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ISP News Archives for August 2019

Thousands More in Leicestershire UK to Get Full Fibre Broadband

13th Aug 2019 (5 Comments)

The Leicestershire County Council has today announced a £2.7 million extension to their existing Superfast Leicestershire project with Openreach (BT), which means that “thousands” of extra homes and businesses will soon gain access to a Gigabit capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) ISP network.

Orkney MSP Calls for Clarity on Scotland’s R100 Broadband Target

13th Aug 2019 (6 Comments)

The MSP for Orkney, Liam McArthur (LibDem), has called on the Scottish Government’s Connectivity Minister, Paul Wheelhouse, to come clean with regards to whether or not they have now “quietly abandoned” the target to make “superfast broadband” (30Mbps+) available to all of Scotland by the end of 2021 (March 2022 financial).

Wireless UK ISP Airband Makes Progress on Herefordshire Rollout

13th Aug 2019 (3 Comments)

Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) ISP Airband has issued a short update on their state aid supported Fastershire contract. The provider is rolling out a new hybrid wireless and fibre optic 100Mbps+ broadband network to cover 10 rural communities (dispersed clusters) in Herefordshire (England), which has just gone live in Tedstone Wafre.

Customers of UK ISP BT See Multiplayer Lag Spikes During Streaming UPDATE

13th Aug 2019 (78 Comments)

Over the past few months some customers of BT’s broadband service have been contacting ISPreview.co.uk to highlight an unusual issue, which causes high ping (latency / lag) spikes while playing online video games at the same time as somebody is also streaming a video (Netflix, YouTube, Twitch, Sky on Demand etc.).

EE Named Best UK Mobile Operator for H1 2019 by RootMetrics

13th Aug 2019 (1 Comment)

RootMetrics will today publish their latest H1 2019 study of 4G mobile network performance in the United Kingdom, which once again concluded that EE (BT) is overall still the top performing operator and also delivered the fastest aggregate mobile broadband download speed in UK-wide testing (37.6Mbps). Sadly O2 remains at the bottom.

Quickline Get £12m to Rollout 100Mbps Wireless Across North of UK

12th Aug 2019 (5 Comments)

Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) ISP Quickline, which is part of Bigblu, has today announced that they’ve secured an investment of £12 million to help rollout a new unlimited “ultrafast broadband” (100Mbps+) capable network to 30,000 premises across the north of the United Kingdom (or at least part of it).

61% of UK Households Without the Internet Felt no Need for it

12th Aug 2019 (0 Comments)

The UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) has published their annual ‘Internet Access – Households and Individuals 2019‘ report, which among other things reveals how 93% of all households in Great Britain had access to the internet in 2019 but 61% of those without the internet did not feel as if they needed it.

Cityfibre’s FTTH Broadband Rollout Grows to 70,748 UK Premises

12th Aug 2019 (7 Comments)

The latest independent data has estimated that Cityfibre’s £2.5bn project to rollout a 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband network to cover 5 million premises across 37 UK cities and towns by the end of 2025 (here) – supported by ISP partner Vodafone – has so now reached 70,748 premises (August 2019).

O2 and Three UK Clash Over Ofcom 5G Spectrum Defragmentation Plan

12th Aug 2019 (11 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 (Telefonica) has criticised Ofcom’s recent proposal to defragment the 5G ultrafast mobile broadband friendly 3.4-3.8GHz radio spectrum bands after next year’s auction, which they complain favours Three UK (H3G) by allowing them to establish a “kingmaker” position from where they can obstruct rivals.

Autumn National Infrastructure Strategy to Boost UK Full Fibre Funding

10th Aug 2019 (26 Comments)

The Government’s seemingly unachievable new goal of blanketing the UK in Gigabit capable “full fibre” (FTTP) broadband connectivity by the end of 2025 is expected to get a boost in the autumn, which is thanks to the long-awaited publication of its National Infrastructure Strategy (NIS) that is widely said to include a major funding boost.

New UK ISP Swish Fibre Plan FTTP Broadband Rollout in South England

9th Aug 2019 (6 Comments)

The increasingly crowded market for “full fibre” focused UK alternative network (altnet) ISPs has grown again today as a new start-up called Swish Fibre enters the fray. The provider intends to rollout an “ultrafast broadband” Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to underserved homes and businesses from 2020.

Virgin Media Boss Confirms Interest in Total UK Network Coverage

9th Aug 2019 (13 Comments)

The CEO of Liberty Global, Mike Fries, has lent more weight to reports that sibling Virgin Media UK might be planning to establish an alternative network ISP in order to reach into the 10 million or so premises that their existing ultrafast cable and FTTP broadband network does not serve (e.g. rural areas, suburbs and smaller towns).

New Study Slams Lack of 100% UK Geographic 4G Mobile Coverage

9th Aug 2019 (22 Comments)

A new Which? study has found that in 524 out of 650 UK parliamentary constituencies 4G mobile coverage is not available via all four operators to the whole constituency. The most poorly-served city-based constituencies (all under 80% coverage) were Rochford, Southend, South West Devon, Romsey and Southampton North.

Gigaclear’s Rural FTTP Broadband Rollout in Essex UK Delayed Again UPDATE

9th Aug 2019 (27 Comments)

The Superfast Essex (SFE) project has begun informing rural residents in poorly served areas that completion of Gigaclear’s Phase 3 and Phase 4a contracts to rollout a new 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network have been delayed yet again, with completion being pushed from July 2020 to December 2021.

Openreach to Soft Launch Limited New UK Dark Fibre X Product

8th Aug 2019 (3 Comments)

Network access provider Openreach (BT) will today soft launch a new Dark Fibre X product into the UK market that is based off Ofcom’s somewhat restrictive design, which for the time being only focuses upon the limited inter-exchange connectivity market.

Virgin Media Hit 5.266 Million UK Broadband Users as Network Grows

8th Aug 2019 (25 Comments)

Cable ISP Virgin Media (Liberty Global) added another +7,100 UK customers to their broadband network during the second quarter of 2019 (down from +35K in Q1), which takes their total base to 5,266,700. Over the same period their network has deployed to cover another 130,000 premises (up from +102K last quarter).

Fidelity to Rollout First UK 5G Fixed Wireless Broadband in West Sussex UPDATE

8th Aug 2019 (1 Comment)

A new wireless ISP called Fidelity Broadband is planning to build and operate the United Kingdom’s first 1Gbps capable 5G based Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) service, which will harness transmitters in existing street lighting in order to potentially connect over 1 million premises “on-demand“.