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ISP News Archives for December 7, 2021

Business UK ISP Onecom Acquires Rival Russell Telecom

7th Dec 2021 (0 Comments)

Hampshire-based business broadband and cloud provider Onecom, which is backed by a £100m funding package from LDC and Ares Management Corporation (here), has today made their fourth acquisition of the year (after Olive Communications, 9 Group and IP Office) by gobbling Russell Telecom for an undisclosed sum.

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Nokia Demo First UK Trial of 25G PON for 5G Backhaul with CityFibre

7th Dec 2021 (7 Comments)

Nokia and CityFibre have teamed up in Glasgow (Scotland) to conduct the UK’s first successful demonstration of a trial that used their full fibre 25G PON kit to fuel backhaul capacity for a 5G mobile (mobile broadband) network, which was used for a holographic call between buildings, teleoperation of a robotic arm and 8K video streaming.

Survey Claims 834k UK Homes Switched ISP for the First Time in 2021

7th Dec 2021 (7 Comments)

A new Censuswide survey of 2,163 UK adults, which was commissioned by broadband ISP Zen Internet, has found that the proportion of households that have never switched ISP is down to just 18% from 21% year-on-year. This, they claim, reveals that 834k households (3%) switched for the first time in the last 12-months.

Glide Bring 10Gbps Fibre to Coventry, Leicester, Nottingham and Birmingham

7th Dec 2021 (1 Comment)

Business and residential ISP Glide Group, which is currently extending their full fibre broadband network across more of the UK (leased lines and FTTP etc.), has today announced that they’ll upgrade their existing “fibre infrastructure” in Coventry, Leicester, Nottingham and Birmingham to support symmetric 10Gbps speeds with low latency.

Rural Broadband ISP Truespeed Appoints James Lowther as CEO

7th Dec 2021 (5 Comments)

Alternative network UK ISP Truespeed, which is supported by £75m from Aviva Investors and has been busy building their own 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across Somerset, have today replaced their long serving CEO, Evan Wienburg, with James Lowther.

Gigaclear Invest GBP13m to Bring 1Gb Broadband to Dorset UK

7th Dec 2021 (3 Comments)

Alternative network ISP Gigaclear has announced that they’re investing £13m to begin an expansion of their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network into rural parts of Dorset (Southern England), which is expected to reach over 18,000 premises (mostly homes and some businesses) across the region.

ISP Virgin Media O2 Completes UK Gigabit Broadband Rollout UPDATE

7th Dec 2021 (61 Comments)

Broadband ISP Virgin Media (VMO2) has today switched-on their last batch of DOCSIS 3.1 network upgrades, which has put an additional 1.1 million homes within reach of “gigabit” download speeds (1130Mbps down and 52Mbps up) and means that c.65% of UK premises should now be covered by “gigabit-capable broadband.”

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