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Broadband giant BT Group is facing renewed fears of a possible takeover attempt by French billionaire Patrick Drahi’s Altice UK today, which has once again increased its stake in the telecoms giant from 18% to 24.5% – just a shade under the level that might typically spark an investigation (another one).
The Digital Poverty Alliance (DPA) has published their 2023 National Delivery Plan, which calls on the UK Government to help support ISPs to get more people in disadvantaged groups online, such as by cutting Value Added Tax on broadband ISP and mobile bills to just 5% (currently 20%) – similar to other utility services.
The situation at troubled internet provider ZYBRE (Air Broadband) appears to have experienced another twist after some customers, specifically those on Openreach based broadband packages, reportedly received a new email that stated the provider would be “ceasing” related services and switching users to a new ISP.
Broadband ISP Virgin Media (VMO2) has today confirmed that, “from next week“, new and existing customers who take their 500Mbps or 1Gbps home broadband packages will be able to enjoy updated upload speeds of 52Mbps (previously 36Mbps) and 104Mbps (previously 52Mbps), respectively, “at no extra cost“.
Abingdon-based rural broadband ISP Gigaclear appears to be expanding their new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to cover another three rural locations in Essex (England) – reflecting an additional 3,800 premises, which forms part of the operator’s £140m investment in the county.
Network builder and broadband ISP 4th Utility, which is rolling out a gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) service to UK homes (SDU) and large residential buildings (MDU), has today been given a boost after Dutch bank NIBC Bank N.V. made a £25 million investment to help accelerate their plans.