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ISP News Archives for August 2022

FullFibre Ltd Appoint New UK CTO and Delivery Director

3rd Aug 2022 (1 Comment)

Network operator FullFibre Limited, which is currently rolling out a new full fibre (FTTP) broadband network to serve “at least” 500,000 UK premises by 2025, has announced that they’ve appointed Adele Whild as Director of Delivery and Ross Duke as Chief Technical Officer (CTO).

Quickline Become First UK ISP to Deliver Commercial 5G SA Open RAN Kit

3rd Aug 2022 (1 Comment)

Full fibre and wireless broadband provider Quickline has teamed up with Mavenir to, they claim, become the first ISP in the UK to commercially deliver a cloud-based 5G Standalone (SA) Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) solution for Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) service in a Shared Access Spectrum licence.

Jurassic Fibre Extend 1Gb Broadband Rollout to Cornwall UK

3rd Aug 2022 (10 Comments)

Exeter-based broadband ISP Jurassic Fibre, which is investing to build a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across South West England (Devon, Somerset and Dorset), has today announced the extension of their rollout into Cornwall – starting with the seaside town of Bude.

ASDA Mobile UK Hike PAYG Prices and Limit Data for EU Roaming

3rd Aug 2022 (48 Comments)

The mobile division of supermarket giant ASDA has begun notifying customers of a huge price hike to their Pay As You Go (PAYG) services, while also revealing that they will slash the amount of inclusive data (mobile broadband) that you can use while roaming within the EU from 25GB (GigaBytes) to just 5GB per bundle!

17 Public Sites in Greater Manchester Get Free Fibre Broadband Until 2025

3rd Aug 2022 (0 Comments)

The £23.8m deployment by Virgin Media Business (VMO2) of a new 2,700km long “full fibre” network in Greater Manchester, which is designed to connect over 1,500 public sector sites, has also resulted in 17 public sites – including homeless shelters, charities and community centres – benefiting from free fibre broadband until 2025.

Netomnia Adds UK City of Oxford to FTTP Broadband Rollout

3rd Aug 2022 (0 Comments)

Full Fibre network builder Netomnia – supported by broadband ISP partner YouFibre – has today added a second “major city” (after Liverpool) to their UK rollout of a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) network, which will see them invest £36m to cover 120,000 premises in Oxford (England).

ISP Hyperoptic Discounts 900Mbps UK Full Fibre Plan to £30

3rd Aug 2022 (0 Comments)

City-focused gigabit broadband ISP Hyperoptic, which is deploying a new “full fibre” (FTTP/B) network to serve 2 million UK homes by the end of 2023 (900,000 completed), will this morning further discounted the existing offer price on their top 900Mbps (symmetric) package from £35 to £30 per month for new customers.

Grain Spotted Building FTTP Broadband in Weston-Super-Mare

3rd Aug 2022 (2 Comments)

Broadband ISP and UK digital infrastructure builder Grain appears as if it will shortly add the seaside town of Weston-super-Mare in Somerset (England) to their rollout plan for a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network. The operator is currently building across 43 towns and cities.

Virgin Media O2 UK Finally Adds Disney+ to TV 360 Service UPDATE

2nd Aug 2022 (17 Comments)

Broadband ISP and Pay TV provider Virgin Media (VMO2) has today announced another improvement to their Virgin TV 360 platform by making the long-awaited Disney+ streaming app available on the service for customers. Naturally, you’ll need to be an existing subscriber in order to use the app (£7.99 a month or £79.90 a year).

London ISP CommunityFibre Shift to Amazon’s Cloud Contact Centre

2nd Aug 2022 (14 Comments)

London-focused UK ISP CommunityFibre has appointed contact solutions provider SVL to upgrade their existing contact centre by migrating it to the cloud-based Amazon Connect platform. The move is intended to help expand their support centre over the coming years to meet the needs of a growing customer base.

Vodafone UK Guaranteeing Best Price for Smartphone Trade-In

2nd Aug 2022 (6 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone has upgraded their existing ‘Trade-In Tool‘ to include a new “unbeatable price promise“, which they claim will “guarantee customers the best price for their current smartphone” vs any other mobile network’s trade-in price (excluding promotions) for eligible devices.

London Full Fibre ISP CommunityFibre Discounts Broadband Plans

1st Aug 2022 (0 Comments)

London-focused UK ISP CommunityFibre (CF), which has already covered 500,000 premises with their 3Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network (aiming for 2.2 million by the end of 2024), has today refreshed and discounted some of their broadband packages. For example, you can now get 1Gbps for just £25.

Artists Paint ISP Ogi’s Full Fibre Broadband Street Cabinets

1st Aug 2022 (26 Comments)

Broadband ISP Ogi, which is busy investing £200m to build a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to 150,000 premises across South Wales by 2025 (here and here), has teamed-up with a local art gallery – Breakout Gallery – in Haverfordwest to give their street cabinets a rather.. unique look.

10 Recommendations to Help Improve Broadband in Wales

1st Aug 2022 (6 Comments)

The Welsh Parliament‘s Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee (CCEIC) has today publish a new report into the state of broadband internet access across Wales, which makes 10 recommendations for how the UK and Welsh Government’s could improve connectivity and fill the remaining gaps.

TP-Link Supply WiFi Kit to Support 5,000 UK Digital Inclusion Hubs

1st Aug 2022 (1 Comment)

Technology and network kit manufacturer TP-Link UK has today announced that they’re supplying WiFi and mobile broadband hardware to help support the Good Things Foundation’s aim of tackling the digital divide, which reflects the latter’s plan to set up 5,000 Digital Inclusion Hubs across the UK by the end of 2025.

1 in 7 UK Broadband, Mobile and Mortgage Users Hit by Loyalty Penalty UPDATE

1st Aug 2022 (15 Comments)

A new “nationally representative” Opinium survey 3,087 UK adults with a mobile, broadband ISP, or mortgage contract, which was commissioned by Citizens Advice, has found that 1-in-7 customers are still paying their providers a “loyalty penalty” (i.e. paying more than new customers) despite cost-of-living crisis.

BT CEO on the Full Fibre Threat from Virgin Media O2 and TalkTalk

1st Aug 2022 (34 Comments)

The CEO of BT Group, Philip Jansen, has given a more detailed comment about the likely impact on their full fibre plans of broadband rival Virgin Media (VMO2) acquiring budget UK ISP TalkTalk, which he admitted would “knock off some cream of the FTTP case” but it apparently won’t “touch the fundamentals of it at all“.