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ISP News Archives for November 2022

Consumers Want End to Mid-Contract Broadband and Mobile Price Hikes

8th Nov 2022 (10 Comments)

A new Opinium survey of 2,000 UK adults, which was commissioned by Uswitch during October 2022, has unsurprisingly found that 81% of respondents think mid-contract price increases by broadband ISPs and mobile operators are “unfair” and 80% want more providers to offer fixed price contracts.

Openreach Launch Buy 3 Get 1 Free Offer on 10Gbps Cablelinks

7th Nov 2022 (19 Comments)

Openreach (BT) has today announced the launch of an unusual supermarket style offer for UK ISPs that make use of their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) and other fibre-based broadband products, which involves selling their 10Gbps Cablelinks on a “Buy Three Get One Free” basis at wholesale.

ISP Andrews and Arnold Soft Launch CityFibre Based FTTP Plans

7th Nov 2022 (0 Comments)

UK ISP Andrews & Arnold (AAISP) has today soft launched their first Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband packages over Cityfibre’s network, which marks the first time that they’ve offered products on an alternative platform to Openreach’s national infrastructure.

Zzoomm Extend FTTP Broadband Build in Hemsworth to Kinsley

7th Nov 2022 (0 Comments)

Alternative UK broadband ISP Zzoomm has announced that they’re extending their existing build of a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network in the West Yorkshire (England) town of Hemsworth to include the neighbouring mining village of Kinsley.

ISPA UK Reveals Shortlist for 2022 Internet Hero Award

7th Nov 2022 (17 Comments)

The UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has today announced the shortlist of potential winners for the “Internet Hero” category of their 2022 internet industry awards event, which is due to take place on the 24th November 2022 at the Landmark Hotel in London.

Three UK Adopts Huge Inflation Linked Mobile Price Hikes Policy UPDATE

7th Nov 2022 (36 Comments)

Three UK appears to have shunned Ofcom’s recent pleas for broadband ISPs and mobile operators to consider whether “large price rises can be justified at time of exceptional financial hardship” (here). Instead, the operator has adopted the same CPI (inflation) linked policy of huge hikes on their Pay Monthly plans as other operators.

FreedomFibre Invest £9m to Build FTTP Broadband in Urmston

7th Nov 2022 (1 Comment)

The Greater Manchester town of Urmston, which is home to a population of around 42,000, has been announced as being the next UK location to benefit from Freedom Fibre‘s rollout of a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network.

UK ISP TalkTalk Business Offer 3 Months Free Full Fibre Broadband

7th Nov 2022 (2 Comments)

Broadband ISP TalkTalk Business appears to have joined the Black Friday discounts by giving away the first three months of service for free to new customers across all of their various Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) packages, which offer download speeds of between 80Mbps and up to 900Mbps+.

Virgin Media O2 UK to Create 125 New Engineers in Big Cities

7th Nov 2022 (3 Comments)

Mobile operator and broadband ISP Virgin Media (VMO2) has opened applications for 125 field engineer apprenticeship positions to help rollout their full fibre (FTTP) and 5g mobile networks across the UK. Most of the positions will be filled in London, Manchester, Bristol, Birmingham, Glasgow and Leicester.

Numis Report on Cityfibre Reveals New Details of UK FTTP Broadband Build

6th Nov 2022 (29 Comments)

A new research report from investment bank Numis, which was pieced together by analyst John Karidis, has revealed some useful information about Cityfibre’s £5bn project to deploy a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across the UK and their perspective on overbuild and prices vs Openreach (BT) etc.

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Starlink Broadband Introduce 1000GB Fair Usage Policy in Some Markets

5th Nov 2022 (31 Comments)

Customers of global ISP Starlink (SpaceX), which operates a mega constellation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) based ultrafast broadband satellites, have been informed that they will become subject to a 1000GB (1 TeraByte) data cap from December via a new Fair Usage Policy (FUP). But it hasn’t been confirmed for the UK.. yet.

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UK ISPs Set to Miss Ofcom’s Broadband Switching Deadline

5th Nov 2022 (19 Comments)

A growing number of UK broadband providers, particularly those that are building alternative Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) networks, are growing concerned that they won’t be able to meet Ofcom’s April 2023 deadline for the introduction of the new One Touch Switch (OTS) ISP migration system. Delays look inevitable.

BT and CWU Reopen Negotiations Over Pay Dispute After UK Strikes

4th Nov 2022 (56 Comments)

BT has re-entered negotiations with the Communications Workers Union (CWU) to hopefully settle the ongoing pay dispute with up to 38,000 employees, which has so far resulted in 8 days worth of national UK strikes. The move comes only a day after the operator’s CEO, Philip Jansen, described the matter as “closed” and seemed to reject further talks.

Grain Add 4 More UK Locations to their FTTP Broadband Rollout

4th Nov 2022 (17 Comments)

Broadband ISP and network builder Grain (Grain Connect) has today added four new locations to their ongoing UK rollout of a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, which will see them expand across parts of Whitley Bay and Thornaby in the North East, Blackpool in the North West and Tonypandy in Wales.

H1 2022 – Gigabit Broadband Covers 99% of New Build UK Homes

4th Nov 2022 (0 Comments)

The latest H1 2022 report into the broadband coverage of new build UK homes reveals that 99.03% of houses constructed during the first half of 2022 were connected to a gigabit-capable network (using full fibre FTTP and Hybrid Fibre Coax), which falls slightly to 98.03% when only looking at FTTP.

South Western Railways Deploy 5G to Fuel Superfast Onboard WiFi

4th Nov 2022 (13 Comments)

The South Western Railway and telecoms firm Evo-rail (FirstGroup) recently announced the people travelling on a 70km long stretch of their Main Line into London – between Basingstoke and Earlsfield – would be the first to benefit from the rollout of new rail-side 5G poles (masts) that will be used to deliver “superfast” onboard WiFi.

Multi-Network UK ISP ZYBRE Acquires Rival Air Broadband

4th Nov 2022 (17 Comments)

Broadband and Cloud Gaming ISP ZYBRE, which offers services to UK homes over a number of Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) networks (Openreach, MS3, FullFibre etc.), has this morning announced the acquisition of rival provider Air Broadband that adopts a similar approach to network aggregation.