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ISP News Archives for November 2021

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Full Fibre ISP Trooli Upgrades to New HQ Office in Kent UK

18th Nov 2021 (4 Comments)

Full fibre broadband ISP Trooli, which aims to cover 1 million premises with their new gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network by the end of 2024 (mostly across Kent, East Sussex, Berkshire and Suffolk), has upgraded their base in Kings Hill (Kent) to some significantly larger premises.

A Question of Eligibility as N.Ireland’s Fibre Rollout Skips Homes

18th Nov 2021 (6 Comments)

The £165m state aid supported Project Stratum deployment in Northern Ireland, which is helping to spread a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to a further 76,000 premises in rural areas (84,500 if you include the expansion), has come under fire for how it appears to skip some nearby homes.

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Virgin Media O2 UK Train 500 Front Line Staff to Save Lives

18th Nov 2021 (7 Comments)

Some 500 of Virgin Media’s front-line UK staff, including broadband ISP engineers, have been given special training by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) so that they have the ability to administer lifesaving CPR (Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation) and can use a defibrillator.

EE UK Customers Offered XBox Consoles and Game Pass Ultimate

18th Nov 2021 (3 Comments)

Mobile operator EE UK has today announced that Pay Monthly Mobile customers of their service can now take a Microsoft Xbox Game Pass Ultimate with “unlimited gaming data” from £21 a month (£31 with the video data pass) and they can also have an Xbox Series X video gaming console for just £10 upfront.

Toob Adds GBP50 Amazon Voucher to FTTP Broadband Packages

18th Nov 2021 (3 Comments)

New customers in areas covered by UK ISP toob, which is currently building a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network around parts of England, will from later this morning be able to benefit from an included £50 Amazon shopping voucher when they sign-up.

Old YouView TV and Broadband ISP Boxes Lose Access to ITV Hub

17th Nov 2021 (8 Comments)

Owners of the first generation of YouView (IPTV) powered Pay TV set-top-boxes (e.g. the retail Humax T1010), including the Humax T1000 from UK broadband ISP BT and the Huawei DN370T from TalkTalk (TT Plus Box), have been informed that they will “no longer be able to access” the ITV Hub app from January 2022.

Emtelle Chosen to Supply Upp’s UK FTTP Broadband Rollout

17th Nov 2021 (0 Comments)

Broadband ISP and network builder Upp, which is investing £1bn to rollout a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to 1 million UK premises in Eastern England by 2025, has today chosen Emtelle to become their main supplier of fibre optic network kit until March 2026.

Broadband ISP Plusnet Places Future of Email Under Review

17th Nov 2021 (13 Comments)

Internet provider Plusnet has finally restored their embattled UK email service after a week of chaos, but its long-term future may now be in doubt after the ISP placed the service “under review.” A number of customers have allegedly also been told by the provider’s support staff that the email platform would close in 2022.

Openreach Officially Name the Next 170 UK FTTP Rollout Areas

17th Nov 2021 (92 Comments)

Openreach (BT) has today officially added another 170 new towns and villages (covering 1.5 million premises) to the UK rollout plan of their 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network, which are all the same as those we published last month (here). The news comes as they reach 6 million premises passed.

Vodafone UK Launch New 5G TCL HH500V GigaCube Router

17th Nov 2021 (10 Comments)

New customers of Vodafone‘s ultrafast 5G mobile based broadband packages may be interested to know that they’ve just introduced a new router to the bundle, which is named as the TCL HH500V GigaCube. In addition, their plans are currently half price for the first 6 months of service.

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Numbeo Ranks UK 39th in the World for Cost of Broadband Service

17th Nov 2021 (4 Comments)

The latest data gathered by Numbeo, which is a crowd-sourced global database that examines the cost of living, has surveyed the cost of fixed broadband ISP provision across 109 countries and found that the United Kingdom ranked as the 39th most expensive country, with an average monthly cost of £30.87.

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Wireless UK ISP APC Solutions to Start Building FTTP Broadband

16th Nov 2021 (0 Comments)

Wireless network and IT services provider APC Solutions (APC Communications Solutions), which also runs the Essex (England) focused ISP Essex WiFi, has revealed that they intend to expand into building their own gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband services.

Virgin Media Broadband Customers Get Access to O2 Priority

16th Nov 2021 (6 Comments)

Customers of UK ISP Virgin Media’s home broadband, phone and TV packages should now be able to access O2’s Priority app, which is normally exclusive to O2’s customers and is a way of rewarding them with various offers from high street brands, tickets and experiences – all at no extra cost.

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Ofcom’s Q2 2021 Complaints Study Shames UK ISP TalkTalk

16th Nov 2021 (7 Comments)

Ofcom has published their latest Q2 2021 (calendar) consumer complaints study, which saw TalkTalk come top of the naughty table for gripes about their fixed line home broadband and phone services. Meanwhile, Virgin Media took the most flak for Mobile and Pay TV, although overall complaints were down.

Vodafone UK Grows to 962k Fixed Broadband ISP Customers

16th Nov 2021 (6 Comments)

ISP and mobile operator Vodafone UK has today published their latest quarterly results (financial Q2 FY22), which reveals that their fixed broadband base added another +22,000 customers (vs +29k in the previous quarter) to make for a total base of 962,000. But their mobile base sat unchanged on 16,994,000.

Estate Agents Find Full Fibre May Help to Drive UK House Sales

16th Nov 2021 (12 Comments)

A new survey of 294 UK estate agents, which was conducted by telecoms equipment manufacturer Omdia on behalf of Huawei, has found that the desire for “high-quality broadband” continues to be a significant factor for home buyers and access to gigabit-capable “full fibre” (FTTP) ISP connections seems to be particularly important.

ISP Shell Energy to Launch Cheap UK Full Fibre Broadband Plans UPDATE

16th Nov 2021 (14 Comments)

Energy provider and UK ISP Shell Energy will later this morning launch their first Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband packages, which will offer speeds of between 100Mbps and up to 900Mbps+ on Openreach’s national network (currently covering around 6 million premises).