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ISP News Archives for March 2021

CityFibre Update – Full Fibre Plans for Glasgow, Blackpool and Cheltenham

11th Mar 2021 (9 Comments)

CityFibre UK has today issued some important progress updates on their plans to deploy a new 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to cover premises (homes and businesses) across the city of Glasgow (Scotland), and the towns of Cheltenham in Gloucestershire and Blackpool in Lancashire (England).

Broadway Partners Bring FTTP to 6 Rural Monmouthshire Villages

11th Mar 2021 (0 Comments)

Rural network operator Broadway Partners (UK ISP Broadway Broadband) has announced that their 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) service has just been extended to connect homes around six more villages in Monmouthshire (South Wales) as part of a £2 million scheme.

Rural ISP Airband Brings Gigabit Broadband to Oxfordshire UK

11th Mar 2021 (0 Comments)

Rural broadband ISP Airband, which aspires to deploy their ultrafast Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to cover 500,000 premises by the end of 2025 (here), has announced that they’ve just gone live in the Oxfordshire town of Thame, which is home to around 12,000 people, and more will follow.

Two UK Broadband ISPs Trial New Internet Snooping System

11th Mar 2021 (72 Comments)

Two unnamed broadband or mobile ISPs are reportedly helping the UK Home Office and the National Crime Agency (NCA) to trial a new internet snooping system on their customers, which is being conducted as part of the controversial 2016 UK Investigatory Powers Act (aka – snoopers charter).

CWU to Ballot on National Industrial Strike Over BT Changes UPDATE

11th Mar 2021 (50 Comments)

The Communications Workers Union (CWU) last night announced, during a mass forum, that they have “taken the decision to move to an official national industrial action ballot” for all employees after failing to “resolve the points of disagreement” that exist between themselves and BT, Openreach and EE.

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.

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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.

First Broadband Customers Live on N.Ireland’s Project Stratum

9th Mar 2021 (15 Comments)

The Northern Ireland Executive (DfE) has today announced that the first customers have now gone live on the new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network, which is being built with state aid support from the £165m Project Stratum programme.

BT Consumer CEO Seeks Softening of Existing UK Net Neutrality Rules

9th Mar 2021 (22 Comments)

The CEO of BT’s (EE) UK Consumer broadband and mobile division, Marc Allera, is attempting to resuscitate the age-old debate over Net Neutrality (i.e. treating all internet traffic on their networks equally) by calling for the rules to be changed because “there are very good reasons to enable preferential access to certain platforms.”

Cityfibre UK Prep Preston’s £30m FTTP Gigabit Broadband Rollout

9th Mar 2021 (4 Comments)

CityFibre UK has today announced that they’ve started detailed survey work for another of their planned builds, which will see them invest £30 million to deploy a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across the Lancashire city of Preston.

Zen Internet’s 900Mbps Broadband Live in Leicester via CityFibre

9th Mar 2021 (15 Comments)

Broadband ISP Zen Internet has just become the first provider to confirm that their residential service is now available to those covered by CityFibre’s new £80 million rollout of a 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network in the East Midlands city of Leicester, which began last June 2020 (here).

London UK ISP Community Fibre Launch Improved Biz Packages

9th Mar 2021 (3 Comments)

London-focused broadband ISP CommunityFibre, which is currently deploying their 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across parts of the city, has today introduced a new range of business packages with improved features (e.g. 4G based backup, money-back guarantee etc.).