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ISP News Archives for July 2024

Sky UK Adds 70 “Free” TV Streaming Channels via Xumo Play

31st Jul 2024 (5 Comments)

Customers of Sky’s broadband-based Sky Glass and Sky Stream pay TV platforms may like to know that the provider has just added the new Xumo Play app to their platform, which offers an additional 70+ “free” streaming channels including Dateline, Reuters and American Classics.

AltNets Dominate List of Top 10 Cheapest Entry Level UK Broadband ISPs

31st Jul 2024 (6 Comments)

Telecoms analyst firm Point Topic has posted an interesting new analysis of broadband affordability in the UK, which identifies the cheapest and most expensive ISPs for “entry level” packages by nationwide “small areas“. Suffice to say that alternative networks dominate the table of cheapest providers.

Tax Tribunal Backs HMRC Over £51m Lyca Mobile UK VAT Dispute

31st Jul 2024 (14 Comments)

Mobile network operator Lyca Mobile, which is a virtual operator (MVNO) on EE’s platform in the UK, is facing a significant financial hit after a Tax Tribunal ruled in HMRC’s favour over a £51m dispute related to the VAT treatment of customer “bundles” (those sold over a period of 7 years). But the operator can still appeal.

Broadband ISP TalkTalk Adopt New UK Policy on Annual Price Hikes

31st Jul 2024 (24 Comments)

Budget conscious broadband ISP TalkTalk has informed ISPreview that they’re preparing to follow Ofcom’s new guidance on inflation-linked annual broadband price rises. In practice, this means that new and re-contracting (upgrading) customers will be hit by a flat annual price increase of £3 (monthly) each April.

NOW TV Ad Banned for Failing to Make Clear that Plans Included Ads

31st Jul 2024 (1 Comment)

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned a website advert for internet streaming and broadband provider NOW TV (aka – NOW Broadband), which is a sibling of Sky UK, after it was found to have failed to clearly set out that their basic TV plans (subscriptions) included ads (unless you paid extra for the ‘Boost’ upgrade).

Study Claims Poor Broadband and Mobile Drives People Out of UK Rural Areas

31st Jul 2024 (9 Comments)

A new Strand Partners survey of 4,000 members of the UK public, which was commissioned by broadband and mobile providers Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2), has claimed that over a third of rural residents (or 66% of “young people“) are likely to be considering a move away to a town or city in the next 12 months. Poor internet connectivity is one of the key drivers for this.

Full Fibre UK ISP GoFibre Celebrates First Year of Community Fund

30th Jul 2024 (0 Comments)

Edinburgh-based alternative network provider GoFibre (BorderLink), which has already rolled out their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to 100,000 rural premises across the North England and the Scottish Borders, has today celebrated the first anniversary of their £50,000 GoFurther charity fund by awarding more projects.

London ISP Community Fibre Expand Availability of Free FTTP Broadband

30th Jul 2024 (2 Comments)

Network operator and broadband ISP CommunityFibre, which has built a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across 1.4 million UK premises – mostly in London, has today announced an expansion of their initiative offering “free access to 100% full fibre broadband to eligible Londoners struggling to get online“.

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Wildanet Pick Xantaro to Support Cornwall UK Gigabit Broadband Rollout

30th Jul 2024 (1 Comment)

Rural broadband ISP Wildanet, which is building a new full fibre (FTTP) network across South West England, has chosen network solutions provider Xantaro and Nokia to help support their deployments in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly with Street Cabinet and Exchange Solutions etc.

Altnet UK ISP Grain to Expand Bolton’s FTTP Broadband Network

30th Jul 2024 (0 Comments)

Alternative network provider Grain (Grain Connect), which has so far grown their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to cover 220k UK premises RFS (21st May 2024) and 30k customers, has just announced that they’re going to expand their existing deployment in the Greater Manchester town of Bolton.

bOnline Survey Finds UK Businesses Frustrated by Openreach FTTP Rollout

30th Jul 2024 (12 Comments)

A new survey of 427 small UK business owners, which was conducted by business focused broadband ISP bOnline in the late June to mid-July 2024 period, has found that 70% of respondents either don’t know if Openreach’s (BT) gigabit-capable FTTP broadband network has reached their area or believe that it is not yet available.

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Cellnex, Vodafone and O2 Extend Existing UK Mast Sharing Partnership

29th Jul 2024 (8 Comments)

Wireless infrastructure firm Cellnex has today extended their existing partnership with UK mobile providers Vodafone and O2 (Virgin Media), which will ensure that both operators continue to have access to share Cellnex’s national tower infrastructure to help deploy 5G (mobile broadband) and future services.

Openreach UK Warn Surrey Petrol Leak to Take At Least 1 Year to Fix

29th Jul 2024 (20 Comments)

Network access provider Openreach (BT) has issued another update on a long-running underground petrol leak in the Surrey village of Bramley, which has already restricted the ability to safely work on their local broadband ISP and phone network. The bad news today is that “making [this] network safe and accessible” could now take “at least 12 months“.

Penmachno in Wales Builds Own WiFi Network to Tackle Poor Mobile Signal

29th Jul 2024 (8 Comments)

Residents living in the tiny North Wales (UK) village of Penmachno in the isolated upland Machno valley area, which has long been known to suffer from flaky mobile coverage, have banded together to tackle the issue by installing a “cutting-edge, free WiFi [mesh] system” in the centre of the community.

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Ofcom Orders UK Phones Providers to Add Tougher Scam Call Blocking

29th Jul 2024 (10 Comments)

The telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today given UK phone providers (fixed line and mobile) six months to implement changes that aim to help tackle scammers who call from abroad and imitate UK landline numbers (i.e. spoofed calls), which requires stricter measures against “Presentation Numbers” that are used to identify who is making a call.

A Month of Rural Broadband Connectivity Woes for Shropshire Village UPDATE

29th Jul 2024 (0 Comments)

Residents in the rural Shropshire (England) village of Brockton (Lydbury North), which sits a few short miles from the town of Bishop’s Castle and is served by a hybrid full fibre (FTTP) and wireless broadband network from Voneus, have for the past month been “plagued with frequent outages and, when it is up, lots of packet loss, essentially making it unusable“.

Liberty Global CEO Updates on Virgin Media UK Going Wholesale, AltNets and TalkTalk

28th Jul 2024 (21 Comments)

The CEO of Virgin Media’s co-parent operator Liberty Global, Michael Fries, has given a useful update on the progress they’re making with opening up their UK broadband network to wholesale (NetCo), the potential for consolidation within the alternative network (altnet) market and their position with respect to ISP TalkTalk’s debt problems.