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ISP News Archives for December 2021

Uncertainty Looms Over CityFibre’s Build in Halifax and Barnsley UPDATE

10th Dec 2021 (8 Comments)

Uncertainty continues to cloud CityFibre’s planned UK rollout of a new 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network in the large towns of Halifax and Barnsley in Yorkshire (England), which were recently disrupted after the operator’s chosen contractor – NMCN – fell into administration.

LightSpeed Broadband’s UK FTTP Rollout Gets GBP60m Funding Boost

9th Dec 2021 (8 Comments)

UK ISP LightSpeed Broadband, which is busy building a Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across the East of England, has managed to secure another significant funding boost of £60 million. The additional investment comes from specialist investor, Sequoia, and takes their total confirmed pot to £115m.

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Dorset Council Pilot’s Training Programme for UK Fibre Engineers

9th Dec 2021 (1 Comment)

The Dorset Council (DCC) in England has secured £20,000 of funding from the Local Government Association’s (LGA) Digital Pathfinders programme in order to help it develop a local pilot training programme for fibre engineers, which could help to boost gigabit broadband provision in the county.

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OneWeb to Start Building LEO Broadband Satellites in the UK

9th Dec 2021 (0 Comments)

Space firm OneWeb, which is owned by a consortium of the UK Government and working to build a new global mega constellation of ultrafast broadband satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), has confirmed earlier speculation by announcing that the company will invest £2.2bn ($3bn) to shift manufacturing from the USA to UK.

Sky UK Offers a Merry Christmas with Free Calls, Data and Movies

9th Dec 2021 (7 Comments)

It’s that time of year again when Sky’s various UK services (Sky Broadband, Sky Mobile, Sky TV etc.) give their existing customers some early Christmas presents, which typically take the form of various gifts, such as “free” movies, Premier League football matches, free mobile data (mobile broadband), and free calls.

New UK AltNet Provider AllPoints Fibre to Build FTTP Broadband

9th Dec 2021 (0 Comments)

A new London-based alternative network builder called AllPoints Fibre (APF), which is being backed by investment from the Fern Trading Group (advised by Octopus Investments), has today joined the UK market with a plan to deploy a new “open access” wholesale Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network that other ISPs can harness.

CityFibre Start Legal Fight Over Ofcom Approval of Openreach FTTP Price Cut UPDATE2

8th Dec 2021 (22 Comments)

CityFibre has this week carried out their earlier threats by launching an appeal via the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) to challenge Ofcom’s recent approval of Openreach’s “Equinox” offer (here), which introduced a “major” price cut (details) to the incumbents Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband products for UK ISPs.

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ICO Fines UK ISP Virgin Media GBP50,000 for Email SPAMMING UPDATE

8th Dec 2021 (11 Comments)

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has today hit broadband ISP and TV operator Virgin Media (VMO2) with a fine of £50,000 after they were found to have sent 451,217 direct marketing emails to people “who had previously opted out of marketing communications” from the same operator.

Grain Name Next 11 UK Towns and Cities for Gigabit Broadband

8th Dec 2021 (12 Comments)

Alternative network ISP Grain has today named a list of 11 additional UK cities and towns that will shortly benefit from a rollout of their new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network, which includes a number of aggressively competitive areas where rivals are already deploying similarly capable infrastructure.

Ofcom Reports Good UK Progress on Openreach’s Split from BT UPDATE

8th Dec 2021 (8 Comments)

Ofcom has today published their annual monitoring report, which finds that Openreach continues to “operate with a high degree of strategic and operational independence” from BT and there has been positive progress in take-up of their Physical Infrastructure Access (PIA) product by rival broadband ISPs. Only a few small issues remain.

Broadband ISP TalkTalk See Rising Internet Use Among Pensioners

8th Dec 2021 (6 Comments)

Internet provider TalkTalk has today published the latest volume (4) of their UK “Internet Insights” report, which this time around focuses upon the impact of “silver surfers” and reveals that broadband usage among pensioners has grown by 69% from pre-pandemic levels (driven by increased streaming and online gaming).

iD Mobile Bundles Currys Gift Cards with UK SIM Only Plans

8th Dec 2021 (0 Comments)

Mobile operator iD Mobile (Dixons Carphone) has started bundling a Currys Gift Card alongside some of their SIM Only 4G and 5G mobile plans on 12-month and 24-month terms, which range in value from £25 to £50. For example, iD’s £16 per month unlimited data (mobile broadband), calls and texts plan gets a £50 card to spend.

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All Public 2G and 3G UK Mobile Services Switched Off by 2033

8th Dec 2021 (37 Comments)

The Government has unveiled a new agreement with the four primary mobile network operators, including Vodafone, EE (BT), O2 (VMO2) and Three UK, which among other things will see existing 2G and 3G signals being “phased out” by 2033 (benefitting 4G / 5G services and mobile broadband) and a new target for OpenRAN adoption.

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.