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ISP News Archives for March 1, 2023

Full Fibre UK ISP Brsk Commits to Price Freeze During 2023

1st Mar 2023 (4 Comments)

Broadband ISP Brsk, which has so far built a full fibre network to cover 100,000 UK premises (up from 70,000 in Sept 2022), has today confirmed that they won’t be increasing contract prices for the remainder of 2023. Furthermore, all current in-contract customers won’t have a price increase across their 24-month contracts.

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CMA Clear Merger of Satellite Broadband Firms Viasat and Inmarsat UPDATE

1st Mar 2023 (2 Comments)

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has today provisionally approved the merger of two major global satellite communication and broadband operators – Viasat (USA) and Inmarsat (UK), which they previously warned could have resulted in airlines facing “higher prices for on-board wifi” due to the loss of a key competitor.

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CityFibre UK Starts £17m Loughborough FTTP Broadband Rollout

1st Mar 2023 (4 Comments)

CityFibre has announced that they’ve started the construction phase of their £17 million project to rollout a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to cover “almost every home and business” in the Leicestershire (England) market town of Loughborough.

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£6m Boost to Help Develop Future UK Communications Tech

1st Mar 2023 (2 Comments)

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), which forms part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), has today secured £6 million of funding to help with the research and development of future communication systems including 6G (mobile broadband), faster internet access and cloud computing etc.

ISPA Launch Hunt for the Best UK Broadband Providers of 2023

1st Mar 2023 (3 Comments)

The UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has today begun their annual hunt for the best ISPs and internet companies ahead of their forthcoming 2023 awards event, which has this year introduced several new categories (total of 16) to help mark their 25th year anniversary.

Huge £130m Boost for Grain’s UK FTTP Broadband Rollout

1st Mar 2023 (10 Comments)

Cumbria-based network builder and broadband ISP Grain (Grain Connect) has today announced that they’ve secured an additional £130 million of funding to help “accelerate” their ongoing rollout of a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across the United Kingdom.

UK ISP Giganet Launch Full Fibre Packages for Small Businesses

1st Mar 2023 (1 Comment)

Broadband provider Giganet (Cuckoo) has today announced that they’ve launched a new full fibre (FTTP and Ethernet) package for SOHO (small office, home office) customers in the small business sector, which they said is “ideal for offices of 1-10 employees” and will be offered via both their Openreach and CityFibre networks.

Virgin Media UK Make it Easier to Take Social Broadband Tariff

1st Mar 2023 (17 Comments)

Broadband ISP Virgin Media UK (VMO2) has today become the latest national provider to adopt a new system from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), which makes it easier for those on state benefits to be approved to take their cheaper “Essential Broadband” social tariff.

Broadband ISP Brillband Secures £475,000 Investment Boost

1st Mar 2023 (2 Comments)

Glasgow-based ISP Brillband, which at its launch last year (here) chose to quirkily describe itself as the “world’s first … app-based broadband provider“, has secured an additional £475k investment from “digital infrastructure banking experts based in Australia and Norway-based angel investors” to help expand across the UK.

Openreach Extend UK Pilot of 1.2Gbps and 1.8Gbps FTTP Broadband

1st Mar 2023 (85 Comments)

Network access provider Openreach (BT) has announced that their ongoing broadband ISP pilot of faster Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) download speeds – 1.2Gbps and 1.8Gbps (both offer 120Mbps upstream) – has been extended to run for several more months and is also being expanded into more exchanges.

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