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Three UK Launch £300k Grant Scheme to Help Businesses Get 5G

31st March, 2023 (0 Comments)

Mobile operator Three UK, specifically its business division, has today launched £300,000 worth of “free connectivity grants” for small businesses (SME) in Manchester and Birmingham, which follows new research that found better biz connectivity could contribute over £5bn a year to the local economies.

Octaplus Acquire Legend Fibre’s UK Home Broadband Customers

29th March, 2023 (0 Comments)

Broadband ISP and Pay TV provider Octaplus (Octaplus Supercharged), which sells services to consumers over full fibre (FTTP) networks from MS3, CityFibre and FullFibre Limited, has confirmed to ISPreview.co.uk that they’ve acquired the residential customer base from rival provider Legend Fibre.

Ovo Energy May Acquire Shell Energy’s UK Customer Base

29th March, 2023 (6 Comments)

Utility provider Ovo Energy, which only recently sold off SSE’s phone and broadband customers to ISP TalkTalk (here), is reportedly now looking at a deal to acquire Shell’s domestic UK gas, electricity and broadband business (Shell Energy) – home to c. 1.4m energy and 500,000 internet customers.

Broadband ISP TalkTalk Ponders Sale of UK Business Division

27th March, 2023 (5 Comments)

Budget broadband ISP TalkTalk is reportedly mulling over the possibility of selling their business-to-business arm (TT Business Direct Limited), which is home to around 80,000 customers and could be worth over £200 million. The provider is understood to have hired bankers at Houlihan Lokey to oversee the plan.

BT Group UK Reportedly Hunting for New CEO to Replace Jansen

26th March, 2023 (28 Comments)

The current CEO of broadband and telecoms giant BT Group (inc. Openreach, Plusnet and EE), Philip Jansen (56), could be on his way out – sooner than expected. Industry sources have reportedly told a Sunday newspaper that BT Group have already begun hunting for somebody to replace Jansen, who has held the position since 2018.

Voneus Acquires Rural Wales Focused Full Fibre ISP Beacons Telecom

26th March, 2023 (2 Comments)

Alternative rural network ISP Voneus, which is deploying both gigabit-capable Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) and Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband networks across parts of England and Wales, has continued its strategy of growth through acquisitions by gobbling Welsh provider Beacons Telecom.

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Grain Adds 6 UK Towns and Cities to FTTP Broadband Rollout

24th March, 2023 (20 Comments)

Cumbria-based network operator and broadband ISP Grain (Grain Connect) has today named a further 6 UK towns and cities for their ongoing rollout of a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, which includes some major locations like Leeds and Brighton.

Broadband ISP Zen Internet UK Switches CEOs Around Again

23rd March, 2023 (23 Comments)

Rochdale-based UK ISP Zen Internet has today announced somewhat of a reverse after the provider’s current CEO, Paul Stobart, announced his intention to retire at the end of March 2023, after five years in the role. Replacing him will be the company’s original CEO, and current Founder and Chairman, Richard Tang.

FullFibre Launch Community Investment Fund for 80+ UK Towns

22nd March, 2023 (0 Comments)

Network builder FullFibre Limited, which is deploying a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based gigabit broadband ISP network that aims to cover “at least” 500,000 premises by 2025, has today launched a new Community Investment Fund to promote digital connectivity in over 80 of its build towns.

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Neos Networks Make Progress on Oxfordshire UK Full Fibre Build

22nd March, 2023 (0 Comments)

Neos Networks has announced that their ongoing project to deploy a new gigabit-capable full fibre broadband network to over 175 public sector sites (councils, hospitals etc.) across Oxfordshire (England), many of which are in rural areas, is “on track” to complete by the end of 2023 – some 90 sites have already been reached.

Warning of Future UK Broadband Price Hikes as Inflation Jumps

22nd March, 2023 (26 Comments)

Consumers hoping to see significantly smaller increases in the UK price of their broadband ISP, phone and mobile services next year were given an unwelcome wake-up call today after inflation, which had been forecast to fall sharply in 2023, unexpectedly jumped from 10.1% (CPI) in January to 10.4% in February (RPI also went up).

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A Look at the Impact of Project Lightning on Virgin Media in West Yorkshire

21st March, 2023 (7 Comments)

Analysts at global telecoms market intelligence firm ThinkCX have published a new report that examines the extent to which Virgin Media’s (VMO2) “Project Lightning” broadband expansion in West Yorkshire (England) “arrested a decline in its local market share and led to net growth“.

Netomnia and YouFibre Secure £230m for UK Full Fibre Rollout

17th March, 2023 (29 Comments)

Network operator Netomnia – supported by UK ISP YouFibre – have today announced that their rollout of 10Gbps capable FTTP broadband has been boosted after they completed their latest fundraise of £230m in committed debt financing from a group of six bank lenders (HSBC UK, ING, NIBC, RBC, Standard Chartered, and UKIB).

LilaConnect Launch UK Business FTTP Broadband Packages

16th March, 2023 (2 Comments)

Network operator LilaConnect, which is a subsidiary of Swedish provider VXFIBER that is busy deploying a new “full fibre” (FTTP) broadband network across several cities and towns in England, has today launched several business packages for those in areas where they’ve been deploying.

Three UK Sees Average Mobile Data Usage Per User Hit 25GB

16th March, 2023 (20 Comments)

Mobile operator Three UK has published their latest financial results, which reveals that over 4,250 sites (up from 2,200 last year) are now live with 5G – reflecting 60% UK outdoor population coverage. The average data (mobile broadband) usage per customer has also reached 25.1 GigaBytes per month (up from 19GB).

UK ISP TalkTalk Considers Options After Management Shake-up

16th March, 2023 (14 Comments)

Budget-focused broadband ISP TalkTalk appears to be going through somewhat of a management shake-up after Virgin Media (VMO2) reportedly went cold on the idea of reaching a £3bn merger deal with the provider last year (here), which has left them with some decisions to make about the future.

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Spring UK Budget 2023 – Full Expensing May Help FTTP and 5G Rollout UPDATE2

15th March, 2023 (12 Comments)

The Chancellor of the UK Government, Jeremy Hunt, has today announced the Spring 2023 Budget, which sadly made no mention of any extra support for gigabit broadband or 5G mobile deployments. But the new “full expensing” measure could help to bring down the cost of some related plant and machinery (capital expenses).