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ISP News Archives for February 12, 2024

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Lothian Broadband Expand FTTP Network Rollout to the Black Isle

12th Feb 2024 (2 Comments)

Scottish ISP Lothian Broadband (LBN), which is building a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) network across rural parts of East Lothian, the Highlands and Fife, has announced that their network rollout is now being expanded across rural parts of the Black Isle area.

Full Fibre UK Broadband ISP Zzoomm Launch Voice Service by KIT

12th Feb 2024 (10 Comments)

Alternative network provider Zzoomm, which is rolling out their new gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across parts of England, appears to have finally launched their new IP-based digital “Voice” (phone) service for customers on their full fibre lines. But it doesn’t seem to be a fully integrated product.

Three UK Suffers Third Major Mobile Outage in Four Days UPDATE3

12th Feb 2024 (57 Comments)

Mobile operator Three UK has today suffered a third major network outage in the space of four days, which began at around 10:30am today and seems to have been largely resolved by 12:30pm. The latest outage attracted many more complaints than the previous event and also impacted customer services (probably due to being swamped by calls).

Virgin Media, Fibrus and Vodafone Top nPerf UK Broadband Speed Survey

12th Feb 2024 (8 Comments)

European benchmarking firm nPerf has just published the results from their annual 2024 crowdsourced study into UK fixed broadband ISP performance, which finds that subscribers of Virgin Media, Fibrus and Vodafone enjoyed the best internet connection performances over the past year.

Virgin Media O2 UK Adopt Hiya AI to Tackle SPAM and Fraud Calls

12th Feb 2024 (12 Comments)

Broadband ISP and mobile operator Virgin Media and O2 have today announced that they’ve become the second major UK telecoms provider, after BT (EE), to adopt Hiya’s AI-based technologies, which can analyse call behaviour in real-time and determine whether to flag an incoming call as ‘suspected spam’ or block fraud.

Calls for Scottish Government to Rethink Rural Broadband Vouchers

12th Feb 2024 (1 Comment)

The Shetland MSP, Beatrice Wishart, has called on the Scottish Government (SG) to “rethink” the Scottish Broadband Voucher Scheme (SBVS) after it was revealed that only around 3-4% of the c.80,000 homes and businesses eligible for support under this measure had taken it up.

UK ISP G.Network Resumes London Full Fibre Broadband Rollout

12th Feb 2024 (1 Comment)

Broadband ISP G.Network has this morning announced that they are to recommence the building of their 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to homes and businesses in four London boroughs, which follows last year’s build pause (here) and redundancies.

BBC iPlayer Scrap Offline TV Show Downloads for Desktop Users UPDATE

12th Feb 2024 (18 Comments)

Over a decade has now passed since the BBC released its iPlayer Downloads app for PC and Mac users in the UK to “make offline viewing more simple“, which is a useful tool for those who may not always be close to a working broadband connection (e.g. when travelling). But sadly, the desktop download app will soon be no more.

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