is based on data from 1.4 million anecdotal Internet speed tests (conducted between April and September 2013), has revealed that Telford in Shropshire (England) is the fastest of the top 50 biggest UK towns and cities for broadband speed with an average download of 22.99Mbps (just below the government’s 24Mbps+ definition for “superfast“).

UK FTTH Fibre Optic Broadband ISP Connections Pass 186500 Premises

28th October, 2013 (15 Comments)

The latest information on coverage of true fibre optic broadband (FTTH/P/B) connections in the United Kingdom suggests that the market hasn’t moved much since the end of 2012. The latest count for June 2013 records a total of 186,500 premises have now been passed by the ultrafast (100Mbps+) connection method.

UPD Ofcom Report 73% of the United Kingdom Can Get Superfast Broadband

24th October, 2013 (76 Comments)

The latest annual telecoms Infrastructure Report update from Ofcom has claimed that 73% of UK homes and businesses are now within reach of an NGA superfast broadband (30Mbps+) connection, which is up from 67.9% at the last update in May (here) and 65% in 2012. Uptake has also climbed to around 4.8m customers from 2.1m last year (out of 21.7m total broadband connections).

Fibre Optic Lines Boost World Broadband Users to 654.6 Million

23rd October, 2013 (0 Comments)

The latest Point Topic report reveals that the total number of global broadband subscribers in Q2-2013 has grown just +0.7% (down from +2% in Q1) to total 656,500,000, which is the “slowest quarterly growth reported since 1998“. But the expansion of superfast fibre optic (FTTH, FTTC etc.) based connectivity has continued and now accounts for nearly 25% of all connections (up from 22% in Q1).

EE UK Grows to 714K Home Broadband Customers as 4G Users Hit 1.2M

22nd October, 2013 (0 Comments)

Mobile operator and ISP EE (Orange UK and T-Mobile) has published its latest Q3-2013 financial results and revealed that their fixed line Home Broadband subscriber base has continued its slow but steady growth to total 714,000 users (up +10,000 during Q3, the same level as Q2). Meanwhile 4G mobile customers have jumped from 687,000 in Q2 to 1.18 million now.

UK ISP Sky Broadband Breaks the 5 Million Subscriber Milestone

17th October, 2013 (0 Comments)

Sky Broadband (BSkyB) has today published its latest quarterly results to 30th September 2013, which saw their consumer broadband subscribers grow by +111,000 during Q3 to total 5,017,000. Naturally this is sharply down from the +519,000 added in Q2 when O2 and BE Broadband’s former fixed line customers were merged into the total.

BDUK Uptake Statistics from the SME Broadband Connection Voucher Trial

17th October, 2013 (0 Comments)

The Broadband Delivery UK office has published some interesting statistics from the recent market test of its Connection Vouchers scheme, which uses part of the £150m Urban Broadband Fund (“Super-Connected Cities“) to help businesses install superfast broadband. Some residential premises may also benefit under Phase 2 but the 30Mbps+ target might be reduced.