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Mobile operator Smarty has today taken a stand against the current trend of communications providers imposing huge annual price hikes, which it has done by pledging to new and existing customers that it will “not … introduce annual mid contract price rises” or RPI (inflation) linked annual price rises.
SpaceX’s Starlink ISP, which provides ultrafast low latency broadband across the world and the UK via a mega constellation of compact satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), has soft launched an expensive new PREMIUM tier that will give you speeds of up to 500Mbps for $500 per month (£369) and $2,500 for the kit (£1843).
Broadband ISP GoFibre and rural fixed wireless ISP Marykirk.com have announced a new partnership, which will see the pair working together to extend a new gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across approximately 1,500 homes in areas surrounding the town of Montrose – including Angus and South Aberdeenshire.
Broadband ISP Virgin Media UK has announced that they’re giving all of their Pay TV customers access to more than 20 “documentary, entertainment and music channels” at “no extra cost” throughout February 2022, which includes a variety of channels such as Comedy Central, MTV, Sky History and more.
UK ISP Sky Broadband has today launched a “brand-new” Superfast 35 package, which offers average advertised download speeds of 36Mbps (with a “speed guarantee” of 25Mbps) and uploads of 9Mbps for the lower price of £25 per month via Openreach’s national FTTC (VDSL2) and FTTP networks. But it’s not all that ‘new’.
The government will today publish their “flagship” Levelling Up White Paper, which sets out their “plan to transform the UK by spreading opportunity and prosperity to all parts of it” and also confirms their revised broadband target – that “by 2030, the UK will have nationwide gigabit-capable broadband.”
Smaller broadband ISPs rarely ever produce TV adverts, particularly those with limited network coverage. But that hasn’t stopped rural-focused alternative network provider Gigaclear from this week running their first ever television advert to promote their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) service.
UK ISP and mobile operator Vodafone has today published their latest results (financial Q3 FY22), which reveals that their fixed broadband base added another +29k customers (vs +22k in the previous quarter) to make for a total base of 991,000, which should see them pass the magic million mark before their next update.