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ISP News Archives for March 2022

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Progress Update on Rural Scotland 4G Mobile Infill Project

20th Mar 2022 (0 Comments)

The Scottish Government’s £28.75m 4G Infill Programme (S4GI), which via WHP Telecoms aims to improve rural mobile voice and broadband coverage by building new masts (mostly tackling notspots across the Highlands and Islands), has given a progress update to confirm that 27 out of the 55 planned masts have gone live.

Zen Internet Named Best UK Broadband ISP in Which? Survey

19th Mar 2022 (17 Comments)

Consumer magazine Which? have published a partial summary of the results from their first biannual survey of the best and worst UK internet providers for 2022, which names Zen Internet as the best overall provider for the seventh consecutive year – delivering a customer satisfaction score of 74% (9% more than the next nearest ISP).

BT Continues to Dominate Public Sector Telecoms in Wales

19th Mar 2022 (12 Comments)

The Welsh Government (WG) has confirmed to ISPreview.co.uk that they recently extended their multi-million pound Public Sector Broadband Aggregation (PSBA) network contract with BT’s Enterprise division, which has been operational since 2007 and was awarded to the incumbent in 2014 (here).

ISP Fibrus List Next UK Towns for 2022 FTTP Broadband Rollout

18th Mar 2022 (3 Comments)

Alternative network ISP Fibrus, which is busy deploying a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across Northern Ireland and Northern England, has today revealed the next batch of “commercially funded” towns and villages to benefit from the rollout of their new “hyperfast full fibre” network in 2022.

Upp’s UK FTTP Broadband Rollout Not Impacted by Russian Sanctions

18th Mar 2022 (0 Comments)

Upp, which is working on a £1bn project to deploy a gigabit Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to 1 million premises in the East of England by 2025 (here), has told ISPreview.co.uk that its plans have not been hit by the resignation of several “Russian billionaires” from the Board of investment firm LetterOne.

ISP RunFibre Joins CityFibre’s Network in Wolverhampton and Gloucester

18th Mar 2022 (2 Comments)

UK ISP RunFibre, which is busy building their own gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across rural South Gloucestershire in England, has announced that they’ve also made their services available over CityFibre’s full fibre network in Wolverhampton and Gloucester.

Progress Update on R100 Scotland Superfast Broadband Rollout

17th Mar 2022 (15 Comments)

A new report from Audit Scotland has provided somewhat of a summary and progress update on the Scottish Government’s £600m Reaching 100% (R100) project with BT (Openreach), which is busy extending fixed “superfast broadband” (30Mbps+) coverage across rural parts of the country (mostly via FTTP).

XtndNet Launch Hybrid ADSL, Mobile and Satellite Broadband for UK Rural Areas

17th Mar 2022 (3 Comments)

A new provider called XtndNet claims to have launched a new ISP network for serving “forgotten broadband customers” in remote rural parts of the UK, which adopts a “hybrid” approach that combines mobile broadband (4G / 5G) with fixed line ADSL and satellite connectivity in order to offer “typical” download speeds of 25Mbps.

Ofcom Tweaks Help UK People Who Struggle to Pay Broadband ISP Bills

17th Mar 2022 (0 Comments)

The UK’s communications regulator, Ofcom, has proposed to make a few changes to their ‘Treating Vulnerable Customers Fairly‘ guide, which aims to help the 1.1 million households (5%) that are estimated to still be struggling to afford their broadband and phone (this rises to around 1 in 10 among the lowest-income households).

Three UK Sees Average Mobile Data Usage Per User Hit 19GB

17th Mar 2022 (23 Comments)

Mobile operator Three UK has today revealed that the average 4G and 5G data usage (mobile broadband), per customer, per month on their network jumped to 19GB (GigaBytes) in Dec 2021, which is up from 15.8GB a year ago. Ookla (Speedtest.net) also found that they delivered the fastest 5G download speeds in Q3-Q4 2021.

Gigaclear and FullFibre Ltd to Overbuild in Shipston-on-Stour

17th Mar 2022 (6 Comments)

Rural focused UK ISP Gigaclear has announced that their 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network will be extended to cover the small town of Shipston-on-Stour (population of 5,000) in Warwickshire, which comes just two days after rival network operator FullFibre Limited made a similar announcement (here).

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Study Claims UK Consumers Want Universal Broadband Routers

17th Mar 2022 (42 Comments)

A new Uswitch (Opinium) survey of 2,000 UK adults, which was conducted last October 2021, has estimated that there are now 22 million “redundant” broadband ISP routers sitting in British homes, while 76% of respondents want a “universal router” (i.e. one that can be used by any ISP) to help cut e-waste.

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Internet Censorship Beckons as UK Online Safety Bill Hits Parliament

16th Mar 2022 (29 Comments)

The UK Government’s controversial Online Safety Bill, which will task Ofcom with clamping down on “harmful” online content (hate speech, bullying, terrorism, conspiracy theories etc.) by threatening such providers with web-blocks, fines and possibly even jail – if they don’t enforce the rules, has today been introduced to parliament.

LightSpeed Broadband Add 7 East England Towns to FTTP Rollout

16th Mar 2022 (22 Comments)

UK ISP LightSpeed Broadband, which is deploying a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across the East of England, has today celebrated their first anniversary by announcing that they’ve managed to cover 30,000 premises and have expanded their build to include a total of 32 towns across the region.

Ookla Publish Q4 2021 UK Starlink Satellite Broadband Speeds

16th Mar 2022 (9 Comments)

Ookla, which runs the popular Speedtest.net service, has today published their latest Q4 2021 report into the internet download, upload and latency speeds for UK customers on SpaceX’s new Starlink constellation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) based ultrafast broadband satellites.

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AltNets Brightstar and Urbanfibre Plan UK FTTP Broadband Rollout

16th Mar 2022 (0 Comments)

Two new Alternative Network (altnet) builders – Brightstar Limited and Urbanfibre Limited – have today revealed some tentative details about their proposed plans to build or expand an existing Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across some parts of the country.

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Mobile Broadband Speeds on Different iPhone Models Compared

16th Mar 2022 (0 Comments)

New data from crowdsourced mobile benchmarking firm Opensignal has compared how the 4G and 5G based UK mobile broadband download and upload speeds compared across Apple’s various iPhone generations (up to the iPhone 13). Unsurprisingly, the latest 5G equipped iPhone 12 and 13 delivered significantly faster performance.