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ISP News Archives for January 8, 2024

Wi-Fi Alliance Officially Certifies Kit for New Wi-Fi 7 Standard

8th Jan 2024 (20 Comments)

The Wi-Fi Alliance has today official begun certification for the next generation of Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) capable wireless networking devices. The new Wi-Fi 7 standard is expected to “see rapid adoption“, with more than 233 million devices predicted to enter the market in 2024 alone. Just don’t expect to see those dizzy speed claims of 46Gbps in the real-world.

Wildanet Become First UK Full Fibre AltNet to be B-Corp Certified

8th Jan 2024 (12 Comments)

Rural broadband ISP Wildanet, which is busy building a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across parts of rural Cornwall and Devon in England, has today announced that they’ve become the first alternative network in the United Kingdom to be certified as a “B Corporation” (i.e. meeting key social and environmental standards).

New UK BT Group CEO Allison Kirkby to Start Job on 1st Feb 2024

8th Jan 2024 (10 Comments)

Broadband, mobile and technology giant BT Group (inc. Openreach, Plusnet and EE) has this afternoon revealed the start date for their future CEO, Allison Kirkby, who will now officially replace Philip Jansen in the role on 1st February 2024. Allison was named as the group’s new CEO last year (here), albeit without a solid handover date.

ISP Gigabit Networks Extends Full Fibre to Cover 1 Million UK Firms

8th Jan 2024 (5 Comments)

Leicester-based broadband ISP Gigabit Networks has today announced that, thanks to their expanded availability across multiple alternative networks, their full fibre (FTTP and Ethernet) services are now able to reach a total of around 1 million businesses (on net) across the United Kingdom.

Stocksfield UK Village Google Map Overview

Anger in Stocksfield as FACTCO’s 3 Year FTTP Broadband Build Drags On

8th Jan 2024 (7 Comments)

Three years have now passed since UK broadband ISP FACTCO confirmed that it would be deploying their new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across the small commuter village of Stocksfield in the south of Northumberland (England), but so far not a single property in the community has gone live.

Neos Networks Launch 10Gbps Managed Dedicated Internet Access

8th Jan 2024 (10 Comments)

Network operator Neos Networks, which runs one of the biggest 34,000km long business fibre networks in the UK – spanning 550 exchanges, 90+ data centres and 676 Points of Presence (PoPs), has today upgraded their Managed Dedicated Internet Access (DIA) product to provide capacities up to 10Gbps as standard (previously it only offered up to 1Gbps).

BT Etc EV Charger from UK Street Cabinet Plugged into Car

BT Start UK Trial to Convert Broadband Street Cabinets into EV Chargers

8th Jan 2024 (49 Comments)

UK ISP BT and its digital incubation team, Etc. (that is their actual name), has this morning kicked off the first pilot of an Electric Vehicle (EV) charger that has been repurposed from one of Openreach’s old street cabinets, which was “traditionally used to store broadband and phone cabling“. Up to 60,000 more could follow.

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