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ISP News Archives for February 2021

ISP Connectus Brings Gigabit Fibre to Winsford Industrial Estate

16th Feb 2021 (4 Comments)

Business focused UK ISP Connectus has announced that more than 100 companies operating out of the large Winsford Industrial Estate in Cheshire (England) can now access gigabit-capable broadband speeds after the provider designed, funded and deployed a new network to the area.

Virgin Media UK Tops 5.42 Million Broadband Users as Network Grows

16th Feb 2021 (17 Comments)

Broadband ISP and TV provider Virgin Media UK (Liberty Global) has just published their latest Q4 2020 results, which saw their network coverage extend to another 115,000 premises and their internet access base add +54,700 new customers (up from +47k in the previous quarter) to total 5,420,100.

Virgin Media Speed Woes Lead to Customers Borrowing WiFi

16th Feb 2021 (94 Comments)

A long-running problem on Virgin Media’s broadband ISP network in Long Ditton, a residential suburb in the Borough of Elmbridge (Surrey, UK), has resulted in such slow speeds that some customers have resorted to unusual fixes, such as parking on neighbours driveways to borrow WiFi or returning to the office instead of working from home.

Rural UK ISP Alncom Secures Investment to Boost FTTP Rollout UPDATE

15th Feb 2021 (0 Comments)

Alnwick-based broadband ISP Alncom, which has built a mix of rural-focused Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) and ultrafast Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based networks, has today announced that they’ve secured an unspecified funding boost from strategic investors at Railsite Telecom to support their future expansion.

Business Investment in UK Telecoms Sees Sharp Fall in Q3 2020

15th Feb 2021 (1 Comment)

A new study by tax relief consultancy Catax, which analysed the latest data from the Office of National Statistics (ONS), has reported that business investment in the UK telecoms sector has fallen for a fifth consecutive quarter and plummeted by 9.2% in Q3 2020 alone.

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UK Ranks 6th out of 169 Countries for 2021 Internet Accessibility

15th Feb 2021 (15 Comments)

A new 2021 Worldwide Internet Accessibility Index has just been published by comparison site Broadband Choices, which ranks 169 countries and territories on the quality of their broadband and mobile infrastructure to find the world’s most connected countries. Interestingly the United Kingdom managed to place 6th overall.

Uswitch 2021 Awards Name Top UK Broadband and TV Providers

15th Feb 2021 (20 Comments)

The winners of the annual Uswitch.com Awards 2021 have today been unveiled, which among other categories saw UK ISP Plusnet scoop the win for “Broadband Provider of the Year“, while Virgin Media once again grabbed the “Fastest Broadband Provider” crown and BT were named best “TV Provider of the Year.” Read on for the full list.

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North Yorkshire UK Prep Fibre Broadband and Rural WiFi Boost

15th Feb 2021 (7 Comments)

The North Yorkshire County Council is reportedly preparing to start a new scheme worth £3m, which among other things will rollout a free public WiFi network across 16 of the county’s “rural” market towns – stretching from Scarborough to Skipton. Ultrafast full fibre broadband will also be deployed to 6 rural business parks.

Full Fibre UK ISP Vorboss Acquired by Fern Trading Limited

13th Feb 2021 (1 Comment)

Network builder and ISP Vorboss, which some time ago spoke of plans to deploy their own business “full fibre” broadband network to 250,000 premises in large UK urban areas by the end of 2022 (here), has been acquired by Fern Trading Limited (Fern Fibre Limited) for an as yet undisclosed sum.

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Only 36% of UK Parents Describe their Broadband as Highly Reliable

13th Feb 2021 (34 Comments)

A new OnePoll survey of 2,000 UK adults, which was commissioned by rural full fibre ISP Truespeed, has found that 67% of parents say they need “fast broadband” because they work from home, but only 36% claim to have a “highly reliable” home connection and 46% say they suffer “broadband problems” at least once a week.

Swish Fibre Expands Full Fibre Rollout in South Buckinghamshire

12th Feb 2021 (5 Comments)

UK ISP Swish Fibre, which is working to deploy a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to cover 250,000 premises in the Home Counties, has signed an agreement with civil engineering firm MGM Utilities that will see them extend into Gerrards Cross and Bourne End (South Buckinghamshire).

Virgin Media UK to Boost Free TV Offer with More Channels

12th Feb 2021 (2 Comments)

Customers of broadband ISP Virgin Media, specifically those who take their Pay TV bundles, may be pleased to know that they’ll all be given free access to 22 entertainment, lifestyle, and learning-based channels from Monday 15th February, including thousands of on-demand episodes. But it’s only temporary.

nPerf Ranks EE Top in 2021 Benchmark of UK Mobile Networks

12th Feb 2021 (8 Comments)

French company nPerf has today published the results of their annual crowd-sourced data study into UK mobile broadband (4G, 5G) performance, which finds that EE has unseated rival Vodafone from last year’s top spot and is now named as the best operator across most of the performance categories.

Ofcom Hits O2 UK with £10.5m Fine for Overcharging Customers

12th Feb 2021 (2 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 (Telefonica UK) has this morning been hit with a fine of £10.5 million after the telecoms regulator, Ofcom, found that more than 140,000 of their customers had been “overcharged” – due to billing errors – when leaving the operator between 2011 and 2019.

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Over a Third of UK Home Workers are Switching to Mobile Data

12th Feb 2021 (52 Comments)

A new YouGov survey of 4,328 British adults, which was commissioned by mobile operator O2, has found that 36% of Brits currently working from home (1,351 of the respondents) are regularly switching to mobile broadband (4G / 5G data) to stay online and 61% say it’s made the working experience better.

170 Openreach Repayment Project Engineers to Go On Strike

12th Feb 2021 (17 Comments)

The Communications Workers Union has announced that 170 of Openreach’s Repayment Project Engineers (RPE) are set to go on a 48 hour strike in two weeks’ time after the two sides failed to reach an agreement over the imposition of grading changes, which might affect areas like salaries, holidays and terms for newcomers.

Sky Mobile UK Customers are Now Able to Share Out Spare Data

11th Feb 2021 (15 Comments)

Sky (Sky Broadband) has this week added a temporary new feature to their 4G and 5G powered Sky Mobile plans, which enables customers with lots of spare data (mobile broadband) in their “Piggybank” to share some of it with someone they know who may need it (e.g. friends or family).