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ISP News Archives for April 23, 2020

Rural UK ISP Gigaclear Brings FTTP to 10,000 Essex Premises

23rd Apr 2020 (8 Comments)

Full fibre ISP Gigaclear has announced that their on-going roll-out of a 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network in Essex (England) has now covered 10,000 premises, which includes 1,153 homes and businesses that were added in just the last month alone. A further 20,000 are due to be covered by December 2021.

Disney+ Goes Live on NOW TV’s UK Video Streaming Service

23rd Apr 2020 (3 Comments)

Sky’s sibling UK ISP and TV streaming service, NOW TV (NOW Broadband), has today finally added the Disney+ app to its platform. Naturally customers will still need to purchase Disney+ directly through Disney and then sign-in on their account through the new app in order to access its content.

UK Creeps Up 2020 FTTH Ultrafast Broadband Country Ranking

23rd Apr 2020 (6 Comments)

The FTTH Council Europe has today published their annual 2020 ranking, which lists the countries with the strongest subscriber penetration of “full fibre” (FTTP/H/B) ultrafast broadband ISP networks. The good news is that the United Kingdom continues to claw its way up and is no longer at the very bottom.

Government Attempts to Expand UK Internet Snooping Bodies

23rd Apr 2020 (8 Comments)

The Government appears to have decided that, while the country’s attention is distracted by the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) crisis, it might as well try to increase the number of bodies capable of obtaining communications data from UK phone, mobile and broadband ISPs under the Investigatory Powers Act (IPAct).

Rollout of Ultrafast Broadband Must Continue Despite COVID-19

23rd Apr 2020 (23 Comments)

The Independent Networks Co-operative Association (INCA) has today said that “delivery of ultrafast broadband to all parts of the UK must continue” despite the current COVID-19 lockdown conditions, which have put significant strain on complex supply chains and exasperated the shortage of skilled telecoms engineers.

Virgin Media to Extend Hub 4 Availability for WiFi Boost.. sort of UPDATE

23rd Apr 2020 (63 Comments)

Sources indicate that broadband ISP Virgin Media UK are imminently due to start expanding the availability of their latest HUB 4.0 (ARRIS TG3492LG-VMB) router outside of the new 1Gbps network areas, which we understand will be marketed as a WiFi improvement. But there are other reasons for the move.

BT Part Fixes InLink Kiosk Problem – Rebrands to Street Hubs

23rd Apr 2020 (4 Comments)

BT has partly resolved an issue that left many of their InLink UK smart WiFi broadband kiosks without a working tablet or free phone calling functionality (feedback from ISPreview.co.uk readers suggests this has been going on for over a week). The units have also been rebranded to “Street Hubs.“

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