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ISP News Archives for July 26, 2022

Internet Streaming Takes Hit as Amazon Prime Hikes UK Prices

26th Jul 2022 (42 Comments)

The UK market for broadband-based video streaming services, which is already under pressure from the ever-increasing problem of content fragmentation across too many platforms, looks set to suffer another blow today after Amazon announced that prices for their Prime Video would be hiked for the first time since 2014.

Survey Claims 43% of UK Pensioners Struggle to Pay for Internet Access

26th Jul 2022 (6 Comments)

A new study of 1,500 London based pensioners, which was conducted by Perspectus Global in July 2022 and commissioned by Age UK and ISP CommunityFibre, has claimed that 43% of those over the age of 60 are “struggling to pay for internet access” via broadband and mobile data services as a result of the cost-of-living crisis.

Full Fibre UK ISP Gigaclear Seeks up to £300m Rollout Boost

26th Jul 2022 (5 Comments)

Infracapital-backed rural broadband ISP Gigaclear is reportedly working with bankers at Rothschild to raise up to £300m of additional capital to help fuel their ongoing rollout of gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) infrastructure, which has so far covered 300,000 premises (up from 250,000 in December 2021).

Broadband and Phone Price Hikes for UK Shell Energy ISP Users

26th Jul 2022 (2 Comments)

Most of Shell Energy’s broadband and phone customers in the UK have been informed that the ISP will hike their prices by an average of 6.1% a month from 1st September 2022. But those who joined or renewed on or after 9th January 2022 will escape the hike, which is at least mercifully below the current rate of CPI inflation (9.4%).

UK Ranks 59th in the World for the Price of 1GB Mobile Data

26th Jul 2022 (9 Comments)

New research has analysed 5,292 mobile data (mobile broadband) plans from across 233 countries in order to compare the cost of a 1GB (GigaByte) data allowance, which found that the United Kingdom has improved its rank from 78th in 2021 to 59th in 2022, with an average price of USD $0.79 per GB (down from $1.42).

Government Offer £25m to Help Develop Future 6G UK Mobile Kit

26th Jul 2022 (6 Comments)

The UK Government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has today set aside £25m as part of their new Future Open Networks Research Challenge (FONRC) fund to help support the development of future 5G and 6G based mobile broadband equipment (focused primarily on O-RAN).

Virgin Media O2 Donate Another 15 Million GigaBytes to National Databank

26th Jul 2022 (1 Comment)

Broadband and mobile giant Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2) have agreed to supply a further 15 million GigaBytes (GB) of free data to the Good Things Foundation’s National Databank, which gifts free mobile broadband data to community groups and the people they support to aid internet connectivity – either via SIM cards or vouchers.

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