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Netflix ISP Speed Index for March

Netflix has released March data from its ISP Speed Index – its monthly update on which Internet Service Providers (ISPs) provide the best prime-time Netflix streaming experience. Back in December, Netflix announced a years-long effort called complexity-based encoding that allowed them to boost streaming performance of TV shows and movies while using less bandwidth. At […]

April 13, 2016

Netherlands: 700,000+ quad-play subs

The number of Dutch households with quad-play subscriptions, including both fixed and mobile services, grew to more than 700,000 at the end of 2015, according to Telecompaper’s Dutch Consumer Multiplay Market report. More than 10 per cent of all broadband subscriptions were part of quad-play plans at the end of Q4 2015, up from 6.1 […]

April 12, 2016

BT leads pay-TV complaints in Q4

Ofcom has revealed the number of complaints against the largest telecoms and pay-TV providers in the quarter October 2015 to December 2015. This is Ofcom’s twentieth quarterly report. BT generated the highest volume of pay-TV complaints per 100,000 subscribers in Q4 2015. Complaints about BT mainly related to issues around fault, service, or provision; issues […]

March 30, 2016

UK: Government targets landline fee

Households subscribing to broadband packages would be exempted from the standing rental charge on their landline if they don’t use it, under proposals from the Culture minister, Ed Vaizey has said the charges of around £18 a month are “outdated.” He wants householders to only pay for the services they use, describing it as an […]

March 22, 2016

Ofcom demands better business services from BT

Ofcom has put forward strict new rules to improve BT’s performance in installing high-speed business lines and significantly reduce the wholesale prices BT charges for these lines. The plans are part of Ofcom’s Business Connectivity Market Review, published today. The new rules will be finalised at the end of April, subject to consideration by the […]

March 22, 2016

Who’s up in the Netflix ISP Speed Index?

Netflix has released February data from its ISP Speed Index. The Index is a measure of prime time Netflix performance on a particular ISP and not necessarily a measure of overall performance for other services/data that may travel across the specific ISP network. Highlights include: In Austria, A1 nearly doubled their average monthly speed to […]

March 16, 2016

Analyst: New players drive UK broadband connections

A report on the outlook for the UK telecommunications sector from global source of critical information and insight IHS suggests that new players in the high-speed broadband market will boost connections in the UK by 70 per cent over the next five years, from almost nine million at the end of 2015 to more than […]

March 14, 2016

Analyst: Quad-play no longer guarantees success

According to research and consultancy firm Ampere Analysis, the market for triple-play bundling is reaching saturation point. In mature markets such as North America and Europe the average communications subscription has almost two products to every customer, and some providers have upsold three. Bundling TV, fixed phone and broadband has been a key way for […]

March 11, 2016

Satellite Internet boosted by BDUK project

Satellite Internet, a specialist satellite ISP, is seeing a growing level of interest in the supplementary element of BDUK’s Basic Broadband For All scheme which aims to provide affordable broadband services of at least 2Mbps to all UK premises. Satellite Internet has been an approved provider under the Supplementary Scheme since its launch last December, […]

March 9, 2016

Ofcom: BT must open up network

Calls by industry competitors for BT’s network subsidiary Openreach to be spun off have been resisted, but UK comms regulator Ofcom has decided it is necessary to overhaul Openreach’s governance and strengthen its independence from BT. Ofcom has set out how it plans to improve telecoms quality and coverage, so that UK consumers and businesses […]

February 25, 2016By Colin Mann