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ISP News Archives for September 2019

ISP G.Network Live and Bringing Gigabit Broadband to London Homes UPDATE

7th Sep 2019 (9 Comments)

UK ISP G.Network, which between 2017 and 2018 hoovered up £65m of private investment (here) to support their ambition for rolling out FTTP “ultra-fast broadband” to 120,000 premises across parts of London, has spent most of 2019 on the initial build of their network and the first homes have already gone live.

Councils Object to Planning Changes for Boosting UK Mobile Cover

6th Sep 2019 (27 Comments)

The National Association of Local Councils (NALC) has voiced strong opposition to new plans by the UK government, which last month proposed to simplify the planning rules (Permitted Development Rights) for new mobile infrastructure (4G / 5G masts etc.) in order to improve rural network coverage across England.

Plaid Cymru’s 3 Point Plan to “Eradicate” Broadband Notspots in Wales

6th Sep 2019 (2 Comments)

The Party of Wales (Plaid Cymru) appears to expecting a general election soon as they’ve recently set out a new – if somewhat familiar – three-point plan, which primarily aims to “eradicate Wales of broadband not-spots by 2025.” Sadly they neglect to define what “broadband” means, in terms of either speed or technology.

Connectus Target Gigabit Broadband for Stadia and Other UK Venues

6th Sep 2019 (3 Comments)

ISP Connectus Group has teamed up with former England Rugby Union and British Lions player, Phil Greening, to help guide its efforts to deliver “gigabit capable broadband, VOIP and Cyber Security solutions” to stadia and other venues across the UK. The first to benefit has been the AJ Bell Stadium in Manchester.

Government Name 100 England Towns Set for Faster Broadband Boost

6th Sep 2019 (29 Comments)

At the end of July the UK Government announced that part of their new £3.6bn Towns Fund would go toward supporting an initial 100 towns “so that they will get the improved transport and improved broadband connectivity that they need” (here). The names of those towns, which includes a few cities, have today been published.

Copper Cable Thieves Strike Openreach AGAIN in Cambridgeshire UK

6th Sep 2019 (23 Comments)

Police are investigating after around 2,200 premises in Cambourne were left without broadband ISP and phone access to Openreach’s (BT) national network following a major theft of the operator’s core copper cables, which is the latest in a spate of seemingly related “Metal Theft” incidents in Cambridgeshire.

UK ISPs TalkTalk, BT, Sky Broadband Hit by Major Yahoo! Email Outage

5th Sep 2019 (9 Comments)

A major outage of the Yahoo! email service is today impacting various UK internet service providers that use the same platform, such as Sky Broadband, BT and TalkTalk, among others. The problems began at around 7am this morning and appear to be on-going this afternoon.

A Look at Openreach’s New Small FTTP Broadband ONT and Mini OLT

5th Sep 2019 (50 Comments)

Installations of Openreach’s (BT) Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based UK ultrafast broadband ISP technology will soon begin seeing a new Optical Network Unit (ONT), which is not only very compact (pictured top) but also comes in at a third of the cost of the existing unit. Obviously they’ve sacrificed a few little things.

Cityfibre Adds Cubis to its List of UK Full Fibre Network Suppliers

4th Sep 2019 (8 Comments)

Fibre optic network builder Cityfibre has today signed a new strategic supplier agreement with Cubis (CRH Group), which will see them supply the UK operator with access chambers, covers and cable management systems to aid their FTTP broadband deployments until December 2020.

ISP BorderLink Hints at New Wireless Broadband Mast for Yarrow UPDATE

4th Sep 2019 (5 Comments)

Wireless broadband ISP BorderLink, which since 2017 claims to have deployed 72 relay stations across part of the eastern Scottish Borders and North Northumberland region (map pictured), has proposed the possibility of installing a new 4m high relay to serve rural properties around Peat Law (west of Selkirk).

OneWeb Pledge Fibre Like Satellite Broadband Speeds to Arctic Region

4th Sep 2019 (8 Comments)

British registered space company OneWeb has announced that the first area to be covered by their new compact Low Earth Orbit (LEO) ultrafast broadband satellites will be those above the 60th parallel North (Arctic), which might possibly include some of Scotland’s remote north isles.

ISP Virgin Media UK Finish FTTP Build to 4000 Premises in Ossett

4th Sep 2019 (0 Comments)

Cable ISP Virgin Media has confirmed that they’ve just completed another network extension, which has built their 500Mbps+ capable “full fibre” (FTTP) broadband and TV network to cover 4,000 homes and businesses in the West Yorkshire town of Ossett (population 22,000). This follows the 600 added in Wallasey (Wirral) last week.

Frustration with Poor Broadband Highest in Southampton and Glasgow

4th Sep 2019 (7 Comments)

A new survey of 2,000 UK consumers, which was conducted by ISP Zen Internet, has claimed that almost one in five broadband users in Southampton (20%) and Glasgow (18%) are “fed up” with their ISP. As usual nearly half of the respondents in Southampton (47%) and Glasgow (46%) cited slow speeds, with reliability close behind.

EE Comes Top in Tutela’s 2019 State of UK Mobile Networks Report

4th Sep 2019 (12 Comments)

Crowdsourced data analysis firm Tutela has today published their annual 2019 State of Mobile Networks report for the United Kingdom, which among other things found that you’ll get the fastest 3G and 4G mobile broadband download speeds in Scotland (median average of 14.6Mbps). Overall EE delivered the best operator scores.

ISP Sky Broadband Officially Launch New Router and WiFi Guarantee

4th Sep 2019 (28 Comments)

UK ISP Sky Broadband has today taken the official wraps off their new Sky Hub (SR203 / Sky Q Hub 2) wireless broadband router and confirmed the launch of a new Sky WiFi Guarantee, the latter of which also comes with the existing “Boost” add-on features but costs +£5 extra per month instead of the current +£2.50.

Ex Virgin Media and Vodafone Man Becomes TalkTalk UK Biz MD

3rd Sep 2019 (0 Comments)

UK ISP TalkTalk Business (TTB) has appointed Jonathan Kini as its new Managing Director. Jonathan has previously held senior roles at both cable broadband operator Virgin Media and mobile giant Vodafone, as well as working for Drax Plc as CEO of the Customer Business and acting as an advisor to the Bank of England.

Sky Pick telent to Upgrade WiFi at Cricket Grounds Across the UK

3rd Sep 2019 (4 Comments)

Sky (Sky TV / Sky Broadband) has partnered with telent and the English and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) to complete an upgrade of the legacy public WiFi infrastructure at a number of cricket grounds across the United Kingdom, which they say should benefit “hundreds of thousands of fans” with better coverage, capacity and network speeds.