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ISP News Archives for July 2021

ISP Sky Broadband UK Recovering After Morning Outage

28th Jul 2021 (6 Comments)

Some customers of Sky Broadband’s service, particularly those in Norfolk, Suffolk, Bedfordshire and around Sheffield (South Yorkshire), are starting to see their internet and phone connections return to normal after an unspecified service disruption struck earlier this morning.

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INCA Sees UK Membership Boom on Full Fibre AltNet Surge

28th Jul 2021 (0 Comments)

The Independent Networks Co-operative Association (INCA), which represents alternative broadband networks (AltNet), has seen its UK membership balloon skywards after gaining 32 members in 2021 so far. The growth reflects a surge in new AltNets, many of which are building their own Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) infrastructure.

Anger Over Netomnia’s Use of Telegraph Poles in UK FTTP Builds UPDATE

28th Jul 2021 (53 Comments)

Netomnia, which is working to make their 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network available to 1 million UK premises by 2024 (here and here), are facing complaints in a number of their build areas after residents began objecting to the erection of new telegraph poles “without their knowledge or consent.”

ASA Bans Vodafone Ads for Misleading UK’s Best Network Claim

28th Jul 2021 (5 Comments)

A complaint by rival mobile operator EE (BT) has prompted the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) to ban several of Vodafone’s adverts after they “misleadingly” claimed to be the “UK’s Best Network” or “UK’s best mobile data network” for 4G and 5G services (mobile broadband).

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Telecoms Industry Sees 24 Percent Increase in UK Digging Work

27th Jul 2021 (6 Comments)

The annual Digging Up Britain 2021 report from LSBUD (Line Search Before You Dig), which provides an online asset search facility to UK civil engineering firms for underground pipes and cables, has reported that there was a 24% increase in the amount of digging work performed by the telecoms industry over the last 12-months.

ISP Hyperoptic Expands UK Full Fibre to Gloucester City Homes

27th Jul 2021 (4 Comments)

Full fibre ISP Hyperoptic has today agreed a blanket wayleave agreement with independent housing association Gloucester City Homes (GCH), which will enable their gigabit-capable broadband network (FTTP/B) to reach thousands of properties owned by the association.

Broadband ISP Fibrus Extend FTTP Rollout to Northern England

27th Jul 2021 (5 Comments)

Belfast-based ISP Fibrus, which has spent the past couple of years deploying a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across Northern Ireland, has today announced that their build is being extended to include 300,000 premises in the North of England (i.e. Cumbria, Northumberland and North Yorkshire).

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Uswitch Claim 14.8 Million UK People Hit by Major Broadband Outages

27th Jul 2021 (20 Comments)

A new Opinium survey of 4,000 UK adults, which was commissioned by Uswitch, has claimed that 14.85 million people have been hit by a “major broadband outage” in the last year – this is said to be three times the number of the previous year’s survey (4.7 million).

Rural ISP Gigaclear Extends FTTP Broadband to More of Winslow

27th Jul 2021 (0 Comments)

Rural focused UK ISP Gigaclear, which has already extended their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to reach 170,000 premises in England (they aim to cover 500,000 UK properties by 2023), has just start to extend their rollout across the Buckinghamshire town of Winslow.

Netomnia Extend UK 1Gbps FTTP Broadband Rollout to Stockton

26th Jul 2021 (7 Comments)

Full fibre builder Netomnia, which aims to make their 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network available to 1 million UK premises by 2024 (here and here), has today commenced survey and other preparatory to work on their £54m rollout across Stockton-on-Tees (Durham).

Trenches Law and BSC Help WightFibre Boost FTTP Rollout

26th Jul 2021 (2 Comments)

Broadband ISP WightFibre, which is investing up to £90m to rollout a new 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across the Isle of Wight (South Coast of Hampshire, UK), has teamed up with law firm Trenches Law and apartment block specialist BSC to help boost their deployment.

Virgin Media O2 Continue with Ericsson for Standalone 5G Core

26th Jul 2021 (6 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 UK (VMO2) has today, perhaps unsurprisingly, announced that their existing relationship with supplier Ericsson will be extended to include deployment of their “cloud native, container-based dual-mode 5G Standalone Core” network.

ISP TalkTalk UK Bundle Amazon Mesh WiFi with FTTP Broadband

26th Jul 2021 (24 Comments)

New customers of UK ISP TalkTalk might like to know that the provider has teamed-up with Amazon to offer its eero 6 and eero Pro 6 mesh Wi-Fi systems, which will be given to those taking out one of their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based “Future Fibre” home broadband packages.

Three UK Seek Policy Reform to Connect Rural Areas via 5G WiFi

26th Jul 2021 (14 Comments)

Mobile operator Three UK, supported by research from CCS Insight, has today called on the Government not to overlook the benefits of “5G WiFi” in their plan to rollout gigabit-capable broadband across the country. Apparently, 5G based Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) could do it “faster and for half the cost of fixed lines.”

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Ofcom UK Propose Rule Changes for LEO Broadband Satellites

26th Jul 2021 (2 Comments)

The new generation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) based ultrafast broadband satellite constellations, such as from Elon Musk’s Starlink (SpaceX) and British-registered OneWeb, has today prompted Ofcom to launch a new consultation on several licensing changes to help support them and tackle potential interference.

New Subsea Fibre Cable Linking to Norway Lands in the UK

26th Jul 2021 (6 Comments)

Good news. The NO-UK cable project, which is being managed by consultancy firm SubSea Networks, has confirmed that a new subsea fibre optic cable between Norway and the UK, with capacity for data speeds of up to 216Tbps (Terabits), has finally arrived on this side of the sea by landing at Seaton Sluice beach near Newcastle.

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BeeDSL – Swarm of Bees Finds Home in Openreach UK Cabinet

26th Jul 2021 (23 Comments)

Spare a moment this morning to think of the Openreach (BT or Bee Tee) engineers in West Cornwall (England) who were recently left buzzing (sorry) after opening the door of a street cabinet, which looks to be quite an old Primary Connection Point (PCP) for copper phone lines, only to find a hive of busy Bees occupying it.