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ISP News Archives for September 26, 2024

Comms Council UK Name Winners of Best 2024 VoIP Provider Awards

26th Sep 2024 (0 Comments)

The Comms Council UK, which represents the United Kingdom’s national Unified Communications and Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) phone industry, has this afternoon announced the winners of their 16th annual 2024 awards event at a ceremony at The IET in London.

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INCA Appoint New CEO to Represent Alternative UK Broadband Networks

26th Sep 2024 (3 Comments)

The Independent Networks Co-operative Association (INCA), which represents many of the UK’s alternative gigabit broadband builders, has today announced that long-time CEO and founding member, Malcolm Corbett, is to be succeeded by industry veteran Paddy Paddison in the role.

CEO of Virgin Media O2 UK Steps Back After Cancer Diagnosis

26th Sep 2024 (0 Comments)

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of broadband and mobile giant Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2), Lutz Schüler, has today announced that he will be temporarily stepping back from his role following a diagnosis of prostate cancer. The operator’s current CFO, Patricia Cobian, will step into his role for the next 4 to 8 weeks.

Gigaclear to Cut Jobs as UK Rural Full Fibre Broadband Build Slows

26th Sep 2024 (6 Comments)

Alternative network provider and rural broadband ISP Gigaclear has today revealed that, as part of “planning for the next stage of its development” and a “re-focus on ultra-rural areas“, their current pace of full fibre (FTTP) build will be slowing and that means job losses.

Virgin Media and Nexfibre Add 11,000 Homes to FTTP Cover in Chester

26th Sep 2024 (6 Comments)

Network operator nexfibre, which shares some of their parentage with UK broadband ISP partner Virgin Media (O2), has announced that they’ve built to cover 11,000 additional homes in the Cheshire (England) city of Chester with their new 2Gbps speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) broadband network.

Streaming Provider Disney+ Joins Crackdown on Password Sharing

26th Sep 2024 (10 Comments)

Internet video streaming provider Disney+ has, following earlier hints and a new subscriber agreement, finally joined Netflix by cracking down on password sharing through the introduction of a new ‘Paid Sharing‘ (Extra Member) service, which is indirectly intended to make it more difficult to share your account with people outside your household.

Three UK Boosts Rewards and Enters the Smartphone Reuse, Recycle Fray

26th Sep 2024 (3 Comments)

Mobile network operator Three UK has decided to catch up with some of their rivals by launching three new initiatives (i.e. ‘Like New‘, ‘Trade-In‘ and ‘Connect Together’) for consumers to help them reuse and recycle older Smartphones, while also rewarding households for adding more connections, if they so choose.

Study Claims UK Broadband Users Lost £98m to Poor Customer Service

26th Sep 2024 (8 Comments)

A new survey of 4,101 nationally representative UK adults, which was conducted by Which? in May 2024, has estimated that 950,000 consumers were £89m worse off over the last year due to giving up contacting their broadband provider after a poor experience. The magazine previously named Virgin Media as being the worst ISP for customer service (here and here).

Quickline’s £60m Gigabit Broadband Build in North and West Yorkshire UK Goes Live

26th Sep 2024 (1 Comment)

Alternative network operator and ISP Quickline has today announced that the first 4,500 premises under their £60m state aid supported gigabit broadband roll-out contract for North and West Yorkshire, including the remote areas surrounding York, have been covered by the new network. The goal is to reach 28,000 premises in hard-to-reach rural areas.

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