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ISP News Archives for May 2021

O2 UK, Vodafone and Others Launch Eco Rating for Mobile Phones

25th May 2021 (8 Comments)

Mobile operators such as O2, Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, Orange and Telia have today joined forces to launch a new pan-industry “Eco-Rating labelling scheme,” which aims to help customers identify and compare the most sustainable mobile phones and encourage suppliers to reduce the environmental impact of their devices.

Country Connect Bring Full Fibre to Ponthir and Caerleon in Wales UPDATE

25th May 2021 (6 Comments)

UK ISP Country Connect, which started life back in 2016 by offering a Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) broadband network to remote rural communities in South Wales, has over the past few months begun building out their own gigabit capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network and is about to start connecting their first customers.

VOXI UK Adds TikTok Streaming Support to Endless Mobile Data

24th May 2021 (19 Comments)

Contract-free UK mobile operator VOXI, a sibling of Vodafone UK, has today extended their “Endless Video” pass (i.e. giving unlimited data on 4G and 5G mobile broadband to certain video streaming services) to include support for the popular TikTok internet video streaming service.

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OneWeb UK Team to Build Beam Hopping Broadband Satellite

24th May 2021 (11 Comments)

OneWeb, which is partly owned by the UK Government and aims to deploy a global network of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites for ultrafast low-latency broadband provision, is to lead a group of UK space tech companies in the development of a £32m experimental beam-hopping Satellite called ‘Joey-Sat‘.

CityFibre Ponders Full Fibre Rollout to 10 Million UK Premises

24th May 2021 (24 Comments)

Broadband builder CityFibre is reportedly said to be considering an expansion of their existing rollout plan, which currently aims to cover 8 million UK premises with their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) ISP network. But this could be expanded to 10 million, provided they can secure the necessary fund and contracts.

Openreach Trial May Reduce Missed UK Engineer Appointments

23rd May 2021 (36 Comments)

Openreach (BT) has moved into the trial phase for a change that, when adopted by UK broadband ISPs, could potentially help reduce the number of missed engineering appointments by improving the level of contact made between the network operator and end-users (consumers etc.) on certain provision and repair journeys.

London ISP G.Network Invest GBP105m in Wandsworth FTTP Rollout

22nd May 2021 (14 Comments)

UK ISP G.Network, which is investing £1bn to build a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network for homes and businesses in London (here), has announced that £105m of their funding will go toward a rollout for 100,000 premises across the borough of Wandsworth (c.230 miles of optical fibre cable).

Netomnia Quietly Reveal New UK FTTP Broadband Rollout Areas UPDATE2

22nd May 2021 (23 Comments)

Full fibre UK network builder Netomnia, which plans to make their 10Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network available to 1 million UK premises by 2024 (here), appears to have added a number of new rollout locations to their website over the past month or so.

TalkTalk Extend FTTP Broadband to Bournemouth and Doncaster

21st May 2021 (1 Comment)

Budget UK ISP TalkTalk has this week confirmed that their new CityFibre and Openreach based ‘Future Fibre‘ packages, which offer average top speeds of up to 506Mbps via Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) technology, have now become available to homes in both Bournemouth (Dorset) and Doncaster (South Yorkshire).

BT Make 2021 UEFA Europa and Champions League Finals Free for All

21st May 2021 (10 Comments)

Broadband ISP BT UK has informed us that their BTSport TV streaming service will make the 2021 UEFA Europa League and UEFA Champions League football finals “available for everyone in the UK to watch for free,” including via their YouTube channel if you’d rather not install the app.

KCOM Sells UK Broadband ISP Eclipse Internet to Global 4 Group

21st May 2021 (23 Comments)

Hull-based UK broadband ISP KCOM, which was gobbled up by Macquarie Infrastructure for £627m in 2019 (here), appears to have sold their off-net Eclipse Internet base to the Global 4 Group for an undisclosed sum. By the looks of it the provider will now make a return under the Eclipse Broadband name.

ISP BT Discounts UK FTTC and FTTP Home Broadband Packages

21st May 2021 (21 Comments)

UK ISP BT has today refreshed some of the discounts on their FTTC, G.fast and “full fibre” FTTP based home broadband and phone packages, which aside from reducing the monthly fee has also removed the setup fee on many of their bundles for new customers.

Openreach Publish New Dark Fibre Reference Offer for UK ISPs

21st May 2021 (6 Comments)

Openreach (BT) has published the first Draft Reference Offer for their second stab at an Ofcom regulated Dark Fibre Access (DFA) product, which gives rival UK network operators and broadband ISPs physical access to harness existing fibre optic cables to run leased line style services. But the new solution is more restrictive.

Simwood Launch VoIP Product Aimed at UK AltNet Broadband ISPs

20th May 2021 (3 Comments)

Wholesale communications provider SIMWOOD, which supplies UK businesses and broadband ISPs, has launched a new residential VoIP product that’s designed to help Alternative Network (AltNet) providers offer their customers an alternative to old analogue copper phone line services.

Gigaclear Focus on Infill as it Extends FTTP to Chipping Norton

20th May 2021 (4 Comments)

Rural focused UK broadband ISP Gigaclear has begun a new phase of network expansion in their existing deployment areas, which will see their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) service being extended into some places that they’d initially missed (infill). One of the first towns to benefit will be Chipping Norton in West Oxfordshire.

Competition Authority Clears O2 and Virgin Media UK to Merge

20th May 2021 (35 Comments)

As expected the UK Competition and Markets Authority has today given their final clearance, without remedies, for cable broadband and TV provider Virgin Media (Liberty Global) and mobile operator O2 (Telefonica) to complete their £31bn merger (50:50 Joint Venture). A major full fibre and 5G rollout boost is anticipated.

Business UK ISP Wavenet Acquired by Macquarie Capital

20th May 2021 (0 Comments)

Business focused broadband ISP and technology provider, Wavenet (Wavenet Group Holdings Limited), has today become the subject of a majority acquisition by Macquarie Capital for an undisclosed sum, which it’s hoped will help the operator to continue its positive trend of future growth.