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ISP News Archives for March 2023

Uswitch 2023 Awards Name Best UK Broadband and Mobile Providers

9th Mar 2023 (12 Comments)

Uswitch.com has unveiled the winners of their annual 2023 Telecoms Awards event, which among things saw Plusnet named as the best LARGE broadband ISP of the year, while Hyperoptic took the same award for smaller providers. Meanwhile, BT was named as the most reliable broadband ISP and giffgaff came top for mobile.

FTTP ISP Toob Keep 900Mbps UK Broadband Price Frozen Again

9th Mar 2023 (10 Comments)

Alternative broadband ISP toob, which aims to cover 1 million premises across the South of England by 2027 (mostly in Surrey and Hampshire), has joined the growing club of smaller providers that have bucked the trend of recent price hikes by opting to keep their package prices frozen.

EE UK Caps Pay As You Go Mobile Broadband Speeds to 25Mbps

9th Mar 2023 (35 Comments)

Mobile network operator EE UK has quietly introduced an important change to their 4G based Pay As You Go (PAYG) plans, which means that customers who joined from 1st March 2023 will have their mobile broadband speeds capped at just 25Mbps – this is advertised as being “Superfast speeds“.

NAO Criticise Huge Delays to UK 4G Emergency Services Network

8th Mar 2023 (7 Comments)

The National Audit Office has today published an assessment of the progress being made by the UK Government’s 4G based Emergency Services Network (ESN), which finds that it continues to be massively over budget and has “fallen further behind schedule“. In fact, not even the Home Office knows when it’ll be ready, but 2029 or later is hinted.

Full Fibre UK AltNet ISP Zzoomm Sniffs Acquisition of Trooli

8th Mar 2023 (9 Comments)

Network builder and UK ISP Zzoomm, which is being backed by Oaktree Capital and aims to cover 1 million premises with their full fibre broadband network by the end of 2025 (they’ve already covered 100,000), has reportedly joined the list of those interested in acquiring fellow network provider Trooli.

BT Updates on Expanded Pilots of New UK Digital Voice Rollout

8th Mar 2023 (63 Comments)

Broadband ISP BT has today confirmed that they will restart the national UK rollout of their new Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) based Digital Voice product from April 2023, which will start gradually with a series of expanded pilot schemes that will be made up of “lower usage landline customers” who already have full fibre broadband.

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INCA Accuses Ofcom of Putting UK Full Fibre Rollout at Risk UPDATE

8th Mar 2023 (30 Comments)

The Independent Networks Co-operative Association, which represents UK alternative broadband ISP networks, has today warned Ofcom that “more than £25bn worth of investment” to improve the UK’s digital infrastructure “will be directly threatened” if Openreach is allowed to introduce new FTTP wholesale price discounts (Equinox 2).

Ofcom UK Clamps Down on Misleading Uses of “Fibre” Broadband UPDATE2

8th Mar 2023 (80 Comments)

Good news. The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today proposed new guidance that would only allow broadband ISPs to use the terms “fibre” and “full-fibre” on their websites and in contracts “if their network uses fibre-optic cables all the way from the exchange to the home” (i.e. FTTP).

Over 100 Bolton Residents Protest 50ft IXWireless Broadband Mast

8th Mar 2023 (21 Comments)

Blackburn-based network operator IX Wireless, which is building a new gigabit-capable wireless broadband network for UK ISP 6G Internet (NOT related to 6G mobile), has faced criticism after over a hundred residents in part of Bolton came out to protest against their installation of another 15 metre high metal pole (mast).

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Steeper UK Fines for Nuisance Calls and Texts Inch Closer

8th Mar 2023 (4 Comments)

The UK Government’s Technology Secretary, Michelle Donelan MP, will today re-introduce the new Data Protection and Digital Information Bill (DPDI No.2) to parliament, which among other things will increase fines for nuisance calls and texts to be either up to 4% of global turnover or £17.5 million, whichever is greater.

New UK Sky Stream TV Customers No Longer Own the Box (puck)

7th Mar 2023 (27 Comments)

New customers of the Sky Stream TV product, which uses your home broadband ISP (doesn’t have to be Sky Broadband) and WiFi to stream Sky’s on-demand video and live TV content directly to your existing TV without a satellite dish, may be displeased to learn that they no longer own the set-top-box (puck) itself.

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UK Researchers Create Perfectly Secure Digital Communications

7th Mar 2023 (5 Comments)

A team of researchers from the University of Oxford – working in close collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University – claims to have made a breakthrough to enable “perfectly secure” hidden digital communications for the first time by tackling some of the flaws with steganography via a new computer algorithm.

Full Fibre UK ISP 4th Utility Appoint New Consumer Business CEO

7th Mar 2023 (0 Comments)

Broadband ISP 4th Utility, which is rolling out a gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to serve UK homes (SDU) and large residential blocks (MDU), has today announced the appointment of Steve Wilson to be the CEO of their new consumer business unit.

Q4 2022 Openreach Progress Update on Wales FTTP Rollout

7th Mar 2023 (10 Comments)

The Welsh Government (WG) has published a Q4 2022 progress update on their £52.5m Phase 2 Superfast Cymru contract with Openreach (BT), which reveals that a total of 35,770 extra premises (up from 34,122 in Q3) have now gained access to their gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network.

Full Fibre UK ISP Jurassic Fibre Highlights Big Rise in Women Workers

7th Mar 2023 (0 Comments)

Network builder and broadband ISP Jurassic Fibre, which is rolling out a 1Gbps+ Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across the South West of England, has today celebrated a 209% rise in the number of women in its workforce in just two years (now accounting for 30% of the company’s total).

Starlink Allows UK Customers to Rent Satellite Broadband Kit

7th Mar 2023 (0 Comments)

SpaceX’s Starlink ISP, which uses thousands of compact satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to deliver low latency ultrafast broadband speeds to homes, has launched a new option for UK customers that enables you to avoid paying one big setup fee for the hardware (dish, router etc.) via an additional monthly rental.

Councils Warn of Problems as Analogue UK Phone Services End

6th Mar 2023 (44 Comments)

The Local Government Association, which represents councils across England and Wales, has warned that traffic lights, cash machines and vital telecare equipment used by almost 2 million vulnerable people may “cease to operate” when analogue copper phone services are withdrawn in 2025 – unless more support is provided.