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ISP News Archives for March 2022

Three UK and Vodafone Give Free Mobile to Ukrainian Refugees

10th Mar 2022 (0 Comments)

Mobile operator Three UK has today announced that Ukrainian refugees arriving in the UK – assuming they can get past the painfully slow UK Border Force first – will be supplied with a free 30-day Pay As You Go (PAYG) SIM card that comes preloaded with unlimited domestic calls, texts and mobile broadband data.

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Switching Survey Claims 7 Million UK Broadband Users Overpaying

10th Mar 2022 (6 Comments)

A new survey of 2,000 UK adults has estimated that around 6.95 million households are now out of contract with their current home broadband ISP, which they claim means that all of those customers could be “overpaying” by an average of £162 when out-of-contract (collective total of around £1 billion).

Highlands Project Connects 152 Public Sector Sites to Full Fibre

10th Mar 2022 (1 Comment)

The Highlands and Islands Enterprise in Scotland has announced the completion of a joint £7.7m state aid funded project to build a new gigabit-capable “full fibre” broadband and Ethernet network to connect 154 public sector sites (schools, NHS, council etc.) across Inverness, Fort William, Thurso and Wick. But it’s also fostering FTTP.

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Connexin Launch 2Gbps Home Broadband on Hull UK Network

9th Mar 2022 (26 Comments)

Broadband ISP Connexin, which recently began work on their £80m project to build a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to unseat KCOM’s “broadband monopoly” in Hull and East Yorkshire (here and here), has today launched a new 2000Mbps (2Gbps) trial package for local homes.

Q4 2021 Progress Update on BT FTTP Broadband Rollout in Wales

9th Mar 2022 (24 Comments)

The Welsh Government has provided a Q4 2021 progress update on their £52.5 million Phase 2 Superfast Cymru contract with BT (Openreach), which confirms that 25,855 premises (up from 24,515 in Q3) have now gained access to the operator’s gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network.

ISP Pure Broadband Joins New MS3 North England FTTP Network

9th Mar 2022 (3 Comments)

Hull-based UK ISP Pure Broadband, which currently delivers internet connectivity services to homes and businesses covered by the full fibre networks from KCOM, CityFibre and OFNL, has today added a fourth network provider in the shape of MS3. The latter is busy building across the North of England.

CityFibre Build 100th Fibre Exchange for UK FTTP Broadband Rollout

9th Mar 2022 (12 Comments)

Network builder CityFibre has today announced the deployment of their 100th Fibre Exchange (FEX), which in theory should enable enough capacity to serve the first 4.8 million premises under their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband rollout across the UK (so far they’ve completed the build to 1 million premises).

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Government Extends UK Online Safety Bill to Tackle Scam Adverts

8th Mar 2022 (15 Comments)

The UK Government has today announced that their controversial new Online Safety Bill (OSB) will be extended to add a new duty, which aims to bring fraudulent paid-for adverts on social media and internet search engines into scope, whether they are controlled by the platform itself or an advertising intermediary.

ISP Gigaclear Extend Rural FTTP Broadband Rollout into Suffolk

8th Mar 2022 (0 Comments)

The Infracapital-backed UK ISP Gigaclear has today announced that their rollout of a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband networks is being extended into rural parts of Suffolk (England), which will initially include thousands of homes and businesses across six large and medium-sized villages.

Business UK ISP Plan.com Signs TalkTalk Wholesale Deal

8th Mar 2022 (0 Comments)

Business communications provider Plan.com has today signed a new partnership deal with TalkTalk’s Wholesale Services division, which will enable them to broaden their existing product options with more choice of broadband services on their my.plan platform.

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ISP Adds 21 Cambridgeshire UK Villages to FTTP Broadband Build

8th Mar 2022 (0 Comments)

Rural focused UK ISP County Broadband (CB) has today added 21 villages in Cambridgeshire (England) to their multi-million-pound rollout of a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network. All of the new villages are located within the St Neots and Huntingdon areas.

Gigabit FTTP Broadband in Wingrave Finally Going Live via Ecom

8th Mar 2022 (0 Comments)

After a long wait, UK ISP Ecom has finally started to connect the first properties in the rural Buckinghamshire (England) village of Wingrave – home to a local population of around 1,500 – to their new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network.

Pure Broadband Becomes First Live CityFibre ISP in Sheffield

8th Mar 2022 (2 Comments)

Hull-based UK ISP Pure Broadband, which serves consumers covered by new full fibre networks from KCOM, CityFibre and OFNL, has announced that they’ve just become the first internet provider to make services available via CityFibre’s new network in the South Yorkshire (England) city of Sheffield.

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Digital Infrastructure List Next 9 UK Areas for FTTP Broadband Build

7th Mar 2022 (12 Comments)

Network builder Digital Infrastructure (DI), which last year began deploying a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to cover 1 million premises in 80 UK towns and cities by 2027 (here and here), has today named the next 9 locations to benefit from their rollout.

New Rules and Taller Masts to Boost 5G Mobile in Rural England

7th Mar 2022 (17 Comments)

The Government has today confirmed their intention to introduce a series of changes to Permitted Development (PD) rights for mobile infrastructure, which aims to help extend 5G and 4G (mobile broadband) coverage in rural areas of England via key changes (e.g. allowing taller masts of up to 30 metres).

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Angus, Perth and Kinross Benefit from New Full Fibre Network UPDATE

7th Mar 2022 (6 Comments)

Some 154 rural public sector sites, as well as 650 homes and businesses, across the Angus, Perth & Kinross areas of Scotland are able to benefit from gigabit-capable broadband speeds after BT (Openreach) “completed” infrastructure work on a new “full fibre” network, which was partly funded by the UK Government.

EE Deploys 200 Small Cells to Boost Urban UK 4G and 5G Cover

7th Mar 2022 (8 Comments)

Mobile operator EE (BT) has today announced that they’ve deployed 200 units of a new type of small cell (tiny base stations) on UK street furniture and buildings in order to boost the coverage and speed of their 4G based (mobile broadband) network, which they claim allows “customers to benefit from download speeds up to 300Mbps.”