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ISP News Archives for September 5, 2022

Cable Thieves Knock Out Openreach’s Broadband in Shenley

5th Sep 2022 (1 Comment)

Openreach UK has confirmed that around 970 premises (homes and businesses) in the village of Shenley (Hertfordshire), near Watford, were impacted late last month after copper thieves ripped 1,400 metres worth of the operator’s cable out of the ground, which has so far taken several weeks to fully resolve.

Cheshire UK Boosts Value of Gigabit Broadband Rollout Vouchers

5th Sep 2022 (1 Comment)

The Cheshire East Council has announced that the wider Connecting Cheshire Partnership have committed £2.9m to boost the value of the UK Government’s local Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme (GBVS), which offers vouchers to help rural homes and businesses install gigabit-capable internet connections.

CityFibre to Start £17m Rollout of 1Gbps Broadband in Rugby

5th Sep 2022 (0 Comments)

Network developer CityFibre has today confirmed that they’ll begin the £17 million rollout of a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across the Warwickshire (England) town of Rugby this month, which aims to reach “almost every home and business locally.”

OneWeb Take £200m Hit Over Scrapping of Russian Satellite Launch

5th Sep 2022 (3 Comments)

British-registered OneWeb, which is building a mega constellation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) based ultrafast low-latency broadband satellites, has confirmed in their accounts that they took a $229.2m (£199m) hit after Russia blocked the launch of 36 platforms earlier this year due to the war in Ukraine and related sanctions.

Poynting Launch XPOL-24 Antenna to Boost 5G Mobile Broadband

5th Sep 2022 (7 Comments)

Some of our readers may be interested to learn that Poynting has recently begun to make their latest external antenna – the XPOL-24 – available to retail, which is specifically designed to get the most out of 4G and 5G based mobile broadband routers that can support a 4×4 MIMO configuration.

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Virgin Media O2 Claim to Launch UK’s Fastest WiFi Guarantee

5th Sep 2022 (18 Comments)

Broadband ISP Virgin Media (VMO2) is today claiming to have launched the “UK’s Fastest WiFi Guarantee” in “every room or money back,” which is to be included “at no extra cost” on their 1Gbps broadband packages and all Volt bundles. Customers on their 50Mbps to 500Mbps plans (without Volt) can add it for £8 extra a month.

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Gigaloch’s Full Fibre Network Goes Live in More of West Cheshire

5th Sep 2022 (2 Comments)

The Fibre for Ashton Hayes, Horton cum Peel, Mouldsworth & Manley (F4AMM) campaign group in rural West Cheshire (England) has revealed that UK ISP Gigaloch, which has been building a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across the area since last year, has finally started to go live.

Full Fibre UK ISP Giganet Acquires Broadband Provider Cuckoo

5th Sep 2022 (14 Comments)

Network operator and ISP Giganet, which offers gigabit broadband to UK homes and businesses via its own full fibre infrastructure (as well as via third-parties including Openreach and CityFibre), has today announced the acquisition of upcoming internet provider Cuckoo as part of efforts to grow its reach into the wider market.

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