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UK ISP TalkTalk Issues Unusually Vague Trading Update for Q2 2015

22nd July, 2015 (0 Comments)

ISP TalkTalk appears to have somewhat broken with tradition this morning by issuing a surprisingly vague trading update for the second quarter of 2015, which reveals very little except to confirm that the migration of Tesco’s broadband customers onto their network has “begun well” and should complete over the coming months.

UK SME Businesses Still Lack Basic Broadband Connectivity Awareness

15th July, 2015 (0 Comments)

A new survey of 683 adults who are decision-makers in SMEs, which was conducted online during June 2015 by Virgin Media Business and YouGov, has found that 37% of smaller businesses don’t know how fast their Internet connection is and 72% don’t even know how much data they use.

GLA Conservatives – London is One of the Slowest EU Capitals for Broadband

15th July, 2015 (4 Comments)

The GLA Conservatives, which represent the Conservative members on the London Assembly, have today used data from Ofcom to claim that 341,592 residents in inner London are without modern “high-speed Internet access” and the city is one of the “worst capitals” in Europe for broadband speed – “behind Paris, Bucharest, Dublin and Kiev“.

Using Mobile Broadband While on Holiday is Growing More Common

14th July, 2015 (0 Comments)

A new AeroMobile and OnePoll survey of 4,250 adults in the UK, Germany and UAE between 25th March and 7th April 2015 has shed new light on how much people use their mobile phone while abroad versus when at home, which is despite the often significantly higher roaming charges that can be incurred.

Mixed Results for UK in ZyXEL European Home Broadband Survey

9th July, 2015 (0 Comments)

Networking IT kit manufacturer ZyXEL has published a new European Home Broadband Satisfaction study of five somewhat random EU countries including the UK, Germany, Netherlands, Czech Republic and Sweden. Sadly the UK only came third due to 20% of consumers being unhappy with their service speeds and other gripes with support.

KC Claims Hull UK Economy Boosted by their Superfast Broadband Rollout

1st July, 2015 (3 Comments)

The incumbent telecoms operator for Hull in East Yorkshire, KC, has today published a new report which they claim proves the positive impact that their FTTP dominated roll-out of superfast broadband is having. Overall the local digital economy now accounts for £6.93bn per annum (24% of the total).

EE Top of the Worst in Ofcom’s Q1 UK Telecoms and TV Complaints Report

30th June, 2015 (1 Comment)

The communications regulator has today published their latest Q1-2015 consumer complaints report, which saw overall complaint volumes continue to fall across most of the major UK mobile, pay tv, fixed line phone and broadband sectors. But the news isn’t so good for EE, which has seen gripes surge.

The Q2-2015 Top 7 UK Fastest National Home Broadband and Mobile ISPs

29th June, 2015 (0 Comments)

The second quarter has seen the average Internet download speed for the largest seven national home broadband ISPs increase from 24.72Mbps in Q1 to 25.47Mbps now, while the average for the primary Mobile Broadband operators reached 15.99Mbps (up from 14.42Mbps in Q1). Virgin Media remains the fastest fixed line provider and EE dominates mobile.

Akamai Q1 2015 Report Sees UK Average Broadband Speeds Hit 11.6Mbps

24th June, 2015 (0 Comments)

The latest global Q1 2015 State of the Internet report from Akamai has revealed that the world’s average fixed line broadband download speed is now 5Mbps (up by 10% since Q4 2014), while the United Kingdom increased by 6.7% in the quarter to 11.6Mbps. Overall the UK is now the 21st fastest in the world, which is down three places from the end of 2014.

Consumers Call on Broadband ISPs to Offer Useful Fault Status Reports

22nd June, 2015 (0 Comments)

The latest survey of 625 ISPreview.co.uk readers has revealed that 86% would like to see the national telecoms regulator, Ofcom, impose a new rule that would require both mobile and fixed line broadband ISPs to offer an informative service status page for keeping track of network and general service faults.

UK Falls One Place in 2015 EU Digital Agenda Broadband Progress Report

18th June, 2015 (23 Comments)

The European Commission has updated their EU Broadband Scorecard, which uses data from Dec 2014 and Jan 2015 to reveal the United Kingdom’s progress toward Europe’s overall Digital Agenda goals (e.g. ensuring 100% coverage of 30Mbps+ Internet speeds, with 50% take-up of 100Mbps+). But we’re now ranked 5th for connectivity, down one place from 4th last year.

Which? Report Slams Big UK Broadband ISPs for Misleading Service Speeds

18th June, 2015 (11 Comments)

Consumer magazine Which? has published a new report that attacks some of the biggest broadband ISPs, particularly BT, TalkTalk and PlusNet, for allegedly continuing to promote Internet download speeds that the majority of their customers will never be able to achieve. But are tougher advertising rules the best fix?

UK ISP Hyperoptic Says Poor Broadband Hampers Home Workers

17th June, 2015 (5 Comments)

Hyperoptic, which is deploying a 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Building (FTTB/P) network around parts of 12 UK cities, has surveyed 3,000 British people to conclude that 67% work from home at least once a month and 93% work longer hours when at home. But 72% also claim to feel more productive in the office, with poor home broadband taking the blame.

WiFi Networks to Carry 60 Percent of Mobile Data Traffic by 2019

16th June, 2015 (0 Comments)

A new report from Juniper Research has predicted that Mobile Network Operators (MNO) will offload 60% of their Smartphone and Tablet based Mobile Broadband (3G, 4G) data traffic to WiFi networks by 2019 (equivalent to 115,000 Petabytes), which is up almost four-fold from 30,000PB this year.

Study Finds Mass UK ISP Piracy Website Blocking Pushes Users to Go Legal

5th June, 2015 (3 Comments)

A new research paper from a three man team, which was based out of Carnegie Mellon University and Wellesley College in the USA, has found that forcing broadband ISPs to block individual piracy websites (e.g. The Pirate Bay) had little impact. But blocking a mass of 19 websites in one go did appear to drive UK Internet users towards legal alternatives.

Smaller UK Broadband ISPs Faster to Pick-up the Phone – Big Ones Slow

4th June, 2015 (4 Comments)

A new study has phoned some of the United Kingdom’s biggest and smallest broadband ISPs in order to work out how quick their call answer times were. The results reveal that the big boys (e.g. PlusNet and KC [Hull only] etc.) are among the slowest, while smaller providers tend to be the fastest (e.g. Exa Networks and B4RN etc.).

UK Mobile Internet Revenues to Overtake Fixed Broadband in 2017

4th June, 2015 (0 Comments)

The latest Global Entertainment & Media Outlook 2015-2019 report from PwC has predicted that revenues from Mobile Internet access (Mobile Broadband etc.) are set to overtake fixed line broadband services in 2017, increasing by an annual growth rate of 7.1% to reach £7bn by 2019 (the highest in Western Europe).