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ISP News Archives for May 2022

 
5g mobile wireless mast tower uk

9th May 2022 (4 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulator has today proposed to make a “large amount” of millimetre wave (mmWave) spectrum available across the 26GHz and 40GHz bands for use by mobile technology, including 5G services. Such bands could help to deliver multi-gigabit mobile broadband speeds, but achieving good coverage is a costly obstacle.

Censorship Blocked Website Message by UK ISP

9th May 2022 (15 Comments)

In a sign of things to come, it’s interesting to note that the recent free trade agreement between Australia and the United Kingdom included measures that require both sides to provide injunctive relief for website blocking by broadband ISPs – targeted at sites that are found to be facilitating internet copyright infringement (piracy).

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9th May 2022 (24 Comments)

UK ISP Virgin Media (VMO2) has kicked off the week by launching a different kind of discount on their standalone broadband packages – called “Solus Boost“, which essentially cuts the price of all their packages – from 100Mbps to 1Gbps – to just £28 per month for the first 6 months of service (original pricing thereafter).

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7th May 2022 (36 Comments)

Budget home broadband ISP TalkTalk appears to be getting closer to launching their own take on a Digital Voice (VoIP) product to replace analogue phone services, which will come alongside a number of connectivity options. One of those will also include the introduction of a new ‘Wi-Fi Hub 2‘ router.

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6th May 2022 (4 Comments)

The Collective Action on Land Lines (CALL) has announced that the Court of Appeal (CoA) have dismissed BT’s appeal against an earlier ruling by the Competition Appeals Tribunal (CAT), which last year rejected the ISP’s attempt to stop a £600m class action claim related to the alleged overcharging of 2.3 million landline-only phone customers.

contract notification letter example

6th May 2022 (9 Comments)

Ofcom has today posted some additional analysis on the impact of their End-of-Contract Notifications (ECN) system, which reveals that customer re-contracting on major broadband ISPs has increased as a result of its introduction – varying from a rise of 13% on Plusnet to just 3% on TalkTalk.

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bt smart hub 2 router front

6th May 2022 (16 Comments)

UK ISP BT has today enhanced their top two fastest Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based home broadband packages – 500Mbps and 900Mbps – by adding a “free” Xbox Game Pass Ultimate – running for 6 months on 500Mbps and 12 months on 900Mbps (costing £10 per month thereafter).

plusnet uk isp logo image 2020

6th May 2022 (12 Comments)

Customers of Plusnet’s business broadband packages have recently begun to notice that the ISP has not been delivering on their pledge of offering “dedicated 24/7 UK based customer support“, with some users complaining that their phone lines close down after 8pm – the same time as the weekday cut-off for residential support.

Brillband-app-based-broadband-logo

5th May 2022 (12 Comments)

A new UK ISP called Brillband has today soft-launched itself by proclaiming to be the “world’s first … app-based broadband provider,” which is said to have the “potential to completely change the way broadband is delivered” and is being backed by an initial investment of £660,000 from VC firm Fuel Ventures.

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5th May 2022 (1 Comment)

Fixed wireless UK ISP Stix Internet has announced that the first rural homes and businesses have just gone live on their new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network near to Huddersfield in West Yorkshire (England), which is being supplied to consumers via their Northern Fibre sub-brand.

truespeed_router

5th May 2022 (7 Comments)

Bath-based UK ISP Truespeed, which is busy building a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across rural parts of Somerset (England), has today announced a 12-month price freeze for all of their residential and business customers to help them cope with rapidly rising living costs.

Starlink-Dish-2-and-Modem

5th May 2022 (5 Comments)

SpaceX has begun sending out new emails to customers on their Starlink constellation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) based ultrafast broadband ISP satellites, which announces the availability of their new ‘Portability‘ add-on (i.e. the ability to move the system to a different location and still receive service). But it’s NOT free.

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FullFibre Engineer Back of Jacket

4th May 2022 (14 Comments)

Exeter-based network builder FullFibre Limited has today announced that their UK rollout of a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network has been expanded to a fourth region, which will see them spreading across the North Midlands and Yorkshire – starting with 22 new locations.

UK-Fibre-Awards-2022

4th May 2022 (4 Comments)

The inaugural UK Fibre Awards event has recently announced its first shortlist of potential winners for 2022, which lists various broadband ISPs and network builders across ten categories (e.g. Best Rural Fibre Provider, Best Urban Fibre Provider etc.). Some providers, such as Giganet, managed to be shortlisted across multiple categories.

Zen-Lifetime-Price-Guarantee

4th May 2022 (16 Comments)

Last month we revealed that UK broadband ISP Zen Internet had put their headline grabbing “Lifetime Price Guarantee” pledge (i.e. no price rises for as long as a contracted customer stays with them) under review for new customer contracts (here). As expected, Zen has now confirmed that new customers will no longer be able to benefit.

10mbps uso minimum broadband speed uk

4th May 2022 (22 Comments)

A new survey of 2,019 UK residents with broadband connections, which was conducted by National Broadband, has claimed that almost two thirds (63%) of broadband users in the UK do not know they are entitled to demand access to download speeds of 10Mbps+ (Universal Service Obligation). But this conclusion might not be correct.

virgin_media_gig1fibre_broadband

4th May 2022 (12 Comments)

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has responded to a BT complaint by banning a UK website and TV advert for Virgin Media’s Gig1 Fibre broadband package, which saw the operator promote itself as the “UK’s fastest major broadband provider“, after they failed to include sufficient information to verify their comparisons.

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