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Broadband operator Netomnia, which is supported by ISP YouFibre and had been aiming to cover 1 million UK premises with their 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network by early 2024, has announced that they’ve covered 850,000 premises (up from 730k in Nov 2023) and raised a further £147.5m to fuel their rollout.
Network operator and UK ISP CommunityFibre, which has deployed a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across a big chunk of London, has sadly just begun informing existing customers about a new round of annual price increases. The only good news is that their packages are still fairly competitive.
The CCO of the Complete Technology Group (CTG), Kevin Monaghan, has criticised today’s Spring Budget 2024 announcement for both failing to “crackdown” on broadband ISPs “inflicting substantial mid-contract price hikes” on consumers and not announcing any new provisions to help upgrade digital infrastructure.
Energy and telecoms provider UW (Utility Warehouse), which is also known as Telecom Plus, has today announced that the company has passed the “one million customer milestone” and are now setting their sights on “doubling in size to two million customers” (no timescale for this was given).
The Conservative MP for Beverley and Holderness, Graham Stuart, has followed up his previous calls for the UK government to clampdown on the use of “ugly and unnecessary” poles – used to deploy some gigabit broadband networks – by sending a letter to the Digital Infrastructure Minister, Julia Lopez, which makes five key “demands“.
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned another advert for UK fixed wireless broadband ISP 6G Internet (IX Wireless), albeit this time for sending out a “misleading” leaflet promotion that claimed the provider offered “Full Fibre Speed Broadband” (Full Fibre is a term that’s typically only be used by FTTP networks).