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pureLiFi Get £10m to Develop Wi-Fi Style Visible Light Networks

13th July, 2022 (4 Comments)

The Scottish National Investment Bank has awarded £10m to help Edinburgh-based pureLiFi, which has spent years developing a new Visible Light Communication (VLC) based networking method called LiFi, to support a global rollout of their revolutionary technology.

Full Fibre ISP Connexin Acquires Rival Provider Wisper Broadband

11th July, 2022 (0 Comments)

Digital infrastructure provider and UK ISP Connexin, which is investing £80m to deploy a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across parts of Hull and East Yorkshire (here and here), has this morning announced the acquisition of local rival Wisper Broadband for an undisclosed sum.

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Vodafone and Virgin Media O2 Put 4G and 5G on London Underground

8th July, 2022 (1 Comment)

Mobile and broadband providers Vodafone and O2 (VMO2) have today become the last two major UK network operators to reach a special deal with infrastructure firm BAI Communications (BAI), which will enable them to deploy 4G and 5G based mobile services across the entire London Underground (stations and tunnels).

ISP E-volve Solutions Plan 10Gbps Broadband for UK Rural Areas

4th July, 2022 (0 Comments)

Derby-based communications provider E-volve Solutions has today revealed that it’s looking to expand their existing full fibre and fixed wireless access (FWA) broadband networks, which are currently focused on smaller firms in Derbyshire, to serve UK homes and other businesses in “rural areas” with “speeds up to 10Gbps“.

Mobile Operator Lebara UK Add WiFi Calling and 4G Calling

29th June, 2022 (125 Comments)

Mobile network operator Lebara, which harnesses Vodafone’s Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) platform, has begun contacting their existing customers to inform them that they’ve finally started rolling out two popular service features – Wi-Fi Calling and 4G Calling (VoLTE).

H1 2022 Take-up in the UK Superfast Broadband Programme

23rd June, 2022 (15 Comments)

The Government’s £2.53bn Superfast Broadband Programme (SFBB) has so far helped to extend 24-30Mbps+ capable UK ISP networks to 5,440,086 extra premises since 2012 and the latest take-up data to March 2022 shows strong demand, with adoption in most of the original build areas now exceeding 80%.

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Court Ruling Brings Clarity to UK Telecoms Disputes Over Rents and Wayleaves

22nd June, 2022 (0 Comments)

The UK Supreme Court has today handed down three judgements related to the contentious issue of land ownership and rent reductions on mobile masts, such as those that may occur when mobile and fixed wireless broadband operators (EE, Three UK, O2 and Vodafone etc.) attempt to upgrade an existing site.

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New Survey Warns Neighbours WiFi Could Slow Your Network

21st June, 2022 (18 Comments)

A new Censuswide survey of 2,001 UK people (aged 16+) that have broadband, which was commissioned by UK ISP Zen Internet, has found 99% of respondents were unaware of all the factors that could be slowing down their WiFi and 76% didn’t know their neighbour’s broadband router may be hindering their own connection.

ISP Quickline Boosts Network with Proximity Data Centre Deal

15th June, 2022 (0 Comments)

Broadband ISP Quickline, which runs a mix of Full Fibre (FTTP) and Fixed Wireless (FWA) networks across parts of Lincolnshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire in England, has signed a deal to boost their network by taking rack space in Proximity’s Nottingham data centre (edge colocation facility).

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OneWeb In-Flight LEO Broadband Test Hits 260Mbps on Boeing B777

14th June, 2022 (1 Comment)

British-registered OneWeb, which is partly owned by the UK gov and building a global constellation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) based ultrafast low-latency broadband satellites, has worked with commercial aviation terminal partner Stellar Blu Solutions to successfully test in-flight connectivity aboard a Boeing B777-200LR plane.

Alternative Full Fibre ISPs Cover 5.46 Million UK Premises in 2022

14th June, 2022 (4 Comments)

The Independent Networks Co-operative Association and Point Topic have published their 2022 report into the impact of alternative “full fibre” (FTTP/B) broadband networks, which reveals that such providers grew their UK cover by 111% in 2021 (up from 110% last year) to cover 5.46 million premises and could hit 11.6m this year.

Rural UK ISP Alncom Target 25000 Premises for FTTP Broadband

6th June, 2022 (5 Comments)

Alnwick-based ISP Alncom has today announced that they plan to extend the deployment of their new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to cover a further 25,000 rural premises across parts of Northumberland, County Durham and the Scottish Borders.

Quickline Trial Gives Ultrafast Broadband to North Yorkshire Villages

31st May, 2022 (0 Comments)

UK ISP Quickline has successfully connected up a number of small rural villages in the Coverdale area of North Yorkshire to a wireless 5G “ultrafast broadband” network, which forms part of a new £6.4m Government supported project – Mobile Access North Yorkshire (MANY) – that was first announced back in 2020 (here).

Scottish ISP Transmitair Hint at UK Gigabit Wireless Expansion

25th May, 2022 (3 Comments)

Fifa-based ISP Transmitair, which specialises in rolling out gigabit broadband speed capable Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) networks to rural parts of Scotland, has revealed that they “intend to expand [their] network into England, Wales and Northern Ireland“, while also extending its base to include semi-rural and urban customers.

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RouteThis Claims Device Overload Overwhelming UK Bandwidth

24th May, 2022 (14 Comments)

A new study of live data from nearly 3,000 ISPs around the world, which was conducted by remote Wi-Fi diagnostics firm RouteThis, has claimed that broadband users in the UK and Ireland are facing “significant connectivity issues“, despite increases in connection speeds, due to “device overload overwhelming bandwidth“.

Quickline Refreshes Brand, Moves HQ and Set to Double Staff

23rd May, 2022 (1 Comment)

UK ISP Quickline, which runs a mix of Full Fibre (FTTP) and Fixed Wireless (FWA) broadband networks across parts of Lincolnshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire, has refreshed their branding, moved their HQ to East Yorkshire and confirmed that their workforce will double again to 200 (it’s already doubled to 100 in the last six months).

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OneWeb Sign First Aviation Deal for Satellite Broadband on Planes

23rd May, 2022 (5 Comments)

Satellite broadband firm OneWeb, which is British-registered and partly owned by the UK Government, has today signed its first long-term distribution partnership agreement for the business aviation market with Gogo Business Aviation. Gogo’s service is widely used by a number of airlines for in-flight Wi-Fi, such as British Airways.