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Oxfordshire-based alternative broadband network Zzoomm, which has already deployed their 2Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) service to cover 202,000 premises (RFS) in England, has today revealed that their customer base has now grown to 30,000 (up from 25,000 on 23rd April 2024) across 23 towns.
Everflow, which traditionally offers specific utility services to small and medium-sized UK businesses (i.e. water, waste management etc.), has teamed up with communications provider Gamma in order to expand their services into the broadband ISP and phone market.
Customers of home and business UK broadband ISP iDNET have informed ISPreview that the provider’s new Openreach based 1.2Gbps and 1.6Gbps speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband packages have recently gone live. Both packages are a little bit limited by a max upload speed of 120Mbps.
The London Internet Exchange (LINX), which handles a key chunk of UK and global data traffic through their switches via 950+ members (broadband and mobile operators etc.), has today announced that alternative full fibre network provider toob has become the first ISP to take a 400G (Gbps) port at the IXP for their peering services and more.
Telecoms analyst firm Juniper Research has used an April 2024 survey of 3,300 UK mobile subscribers to identify that iD Mobile ranks top as the “leading network operator in the UK for subscriber roaming satisfaction in 2024“, which saw them achieve a net promoter score of 77%.
The Scottish Futures Trust (SFT) looks set to start a year-long trial that will upgrade trains on the Far North and Kyle lines (railway) in the Highlands of Scotland with “the best Wi-Fi experience of any train service” in the UK. The capacity for this will be supplied by unspecified broadband satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO).
The Government claims to have kicked off a “renewed push” today to “reach full gigabit [broadband] coverage by 2030“, which they’ve done by announcing that Openreach (BT) has secured several contracts under the £5bn Project Gigabit scheme. This could eventually be worth up to £800m (state aid) and may upgrade 312,000 premises in remote rural areas of Scotland, England and Wales.