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Vodafone UK Grows to 75K Fixed Broadband Users and 4G Improves

10th November, 2015 (1 Comment)

Vodafone has today reported their latest Q3 2015 results (calendar), which reveals that the new fixed broadband service has grown ever so slightly to reach 75,000 customers (up by +5K net adds vs +4K in Q2). Meanwhile their 4G UK population coverage has reached 75% (82% by Ofcom’s definition).

Cable Operator Virgin Media Tops 4.625 Million Broadband Users

6th November, 2015 (6 Comments)

Cable Internet, phone and TV provider Virgin Media (Liberty Global) has published their results to the end of Q3 2015, which reveals that they added +55,500 (net) UK broadband customers in the quarter to make for a total of 4,625,800 (43% take their 100Mbps+ services).

BT Top 7.88M Internet Subs as Fibre Broadband Covers 24M UK Premises

29th October, 2015 (40 Comments)

BT has posted their latest Q3-2015 results (calendar), which reveals that their retail business now has a total of 7,879,000 broadband subscribers (up by +82K vs +83K in Q2) and 3,438,000 of those are taking their FTTC dominated BTInfinity “fibre broadband” (up by +212K in Q3 vs +217K in Q2).

Study Claims UK Phone and Broadband ISP Prices Have Sky-rocketed

28th October, 2015 (3 Comments)

A new study claims that broadband and home phone prices for “loyal customers” (i.e. those who prefer to stay with the same ISP rather than switch) have increased by an inflation-busting 40% since 2011 and are thus paying on average £8.59 a month (£103 a year) more now than they were four years ago.

Mixed UK Results in EU Study of Broadband Speeds, Price and Coverage

22nd October, 2015 (9 Comments)

The European Commission’s (EC) Digital Agenda project has today published three separate studies that examine the real-world Internet speeds, coverage and prices of broadband services across most of the EU states, which also reveals how well the United Kingdom is doing.

Ombudsman Services Records Rise in UK Telecoms Complaints

21st October, 2015 (0 Comments)

Ombudsman Services, one of Ofcom’s two approved Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) consumer complaint handlers, reports that it has so far received a total of 15,542 complaints about UK phone, mobile and broadband providers in 2015 and Q3 complaints were up 35% from three years ago.

EE UK Home Broadband Tops 927,000 Subscribers as Growth Slows

21st October, 2015 (1 Comment)

EE reported their latest Q3 2015 results today, which revealed that their fixed line home broadband subscribers increased by just +8,000 in the quarter to total 927,000 (down sharply from +35K in Q2 and +50K in Q1). But 4G mobile performance continued to be strong.

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).

UK Businesses Seek “Ultrafast” Broadband to Overcome Obstacles

20th October, 2015 (0 Comments)

Virgin Media Business has published a new research report from Oxford Economics, which hints that an extra £92bn and 1 million jobs could be added to the UK economy if businesses fully embraced the power of digital communications. One of the biggest boosts could come from faster broadband.

Savills – Slow Broadband Makes it Harder to Rent Rural Property

19th October, 2015 (0 Comments)

In a not entirely surprising study Savills, the global real estate provider, has found that broadband speed is now one of the primary considerations for those seeking to rent residential or commercial property in rural areas and poor connectivity can be a huge hindrance.

GO ON UK Campaign Maps Digital Exclusion and Broadband

19th October, 2015 (11 Comments)

Charity Go ON UK has produced a new heatmap of Digital Exclusion across the United Kingdom, which contrasts the availability of broadband and digital skills with Internet usage in order to identify which Local Authorities are falling short. Unsurprisingly urban areas tend to do well, but there are some interesting twists.

Global Fixed Broadband Lines Top 700 Million as Fibre Takes Over

16th October, 2015 (0 Comments)

New data reveals that the world is now home to a total of 700 million broadband Internet lines (Q2 2015) and the dominance of pure copper line (ADSL) connections has now been replaced by significantly faster fibre optic (FTTH/P) and hybrid fibre (FTTC/x) services. But the regional picture is mixed.

Marketers Complain of Emails Being Blocked as SPAM by UK ISPs

14th October, 2015 (4 Comments)

A new study by Return Path has decried the otherwise welcome fact that commercial marketers are finding it harder and harder to push their annoying emails into your inbox. For example, 82% of commercial emails reached their intended UK recipients this year, which is down from 87% in 2014.

UK Government SUSPENDS Broadband Connection Voucher Scheme

13th October, 2015 (16 Comments)

The Government’s Connection Voucher scheme has been suspended to new applications as funding dries up. The vouchers gifted grants worth up to £3,000 to help smaller businesses in 50 UK cities get a superfast broadband (30Mbps+) service installed.

Slow Public WiFi Hotspots Pervade London’s Busiest 5 Airports

12th October, 2015 (0 Comments)

A new survey has examined the real-world performance of FREE public wireless Internet (WiFi) hotspots at five of the busiest airports around the Greater London area and found that most struggle to deliver more than a handful of Megabits (Mbps).

BT and Virgin Media – The Excess Marketing Letter SPAM Kings

12th October, 2015 (18 Comments)

Mirror mirror on the wall, which of the biggest broadband ISPs sends the most marketing junk of them all? The latest survey of 1,139 ISPreview.co.uk readers has revealed that nearly all receive ISP marketing mail through their letter boxes at home, but some suffer significantly more junk than others.

Another GBP4.2M Spent on Broadband Delivery UK Marketing

3rd October, 2015 (24 Comments)

The government’s national Broadband Delivery UK project, which is working to make fixed line superfast broadband (24Mbps+) services available to 95% of the country by 2017/18, spent £4.2m on marketing and £850,000 on other admin costs between March and July 2015.