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ISP News Archives for March 10, 2021

ISP Lightning Fibre UK Begins Hastings FTTP Broadband Rollout

10th Mar 2021 (11 Comments)

Some 45,000 homes and businesses in the coastal town of Hastings (East Sussex, England) have today been confirmed as the next to benefit from ISP Lightning Fibre‘s deployment of a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network, with work now getting underway.

Vodafone UK Launch Mobile Plans for Disadvantaged Communities

10th Mar 2021 (1 Comment)

Mobile operator Vodafone, which previously offered 350,000 free mobile broadband SIMs (30GB allowance – valid for 90 days) to disadvantaged school children across the UK (here), has today launched a new range of discounted plans to help private and public sector organisations to get their most vulnerable customers online.

CityFibre Spend £1.5m to Extend Peterborough’s FTTP Broadband

10th Mar 2021 (5 Comments)

CityFibre has announced that they will invest an additional £1.5m to boost the coverage of their original £30m project in the Cambridgeshire city of Peterborough, which was one of their first deployments of a 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network with UK ISP partner Vodafone (plus TalkTalk).

Ofcom to Start UK 5G Mobile Auction for 700MHz and 3.6-3.8GHz

10th Mar 2021 (47 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today confirmed that their auction of the 700MHz and 3.6-3.8GHz radio spectrum bands will begin this Friday (12th March). The move should ultimately help to improve the coverage and speed of 5G mobile (mobile broadband) networks.

Starlink Extends LEO Satellite Broadband Coverage in the UK

10th Mar 2021 (54 Comments)

In a brief announcement Starlink (SpaceX) has today confirmed that their new constellation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) based ultrafast broadband satellites is “now available in parts of Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England,” which is in addition to existing service areas across southern England.

Work Plan for UK Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum Published

10th Mar 2021 (0 Comments)

The newly established Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum (DRCF), which brings together several regulators (the Competition & Markets Authority, Ofcom and Information Commissioner’s Office) to help “ensure online services work well for people and businesses in the UK“, has today published their first 2021/22 work plan.

Survey Claims 54% of UK Mobile Users Suffer Signal Woes at Home

10th Mar 2021 (16 Comments)

A new Opinium based survey from Uswitch.com, which questioned a “nationally representative” sample of 2,000 UK adults during February 2021, has found that 54.4% of respondents (equivalent to 29.5 million UK consumers) have suffered from some form of mobile signal “issue” at home, and it’s worse in rural areas.

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