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The UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has today announced a shortlist of finalists for this year’s 22nd annual industry awards, which has seen broadband ISPs being nominated for awards across various different categories and the 2020 event will include a few new additions to those.
New UK ISP People’s Fibre, which earlier this year revealed that they intended to deploy a 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network (starting in North Wales), have abruptly pulled out of a planned roll-out in Deeside due to Openreach’s rival full fibre plans “directly blocking both our progress and investment.”
UK ISP Virgin Media (Liberty Global) has today announced that a further 6,000 premises have been connected to their new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based gigabit-capable broadband and TV network, which follows the completion of a deployment in Manchester’s inner city area of Longsight.
New customers looking to take out a rolling monthly contract for Hyperoptic’s service, which has deployed their “full fibre” (FTTP/B) broadband ISP network to well over 400,000 UK premises (mostly large apartment blocks), may like to know that they can how benefit from a free 3 month speed boost as an added incentive.
Cable and full fibre ISP Virgin Media UK could be about to make a number of significant service changes for July 2020, such as making their existing 516Mbps (36Mbps upload) broadband bundle available to non-TV (standalone) customers and then boosting their TV Oomph plan to a top download of 600Mbps!
The UK Department for Education and ISP BT have today announced that they will provide in-need families with six months’ of free access to the their network of WiFi access points, which extends to 5.5 million hotspots across the country. It’s not quite the free broadband that some have been clamouring for (here), but it’s welcome.