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ISP News Archives for October 2024

Devon and Somerset UK Broadband Project Scales Back Airband Rollout UPDATE

31st Oct 2024 (33 Comments)

The state-aid supported Connecting Devon and Somerset (CDS) programme has suffered yet another problem with one of their rural broadband contracts, which occurred today after they announced that their full fibre roll-out deal with Worcestershire-based Airband was being “scaled back” following its underperformance.

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nPerf Finds Top EU Countries Beat UK for Mobile Broadband Speeds

31st Oct 2024 (8 Comments)

Internet benchmarking firm nPerf has today released the results of a new study into mobile broadband (3G, 4G and 5G) performance across several EU countries, which analysed 61,696 internet speed tests via their app (crowdsourced) to reveal that the average UK download is 80Mbps – this makes the country slower than Italy, Spain, Germany, Ireland, France and Portugal.

Nexfibre Publish Q3 2024 UK Full Fibre Broadband Build Update

31st Oct 2024 (21 Comments)

Network operator nexfibre, which shares some of their parentage with ISP partner Virgin Media (VMO2), has published their latest quarterly (Q3 2024) progress update on the roll-out of their new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) broadband network. This includes details on build locations for 2025 and 2026.

O2 UK Offers Pay As You Go Mobile Customers a Free DATA Boost

31st Oct 2024 (2 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has announced that, until 5th February 2025, both new and existing Pay As You Go (PAYG) mobile customers will get the chance to boost their data (mobile broadband) by up to three times the amount for no extra cost (e.g. those with a 10GB plan can boost it to 30GB – GigaBytes).

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Virgin Media UK and Nexfibre Add 18k Homes to Horsham UK Fibre Network

31st Oct 2024 (1 Comment)

Network operator nexfibre, which shares some of their parentage with broadband ISP partner Virgin Media (O2), has announced that they’ve extended their 2Gbps speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) network to cover 18,000 additional homes in the West Sussex (England) town of Horsham.

AllPoints Fibre Networks Acquires UK Broadband ISP Brillband

31st Oct 2024 (10 Comments)

Alternative network operator AllPoints Fibre Networks, which is the UK wholesale division of Fern Trading’s recently consolidate alternative FTTP broadband ISP networks (Giganet, Jurassic Fibre, and Swish Fibre), has today announced that they’ve acquired Glasgow-based full fibre ISP Brillband for an undisclosed sum.

Netomnia’s Annual Fibre Broadband Build Rate Tops 1 Million UK Premises

31st Oct 2024 (9 Comments)

Broadband network operator Netomnia (inc. Brsk and YouFibre) will today post their latest Q3 2024 results, which among other things reveals that the annual build rate for their new 8Gbps speed full fibre (FTTP) network has exceeded 1 million premises (total 1.82m, up 258k in quarter) and customer take-up hit 10.4% to total 190,000 (up 9% or 40k in quarter).

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Lightning Fibre Launch Winter Sale on UK FTTP Broadband Network

31st Oct 2024 (0 Comments)

Eastbourne-based alternative network builder and ISP Lightning Fibre, which has been building a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across parts of Sussex and Kent in England, has today launched a big winter sale across their various full fibre packages for homes.

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Enders Analysis Finds 20 Largest UK Altnet BT Rivals Lost £1.3bn in 2023

30th Oct 2024 (23 Comments)

A new report from analyst firm Enders Analysis, which was today shared with ISPreview, has calculated that the 20 largest alternative UK broadband networks (i.e. BT / Openreach challengers) collectively suffered losses of around £1.304bn in 2023 (increased from £755m in 2022) – driven by high interest rates and rising build costs.

Broadband ISP Grain to Expand UK Full Fibre Network in Warrington

30th Oct 2024 (1 Comment)

Alternative network operator Grain (Grain Connect), which has already built their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to cover 220,000 UK premises RFS (21st May 2024) and connected 30,000 customers, has revealed that they’ve begun to expand their existing deployment in the Cheshire (England) town of Warrington.

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Autumn UK Budget 2024 Commits £500m to Broadband and Mobile UPDATE4

30th Oct 2024 (6 Comments)

The new Chancellor of the Labour Government, Rachel Reeves MP, has today announced her first Autumn 2024 Budget and confirmed that she would commit “over £500m of funding next year” for “improving reliable fast broadband and mobile coverage across our country, including in rural areas“.

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SICOM Looks to Expand UK Dark Fibre Network for Businesses

30th Oct 2024 (1 Comment)

Knaresborough-based network operator SICOM, which often works in partnership with local authorities, private enterprises, national carriers, has revealed that they’re looking to expand their open access Dark Fibre network, which is currently primarily located in several major cities across England, Scotland and Wales.

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Cornwall UK ISP Wildanet Pilot Carbon Saving FTTP Broadband Build Process

30th Oct 2024 (1 Comment)

Rural broadband ISP Wildanet, which is deploying a gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across rural parts of Cornwall and Devon (England), has joined forces with build contractor Dynamic Fibre to help pilot a new cable-laying process that could “dramatically reduce the carbon footprint” of their deployment.

Business ISP VoiceHost Joins ITS Technology’s UK Full Fibre Network

30th Oct 2024 (0 Comments)

The ITS Technology Group, which operates wholesale full fibre broadband and Ethernet networks (“Faster Britain“) across urban parts of the UK, has today announced that business voice and data solutions provider, VoiceHost, has joined their network as part of a strategic partnership.

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Ookla Claim Quarter of UK Smartphone Users Suffer Network Outage at Least Once a Month

30th Oct 2024 (2 Comments)

A new survey of over 1,000 UK smartphone users by Omdia, which was commissioned by network testing firm Ookla (i.e. Speedtest.net, Downdetector.co.uk), has revealed some of the biggest frustrations that UK Smartphone users have with their devices, with spam calls and messages, slow-loading web pages, and network outages as the top pain points.

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Brsk Name 5 Areas in Rural West Yorkshire UK for FTTP Broadband Build

30th Oct 2024 (1 Comment)

Alternative network operator and ISP Brsk has today announced that their 2Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network, which already covers “over” 700,000 UK homes and is in the process of being merged with Netomnia (here), is being expanded to cover a further 10,000 “rural” premises in 5 new locations across West Yorkshire (England).

Study Finds Three UK’s 3G Switch-Off Boosted Speeds, But Hurt Coverage

30th Oct 2024 (15 Comments)

Mobile network analyst firm Streetwave has used data gathered from across Northumberland (England) and Ceredigion (Wales) to examine the recent switch-off of 3G mobile services in those areas by Three UK, which resulted in median (average) mobile broadband download speeds rising by 22%, but “Essential Coverage” declined by 8%.