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ISP News Archives for September 2019

Faulty Purple SIM Card Woes Strike Virgin Mobile UK Customers

3rd Sep 2019 (24 Comments)

Some customers of Virgin Media’s mobile network sibling – Virgin Mobile – are being affected by a batch of faulty purple SIM cards that for the past few weeks have been causing intermittent connectivity problems. The situation has even hit some of the replacement SIMs that were sent out in order to resolve the original problem.

CityFibre Appoints UK City Manager for Northampton Full Fibre Build

3rd Sep 2019 (2 Comments)

Fibre optic network builder Cityfibre has appointed local man James Cushing to overseen their £40m investment in Northampton, which over the next couple of years aims to cover almost the entire town with a 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network.

Some Progress on Resolving Part Built Fibre Broadband Areas in Wales

3rd Sep 2019 (9 Comments)

A hint of progress is in the air as the Welsh Government (WG), Openreach (BT) and Building Digital UK (DCMS) programme are continuing their efforts to find a solution for the “stranded assets” problem, which reflects thousands of premises on unfinished (part-built) “fibre broadband” (FTTC and FTTP) deployments in Wales.

Openreach Extend New Build FTTP Discounts to Commercial Premises

2nd Sep 2019 (19 Comments)

Last year’s move by Openreach (BT) to drop the deployment cost of their 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based ultrafast broadband ISP network infrastructure by an average of 75% (here), which focused upon new build UK homes at sites with fewer than 30 premises, has been extended to include commercial premises.

ISP Claims 15 Million UK Workers Suffer Emotionally Due to Internet Faults

2nd Sep 2019 (8 Comments)

A new study of 500 UK based organisations, which was conducted by business broadband ISP Beaming, has suggested that more than 15 million employees have suffered anger, impatience and worry as a result of being impacted by periods of internet downtime in their place of work.

Vodafone UK Home Broadband ISP Speeds Slow to a Crawl.. Again UPDATE2

2nd Sep 2019 (35 Comments)

Last week Vodafone blamed a significant bank holiday weekend fall in peak time fixed broadband speeds (here) on “human error when carrying out some routine maintenance work.” Unfortunately a similarly dramatic drop in speeds occurred on Sunday evening and the complaints soon piled up.

£1m from UK Gov to Boost Superfast Broadband in North Lincolnshire

2nd Sep 2019 (0 Comments)

The North Lincolnshire Council (NLC) has revealed that it could spend the £1m grant awarded to it in June 2019 by DEFRA’s Rural Broadband Infrastructure (RBI) scheme on extending “superfast broadband” connectivity around rural industrial estates on the edge of Scunthorpe.

iCon and Macquarie Ponder Investment in TalkTalk’s FibreNation FTTH

2nd Sep 2019 (0 Comments)

Budget UK ISP TalkTalk appears to be having some success in courting interest from investors in their sibling wholesale FibreNation company, which proposes to build a 1000Mbps “full fibre” (FTTP) broadband network to cover 3 million UK premises. The latest to enter the ring are investment firms iCon Infrastructure and Macquarie.

Sky Broadband Consider FTTP Partnership with Virgin Media Sibling

2nd Sep 2019 (13 Comments)

UK ISP Sky Broadband (Comcast) is reportedly in talks with Liberty Global (Virgin Media) about investing in their new Joint Venture company Liberty Fibre Limited, which looks set to compete with Openreach (BT) in rural areas by building its own open access Gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network.