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ISP BT Top 6.28M Broadband Customers as FTTC Passes 10M UK Homes
National UK telecoms giant BT has released its latest results to 31st March (Q1-2012), which saw their retail broadband ISP subscriber base add +136,000 customers (down from +146k in Q4-2011) to hit a total of 6,280,000. Elsewhere its FTTC superfast broadband service has now passed 10 million homes and businesses (almost 40% of the country), [...]
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Small Rural UK Businesses Seek 98% Coverage of 20Mbps Broadband by 2015
The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has published a new report (“The Missing Links”) which claims that 60% of UK businesses in rural areas (countryside) suffer from slow broadband ISP speeds. As a result the group has called on the government to raise its superfast broadband coverage target from 90% to 98% of “rural communities [...]
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UK ISP TalkTalk Broadband Subscriber Decline Slows to 4.066 Million
Internet and phone provider TalkTalk (AOL UK) has today released its latest results to 31st March 2012 (Q4), which saw their broadband subscriber base decline by -13,000 in the quarter to reach a new total of 4,066,000. That’s a significant improvement on the -43,000 lost during the previous Q4-2011. The ISP also revealed growth in [...]
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OpenDNS Problems Affect Broadband ISP Users in the UK
UK internet users of the free OpenDNS service are currently being affected by “intermittent packetloss across select carriers” at their London facility. Many people use alternative Domain Name Servers (DNS), such as the free solutions from OpenDNS and Google Public DNS, to avoid loading websites via their ISPs often slower and more restrictive servers. Domain [...]
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ISP O2 UK and BE See Slower Decline to 617800 Broadband Subscribers
Mobile operator and ISP O2 UK (Telefonica) has today released its latest quarterly results to the end of March (Q1-2012), which revealed that their fixed line broadband subscriber base (includes BE Broadband customers) had continued to decline by -2,500 (net) between Q4-2011 and Q1-2012 to reach a new total of 617,800. The change represents another [...]
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UK Internet Service Providers Association Reveals 2012 ISP Award Finalists
The Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA UK) has officially revealed the finalists for its 14th annual 2012 internet industry awards, which this year includes a new ‘Customer Choice‘ category (voted for by customers) alongside the usual ‘Best Consumer Fixed Broadband‘ ISP sections. This year’s highlight is PlusNet with a total of five nominations. Overall more [...]
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Ofcom UK Fines Axis Telecom GBP30k for Making it Hard to Change ISP
The UK communications regulator, Ofcom, has fined broadband and phone provider Axis Telecom (Axis) £30,000 for abusing the ‘Cancel Other‘ mechanism, which is designed to protect consumers from being switched to another ISP without their consent (slamming), and for “attempting to induce consumers to terminate their contract” with the new ISP. The regulator claims that Axis, [...]
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Orange UK Home Broadband ISP Subscribers Remain Static at 713000
Orange UK (Everything Everywhere) recently reported its latest financial results to 31st March 2012 (Q1), which revealed that their total base of fixed line Home Broadband subscribers has remained static (no growth or decline), for a third consecutive quarter, at 713,000. The results themselves were actually posted on 2nd May 2012, although quite a few [...]
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Research and Markets: Jordan - Telecoms, Mobile, Broadband and Forecasts - 2012
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Jordan - Telecoms, Mobile, Broadband and Forecasts" repo
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10.8 Million UK Superfast Fibre Broadband Lines Predicted for Q4 2016
The latest market forecast from telecoms analyst firm Point Topic has predicted that the UK will be home to a total of 25.9 million broadband ISP lines by the end of 2016 (currently 20,736,500), with 10.8 million coming from superfast “FTTx” (fibre optic) connections (“28 times the total FTTx lines recorded for Q4 2011“). The [...]
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