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City focused fibre optic ISP Hyperoptic has discounted the price of their 30Mbps to 1000Mbps capable FTTP/B broadband packages for April 2018 (available around parts of 28 UK cities). On top of that they’re also offering free activation (saving £40) on their standalone broadband packages when used with the promo code SPRING40 during sign-up.
Customers of the BTMobile service may be pleased to know that they too can now access a proper Wi-Fi Calling service, which means you can make calls over your home broadband or public WiFi network, even if there’s no mobile signal. The operator has also added 4G Calling (better known as Voice over LTE).
Business internet provider Elite claims to have recently lit more than 100,000 postcodes on their new Dark Fibre fed network, starting in London, for the United Kingdom’s “lowest cost Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet,” with an additional 60,000 to come in the next 4-6 months.
The House of Lords Communications Committee has launched a new inquiry that will investigate regulation of the internet, which among other things will examine “whether online platforms have sufficient accountability and transparency, and whether they use fair and effective processes to moderate content.”
Telcom Networks has chosen the 160km long ‘The Loop‘ fibre optic network from Gamma to deliver multi-Gigabit broadband and Ethernet data speeds to potentially hundreds of businesses across Manchester. Initially only 15 prominent buildings in the city centre will be connected but many more should follow.
At present nearly all of the modern broadband routers and computers that you buy will support the 802.11ac standard for WiFi Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN) via the 2.4GHz and 5GHz spectrum bands. But get ready because the 10Gbps capable 802.11ax standard is coming.