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ISP News Archives for October 21, 2024

Disconnections on UK ISP Zen Internet After AVM Router Upgrade UPDATE

21st Oct 2024 (36 Comments)

Some customers of UK broadband ISP Zen Internet have complained about repeated service disconnections after their bundled FRITZ!box 7530 routers from AVM received a firmware update to the latest FRITZ!OS v8 software, which appears to have introduced an unexpected instability into the device.

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Ofcom Confirm Plan to Retire Old UK Broadband ISP Switching System

21st Oct 2024 (2 Comments)

The UK media and telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today published a new letter that they recently sent to broadband and phone providers. The letter confirms their intention to decommission the old consumer ISP switching system (NoT+) on 24th October this week in favour of their new One Touch Switching (OTS) system, which is said to be “working well“.

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UltraNetworks Deploy 5G Broadband to Reach Part of Rural Aberdeenshire

21st Oct 2024 (2 Comments)

Internet provider UltraNetworks has used vouchers from the Scottish Government to help it upgrade and deploy a new 5G Standalone (SA) based fixed wireless (FWA) network from Mormond Hill. The site will be able to serve homes and businesses in rural parts of North East Aberdeenshire (Scotland) with 1Gbps+ broadband speeds.

Virgin Media O2 UK Offers £10 Railcard Reward to Priority Members

21st Oct 2024 (0 Comments)

Customers of Virgin Media and O2’s various broadband, mobile, phone and TV packages may like to know that the provider’s ‘Priority’ app, which is a way of rewarding existing subscribers with various special offers and discounts, has begun offering a cheaper Railcard for £10 instead of the usual £30.

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Survey Finds Average UK Broadband Users Save £105 a Year by Switching ISP

21st Oct 2024 (2 Comments)

A new survey of 5,083 UK adult consumers, which was conducted by Which?, has claimed that the average broadband-only ISP customer could save £105 per year by switching to a new provider and those switching from BT, Sky Broadband or Virgin Media saved even more – up to £165 on average for a Virgin customer. It’s a similar story for mobile and TV users.

Broadband ISP Grain to Expand UK Full Fibre Network into Cheshire Town

21st Oct 2024 (4 Comments)

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 confirmed that their next expansion target is the industrial Cheshire town of Widnes.

20 Additional Eutelsat OneWeb LEO Broadband Satellites Launched UPDATE

21st Oct 2024 (3 Comments)

Eutelsat has confirmed that they’ve launched an additional 20 satellites, on the back of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, to join their global network of OneWeb broadband satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), which is a constellation that has been partly supported by the UK government. This is despite the network supposedly being completed last year.

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