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ISP News Archives for September 2020

Scottish Government Invests £4m to Boost Interest in 5G Mobile

17th Sep 2020 (0 Comments)

The Scottish Government (SG) has today announced a new funding package of £4 million, which will be used to establish a new “national network of hubs” – S5GConnect Hubs – to help accelerate the adoption of ultrafast 5G based mobile (mobile broadband) technology across Scotland.

Jurassic Fibre Prep 1Gbps Broadband for Honiton and Taunton

16th Sep 2020 (11 Comments)

Full fibre UK broadband ISP Jurassic Fibre, which plans to cover 350,000 premises with a 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network in South West England (here and here), has confirmed that they’ll start to expand outside of Devon and into Somerset, with Honiton and Taunton being the next two areas to benefit.

Cambium Networks Launch 60GHz multi-Gigabit Wireless Tech

16th Sep 2020 (4 Comments)

Cambium Networks has today become one of the first companies to make a new network solution available to UK ISPs that harnesses the 60GHz radio spectrum band, Facebook’s Terragraph technology and Qualcomm’s latest 802.11ay (WiFi) compliant standard to deliver multi-Gigabit wireless broadband speeds.

Alternative UK Fibre ISPs Support Common Wholesale Platform Idea

16th Sep 2020 (12 Comments)

Research from the Independent Networks Co-operative Association (INCA) has claimed that 88.7% of the UK’s challenger alternative broadband network (AltNet) providers would support the creation of a common platform, through which they could provide wholesale services to third-party providers.

Virgin Media Business Launch 4G Start-up and Back-up Services

16th Sep 2020 (9 Comments)

UK broadband ISP Virgin Media Business has today launched a new 4G mobile powered “business-grade” Back-up (failover with unlimited data) and Start-up service, which aims to help businesses across the country “get online faster and stay connected“.

New 4G Emergency Services Network Faces Another 2 Year Delay

16th Sep 2020 (18 Comments)

The Permanent Secretary for the UK Home Office, Matthew Rycroft, has informed the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that the new 4G based Emergency Services Network (ESN) is now unlikely to completely take over from the existing platform until early 2024 or late 2025. Previously it was due by December 2022.

SSE Enterprise Telecoms 100Gbps Network Adds 8 New Data Centres

16th Sep 2020 (0 Comments)

Network operator SSE Enterprise Telecoms (SSEET), which manages a large fibre optic network that spans across the United Kingdom, has today added 8 “new” commercial datacentres to their 100Gbps capable network and upgraded 4 existing ones (total of 90).

EU Court Ruling Challenges Mobile Operators Zero Rating Plans UPDATE

15th Sep 2020 (18 Comments)

A new ruling by Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has today, for the first time, interpreted the EU regulation enshrining “internet neutrality” (this was also adopted in the UK), which appears to restrict mobile and broadband operators when offering zero rating plans (i.e. unlimited data on certain services).

Openreach Name 67 UK Areas for Next FTTP Broadband Rollout

15th Sep 2020 (104 Comments)

Openreach (BT) have today added 67 new locations into their UK “Fibre Cities” roll-out programme for 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP technology, which forms part of their £12bn project to cover 20 million premises by around the mid to late 2020s (2025 – 2030).

755 Extra Rural Buckinghamshire Premises to Get FTTP Broadband

15th Sep 2020 (5 Comments)

A joint £2.1m project between Openreach (BT), Buckinghamshire County Council and the Buckinghamshire Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) looks set to result in a further 270 businesses and 485 homes in the county’s most rural communities gaining access to a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network.

O2 Claims Mobile Protected £205bn of UK Business During Lockdown

15th Sep 2020 (1 Comment)

A new O2 commissioned survey of 1,000 adults has claimed that 20% of UK business – reflecting £205bn of economic output – was safeguarded by the power of mobile connectivity during the COVID-19 lockdown between March and September 2020, which it did by enabling many people to work flexibly and remain productive at home.

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Cityfibre UK Build 1Gb FTTP Broadband into First Rural Village

15th Sep 2020 (0 Comments)

Cityfibre’s FibreNation division, which was previously owned by UK ISP TalkTalk (here), has just completed an interesting new pilot Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) build that saw them deliver gigabit broadband to homes in the rural villages of Hollins Green and Rixton (Warrington). The operator usually only does towns and cities.

Morrison Telecom Services and Telent Support Openreach’s FTTP Rollout UPDATE2

15th Sep 2020 (14 Comments)

Civil engineering firm Morrison Telecom Services (MTS), part of the M Group Services, and Telent both appear to have secured another contract (or extension) with Openreach (BT), which will see them support the operator’s expanded £12bn UK deployment of Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP technology.

BT Wholesale UK Broadband Checker Adds a Few New Details UPDATE

14th Sep 2020 (18 Comments)

The BT Wholesale Broadband Checker service, which is more intended for UK network operators and ISPs but has always been useful to help consumers check the capability of Openreach based lines, has recently added a few new options at the bottom for ‘Exchange Product Restrictions‘.

Fibrus Win Contract for N.Ireland Superfast Broadband Project UPDATE

14th Sep 2020 (15 Comments)

Multiple credible sources have informed ISPreview.co.uk that the Northern Ireland Executive are set to announced that alternative network ISP Fibrus has beaten BT (Openreach) to be chosen as the main supplier for their £165m Project Stratum programme, which will extend “superfast broadband” (30Mbps+) coverage.

FACTCO Brings FTTP Broadband to Northumberland UK Village

14th Sep 2020 (0 Comments)

Some 400 properties (homes and businesses) in the Northumberland coastal village of Cambois are set to gain access to a 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network, which is thanks to a new partnership between the council-run iNorthumberland project and UK ISP FACTCO (Ecodial).

Cityfibre to Build 1Gbps FTTP Broadband Across Renfrewshire

14th Sep 2020 (4 Comments)

Fibre optic network builder Cityfibre UK has today entered into a new partnership with Renfrewshire Council, which will see them invest £40 million to roll-out their 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across homes and businesses in the historic towns of Paisley, Renfrew and Johnstone.