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ISP News Archives for May 30, 2023

BT Sport TV Makes Key Football Finals Free to Watch for All

30th May 2023 (7 Comments)

Broadband giant BT has today announced that they’re making the 2023 UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, and UEFA Europa Conference League finals available to everyone in the United Kingdom to watch for free, whether on TV, online or on mobile.

BT Expands Pilot of UK Digital Voice Service to More Customers

30th May 2023 (50 Comments)

Broadband ISP BT will this week expand the rollout of their Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) based Digital Voice product, which was only recently restarted with a smaller group of customers after a long pause (here), to include “all full fibre and a smaller group of broadband customers yet to switch to Digital Voice.”

Rural Full Fibre ISP County Broadband Appoints New CIO

30th May 2023 (2 Comments)

Colchester-based alternative network ISP County Broadband, which aims to reach 500,000 premises across the East of England with their new gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network by the end of 2027, has today announced the appointment of Chris Davies as Chief Information Officer (CIO).

Netflix Account Sharing Add-on Blocked by UK ISP Pay TV Bundles

30th May 2023 (10 Comments)

Netflix’s crackdown on password sharing in the UK has finally revealed why they needed to discuss the matter with several major UK broadband ISPs (i.e. those that bundle their service with Pay TV products), including Sky Broadband, BT, Virgin Media and TalkTalk (here). The new extra member and profile transfer features won’t work on such packages.

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Rural ISP Quickline to Enhance Field Services and Customer Support

30th May 2023 (1 Comment)

Broadband ISP Quickline has signed a £1m+ partnership with makepositive, which will help to enhance their customer support, field services and inventory management. The move will aid their plan to deploy a new full fibre (FTTP) network to 96 locations (55,000 premises) across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire in England.

Octaplus Mistake Cuts Off Some Former ZYBRE CityFibre Broadband Customers UPDATE2

30th May 2023 (29 Comments)

Broadband ISP Octaplus Networks has apologised after they left some customers on CityFibre’s UK full fibre (FTTP) network, specifically those who live in Chester and were being migrated from troubled provider ZYBRE (Air Broadband), without internet access due to an “unfortunate error” related to network availability.

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New BDUK Change Stalls Some FTTP Broadband Builds in Powys UPDATE

30th May 2023 (5 Comments)

Residents in the rural Powys (Wales) village of Llangedwyn – including neighbours in Llanfihangel (and possibly others) – have complained after their long-awaited rollout of a new full fibre (FTTP) broadband network, which was due to be built by Broadway Partners, was put on hold due to the UK’s £5bn Project Gigabit scheme.

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