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ISP News Archives for June 2022

Full Fibre UK ISP KCOM Appoint New Chairman and Non-Exec Director

10th Jun 2022 (0 Comments)

Hull-based ISP KCOM, which has so far covered 300,000 premises across North / East Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire (England) with their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network, has today appointed Johan Dennelind as Chairman of its Board of Directors and Fiona Goldsmith as a Non-Executive Director.

SMARTY Mobile UK Launch New 4G and 5G Data Only SIMs

10th Jun 2022 (17 Comments)

Mobile operator Smarty has today launched a new range of data-only (mobile broadband) SIMs, which are designed to help you “stay connected on the move” by offering 2GB (GigaBytes) of data for £5, 15GB for £9, 40GB for £13, 100GB for £17 or unlimited data for £20.

BT Quotes 15 Premises on Shetland £725k to Get Broadband

10th Jun 2022 (26 Comments)

The MSP for the Shetland Islands (Scotland), Beatrice Wishart (LibDem), has helped to highlight the challenge of connecting some very remote rural communities after one group of 15 properties was quoted £725,000 to get faster broadband installed under the 10Mbps+ Universal Service Obligation (USO).

Winning Operators of the Inaugural UK Fibre Awards 2022 Named UPDATE

10th Jun 2022 (4 Comments)

The inaugural UK Fibre Awards event was held last night, which saw various broadband ISPs and full fibre network builders across ten categories pick up awards for their achievements. Some of the winners included Giganet, which was named ‘Overall Fibre Provider of the Year‘, while G.Network scooped ‘Best Urban Fibre Provider‘.

CityFibre Begins GBP30m FTTP Broadband Rollout in St Helens

9th Jun 2022 (6 Comments)

CityFibre has today broken the first ground on their £30m investment to deploy a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across the large town and borough of St Helens in Merseyside (England), which aims to cover most of the local homes and businesses by 2025.

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CommunityFibre Survey Claims 1 in 5 Cannot Afford Broadband Bill

9th Jun 2022 (23 Comments)

A new study of 1,500 UK based adults, which was commissioned by London-focused ISP CommunityFibre and conducted by Perspectus Global in March 2022, has claimed that 20% of Brits cannot afford to pay their broadband bill and 33% would rather cut back on their fuel use than cut back on internet access to save money.

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Virgin Media O2 Business UK Launch Faster Broadband Plans UPDATE

9th Jun 2022 (11 Comments)

Broadband ISP Virgin Media Business (VMO2) has today replaced their old “Voom” packages for small business customers with a new range of service speeds, which includes the long-awaited introduction of a new 1Gbps (Voom Fibre) tier at the top of their line-up.

ISPs Suffer Major Hampshire Broadband Outage After Fibre Break UPDATE4

9th Jun 2022 (27 Comments)

Customers of UK ISP Giganet in Hampshire, particularly those connecting through their Point of Presence (PoP) in the Winchester Exchange, are among those suffering from a major outage after “significant damage” was caused to one of Openreach’s main fibre spine cables by a “large excavation team” in Basingstoke.

Netomnia Add 3 New Towns and Villages to UK Full Fibre Rollout

8th Jun 2022 (12 Comments)

Network builder Netomnia, which is being supported by UK broadband ISP partner YouFibre, has today confirmed that their 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) network is being extended to cover homes and businesses in the three towns and villages of Oldham, Dalton in Furness and Doddington.

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Ofcom Moves to Protect Essential UK BT and KCOM Phone Boxes

8th Jun 2022 (12 Comments)

Ofcom has today introduced new rules to protect public UK phone boxes (payphones) – specifically those built by BT and KCOM – when they exist in areas with “poor mobile signals or high accident rates“. In addition, payphones will now require battery backup so that they can keep working after going digital (all-IP).

ASA Ban Sky Mobile UK Ads for Misleading Perfect Network Claim

7th Jun 2022 (6 Comments)

A complaint raised by broadband ISP and mobile giant BT looks set to result in the UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) banning a TV and poster advert for Sky Mobile (Sky Broadband), which was found to have “misleadingly” claimed to have offered “the perfect network“.

Three UK in Huge Hike to Standard Charges on PAYG Mobile Plans

7th Jun 2022 (42 Comments)

Customers of mobile network operator Three UK, specifically those who still take their Pay As You Go (PAYG) plans, have begun to receive a new notification that informs them of another significant price hike to their standard rates for calls, text messages (SMS) and data usage (mobile broadband).

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CityFibre Start Halifax FTTP Broadband Build with New Contractor

7th Jun 2022 (9 Comments)

After a long delay due to the failure of their previous local contractor, CityFibre has today announced the start (or restart) of their £23m project to deploy a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across the large West Yorkshire (England) town of Halifax.

Full Fibre ISP G.Network Appoint Former Openreach MD as CEO

7th Jun 2022 (3 Comments)

London-focused gigabit-broadband builder and UK ISP G.Network, which unexpectedly saw its founder and former CEO – Sasho Veselinski – exit last month due to “personal reasons” (here), has managed to grab the former Managing Director of Openreach’s Fibre and Network Delivery team, Kevin Murphy, to be its new CEO.

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New Record Fibre Optic Speed of 1.02Pbps Hit Over 51.7km

7th Jun 2022 (10 Comments)

A team of network researchers from the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) in Japan has done it again after they achieved the “world’s first” successful data transmission of 1.02 Petabits per second (Pbs) in a standard cladding diameter (0.125 mm) multi-core fibre cable over a distance of 51.7km.

Ogi Issue Progress Update on FTTP Broadband Rollout in Wales

7th Jun 2022 (7 Comments)

Broadband ISP Ogi has just issued a brief progress update to celebrate the first year of their £200m effort to deploy a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across South Wales (here and here), which initially aims to cover 150,000 premises by the end of 2025 (they’ve almost completed 23,000).

Rural UK ISP Alncom Target 25000 Premises for FTTP Broadband

6th Jun 2022 (5 Comments)

Alnwick-based ISP Alncom has today announced that they plan to extend the deployment of their new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to cover a further 25,000 rural premises across parts of Northumberland, County Durham and the Scottish Borders.