Home » UK ISP News Archive » Monthly Archives: December 2020 (117 Posts Found)

ISP News Archives for December 2020

ISP Wildanet Get £50m to Rollout FTTP Broadband in Cornwall UK

22nd Dec 2020 (1 Comment)

Broadband ISP Wildanet, which until recently had focused on deploying a wireless network across rural parts of Cornwall in South West England, has secured a major investment of £50m from the Gresham House British Strategic Investment Infrastructure Fund (BSIF) to help it deploy gigabit-capable full fibre.

Cross Party UK MPs Criticise 2025 Gigabit Broadband Target UPDATE

22nd Dec 2020 (9 Comments)

The DCMS Select Committee of cross-party MPs has today published the results of their inquiry into the Government’s £5bn pledge to ensure that 85%+ of the UK can access a “gigabit-capable” broadband service by 2025 and the role of 5G mobile. Unsurprisingly, they found significant concerns with deliverability.

Draft Strategy for £5bn UK Gigabit Broadband Rollout Published UPDATE

22nd Dec 2020 (24 Comments)

The Government has today published the draft procurement strategy for their new £5bn Gigabit Broadband Programme (F20), which is a consultation on their plan to ensure that gigabit-capable networks reach a “minimum” of 85% UK coverage by the end of 2025 (before getting “as close to 100% as possible” thereafter).

Full Fibre Ltd to Rollout FTTP Broadband to 500k UK Premises

21st Dec 2020 (3 Comments)

Network provider Full Fibre Limited, which last year started building a new 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network in various “rural and semi-urban areas” (here), has secured a financing deal with Basalt Infrastructure Partners that will enable them to cover “at least” 500,000 UK premises by 2025.

NordVPN Moving Network from 1Gbps to 10Gbps Servers UPDATE

21st Dec 2020 (9 Comments)

NordVPN, which is a popular Virtual Private Network (VPN) provider, has announced that they’re upgrading more of their infrastructure to adopt 10Gbps (Gigabits per second) capable servers in order to boost speeds. London, Singapore, and a part of the US are planned to go live by the end of this year.

VIDEO – Using a DIY Microwave Link to Solve Slow Broadband

21st Dec 2020 (31 Comments)

The General Manager of UK ISP Andrews & Arnold (AAISP), Alex Bloor, appears to have launched his own personal YouTube channel and one of the first videos to go up is an interesting one that shows how he solved his own broadband problems by installing a Microwave (wireless) link to the local data centre.

89 Exchanges Left in BT Wholesale 20CN to 21CN WBC Upgrade

19th Dec 2020 (47 Comments)

Given all the focus on fibre services, it’s sometimes easy to forget that a few of BT Wholesale‘s exchanges are still using 20CN technology and have yet to be upgraded to the 21st Century Network (21CN) powered Wholesale Broadband Connect (WBC) platform (this process started in 2004). So here’s a little progress update.

OneWeb UK Successfully Launches 36 LEO Broadband Satellites

18th Dec 2020 (13 Comments)

As promised space company OneWeb, which is owned by a consortium of the UK Government and Indian conglomerate Bharti Global (here), has today successfully launched their next batch of 36 high-speed broadband capable Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Satellites – built with support from Airbus – into orbit.

Ofcom Ponder Regulated Social Tariff for UK Broadband and Mobile

18th Dec 2020 (17 Comments)

Ofcom has published the results of new research into the affordability of consumer fixed broadband and mobile internet services, which finds that 19% of UK households (19%) – c.4.7 million homes – struggle to afford their telecoms services. Some 6% have difficulties paying for their broadband, while 5% struggle with mobile bills.

GigaTAG List Solutions to Boost UK Gigabit Broadband Take-up UPDATE

18th Dec 2020 (3 Comments)

The new Gigabit Take-Up Advisory Group (GigaTAG), which is led by paid consumer magazine Which? and various others (FSB, CBI, Ofcom etc.), has today published their first report that identifies a number of areas where improvements could be made to boost the take-up of 1Gbps capable broadband services in the UK.

Openreach Hire 5,300 Extra UK Fibre Engineers and Go Full EV

18th Dec 2020 (11 Comments)

Openreach (BT), which plans to invest £12bn to extend their 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network to 20 million UK premises by the mid to late 2020s (2025 – 2030), has confirmed that they will create another 5,300 engineering jobs during 2021. Plus they’ll convert their entire fleet to EVs by 2030.

Trustwave Find Security Holes in D-Link’s DSL-2888A Router

17th Dec 2020 (0 Comments)

Digital security specialists at Trustwave (SpiderLabs) have once again found “numerous security vulnerabilities” in one of D-Link’s home broadband routers, specifically the DSL-2888A, which could allow a malicious WiFi or local network user to gain unauthorised access to the device.

EE’s 4G Mobile Network Covers 94% of All Great Britain’s Roads

17th Dec 2020 (10 Comments)

Mobile operator EE (BT) has revealed that their 4G based mobile network now covers 94% of all roads in Great Britain, which is said to be the equivalent of 322,000 miles. The news comes after Ofcom revealed (here) that EE had the strongest UK 4G geographic (landmass) coverage of 85%, but this is up just 1% from last year.

Virgin Media UK Gives Customers 3 Months Free Google One

17th Dec 2020 (5 Comments)

Existing customers of broadband ISP and mobile operator Virgin Media UK are now able to optionally take a subscription to Google One (i.e. the internet giant’s cloud storage service) “at no additional cost” for the first 3 months of service, but if you choose to keep it after that the price will be £1.59 per month.

Three UK Sees Average Mobile Data Use Per Customer Hit 15GB

17th Dec 2020 (18 Comments)

Mobile operator Three UK has today revealed that the average 4G and 5G data usage (mobile broadband), per customer, per month on their network smashed the 15GB (GigaBytes) barrier for the first time in October 2020 – this is said to reflect a 50% increase in data usage since the start of 2020 (10 months).

Connected Nations 2020 – UK Full Fibre Covers 5 Million Premises

17th Dec 2020 (11 Comments)

Ofcom has published their annual Connection Nations infrastructure report, which reveals that “full fibre” (FTTP) broadband ISP networks now cover 18% of UK premises (up from 10% last year) and 27% are within reach of a “gigabit” (1Gbps+) service (7.9 million). Meanwhile geographic 4G cover is given as a range from 79% to 85%.

Broadband ISP TalkTalk UK SOLD to Toscafund in £1.1bn Deal UPDATE

17th Dec 2020 (5 Comments)

After an extended period of negotiation TalkTalk, the budget broadband and phone provider that is currently home to around 4.2 million UK customers, has today officially recommend a £1.1bn takeover proposal from Toscafund, which including debt values the company at around £1.8bn.