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25th Jun 2020 (27 Comments)

Customers of broadband ISP Virgin Media are reporting that the provider’s internet connectivity (and possibly also TV) has suffered another significant outage this morning, which appears to be affecting some different parts of the United Kingdom but is primarily focused upon the London area.

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25th Jun 2020 (16 Comments)

Mobile operator and UK ISP EE has today reintroduced converged pricing on their fixed line ADSL, FTTC and G.fast based home broadband plans, which in simple terms means that the operator’s existing Pay Monthly mobile customers will pay less than somebody who just orders their fixed line service by itself.

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25th Jun 2020 (8 Comments)

UK ISP Pulse8 Broadband has joined other providers in launching a variety of new “ultrafast broadband” packages based off Openreach’s G.fast technology, as well as a full suite of plans using their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, which includes the top 1000Mbps tier. But unlike others these are all 1 month contract terms.

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24th Jun 2020 (3 Comments)

Rural fibre optic broadband ISP Gigaclear has signed a 2 year extension contract with Emtelle, which is said to be worth £10m and will enable the internet provider to keep fuelling their deployments of Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) technology with kit from the fibre manufacturer.

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24th Jun 2020 (20 Comments)

The Welsh Government (WG) has today issued a short update on their various broadband schemes, which among other things reveals that 79,000 properties (categorised as “white premises”) still do not have access to “superfast broadband” (30Mbps+) and won’t benefit from any future roll-out plans within the next 3 years.

24th Jun 2020 (25 Comments)

The city of Aberdeen in Scotland is about to get a second “gigabit-capable” Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network after Openreach (BT) announced that it had finally started to roll-out in the area, which is already home to an existing deployment by rival Cityfibre (Gigafast Broadband).

24th Jun 2020 (5 Comments)

A recent update on the planned £350m Borderlands Inclusive Growth Deal has confirmed that internet slowspots in Northumberland and Cumbria (England) will “shortly” be able to take advantage of a new £4m Digital Borderlands Voucher Scheme, which will enable locals to access bigger vouchers to help install gigabit broadband.

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24th Jun 2020 (2 Comments)

A new report by the Trades Union Congress (TUC), which is based on research from Transition Economics, has called on the UK Government to “fast track” spending on projects such as gigabit broadband, green technology, transport and housing in order to deliver a 1.24 million jobs boost by 2022 (40,000 in telecoms alone).

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24th Jun 2020 (52 Comments)

Openreach (BT) has confirmed to ISPreview.co.uk that they do not intend to build their G.fast based “ultrafast broadband” (100Mbps+) ISP network to any more UK homes until April 2021. The service has been on pause since last year, when the operator re-focused toward gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) technology.

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23rd Jun 2020 (52 Comments)

A new survey of 1,000 UK video gamers, which was commissioned by full fibre broadband ISP Hyperoptic, has found that 44% of adult respondents named “the internet lagging” as the most infuriating aspect of online gaming, while 27% also complained about other players’ slow online speeds.

23rd Jun 2020 (0 Comments)

Broadband ISP WightFibre, which is deploying a 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) network across the Isle of Wight (South Coast of Hampshire, UK), has launched a “Connected Communities Programme” to help “fully or part fund” the installation and ongoing costs of bringing fibre to community hubs and charitable organisations.

23rd Jun 2020 (21 Comments)

The pace of Openreach’s (BT) commercial deployment of “gigabit-capable” Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP technology in Northern Ireland continues to impress, with the operator today confirming that they’ve just passed 360,000 premises (up by 100,000 since January 2020 alone) and intend to go much further.

22nd Jun 2020 (11 Comments)

The Policy Exchange, which is an educational charity that also claims to be the UK’s leading think tank, has published a new report that calls on the UK Government to help the post-COVID19 recovery by, among other things, investing more into “gigabit broadband” and reducing VAT from 20% to 15%.. again.

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22nd Jun 2020 (36 Comments)

Broadband ISPs iDNET, Cerberus Networks and Trunk Networks (Leetline) have all recently joined the small but growing number of UK internet providers that are now able to offer packages based off Openreach’s (BT) new 550Mbps (75Mbps upload) and 1000Mbps (115Mbps upload) consumer Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) tiers.

22nd Jun 2020 (3 Comments)

Sky (Comcast, Sky Broadband) and sibling NOW TV have today managed to avoid a repeat of the 2017 rights dispute by reaching a new “long-term” partnership with Discovery, which means that customers of their TV and streaming platforms will continue to receive the popular TV channels and content.

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22nd Jun 2020 (3 Comments)

The Thurrock Council has announced that a contract for delivery of the £4.436 million state aid funded Local Full Fibre Network (LFFN) build across South Essex, which aims to connect 129 public sector sites across Basildon, Brentwood, Castle Point, Rochford and Thurrock with gigabit capable broadband, will soon be awarded.

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20th Jun 2020 (29 Comments)

We thought we’d found them all, but we thought wrong. Another full fibre broadband ISP has surface today called YouFibre, which appears to be deploying their first gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across the small town of Peterlee in County Durham (England).

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