Good news for rural areas as Direct Save Telecom, an ISP which is fiercely pushing value broadband deals, has rolled out a fresh new offer for those who don’t live in urban “well-connected” locations and as a result need to pay more for slower speeds.
With Direct Save Telecom, consumers will be looking at paying from £9.95 per month for a 20GB usage allowance, free Wi-Fi router (the delivery isn’t free though) as well as inclusive evening and weekend calls.
Stavros Tsolakis, Direct Save’s CEO, said:
“We do not have much influence…
Geoff Slaughter - 30 May 2012 | comments. Read more
Labour MP, Graham Jones, has spoken out against plans to bring superfast broadband to Lancashire, by saying it was a “rural Tory broadband issue”.
Lancashire County Council planned to spend £32m to bring superfast broadband to the county, a scheme to which Jones voiced his objection.
“LCC’s figure for Hyndburn’s broadband exclusion of 3,262 would equate uniformly to some 46,000 homes/premises in the 14 Boroughs across Lancashire, not 200,000 that the County Council have quoted. The remaining 150,000 it is assumed are additional residents in rural areas,” he said on his…
Anna Sheldrick - 30 May 2012 | comments. Read more
It seems that BT is on track with the delivery of 500,000 Wi-Fi hubs right before the Summer Games kick in.
According to the firm, 475,000 hotspots are already up and running in London and there is still a whole bunch to go, seeing as the ISP claimed itself to be the “only” wireless broadband provider for all the 9 venues where the Games are to take place – that’s roughly 1,000 hotspots.
The Wi-Fi services will be supplied through BT’s FON network.
Andy Baker, CEO of BT’s wireless broadband branch, said:
“With…
Edita Lozovska - 29 May 2012 | comments. Read more
According to recent reports, Cable & Wireless Worldwide (CWW) has run out of public subsidy and is forced to cancel its broadband supply to two rural locations in Cumbria.
Duddon Valley and Branthwaite is likely to have no connection as of June 2012 causing a lot of problems to households and businesses in the areas.
The communities have been offered satellite broadband services along with free installs instead.
The Guardian reported that CWW considered continuing broadband supply to the communities as “uneconomical”. It cost the ISP £500k to set up, a sum…
Edita Lozovska - 28 May 2012 | comments. Read more
Good news comes from Everything Everywhere as the joint venture between T-Mobile and Orange confimed the launch of its Smart Signal Sharing technology.
This means that if T-Mobile’s mobile broadband signal weakens, users will be automatically transferred to Orange’s 3G connection.
This is the final stage of EE’s planned merger which saw both T-Mobile’s and Orange’s services fully integrated as a part of a grand £1.5bn investment.
A large chunk of that money will go to preparing the networks for future 4G deployment.
CEO of Everything Everywhere, Olaf Swantee, recently said in a…
Geoff Slaughter - 24 May 2012 | comments. Read more
According to Jeremy Hunt, councils were not putting enough effort into planning their broadband deployment schemes as 11 authorities failed to have their draft proposals approved on time.
As a quick reminder, the UK Government aims to deploy superfast broadband to 90 per cent in every county with the remaining 10 per cent left to use basic broadband of at least 2Mbps.
According to the Authority, superfast broadband gives people access to speeds of 24Mbps and above.
If the Government doesn’t handle the delay appropriately, it may mean that the BDUK office…
Edita Lozovska - 24 May 2012 | comments. Read more
No TalkTalk, BT’s Infinity ad shall not be pulled, said the ASA.
According to recent reports, TalkTalk has filed a complaint to the ASA saying that BT’s superfast fibre broadband ad could potentially be “misleading” as consumers may mistakenly start thinking that that fibre was only available via BT in the UK.
This is supposedly because the ad came with a tagline which stated: “Four times faster than average broadband: Infinity, only from BT”, special emphasis on the word “only” of course.
Neither BT nor the company that made the advertisement for…
Edita Lozovska - 23 May 2012 | comments. Read more
Fancy free Wi-Fi with your pint at your local pub? Well, if Greene King (including the Hungry Horse and Loch Fyne) is in a place near you – rejoice as the Cloud has started rolling out free wireless broadband across the chain.
It comes as no surprise that keen pub-crawlers like staying connected. At first, Greene King penned papers with the Cloud to deploy Wi-Fi only at 300 pubs.
It later saw the huge success of the move and decided to extend the services to all 1,000 of its managed premises…
Edita Lozovska - 22 May 2012 | comments. Read more
According to Point Topic, by the time 2016 comes to an end, the UK’s broadband ISP line number will increase from 20.7m to 25.9m with nearly half of the lines (11m) to be based on fibre optic broadband (both FTTC and FTTP).
The study did not look at cable connections, however included alternative networks (altnets) such as Rutland Telecom or B4RN, which according to the analyst will have grown by 85 per cent in the same time scale.
Point Topic explained more about alternative networks in a statement supporting the findings:
“Clearly…
Geoff Slaughter - 21 May 2012 | comments. Read more
Good news for residents of Hull and East Riding as KC has announced the launch of a new service which is to help Smart TV owners to connect their televisions to the internet by sending out a specialist engineer.
According to recent reports, people were reluctant to connect their TVs to broadband as they simply saw no need for this. A lot of devices, including tabs, smarties, laptops et al already give consumers access to the online world.
However, KC’s engineers will connect the TVs via an Ethernet cable as well…
Edita Lozovska - 18 May 2012 | comments. Read more
