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ISP News Archives for June 2021

Vodafone UK Launch New Flexible 5G EVO Mobile Phone Plans

15th Jun 2021 (7 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone UK has today launched what it calls an “evolution in mobile phone plans” with their new 4G and 5G supporting EVO packages, which aim to give consumers and sole trader business customers more flexibility over payments, contract lengths, smartphone upgrades and the ability to trade in old handsets.

5G Speeds and Availability in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Cardiff and Nottingham

15th Jun 2021 (3 Comments)

Mobile benchmarking firm RootMetrics has today published a short summary of their latest 5G based mobile broadband speeds and availability across the four primary network operators – EE (BT), O2 (VMO2), Vodafone and Three UK – in the cities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Cardiff and Nottingham.

Welsh Altnet ISP Country Connect Launch No Frills 50Mbps Plan

15th Jun 2021 (17 Comments)

Alternative network ISP Country Connect, which recently began building a new gigabit capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network in parts of South Wales (here), has just launched a new “no frills” 50Mbps (10Mbps upload) package for £25 a month that is intended to cater for those who don’t need gigabit speeds.

Sky Mobile UK Gives 1GB of Data Per Goal During Euro 2020

15th Jun 2021 (8 Comments)

Sky (Sky Broadband) has begun rewarding customers of their 4G and 5G powered Sky Mobile plans with 1 GigaByte of free data (mobile broadband) each time England, Scotland and Wales score a goal throughout the UEFA Euro 2020 (2021) football tournament.

ISP FACTCO Making Progress on UK Community Full Fibre Builds

14th Jun 2021 (12 Comments)

UK ISP FACTCO (Ecodial) appears to be making progress on a growing number of their community focused Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband deployments, which is helping to make gigabit speed connectivity available to homes across parts of Northumberland, County Durham, Yorkshire and Lancashire.

Vodafone Names 4G and 5G OpenRAN Suppliers for EU and UK

14th Jun 2021 (0 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone has today announced that their forthcoming commercial rollout of a new 4G and 5G network using Open Radio Access Network (OpenRAN) compliant kit will be supported by several key vendors, including: Dell, NEC, Samsung Electronics, Wind River, Capgemini Engineering and Keysight Technologies.

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Openreach CEO Clive Selley Gets CBE in Queen’s Birthday Honours

12th Jun 2021 (38 Comments)

The CEO of network access provider Openreach (BT), Clive Selley, is one of only two people in the UK telecommunications sector this year to be awarded with one of the Queen’s Birthday Honours. The other person was Stephen John Terry, although the honours list failed to clarify the what, why and who of that award.

ISP Sky Broadband UK Preparing 500Mbps Broadband Package

12th Jun 2021 (60 Comments)

Credible sources have indicated to ISPreview.co.uk that Sky Broadband (Comcast) may be close to finally launching a 500Mbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) package via Openreach’s (BT) network, which looks likely to be called “Ultrafast Plus” – complementing the “Ultrafast” (145Mbps) plan that launched last autumn.

BT Sues Tii for GBP72m Over Allegedly Faulty Kit and ADSL Outages

11th Jun 2021 (3 Comments)

Telecoms giant BT is suing Tii Technologies (formerly Porta Systems) for £72m in the UK High Court (Technology and Construction Court) after they allegedly supplied 95,256 faulty jack test (JT) blocks between 2006-2016, which reportedly caused a spate of copper line ADSL broadband outages (mainly impacting ISP Sky Broadband).

Broadband ISP TalkTalk Reveal Q1 2021 UK Internet Trends

11th Jun 2021 (3 Comments)

Internet provider TalkTalk has today published the latest volume (3) of their “Internet Insights” report, which offers quarterly analysis of their network traffic and usage trends. For example, it notes that UK internet usage was up over 44% pre-pandemic to April 2021, but it has fallen away a bit since then.

BT Prep Firmware Fix for DNS Request Hungry WiFi Repeaters

11th Jun 2021 (2 Comments)

Customers of UK broadband ISP BT, specifically those with one of the operator’s Mini Whole Home Wi-Fi systems (mesh repeaters) and a custom DNS setup on their personal network, have been told to expect a firmware patch, again, after complaining that their connections were making masses of DNS lookups to Google and Microsoft.

Grayshott Plan Gigabit Full Fibre Rollout in Hampshire and Surrey

11th Jun 2021 (4 Comments)

The latest start-up to enter the UK broadband market appears to be Morden-based ISP Grayshott Gigabit, which has revealed that they plan to deploy a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across poorly served rural areas in the East Hampshire, Surrey Hills and surrounding areas.

ISP Quickline Confirm GBP500m UK Ultrafast Broadband Rollout

11th Jun 2021 (0 Comments)

UK ISP Quickline, which specialises in deploying “full fibre” FTTP and Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) networks around Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, has today confirmed their new plan to invest £500m on a deployment of “ultrafast and gigabit-capable broadband” connectivity across rural Northern England and beyond.

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Gigaclear Spotted Building FTTP Broadband in Bagshot, Surrey UK

11th Jun 2021 (5 Comments)

Rural focused UK broadband ISP Gigaclear has been spotted deploying their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network infrastructure into the large Surrey village of Bagshot (population 5,600), which appears to be somewhat of a first for the provider as they haven’t previously announced much for the county.

ITU Nears Completion of New 50Gbps FTTH Broadband Standard

11th Jun 2021 (32 Comments)

The International Telecommunication Union will this year complete the development of its new “Higher Speed Passive Optical Network” (G.9804 series / G.hsp) technology – 50G-PON, which will make it possible for future FTTP broadband ISP networks to deliver speeds of 50Gbps (Gigabits per second).

ISP Virgin Media O2 Trial Recycled Materials in UK Fibre Rollout

10th Jun 2021 (9 Comments)

Broadband ISP and TV provider Virgin Media (VMO2) has announced the success of a new trial in the Scottish city of Glasgow, which managed to recycle the use of aggregate materials while rolling out their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network in the Cranhill area.

Study Shows UK Home Renters Dissatisfied with their Broadband

10th Jun 2021 (7 Comments)

A new survey conducted by Portland Communications, which was commissioned by CityFibre and the Quality of Life Foundation, has found that people who rent their accommodation were nearly twice as likely to describe their broadband ISP connection as only “average or unreliable” than those who own their own home.