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ISP News Archives for June 2024

 
WightFibre-EV-Car-Kia

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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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”.

Fibre-optic-network-fibres-and-cable-connectors-uk

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.

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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.

VX FIBER LilaConnect FTTP street worker

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.

EE Lake District SRN Monopole Mast 2023

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.

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Vodafone-Logo-Outside-Office

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).

avonline networks virgin media

25th Jun 2024 (0 Comments)

Infrastructure firm M Group Services, which among other things also caters for the UK and Ireland via its various broadband and mobile focused civil engineering brands (Avonline Networks, magdalene, Morrison and waldon), is reportedly in “advanced talks” with private equity giant CVC Capital Partners over a possible £1.5bn acquisition deal.

25th Jun 2024 (29 Comments)

Network access provider Openreach (BT) has revealed that a good number of their UK broadband and phone engineers will now be voluntarily given an extra fun task to perform, which involves measuring the number of bugs that get unceremoniously splatted across their vans.

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25th Jun 2024 (11 Comments)

A seemingly new alternative network provider called Vale Communications Infrastructure (part of the Vale Group) has sprung up with a plan to deploy a new full fibre (10Gbps capable XGS-PON) broadband and wireless network, which is targeting coverage of 1.2 million premises passed – across 19 towns – by the end of 2025.

Airband-TV-Campaign-Image

25th Jun 2024 (5 Comments)

Alternative broadband operator Airband, which aims to cover 400,000 premises in rural parts of Wales and South West England via a mix of fixed wireless access (FWA) and full fibre (FTTP) networks by 2026, has done something that we don’t often see from Altnets by launching a TV campaign to promote their service.

Bright uk optical fibre broadband cables on flat surface - 123rf

25th Jun 2024 (24 Comments)

Network builder nexfibre, which is being supported by UK ISP Virgin Media (O2), has today warned that the progress on rolling out gigabit full fibre (FTTP) broadband networks across the UK remains “fragile” and it wants Ofcom to take “decisive action” to prevent the “mistakes of the past” (i.e. Openreach domination) from being “repeated“.

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Map-of-UK-showing-broadband-data-links-by-CoPilot-for-MJ-02052

25th Jun 2024 (10 Comments)

A new study from Cable.co.uk and M-Lab has used data gathered from 62 million UK internet-based speed tests, conducted between 1st July 2023 and 13th May 2024, to rank each of the country’s parliamentary constituencies by their average broadband ISP download performance. Overall, SNP constituencies were found to be the slowest, while Labour were the fastest.

Broadand router in the sun on a beach CoPilot AI Image for MJ 24062024

24th Jun 2024 (20 Comments)

A number of recent reports in the news media have put out warnings about this week’s early summer heatwave, some of which have even talked of “broadband blackouts“. But the reality is that this week’s heatwave is unlikely to cause any major problems for either consumers or ISPs, provided you’re sensible.

Vodafone Pro II UltraHub UK Router 2022

24th Jun 2024 (5 Comments)

Mobile operator and broadband ISP Vodafone UK has this morning launched a new internet security service for their Pro II home broadband packages “at no extra cost“, called ‘Secure Net Home’, which is a combination of digital security and parental controls (filtering) that can be used on more than 150 connected devices in the home.

EE-Rural-UK-Mast-with-Engineers-

24th Jun 2024 (33 Comments)

Mobile operator EE (BT) has today announced that they’ve deployed “cell sleep” technology across their UK 4G (mobile broadband) network, which they “anticipate” could deliver total energy savings of up to 4.5m KWh per year – reducing both their demand on the local grid and helping to cut costs at a time of high electricity prices.

Complete-Fibre-MDU-Diagram

24th Jun 2024 (6 Comments)

The Milton Keynes-based Complete Technology Group (CTG), which is a UK landlord advisory service that also runs Complete Fibre (i.e. they install full fibre broadband infrastructure into large residential buildings / MDUs), has announced that it will “withdraw its current service offer” from the market over the “coming months“.

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