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ISP News Archives for September 2023

VIDEO – Richard Tang Interviews Graeme Oxby, CEO of Community Fibre

6th Sep 2023 (3 Comments)

The CEO of UK ISP Zen Internet, Richard Tang, has today published another informative video interview, this time with the CEO, Graeme Oxby, of London FTTP broadband network builder CommunityFibre. The interview covers take-up, coverage, consolidation, pricing, social tariffs and much more.

Virgin Media O2 Linked Nexfibre Acquire UK FTTP AltNet Upp UPDATE

6th Sep 2023 (53 Comments)

Network builder nexfibre, which is working in partnership with broadband ISP Virgin Media (VMO2) – at wholesale – to roll-out a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across up to 5-7 million extra UK premises, has today announced the acquisition of full fibre operator Upp in the East of England.

Artists Paint More of WightFibre’s Broadband Street Cabinets

6th Sep 2023 (1 Comment)

Artists Emma and Hollie of Community Murals have continued their efforts to tackle graffiti on the Isle of Wight, not least by working with councils and broadband ISP WightFibre to paint more of the operator’s full fibre street cabinets with attractive murals. The latest ones can be found in parts of Newport, such as the bus station.

UK and Chinese Universities Team Up to Research Streaming Tech for 6G

5th Sep 2023 (13 Comments)

A team of researchers from Edge Hill University’s Engineering Department and Sichuan University’s College of Electronics and Information Engineering – led by Professor Ray Sheriff – have joined forces to “pave the way for ultra-5G and 6G networks by investigating how Versatile Video Coding (VVC)” can be enhanced and optimised.

OneWeb Spotted Testing Personal LEO Satellite Broadband Dish UPDATE

5th Sep 2023 (8 Comments)

Space broadband provider OneWeb, which is part-owned by the UK government and typically offers its services to organisations rather than individuals (e.g. ISPs, businesses, governments, shipping etc.), has begun testing a new foldable, person portable User Terminal (UT) in London today.

Gigabit Networks Targets National UK CityFibre FTTP Availability UPDATE

5th Sep 2023 (9 Comments)

Leicester-based broadband ISP Gigabit Networks, which previously focused on connecting premises across the Midlands of England via CityFibre’s full fibre network (they also work with FullFibre Limited), has today announced the expansion of their service availability to encompass CityFibre’s national footprint.

Vodafone to Extend 5G Cover via Amazon’s Project Kuiper Satellites

5th Sep 2023 (6 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone and Vodacom have today announced that they’ve agreed a “strategic collaboration” deal to harness Amazon’s future Project Kuiper constellation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) broadband satellites, which will be used to help extend the reach of their 4G and 5G networks across Europe and Africa.

Mobile Calling Bug Still Impacting UK Vodafone, EE and O2 Users UPDATE2

5th Sep 2023 (22 Comments)

Some customers of mobile network operators EE (BT), Vodafone and O2 (Virgin Media) are this morning continuing to report problems with making and receiving calls between the aforementioned networks (this also impacted some landline calls), which is an issue that first began around midday on Monday (4th Sept).

Openreach Stops Selling New UK Analogue Copper Phone Lines

5th Sep 2023 (58 Comments)

Openreach (BT) has this morning confirmed that they’ve formally introduced their long-planned UK wide “stop sell” on sales of new Wholesale Line Rental (WLR) and related broadband ISP products, which is part of their aim to completely withdraw the old copper-based Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) by December 2025.

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Common Wholesale Platform Makes Progress on One Touch Switch

4th Sep 2023 (3 Comments)

The Common Wholesale Platform (CWP) and related Common Switching Platform (CSP), which is a non-profit member-owned organisation that helps alternative broadband networks to provide wholesale services to the UK market (ISPs), has hailed successful switching tests with the TOTSCo One Touch Switching (OTS) platform.

AltNet UK ISP Upp Launch New BusinessEssentials Broadband Package

4th Sep 2023 (3 Comments)

Network operator Upp, which is investing £1bn (via LetterOne) to deploy a new gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network for homes and businesses across the East of England, has launched a new ‘BusinessEssentials’ package that is designed to provide its “Next Level Broadband” service to smaller firms.

London Broadband ISP Community Fibre Offer 9 Month Student Deal

4th Sep 2023 (4 Comments)

London-focused network builder and UK ISP CommunityFibre, which is rolling out a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across the city (currently covering 1.2m premises), has launched a special set of two packages for students that come attached to 3 months of free service.

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BDUK Analysis Shows Benefits of UK Phase 3 Superfast Broadband Project

4th Sep 2023 (6 Comments)

The Government has posted an updated State Aid evaluation of the previous ‘Superfast Broadband Programme’ (UK National Broadband Scheme), which specifically examines the final Phase 3 of the project to extend “superfast” (30Mbps+) coverage – run between 2016 and 2022. Suffice to say, it finds various economic and coverage benefits.

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County Broadband Donate £10k Worth of Computers to Digital Essex

4th Sep 2023 (2 Comments)

Alternative UK network operator and ISP County Broadband, which holds an aspiration to cover 500,000 premises across the East of England with their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network by the end of 2027, has donated £10,000 worth of computers to Digital Essex to tackle digital exclusion.

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First Trainee Fibre Engineers Under Project Gigabit’s Cumbria Contract Get Started

4th Sep 2023 (6 Comments)

The first cohort of at least 90 apprentice full fibre (FTTP) engineers have just begun their training for future telecoms jobs, which forms part of the UK Government’s £108m investment under their Project Gigabit broadband rollout contract with ISP Fibrus – alongside network build partner Viberoptix – in rural Cumbria.

CityFibre Pauses Multiple UK FTTP Builds Linked to Kier Group

4th Sep 2023 (56 Comments)

CityFibre has confirmed to ISPreview that they’ve recently taken the decision to exit a number of UK full fibre (FTTP) broadband contracts with build partners for a variety of reasons. One of those is known to be the Kier Group, which held various contracts for places such as Weston-Super-Mare, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Bath and Worcester etc.

Openreach UK Extend Pilot of 1.2Gbps and 1.8Gbps FTTP to End of 2023

2nd Sep 2023 (73 Comments)

More bad news for any broadband ISPs that were planning to launch faster packages based off Openreach’s forthcoming Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) tiers, which push top download speeds to 1.2Gbps and 1.8Gbps (both offer 120Mbps upstream). The current service pilot has just been extended for yet another 3 months.