Openreach

  • Virgin Media announces new 152Mb broadband speeds and price hike

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    Virgin Media says it will increase the speeds available to broadband customers and offer a top speed of 152Mb from February 2014. The cable company will boost existing customers’ speeds “by at least 20Mb” meaning customers on its up to 30Mb will now receive speeds of 50Mbp and higher. The new 152Mb top speed is…

  • BT credits sports investment for securing 93% of all new broadband connections

    BT credits sports investment for securing 93% of all new broadband connections

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    BT says the offer of free Premier League football helped it win 93% of new broadband connections – 156,000 new users – in the three months to September 30th. Announcing the firm’s latest results, CEO Gavin Patterson said 2 million viewers had now signed up for its BT Sport channels and that its wholesale deal…

  • BT extends fibre network to Irvine, Bo’ness and Ayr

    BT extends fibre network to Irvine, Bo’ness and Ayr

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    Almost 35,000 Scottish homes will gain access to super-fast broadband in the coming weeks after BT announced its fibre network has reached Irvine, Bo’ness and Ayr. BT says its fibre footprint now passes more than 16 million UK homes and businesses and is expected to pass around 19 million – two-thirds of UK premises by…

  • Ofcom consults on lower fibre broadband wholesale switching fees and shorter contracts

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    Ofcom says it hopes to “promote competition among superfast broadband providers,” by lowering costs imposed by BT’s Openreach division and reducing wholesale contract lengths. The proposals, which are now being consulted on, are part of a package of measures published on Wednesday by the telecoms regulator. Openreach is responsible for installing and connecting services on…

  • BT Infinity and Apple’s AirPort Express

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    A quick guide to setting up Apple’s AirPort Express with BT Infinity superfast broadband.

  • BT announces 60,000 YouView users and 281,000 fibre sign-ups

    BT announces 60,000 YouView users and 281,000 fibre sign-ups

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    BT has added a further 281,000 fibre broadband customers and signed up more than 60,000 customers to its YouView TV service, according to the firm’s quarterly trading update. The company now has “around 1.25m million” residential and business fibre broadband customers, roughly ten percent of the number currently able to access the service. Fibre broadband,…