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ISP News Archives for June 26, 2024

Rural UK ISP Wessex Internet Wins at National Countryside Alliance Awards

26th Jun 2024 (0 Comments)

After winning the Rural Enterprise category for the South West region of the 2024 Countryside Alliance Awards earlier this year (here), alternative rural broadband provider Wessex Internet has today announced that they’ve just won the same category at the national awards too.

Isle of Wight ISP WightFibre Grows Broadband Customers to 21,000

26th Jun 2024 (10 Comments)

Network operator and broadband ISP WightFibre, which is building a gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across the Isle of Wight – just off the South Coast of Hampshire (England), has today revealed that they’ve managed to grow their take-up to 21,000 customers (30% market share).

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UK ISP Association Sets Out Telecoms Priorities for Next Government

26th Jun 2024 (0 Comments)

The Internet Services Providers’ Association (ISPA), which is a trade body that represents UK broadband ISPs and related comms providers, has today set out the key strategic priorities and actionable policies that it thinks the next UK Government will need to focus on in order to continue the work of “transforming the nation’s digital infrastructure”.

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Oxfordshire UK’s GigaHubs Full Fibre Build Connects 180 Sites

26th Jun 2024 (4 Comments)

The Oxfordshire County Council (OCC) and Neos Networks have revealed that their ongoing £7.25m “GigaHubs” project has now connected 180 public sector sites (schools, hospitals etc.) to a new gigabit-capable full fibre broadband network. But the work won’t complete until they reach the contracted 193 sites, later this year.

Alternative Broadband ISP Brsk Adds UK Support via WhatsApp

26th Jun 2024 (9 Comments)

Alternative network operator and UK ISP Brsk, which covers 552,000 premises (536k RFS) in England via their full fibre network and is in the process of being merged into Netomnia (here), has today become one of the first internet providers to introduce real-time customer support via WhatsApp.

ISP LilaConnect Offers 6 Months Free 1Gbps FTTP Broadband UPDATE

26th Jun 2024 (0 Comments)

New customers seeking to join ISP LilaConnect, which following the VXFIBER acquisition is now part of Freedom Fibre‘s UK full fibre broadband network (here), may like to know that the provider has launched a new promotion to celebrate the “summer of sport” by offering their 1Gbps package with the first 6 months free on a 24-month contract.

FarrPoint Study Claims EE’s 4G Gives Economic Boost to UK Rural Areas

26th Jun 2024 (0 Comments)

A new study conducted by technical consultancy firm FarrPoint, which was commissioned by UK telecoms operator EE (BT), has claimed that deploying 4G mobile (mobile broadband) networks can deliver social and economic benefits, worth between £249,000 and £6.9m, to different types of rural communities over 15 years.

Vodafone Adopt Simpler UK Mobile and Broadband Price Rise Policy UPDATE

26th Jun 2024 (27 Comments)

Mobile network operator and broadband ISP Vodafone UK is preparing to introduce a simpler pricing policy, which will replace their old inflation-linked approach to annual price hikes with one that simplifies things (i.e. by expressing future annual increases using a clear figure in pounds and pence).

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