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ISP News Archives for July 2023

Openreach 2022 Engineer Testing Fibre Lines

Openreach UK Launch Impressive New OSA 100Gbps Product UPDATE

18th Jul 2023 (8 Comments)

Network access provider Openreach (BT) today claims to have launched a “game changer” new Ethernet product – OSA 100G Single (Optical Spectrum Access), which is designed to provide businesses or broadband ISPs with a dedicated, secure and always-on 100Gbps fibre optic data link that comes at a fairly attractive price point.

Digital Infrastructure Boosts UK FTTP Rollout with Supply Deal

18th Jul 2023 (2 Comments)

Network operator Digital Infrastructure (DI), which is being supported by broadband ISP BeFibre, has today announced that they’ve signed a new multi-year partnership with global supply chain solutions provider Wesco Anixter to support their ongoing UK rollout of a new gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network.

Giganet FTTP Cherry Picker and Engineers

Giganet Finish First Phase of FTTP Broadband Rollout in England

18th Jul 2023 (8 Comments)

Fern Trading-backed UK ISP Giganet (Cuckoo) has today announced that they’ve completed the first phase of their £250 million deployment of a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network, which aims to reach poorly served homes and businesses across parts of Hampshire, Dorset and Wiltshire in England.

Vodafone Boost UK 5G Mobile Rollout with New Ericsson Antenna

18th Jul 2023 (15 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone UK has today announced that they’ve begun to deploy Ericsson’s new single Interleaved AIR 3218 antenna, which aims to increase the mid-band (radio spectrum) capacity of their 5G (mobile broadband) network and without creating any additional antenna footprint at their various network sites.

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Openreach Praises its UK Engineer of the Year 2023 Winner

18th Jul 2023 (0 Comments)

Network access provider Openreach (BT) has named Glenrothes engineer Lee Carmichael (40), who installs full fibre (FTTP) broadband around Fife in Scotland, as their ‘Engineer of the Year 2023‘ for his repairs, installs, out-of-the-box thinking and support for colleagues.

BT Sport Has Today Rebranded its UK TV Service to TNT Sports

18th Jul 2023 (12 Comments)

As expected, BTSport’s Pay TV service has today officially been rebranded to TNT Sports throughout the UK and Republic of Ireland. The move follows last year’s deal between broadband giant BT and Warner Bros. Discovery, which resulted in a 50:50 Joint Venture (JV) company between BT Sport and Eurosport UK.

Report Finds UK Gigabit Broadband and 5G Rollout Needs More Collaboration

18th Jul 2023 (4 Comments)

A new report from the Digital Connectivity Forum (DCF), an industry think-tank, has found that UK’s rollout of gigabit-capable broadband and 5G mobile connectivity would benefit from improvements in communication, collaboration and consistency between local authorities and the telecoms industry.

Nexfibre Secure £250m Debt Investment for UK Full Fibre Rollout UPDATE

17th Jul 2023 (10 Comments)

Network operator nexfibre, which is working with broadband ISP Virgin Media (VMO2) – at wholesale – to deploy a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across up to 7 million extra UK premises, has today secured an additional £250 million debt investment from the UK Infrastructure Bank (UKIB).

easySim’s Low Cost Mobile Travel Data Service Goes Live in UK

17th Jul 2023 (22 Comments)

As predicted last month (here), the Stelios-linked easy® family of brands (i.e. easyJet, easyMoney, easyCar) has this week launched a new UK mobile operator service called easySim.global, which is focused on giving people low cost travel data (mobile broadband) to use all around the world via eSIM.

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CityFibre Apologises to Leeds Clients for Rare Multi-Week Outage

17th Jul 2023 (19 Comments)

Network operator CityFibre has apologised to their business connectivity users in Leeds (Yorkshire, England) after their attempt to replace an old 288f fibre joint cable, which was due to be upgraded to 432f, resulted in a “significant number” of customers (e.g. Dark Fibre and Ethernet services) being hit by connectivity problems.

Rural UK ISP Wessex Internet Upgrade to 10Gbps XGS-PON Fibre

17th Jul 2023 (8 Comments)

Broadband ISP Wessex Internet, which is deploying a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across rural parts of Dorset, Wiltshire, Hampshire and Somerset in England, has announced that they’ve begun upgrading their network with 10Gbps capable XGS-PON tech from Nokia and DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing).

Water and Pollution Risk - from a pond into a test tube.

Openreach on Concerns Over Lead Poisoning from Old UK Cables

17th Jul 2023 (16 Comments)

The Wall Street Journal in America recently ran an alarming multipage story that warned of how lead-insulated telecoms cables, which were installed decades ago, had been found to allegedly be poisoning the ground and nearby water. Similar cables were installed by BT (GPO) in the UK, but do they still pose a risk? We asked Openreach.

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1Gbps Edinburgh Wireless ISP WeLink UK to Cease Operations

15th Jul 2023 (29 Comments)

Alternative fixed wireless access (FWA) ISP WeLink Communications UK, which had been offering wireless broadband speeds of up to 1Gbps to poorly served homes and businesses in the city of Edinburgh (Scotland), has confirmed to ISPreview that they are “withdrawing” from the market.

Ofcom UK Proposes to Tweak One of Openreach’s QoS Targets

14th Jul 2023 (7 Comments)

Ofcom has proposed to tweak how it calculates one of Openreach’s regulated Quality of Service (QoS) standards for Ethernet and Dark Fibre repairs, which would replace the current “on-time repair” target with a “mean time to repair” target. The change reflects the fact that the operator’s performance has improved, not worsened.

Grain Bring FTTP Broadband Rollout to Blyth in Northumberland

14th Jul 2023 (17 Comments)

Homes and businesses in the Northumberland (England) town and civil parish of Blyth have been named as some of the next to benefit from Grain‘s (Grain Connect) ongoing roll out of a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network – using Point-to-Point (PTP) architecture.

Tesco Mobile, Sky Mobile and Giffgaff Praised for UK Customer Satisfaction

14th Jul 2023 (24 Comments)

The Institute of Customer Service (ICS) has just published their latest biannual UK Customer Satisfaction Index (July 2023), which finds that Tesco Mobile (ranked 7th), Sky Mobile (ranked 16th) and giffgaff (ranked 34th) were the only telecommunications providers to make their table of the top 50 organisations.

Comms Council Unveil 2023 Best UK VoIP Provider Award Finalists

14th Jul 2023 (2 Comments)

The Comms Council UK, which represents the United Kingdom’s national Unified Communications and Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) phone industry, has today published their annual shortlist of finalists for the organisation’s 2023 industry awards event.