Category: Internet Service Providers

Businesses in Hull area now have another option for the provision of fibre connectivity in the form of MS3 Communications.

Be has announced poor progress on adopting the Openreach GEA FTTC products.

Origin in South Yorkshire has launched its Origin Max service which on short lines will go beyond 80 Mbps, showing just what is possible over a FTTC service.

littlebigone.com has now launched its three TV packages, that offer between 50 and 70 channels across the Digitial Region network.

The 80 Mbps variant of Fibre to the Cabinet launches on 10th April and Entanet has announced pricing to its channel partners for the product on eleven different packages.

The new rules on broadband speeds in advertising and product pages may only be a couple of days old, but the full help notes have been available for six months, so there is little excuse for large providers to have adjusted their product pages.

KCOM has issued a trading update for the last quarter that reveals that all the properties on its telephone network are able to receive the 2 Mbps Universial Service Commitment.

Virgin Media has published a raft of information to inform customers of the changes to its traffic management policy. One major change is that in the past when usage triggers were exceeded speeds were cut by 75%, now it will be 50% for downstream, upstream is still cut back by 75%.

We cautioned when Ofcom changed the wholesale prices for telephone and broadband services, that the chances of price decreases was small, and with price rises from TalkTalk we can see the cuts were not enough to offset other rises in costs for providers.

Zen has doubled its usage allowances, meaning its cheapest Lite product will now offer a 20 GB download allowance from 1st April 2012.