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482 UK Towns Ranked for Home Working and Broadband Quality

6th November, 2020 (15 Comments)

A new survey from Resume.io has attempted to rank 482 UK towns to identify the best ones for home working (WFH), which examines various different factors (e.g. broadband performance and coverage, house prices, WiFi hotspots, life satisfaction, cost of living etc.). Overall Llandough in Wales came top with a score of 80.9 out of 100.

Virgin Media Cover 125k More UK Premises as New TV Service Looms

5th November, 2020 (8 Comments)

Broadband ISP and TV provider Virgin Media (Liberty Global) has just published their latest Q3 2020 results, which saw their UK network coverage grow to reach another 125,000 UK premises and their broadband base add +47,000 new customers (up from +39.2k in the previous quarter) to total 5,365,400.

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Unexpected Charges Add c.£39 to Average Annual UK Mobile Bills

4th November, 2020 (1 Comment)

A new Opinium survey of 2,000 UK adults, which was commissioned by Uswitch, has claimed that “unexpected charges” (e.g. extra costs for roaming, calls etc.) are adding nearly £38.90 on average to consumers annual mobile bills (around 32% of respondents were affected by this – equating to a national total of £489m).

Survey Claims Poor Broadband May Hamper New Game Consoles

30th October, 2020 (28 Comments)

A Censuswide survey of 2,005 UK gamers who use consoles or games online for at least 1 hour a week, which was commissioned by UK broadband ISP Zen Internet, has found that “poor internet performance” could impact the purchasing decisions of 39% who may be considering the new consoles (XBox Series X and PlayStation 5).

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Broadband ISPs that Cause UK Consumers the Most Stress Named

30th October, 2020 (15 Comments)

A new survey from Broadband Genie, which used a special tool to analyse and estimate the consumer stress levels of 305,568 tweets that were aimed at major UK broadband ISPs, has revealed which providers had the most stressed customers. Overall it’s bad news for Shell Energy, but good news for Hyperoptic.

TalkTalk ISP Data Claims Commuter Towns are Home Working Hubs

30th October, 2020 (2 Comments)

New data from UK broadband ISP TalkTalk, which examined the internet usage of their customers between January to August 2020, has helped the provider to identify the top 20 British hub locations for Home Working. Overall Huddersfield saw the largest increase of network data usage (37%).

BT Group Sees FTTP Broadband Reach 3.5 Million UK Premises

29th October, 2020 (25 Comments)

The BT Group has today published their Q2 2020/21 results, which saw Openreach expand their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to cover 3.5 million UK premises (up from 2.98m last quarter). The full fibre build rate has now hit 40,000 premises per week (up from c.34,000).

Broadband ISP TalkTalk Reveals UK Internet Usage Trends

26th October, 2020 (6 Comments)

Budget broadband ISP TalkTalk has today published their first ‘Internet Insights‘ report, which is a quarterly analysis of the provider’s network data with bitesize insights about internet usage trends in the UK. For example, between July 2019 and June 2020 customers of their FTTP packages increased their usage by 108%.

Survey Identifies the Top 5G Mobile Myths Among UK People

23rd October, 2020 (0 Comments)

A new Censuswide survey of 2,006 UK adults, which was conducted during August 2020, has helped to reveal roughly what proportion of people believe various different myths and falsehoods about the latest generation of ultrafast 5G based mobile broadband technology. Sadly 7% still believe 5G is connected to the spread of COVID-19.

The 10 Best and Worst UK Council Areas for Broadband Uploads

22nd October, 2020 (17 Comments)

A new piece of research has helped to reveal the top 10 UK council areas by average (median) broadband ISP upload speed, which perhaps unsurprisingly sees KCOM’s full fibre dominated city of Hull (East Yorkshire) come top on 13.7Mbps. Meanwhile Powys in Wales came last with an upload rate of just 2Mbps.

Fast Broadband Supports Top 104 UK Places for Home Working

21st October, 2020 (3 Comments)

Comparison site Uswitch has today published a new Remote Working Index (RWI), which ranks 104 of the United Kingdom’s biggest towns and cities by seven metrics to help identify the best places for people who have to work from home (access to superfast broadband, crime rate, green spaces, property prices etc.).

Preply Ranks UK 16 out of 30 Countries for e-Learning Infrastructure

15th October, 2020 (9 Comments)

Digital learning provider Preply has examined the state of digital infrastructure, the number of digital educational courses and the market for online learning across 30 countries in order to create a new E-Learning Index, which ranks the United Kingdom 16th, partly due to poor broadband speeds.

OECD Calls on UK to Invest in Broadband or Risk COVID19 Scars

15th October, 2020 (2 Comments)

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has called on the UK to invest more into upgrading digital infrastructure (broadband and mobile) in order to help avoid the COVID-19 crisis, as well the risk of a no-deal Brexit, leaving a lasting scar on the country’s economic trajectory for years to come.

£7.66bn of Private Funding Pumped into UK Gigabit Altnets

13th October, 2020 (1 Comment)

A new report from Point Topic and the Independent Networks Co-operative Association (INCA) has revealed that over £1.76bn worth of private funding, related to the alternative gigabit broadband sector, was announced during 2019 until September 2020 and that brings the total so far to £7.66bn.

H1 2020 BDUK Take-up Data – UK Superfast Broadband Rollout

11th October, 2020 (40 Comments)

The Government’s £1.8bn Building Digital UK project has now helped to extend “superfast broadband” (24-30Mbps+) ISP networks to 5,293,139 extra premises since 2012 (up by 62,665 over the past 6 months) – about 390,000 of these are FTTP – and the latest take-up data to June 2020 reveals strong demand.

Ofcom Reveals Key UK Mobile Network and WiFi Usage Trends

8th October, 2020 (2 Comments)

Ofcom and crowdsourced benchmark firm umlaut have examined a sample size of 200,000 Android using UK mobile users between January and April 2020 to identify key trends. For example, people were connected to 4G for 82% of the time in urban areas, but only 76% in rural ones (most of the rest was spent on 3G).

Vodafone UK Cuts Carbon Footprint by 25,000 Tonnes of CO2

8th October, 2020 (8 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone UK has managed to save 100 Gigawatt hours (GWh) of energy, equivalent to 25,000 tonnes of CO2 or a financial saving of around £10m, in the space of just three years. All of this will support their pledge to use 100% renewable electricity by July 2021 and to help customers save 350 million tonnes of CO2 by 2030.