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ISP News Archives for September 2022

ISP Sky Broadband Freezes UK Package Prices for 18 Months

6th Sep 2022 (2 Comments)

New customers joining UK ISP Sky Broadband may like to know that the provider has adopted an 18-month “price freeze” on their Openreach based (FTTC + FTTP) superfast, ultrafast and gigafast broadband packages (including some TV bundles), which removes the usual mid-contract price hikes.

UK Jumps to 35th out of 220 Countries for Broadband Speed in 2022

6th Sep 2022 (12 Comments)

Research firm M-Lab and Cable.co.uk have today published their annual 2022 global broadband ISP speeds report, which reveals that the United Kingdom delivered an average (mean) download speed of 72.06Mbps (up from 51.48Mbps last year), ranking us 35th fastest in the world (up from 43rd in 2021 and 47th in 2020).

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.

UK Mobile Operators Gift Free Calls to Pakistan After Floods

3rd Sep 2022 (2 Comments)

Mobile operators and some broadband ISPs including Vodafone, BT, EE, Plusnet, iD Mobile, O2 and Virgin Media have in the last week responded, separately, to the massive floods in Pakistan by giving their UK customers free calls to the country and roaming.

Pure Broadband No Longer Supports MS3’s Full Fibre Network

3rd Sep 2022 (1 Comment)

Hull-based UK ISP Pure Broadband, which in March 2022 announced that their broadband packages had been made available via MS3’s new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network in the North of England (here), has suddenly stopped offering related services since being taken over by Connexin in July (here).

Connected Britain 2022 Reveals Broadband Award Shortlist

2nd Sep 2022 (0 Comments)

The annual Connected Britain Awards 2022 (Total Telecom) event is just around the corner and they’ve today published their short list of potential winners for this year, which sees various UK full fibre network builders and broadband ISPs being named across multiple categories (e.g. “Broadband Provider of the Year“).

Virgin Media O2 UK Extend Broadband to Older OFNL Sites

2nd Sep 2022 (4 Comments)

ISP Virgin Media (VMO2) has confirmed to ISPreview.co.uk that their partnership with Open Fibre Networks Limited (OFNL / GTC / BUUK) is being extended, which will enable them to expand their rival gigabit broadband, TV and phone network to cover UK homes on some of the operator’s existing (older) sites.

ISP Gigaclear Leave Essex Village Without Broadband for 2 Weeks

2nd Sep 2022 (7 Comments)

A small number of Gigaclear’s rural UK broadband customers on their new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network in Essex (Area 2) – primarily residents in the village of White Colne – have complained after a service fault resulted in a loss of connectivity that has so far persisted for two long weeks.

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Community Fibre Launch 5Gbps Broadband for London Firms

1st Sep 2022 (11 Comments)

London-focused broadband ISP CommunityFibre (CF), which has already covered 500,000 premises with their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network (aiming for 2.2 million by the end of 2024), today claims to have become the “UK’s first 5Gbps 100% full fibre broadband for businesses” with their new 5GIGAFAST tier.

Grain Name 3 New Locations for their UK FTTP Broadband Rollout

1st Sep 2022 (12 Comments)

Broadband ISP and digital infrastructure builder Grain (Grain Connect) has today added three new locations to their ongoing UK rollout of a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, which will see them building across Watford (Hertfordshire), Reading (Berkshire) and Northampton (East Midlands).