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ISP News Archives for March 11, 2024

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Newcastle-under-Lyme Plans New 50km Full Fibre Network

11th Mar 2024 (2 Comments)

The Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council in Staffordshire (England) has announced a new project that will seek to build up to 50km of new gigabit-capable fibre broadband infrastructure to help connect local businesses, public sector and community sites in poorly served parts of the town centre.

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Quickline UK Expand FTTP Broadband to 3 New Lincolnshire Villages

11th Mar 2024 (1 Comment)

UK ISP Quickline, which is rolling out a gigabit-capable full fibre (FTTP) broadband network across parts of England, has today announced that they’ve just gone live across three more villages in Rural Lincolnshire – North Somercotes near Louth, Donnington near Spalding and Alford (total of almost 4,000 premises).

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Town of St Helens Start £2.5m Project to Build Full Fibre Network

11th Mar 2024 (6 Comments)

The local authority for the Merseyside (England) town of St Helens, which is home to a population of around 103,000, has notified ISPreview of a new digital infrastructure project that aims to invest £2.5m to deploy a fibre optic network to support businesses across the town centre with gigabit-capable broadband.

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Openreach Top 1 Million FTTP Broadband Premises in South West

11th Mar 2024 (13 Comments)

Network operator Openreach (BT) has today announced that their 1.8Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network has now covered over 1 million premises across the South West of England (i.e. Cornwall, Dorset, Devon, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire), which reflects an investment of over £300m.

Mobile Operator Spusu UK Commits Not to Use AI Chatbots

11th Mar 2024 (9 Comments)

Mobile provider spusu, which hold a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) agreement via BTWholesale to harness EE’s UK network, has committed to only “using human customer service agents“. The pledge follows in the wake of VOXI’s decision (here) to introduce a ChatGPT (LLM) based AI chatbot to help “transform its customer services“.

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More UK Providers Commit to Protect Vulnerable Users During Digital Phone Switch UPDATE

11th Mar 2024 (11 Comments)

The government has announced that seven UK broadband and phone operators, including Openreach, CityFibre, AllPoints Fibre, CommunityFibre, Ogi, KCOM and WightFibre, have today signed a charter that commits them to protect “vulnerable customers” (e.g. those with telecare devices) when upgrading phone lines to a new digital (IP) based network.

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Airband Accounts Give Context to Recent UK FTTP Build Slowdown and Job Cuts

11th Mar 2024 (31 Comments)

Broadband ISP Airband, which previously aimed to cover 400,000 UK premises in rural areas via a mix of fixed wireless access (FWA) and full fibre (FTTP) networks by 2026, has finally published their company accounts – over 2 months late – and given context to the recent redundancies and build pauses.

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