Category: Internet Service Providers

One of the interesting aspects of how FTTC and FTTP is rolled out by Openreach is that providers can pick up IP data from multiple exchanges at the single parent exchange that exists for an area, and it is this that is helping Orbital.net to create its unlimited usage service.

Sky has extended its free broadband offer to existing Sky TV customers when they add broadband and calls to their Sky bundle.

The council and local businesses should soon be able to benefit from lower cost and faster broadband speeds due to a partnership to build a dark fibre network across Aberdeen City.

The competition is heating up now that the summer holidays are over, and BT is offering unlimited ADSL2+ for £8/m and an £80 Sainsbury's gift card.

Okay so the free broadband for 12 months at Sky still needs voice line rental to be paid, but a big chunk of that is offset by a £100 M&S voucher. This new offer looks set to attract a fair number of disgruntled BT Consumer division customers.

CGNAT is not new, it has been used by mobile operators for a long time and some trials by fixed line providers have taken place. It is a sign of things to come if the adoption of IPv6 is not widened.

The economic recovery may be underway according to some, but the increases above the cost of inflation will hurt for those who are customers of BT and will clear the way for other providers to increase their prices and still marginally undercut BT.

The degree of expansion by commercial broadband operators in the UK is increasing with each new small announcement, and raises important questions other whether the BDUK process targeted the right areas originally.

The ever present Sainsbury's gift card promotion from BT may have gone down in value, but they have also reduced the contract length of their ADSL2+ based services.

One would have hoped that with a full 12 months notice that providers would have had time to get everything or ship shape for the day that the Digital network was properly turned off.