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posted on 27 March 2012
According to recent reports BT has not had it easy keeping up
with its FTTC deployment schedule, as it announced
that the residents of Burton-on-Trent
(Staffordshire and Derbyshire) will have to wait for the superfast
broadband services until the end of June, as
opposed to the promised date of the end of this week.
BT said that the holdup is ... [read more]
posted on 05 March 2012
Good news to all who are waiting for telephone services other
fibre optic broadband as BT had decided to test its Fibre
Voice Access (FVA / FVA-FTTP) product while it is still in
its Early Market Deployment (EMD)
stage.
This means that ISPs will prospectively be able to offer
phone-over-fibre services, presumably based on BT's FTTP
(fibre-to-... [read more]
posted on 29 February 2012
More good news comes from the Superfast
Cornwall scheme (also known as the Big Build) as
the project's bosses reported that roughly a quarter of all planned
premises already have access to superfast broadband (66,000).
As a quick reminder, the scheme is aimed to make sure that at
least 80 per cent of Cornish and Isles of Scilly-based homes ha... [read more]
posted on 15 February 2012
Some of you might remember that BT was forced
to block Newzbin 2, and shortly after an array of UK ISPs received
warning letters from the Motion Picture Association asking them
kindly to block the site as well.
As a quick reminder, some of BT's customers reported that they had
found a way how to squeeze through the peep holes of the block
whi... [read more]
posted on 07 February 2012
BT and an array of UK rights groups have spoken
out about the UK's plans to block extremist content online.
According to the Home Affairs Committee report,
ISPs and other online bodies should be doing more in order to clamp
down radical websites, or those that preach their extremist
views.
The report said that:
"The Committee recommends tha... [read more]
posted on 25 January 2012
Ofcom gave the green light to mobile operator Everything
Everywhere (which is the parent company of both
Orange and T-Mobile) and BT to
prolong their Cornish 4G trial until the 30th of June, 2012.
As a quick reminder, the scheme has kicked off back in October,
is running on the 800MHz spectrum band and
currently covers rural St. Newlyn East.
... [read more]
posted on 24 January 2012
The Next Generation Broadband Wales project is left with only
one tender as Japanese tech giant, Fujitsu, has
dropped out of the process saying that the deployment risks were
just "too high" for it to handle.
The last man standing on this occasion has become
BT as it is now the sole major bidder to support
the scheme.
Some keen broadband new... [read more]
posted on 19 December 2011
While Samsung and Apple are in the midst of their fierce patent
battles all around the world, in the parallel world BT has
fired legal claims over six patents Google's way.
The telecoms and broadband provider stated that Google was
infringing its communications networks patents mentioning
specifically Google's Map services, the Android Market... [read more]
posted on 15 December 2011
It seems that Sky Broadband has received a
court order to block an illegal downloads facilitating website,
also known as Newzbin2, which BT has already been
banning since July.
As a quick reminder, last summer the High Court of Justice
forced BT to block the website, after the Motion
Picture Association (MPA) won an injunction against the tel... [read more]
posted on 08 December 2011
BT has been publishing lists as to which
exchanges have been upgraded, which ones are still awaiting a fibre
revamp and which are scheduled to be updated sooner than others -
now the telecoms giant has come up with a more exciting solution,
mainly an interactive map which will inform users about what the
current status of the exchange closest ... [read more]