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ISP News Archives for July 18, 2018

Openreach’s FTTP Rollout Reaches Over 600,000 UK Premises

18th Jul 2018 (8 Comments)

Openreach is in Cardiff today to talk-up the progress of their “Fibre First” project, which among other things confirmed that over the past few months they’ve added 100K premises to their UK coverage of “full fibre” FTTP broadband (total of 600,000+ premises passed).

EE UK Launch Cat 12 Enabled 4G Mobile Broadband Kit and Plans

18th Jul 2018 (27 Comments)

Mobile operator EE has today launched a new range of 4G based Mobile Broadband plans and devices, which includes their 4GEE WiFi router that supports the latest Category 12 (3GPP Release 11) LTE specification for top download speeds of up to 600Mbps and uploads of up to 100Mbps (capacity and network allowing).

INCA Launch UK Awards Event to Find the Best AltNet Broadband ISPs

18th Jul 2018 (0 Comments)

The Independent Networks Co-operative Association (INCA) has today announced the launch of their inaugural awards scheme (The INCAs), which aims to recognise and celebrate the best alternative network providers (altnets) for broadband connectivity across the United Kingdom.

Ofcom Q1 2018 ISP Complaints Report Praises Sky – Shames TalkTalk

18th Jul 2018 (3 Comments)

Ofcom has just published their latest Q1 2018 UK consumer complaints study, which notes that Sky Broadband attracted the least gripes for fixed line broadband and phone services, while TalkTalk attracted the most complaints for both. Pay TV and Mobile providers are also covered.

ISP Vodafone Pick 50 Homes as First to Test 1Gbps FTTH Broadband UPDATE

18th Jul 2018 (22 Comments)

Some 50 family homes in Milton Keynes (Buckinghamshire) have been selected as the first to trial Vodafone’s new Gigafast Broadband product, which is based off the 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) network that is currently being deployed by Cityfibre to cover 1 million UK homes in up to 12 of their existing cities by 2021.

Rising Sea Levels Put Submarine Fibre Optic Cables At Risk – No Really

18th Jul 2018 (1 Comment)

New research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison has warned that rising sea levels will soon threaten the land-based stations for undersea fibre optic cables, as well as data centres and other vital international telecoms infrastructure situated in or around low lying coastal areas.

UK Internet Video Streaming Services Overtake Traditional Pay TV

18th Jul 2018 (0 Comments)

Ofcom has today published their annual Media Nations 2018 report and revealed that subscriptions to popular broadband based video streaming platforms (e.g. Netflix, NOW TV and Amazon) have for the first time overtaken those of traditional Pay TV in the UK. On top of that Pay TV revenues also declined for first time.

Setback After Airband Build Devon Wireless Mast Without Permission UPDATE

18th Jul 2018 (4 Comments)

Wireless UK ISP Airband, which holds a number of multi-million pound state aid fuelled contracts to deploy “superfast broadband” (30Mbps+) across rural parts of Devon and Somerset, appears to have got itself into trouble with South Hams District Council after they built a 24 metre high mast without permission.

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