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ISP News Archives for January 24, 2024

O2 UK Highlights New Masts to Boost Shetland 4G Mobile Cover

24th Jan 2024 (7 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has today highlighted the deployment of a new mobile mast to boost 4G (mobile broadband) coverage on the remote rural Shetland island, which sits far away off the north coast of Scotland. Several more masts are due to follow under the £1bn Shared Rural Network (SRN) project.

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Nintendo 3DS and Wii U Online Services to Shut in April 2024 UPDATE

24th Jan 2024 (4 Comments)

Global video gaming giant Nintendo has today confirmed the sad, albeit not entirely unexpected (they’ve hinted at it before), news that the online service underpinning their once hugely popular 3DS and Wii U consoles will finally be discontinued on 8th April 2024.

Vodafone UK Not Retiring Fibre 1 Broadband Plans? UPDATED

24th Jan 2024 (9 Comments)

Mobile network operator and ISP Vodafone UK has now, after previously announcing that they were retiring both their old c.35-38Mbps Fibre 1 (FTTC / VDSL2) and related Full Fibre 1 (FTTP) home broadband packages for new customers (not existing subscribers), said this was done in error. But the related Social Tariff is still missing.

Small Changes in Virgin Media UK’s Latest TV 360 and STREAM Update

24th Jan 2024 (12 Comments)

Broadband ISP Virgin Media (VMO2) recently started to roll-out their first new device firmware update(s) of 2024 for both their Virgin TV 360 (v5.06) and STREAM (v5.07) platforms, which make a variety of smaller changes to the User Interface (UI). But none of the changes are particularly big this time around.

Scottish Government to Evaluate £600m R100 Broadband Project

24th Jan 2024 (4 Comments)

In an unsurprising development, the Scottish Government recently issued a new contract notice to help it commission an evaluation study of their £600m Reaching 100% (R100) “superfast broadband” (30Mbps+) rollout programme with Openreach (BT), which will aim to assess the project’s Value for Money.

Complete Fibre to Build Full Fibre for Thousands of Raven Housing Homes UPDATE

24th Jan 2024 (3 Comments)

The Raven Housing Trust, which owns and manages more than 7,000 homes across the South East of England, has agreed a deal that will see Complete Fibre deploy their open access full fibre infrastructure across the company’s estate of rented and shared ownership homes in Surrey and Sussex.

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Wind Farm Grant Extends B4RN’s Barrasford FTTP Broadband Build

24th Jan 2024 (2 Comments)

Community ISP B4RN (Broadband for the Rural North), which since 2011 has been working with volunteers to deploy a new 10Gbps full fibre (FTTP) network across rural parts of England, has secured a key grant of £66,000 from the Ray Wind Farm to help their network extend across more of the Barrasford area in Northumberland.

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