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plusnet uk isp logo image 2020

4th Oct 2022 (25 Comments)

Budget UK ISP Plusnet, which is part of the wider BT Group, has announced that from today it will no longer be providing managed broadband and phone services to new residential customers under the John Lewis brand and the service will eventually close.

EE Mobile UK Sim Cards

4th Oct 2022 (16 Comments)

The UK telecoms and media regulator, Ofcom, has today opened a new investigation into mobile and broadband provider EE, which relates to a concern that the operator may have “failed to comply” with rules that require them to provide new customers with clear and simple contract information before they sign-up to a new deal.

Hyperoptic UK Engineers Training Near Truck 2022

4th Oct 2022 (1 Comment)

Nokia has expanded their relationship with UK ISP Hyperoptic, which is deploying a new gigabit speed “full fibre” (FTTP/B) broadband network to serve 2 million UK homes by the end of 2023. Under the agreement, Nokia will now also upgrade the provider’s IP core network with more flexibility and capacity.

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Digital Strategy for Essex UK Illustration

4th Oct 2022 (3 Comments)

The Essex County Council in England has this week launched its new £1.88m Digital Essex programme – part of the wider Digital Strategy for Essex (here), which among other things will develop a “local grant scheme” to provide additional funding to reach the final 1% of rural premises that still cannot access “decent broadband“.

Openreach Engineer with Tia the Cat and Children

3rd Oct 2022 (13 Comments)

Curiosity often gets cats into trouble and we’ve seen plenty of occasions where broadband engineers have had to fish the odd one down from a tree or UK telecoms pole. But spare a thought for Tia, the cat who took an unexpected 100-mile round trip to Coll with one of Openreach’s engineers. But it had a purr-fect ending.

GoFibre Van

3rd Oct 2022 (2 Comments)

Independent rural broadband ISP GoFibre (BorderLink), which in January secured funding of £164m from Gresham House (BSIF) to help build their new full fibre network to 500,000 premises in the North of England and Scottish Borders by around the end of 2025 (here), has today significantly restructured its top leadership team.

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world broadband connectivity

3rd Oct 2022 (4 Comments)

The United Kingdom has succeeded in getting itself elected to hold a seat on the influential governing council of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), which will give it more of a say in future standards (broadband, satellite, mobile technologies etc.) and the allocation of global radio spectrum etc.

Airband UK ISP Logo 2022

3rd Oct 2022 (13 Comments)

Rural focused broadband ISP Airband, which has deployed a mix of Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) and Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) networks across various parts of the country, has today launched somewhat of a brand and package refresh as part of their plan to achieve a “ten fold increase in its customer base in the next 3 years.”

vodafone uk sim holder

3rd Oct 2022 (70 Comments)

After months of speculation, mobile network operator Vodafone UK has today confirmed that they are officially in “discussions” with Three UK’s parent (CK Hutchison Holdings) about the possibility of a merger. Such a deal would give the combined business the “necessary scale” to boost their 5G rollout and “expand” rural broadband connectivity.

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VX FIBER LilaConnect FTTP street worker

3rd Oct 2022 (3 Comments)

Network provider LilaConnect (subsidiary of Swedish provider VXFIBER) has today announced the start of a new build across the market town of Haverhill in Suffolk (England), which will see their “open access” and gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network cover 12,000 premises.

Curvalux-FWA-broadband-kit-on-mast

3rd Oct 2022 (0 Comments)

Two of the UK’s most prominent developers of cutting edge fixed wireless access (FWA) and mobile broadband equipment – Curvalux and the Cambridge Broadband Networks Group (CBNG) – have today completed a merger. The two companies will remain independent, with CBNG becoming a subsidiary of Curvalux.

speed metre broadband and mobile UK

3rd Oct 2022 (5 Comments)

The latest data from Ookla, which operates the popular Speedtest.net website, is beginning to show the sort of impact that the new generation of alternative full fibre broadband networks (AltNets) are having across the UK. But for now, the seven largest ISPs still dominate the country’s fixed broadband market.

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