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ISP News Archives for July 25, 2023

Vodafone Expands EVO Plans to Include Laptops and Tablets

25th Jul 2023 (6 Comments)

A couple of years ago Vodafone launched what it called an “evolution in mobile phone plans” with their new 4G and 5G supporting EVO packages, which gave customers more flexibility over payments, contract lengths and smartphone upgrades etc. Today they’ve extended that to include other device bundles, such as laptops and tablets.

New UK Home Broadband and Discounted Computer Scheme Launched

25th Jul 2023 (7 Comments)

The Digital Poverty Alliance (DPA), high street retailer Currys and Computer Recyclers have today teamed-up to launch the ‘Get Online @ Home‘ scheme, which offers special deals on broadband and discounted refurbished devices to the 11 million people across the UK who they claim are experiencing digital exclusion.

Cambridgeshire UK Highlights Progress of Dig Once Fibre Build

25th Jul 2023 (0 Comments)

The Connecting Cambridgeshire project in England, which is being led by the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority, has today highlighted the progress they’re making in helping to accelerate the roll-out of gigabit-capable broadband across the county, with 21km of new fibre ducting already installed or soon to be deployed.

Broadband ISP Giganet Probes Degraded UK Service Problem UPDATE2

25th Jul 2023 (3 Comments)

Internet provider Giganet are today reporting that they’re investigating a problem across their national UK network, which may be causing some leased lines (Ethernet) and full fibre (FTTP) broadband customers to experience degraded service quality.

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CommunityFibre Bring FTTP Broadband to 1Million London Homes

25th Jul 2023 (16 Comments)

Network builder and UK broadband ISP CommunityFibre, which is rolling out a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across London, has today hit the coverage milestone of 1 million homes passed (up from 720,000 in December 2022) – plus 212,000 businesses on top (i.e. their network footprint expanded by 75% in the last 12 months).

Virgin Media O2 UK Cuts 2,000 Jobs as Broadband Customers Fall UPDATE2

25th Jul 2023 (39 Comments)

Broadband ISP and mobile giant Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2) have published their Q2 2023 results, which saw their fixed broadband base fall by -15,300 in the quarter to total 5,667,300 (vs 28.8k added in Q1) and the operator confirm earlier reports (here) of 2,000 job cuts. But they also accelerated their nextfibre FTTP reach by 175,500 premises.

RootMetrics Study Names Best UK Mobile Networks for H1 2023

25th Jul 2023 (3 Comments)

Mobile benchmarking firm RootMetrics (Ookla) has published their latest biannual H1 2023 study of UK mobile network (4G and 5G) and mobile broadband performance, which sees EE (BT) continue to pick up awards across all of the categories. But in terms of 5G data speeds, Three UK remains the operator to beat.

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