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ISP News Archives for August 2021

CommunityFibre Adopt AI-Driven Analytics to Improve Home WiFi

18th Aug 2021 (3 Comments)

Broadband ISP CommunityFibre, which has so far covered 307,000 UK homes (plus 12,000 businesses) with their 3Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, has today adopted Lifemote‘s cloud-based AI-driven WiFi analytics service to help detect problems experienced by customers, ideally before they even notice them.

Broadband ISP Zen Internet Aim to Double UK Revenue in 5 Yrs

18th Aug 2021 (6 Comments)

Rochdale-based UK ISP Zen Internet, which over the years has built itself a strong reputation in the telecoms industry and is also B Corp certified, has today boosted their executive team as part of a new effort to more than double their revenue to £200 million over the next 5-years.

Wales Mandates Gigabit Ready Broadband for New Social Housing

18th Aug 2021 (5 Comments)

The Welsh Government (WG) has just published an updated version of their quality requirements for any new affordable homes that are funded by the WG itself (e.g. social housing), which among other things will require that they must now be made “ready” for gigabit-capable broadband ISP connections.

ISP Pure Broadband Target Double UK Growth Over Next 3 Years

17th Aug 2021 (1 Comment)

ISP Pure Broadband, which serves consumers covered by both KCOM and CityFibre’s full fibre (FTTP) networks across the UK, has appointed Tony Jopling to be its new Managing Director (MD) and his first goal is to double the company’s growth over the next three years.

BT Picks Adam Crozier to Replace Jan du Plessis as UK Chairman

17th Aug 2021 (17 Comments)

After a long hunt, the BT Group has today officially announced that the former CEO of ITV, Adam Crozier, has been chosen to replace Jan du Plessis as Chairman when he retires from the UK role – thought to be worth £700,000-a-year – on 1st December 2021.

EE UK to Launch New Pay As You Go (PAYG) Mobile Packs

17th Aug 2021 (18 Comments)

Mobile network operator EE (BT) has announced that they will launch a new range of Pay As You Go (PAYG) mobile packs tomorrow, which will start from just £5 (currently £10) and give you more calling minutes and a bigger 4G data allowance (mobile broadband) than the standard packs.

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Neos Completes Full Fibre Upgrade Across Perth and Kinross

17th Aug 2021 (2 Comments)

Neos Networks, which operates a 24,480km+ long fibre network via over 477 related Points of Presence (PoPs) across the UK, has completed its £1.5m state aid supported Local Full Fibre Network (LFFN) rollout project in Perth, Scotland, ahead of schedule. As a result, 31 public sector sites can now access gigabit speeds.

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Gigabit Broadband Build to Start for Rural Strathspey in Scotland

17th Aug 2021 (2 Comments)

The StrathspeyNow community network project, which is being run by consultancy firm Destination Digital, appears to have succeeded in attracting enough interest from local homes and businesses in order to begin the deployment of a new “gigabit-capable broadband” network across the rural Strathspey area in Scotland (Highlands).

ISP Sky Broadband UK Gives Free WiFi Guarantee for 3 Months

17th Aug 2021 (13 Comments)

New customers of UK ISP Sky Broadband, specifically those who take out one of their “Superfast” (FTTC) or “Ultrafast” (FTTP or G.fast) packages, are now being offered the optional WiFi Guarantee to use, free for the first three months of service (rising to £5 per month thereafter).

Fibrus FTTP Broadband Build in N.Ireland Tops 58,000 Premises

16th Aug 2021 (8 Comments)

Infracapital backed UK ISP Fibrus has today announced that their new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network in Northern Ireland has now passed 58,000 premises, which reflects progress under both their commercial rollout and the £165m (public funding) Project Stratum (here) contract.

CityFibre Start GBP62m FTTP Broadband Build in Sunderland

16th Aug 2021 (6 Comments)

CityFibre UK has today officially started the construction phase for their £62 million rollout of a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network in the coastal city of Sunderland (Tyne and Wear), which is being supported by civil engineering contractors from MAP Group.

BSG Study Examines Gigabit Broadband for Remote UK Rural Areas

16th Aug 2021 (7 Comments)

The Broadband Stakeholder Group, which is a think-tank that advises the UK Government, has today published new research from Analysys Mason that examines some of the commercial and technical practicalities of providing faster broadband coverage to areas in the UK that are hardest to reach.

SWS Broadband Unveil Expanded FTTP Rollout for Shropshire UK

16th Aug 2021 (0 Comments)

UK ISP SWS Broadband (Rural Broadband Solutions Plc), which predominantly serves rural premises in parts of Shropshire (England) and Wales, has today announced an expanded 3-year plan to deploy a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to cover over 50,000 properties within Shropshire alone (including 15,000 connected).

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Openreach Rivals Warn Ofcom NOT to Allow Big Fibre Price Cut

16th Aug 2021 (49 Comments)

Alternative UK network providers have heavily criticised Ofcom’s provisional decision not to oppose Openreach’s (BT) proposal for a “major” price cut to their wholesale Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband products, which they warn could impact competition by discouraging ISPs from adopting rival networks.

WeFibre Unveil FTTP Rollout for Northumberland, Cumbria and Wales

16th Aug 2021 (6 Comments)

UK ISP WeFibre (Telcom Group), which recently raised £63m of funding from Gresham House, has today announced its plan to “aggressively” rollout a new gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to rural areas across Northumberland, Cumbria, North West England, as well as Central and North Wales.

Security Issues for Owners of BT’s Cloud Voice Handsets and Other IP Phones

14th Aug 2021 (33 Comments)

Businesses that decide to sell their unwanted BT Cloud Voice handsets on eBay need to take extra care because some models, such as the Yealink W60P phones, may retain the prior customer’s account credentials. As a result, those who purchase them could find that they’re able to make calls on another person’s account.

The UK Gov’s Technical Definition of Gigabit Capable Broadband

13th Aug 2021 (55 Comments)

One aspect of the UK Government’s new £5bn Project Gigabit programme that we haven’t touched on much is the “technical definition” for how they actually define such broadband ISP products, which is partly because this has been in a state of flux as the project evolved. But it now looks much closer to final.