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ISP News Archives for September 23, 2020

Quickline Win £8.1m Lincolnshire Superfast Broadband Contract

23rd Sep 2020 (2 Comments)

UK ISP Quickline, which is part of the Bigblu group, has today won another £8.1m contract that will see them extend their fibre optic fed Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) network to cover a further 8,000 premises (homes and businesses) in rural parts of Lincolnshire with “superfast” (30Mbps+) and “ultrafast” (100Mbps+) broadband.

Ex-BT CEO to Help UK Gov Hunt for New Telecoms Suppliers

23rd Sep 2020 (6 Comments)

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has announced that the Ex-BT CEO and former trade minister, Lord Ian Livingston, will lead a new “Telecoms Diversification Task Force” to help diversify the UK’s telecoms (mobile and broadband) supply chain and reduce reliance on high-risk vendors like Huawei.

BT Launch UK Ethernet FTTP Service for Wholesale Customers UPDATE

23rd Sep 2020 (22 Comments)

BT Wholesale, which supplies broadband and data connectivity services to UK ISPs, has today launched a new Ethernet Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) service for businesses that offers uncontended connections, “ultra-low latency“, installs within 5 days (existing ONT, otherwise c.11 days) and speeds up to 1Gbps.

Tutela’s August Data Ranks UK Mobile Operators by Performance

23rd Sep 2020 (4 Comments)

Crowdsourced benchmarking firm Tutela has just published their latest analysis of mobile broadband (4G) focused network performance for the United Kingdom, which predictably finds that EE continues to come top in all but one category and Three UK trails far behind the pack due to a legacy of 3G.

Openreach Bring Enhanced Care Levels to G.fast and SOGEA Lines

23rd Sep 2020 (4 Comments)

Openreach (BT) has announced that the option of faster service repairs (Service Maintenance Level 3 and 4), albeit at extra cost, will be added to their ultrafast-capable hybrid fibre G.fast and standalone SOGEA (SOGfast) broadband lines for UK ISPs from 21st October 2020.

Lord Vaizey’s Comical Anecdote for Poor Rural UK Mobile Cover

23rd Sep 2020 (16 Comments)

The UK’s former Culture and Digital Minister (2010 – 2016), Lord Vaizey of Didcot, gave his Maiden Speech this week in the House of Lords, during a debate on the new Counter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill. As part of that he included an amusing anecdote about the impact of his earlier inability to solve rural mobile coverage.

ISPA Celebrate 25th Anniversary with Summary of UK Broadband

23rd Sep 2020 (2 Comments)

The UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has today celebrated their 25th Anniversary with the release of a new report, which charts how much the internet and broadband connectivity in the United Kingdom has changed over the past 25 years. Going from dialup speeds to gigabits.

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