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UPD South Yorkshire ISP Origin Broadband Refresh Brand and Hikes Prices

18th July, 2016 (9 Comments)

Doncaster-based ISP Origin Broadband will today introduce a new brand identity and this is also being supported by a refreshed website design, as well as a tweaked range of broadband and phone packages that appears to include some sharp price hikes.

BT Boost Broadband Upload Speeds on its 1Gbps FTTP Trial in Bradford

15th July, 2016 (32 Comments)

Future subscribers taking part in Openreach’s (BT) new trial of 1000Mbps “ultrafast” Fibre-to-the-Premise (FTTP/H) broadband technology in Bradford (West Yorkshire, England) will now benefit from even faster upload speeds than originally expected (up to 220Mbps), as well as a free connection and rental.

Sky Broadband Cuts Ultra Fibre Optic FTTH Pilot Service Price in York UK

14th July, 2016 (7 Comments)

Sky Broadband appears to have sharply reduced the price of their 50-940Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH/P) based “Ultra Fibre Optic” (UFO) broadband packages in the city of York (North Yorkshire), which is still being jointly rolled out alongside partners TalkTalk and Cityfibre.

KCOM List 50 Bricknell Avenue Streets for their Fibre Broadband Rollout

7th July, 2016 (0 Comments)

Hull telecoms operator KCOM has today announced the next batch of roll-out locations for their new “Lightstream” fibre optic (FTTP/C) broadband network. Overall 5,000 properties in the Bricknell Avenue area and a similar number in Hedon and Preston should be covered by the end of 2016.

East Riding in Yorkshire Finishes Phase 1 Rollout of Fibre Broadband

29th June, 2016 (0 Comments)

The Broadband East Riding project in Yorkshire (England) has announced the successful completion of their original contract with BT. In other words, an additional 42,000 premises in the area can now access a superfast broadband (24Mbps+) service and work is now underway to reach 95% of the region.

UPDATE KCOM Gift FREE Broadband to 150 Homes in Hull’s Orchard Park

24th June, 2016 (0 Comments)

Around 150 homes on the Orchard Park housing estate in North West Hull (East Yorkshire, England) look set to receive 6 months of free broadband from local ISP KCOM, which forms part of a joint initiative with Hull City Council that is attempting to help get more people online.

UPDATE Fixed Wireless ISP LN Comms Merged into Boundless Networks

22nd June, 2016 (2 Comments)

Fixed wireless broadband ISP LN Communications (aka – ILoveBroadband), which had been serving homes and businesses around rural Yorkshire and Lancashire in England, has over the past few months quietly vanished after they were merged into Boundless Networks.

RIP Billy Garrett – Founder of Rural Wireless ISP Beeline Broadband

20th June, 2016 (0 Comments)

We’d just like to take a moment to bid farewell to Billy Garrett, co-founder of wireless ISP Beeline Broadband that serves the Newton-on-Rawcliffe village and surrounding areas in North Yorkshire (England), who passed away recently.

East Riding of Yorkshire Suffers GBP10m Broadband Funding Shortfall

9th June, 2016 (9 Comments)

The Broadband East Riding project in Yorkshire (England), which is being conducted with support from BT, will need another £10 million of funding if it is to reach the goal of making a superfast broadband (24Mbps+) network available to 95% of local premises.

KCOM Clarify Level of FTTC in its Fibre Optic FTTP Broadband Rollout

9th June, 2016 (5 Comments)

The Hull and East Yorkshire (England) focused telecoms operator KCOM has kindly confirmed to ISPreview.co.uk that around 8% (12,000 premises) of their planned fibre optic based broadband roll-out to 150,000 local premises will be catered for via the slower Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC) service.

Artist Covers BT’s FTTC Broadband Cabinets with Weird Street Art

7th June, 2016 (8 Comments)

Openreach’s (BT) big green FTTC superfast broadband Street Cabinets can be a bit dull and so an artist from Doncaster in South Yorkshire (England), Nick Boruk, has decided to help promote the new service by covering a few of them with a big Teddy Bear face (painted canvas cover). Ok then.

KCOM Fibre Broadband Reaches 78,000 Premises in East Yorkshire

27th May, 2016 (2 Comments)

KCOM, the incumbent telecoms operator for Hull and East Yorkshire in England, has revealed that their on-going “Lightstream” roll-out of fibre optic broadband (FTTP/C) services has now covered 78,000 premises with 26,000 connected including 1,700 businesses (33.33% take-up).

B4RN Begins to Build Own Rural 1Gbps FTTH Civil Engineering Team

23rd May, 2016 (8 Comments)

The community built B4RN project, which is deploying ultrafast Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband networks to remote parts of rural Lancashire, Cumbria and Yorkshire in England where commercial operators ignore, has begun hiring to build its own in-house civil engineering team.

Advert for Hull ISP Wisper Broadband Banned for Misleading Speeds

18th May, 2016 (7 Comments)

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned a website advert for the Hull (East Yorkshire) focused wireless ISP Wisper Broadband after it claimed to offer “Super Fast … speeds of between 10 and 20 MBPS day and night“, but at least one customer only received 1-3Mbps.

West Yorkshire Confirm Next Areas to Benefit from Fibre Broadband

16th May, 2016 (1 Comment)

The Superfast West Yorkshire project in England has confirmed that the new Superfast Extension Programme (SEP) contract with BT will result in even more premises being reached with “high-speed fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) than originally planned and the first areas have also been named.

Virgin Media Business Bring 100Mbps Broadband to SMEs in Central Leeds

13th May, 2016 (0 Comments)

Cable operator Virgin Media Business has announced that nearly 1,500 businesses in 125 buildings located inside the Leeds City Centre area will gain access to their symmetric 100Mbps or faster broadband service, thanks to the operator’s on-going network expansion.

TalkTalk See FTTH Progress in York as Broadband Users Fall to 3.99 Million

12th May, 2016 (6 Comments)

After a rocky start TalkTalk appears to be on the path to recovering from last year’s cyber-attack, but not before reporting that they ended Q1 2016 (calendar) with a total of 3,996,000 on-net broadband subscribers (down from 4.1 million six months ago). Elsewhere mobile customers might be in for a difficult transition.