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ISP News Archives for May 21, 2024

Altnet ISP Grain Tops 30,000 UK Full Fibre Broadband Customers

21st May 2024 (5 Comments)

Alternative network builder and UK ISP Grain (Grain Connect) has today revealed their they’ve now signed up 30,000 customers to their gigabit-capable full fibre (FTTP) network, which is up from 28k a month ago. On top of that, their coverage has grown from 207,000 premises passed (Ready for Service) to 220,000 over the same period.

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Gov MPs Pessimistic Over UK 5G Mobile and Gigabit Broadband Targets

21st May 2024 (8 Comments)

A new survey of 104 Ministers of Parliament, which was conducted by consultancy firm Cluttons and YouGov, has revealed that both Government (Conservative) and opposition (Labour) MPs are extremely pessimistic about the country hitting any of the current coverage targets for 5G (SA) based mobile and fixed gigabit broadband networks.

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Ofcom UK Digs Deeper into Sharing 6GHz for Mobile and WiFi

21st May 2024 (8 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today published a new paper that sets out its options and vision for how the upper 6GHz radio spectrum band (6425 to 7125MHz) could potentially be released and then shared between both 5G mobile (mobile broadband) and Wi-Fi networks (e.g. home WiFi).

UK ISP Cuckoo Renews Deal with Payment Provider GoCardless

21st May 2024 (1 Comment)

Internet provider Cuckoo, which is in the process of becoming the main retail broadband outlet for Fern Trading‘s (Octopus Investments) consolidated full fibre networks (Jurassic Fibre, Swish Fibre, Giganet and AllPoints Fibre), has renewed its relationship with GoCardless to provide future payment services.

Debt-laden UK Broadband ISP TalkTalk Looks to Bailout by Founder

21st May 2024 (13 Comments)

The founder of TalkTalk, Sir Charles Dunstone, and fellow shareholders are reportedly preparing to inject around £180m of new equity into the financially troubled UK internet provider. The move would help to tackle the threat of two large debt repayments, which are due over the coming months and said to total up to over £1bn.

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Streetwave Rank 20 London Boroughs by Level of Good Mobile Cover

21st May 2024 (0 Comments)

Mobile network analyst firm Streetwave has today published a new study that attempts to rank 20 of London’s Boroughs based on the level of “Good Mobile Coverage” they receive from the UK’s mobile network operators. Overall, Southwark had the highest average levels of Good Coverage (76.3%), while Barnet had the lowest (48%).

Survey Reveals the Extra Cost of Being Loyal to Broadband and Mobile Providers

21st May 2024 (9 Comments)

A new Opinium survey of 2,004 UK adults, which was commissioned by Uswitch.com and conducted between 16th April 2024 to 22nd April 2024, has claimed that broadband ISP customers who haven’t switched for 7-8 years are the worst off, paying on average £22.10 extra a month. The situation is almost as bad for mobile users’ too.

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Study – UK Falls to Rank 96th Cheapest in the World for Broadband

21st May 2024 (2 Comments)

The latest annual study from Cable.co.uk has tested fixed line broadband ISP packages from 223 countries (up from 219 last year) to create a global price comparison, which finds that the UK ranks 96th cheapest (down sharply from 76th), with an average monthly cost of $38.79 (£30.65) and that’s up from $34.19.

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