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ISP News Archives for November 2024

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Streetwave to Conduct County-Wide Mobile Coverage Study of Argyll and Bute

19th Nov 2024 (0 Comments)

The Argyll and Bute Council (ABC) in Scotland has joined forces with network analyst firm Streetwave and the Scottish Futures Trust (SFT) to conduct the “first county-wide mobile coverage survey” in Scotland, which will mirror similar studies that are already being conducted across other parts of the UK.

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Broadband ISP YouFibre Deploy First UK 400Gbps vCGNAT Servers

19th Nov 2024 (27 Comments)

Broadband ISP YouFibre, which is one of the retail outlets for Netomnia’s (inc. Brsk) 8Gbps capable full fibre (FTTP) network, has worked with NFWare to deploy the “industry’s first” 400Gbps virtual Carrier Grade Network Address Translation (vCGNAT) servers to its customers. The move should help them to keep up with their rapid subscriber growth.

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Rural UK ISP Wessex Internet Builds Gigabit Broadband to 30,000 Premises

19th Nov 2024 (1 Comment)

Broadband ISP Wessex Internet, which is building a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across rural parts of Southern England, has today – for the first time – announced that they’ve just connected their 10,000th customer and their gigabit network has covered 30,000 properties (Ready for Service).

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Ofcom UK Widen Scope of Probe into Gigaclear’s Emergency Calls Failure

19th Nov 2024 (1 Comment)

The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today confirmed that they’ve widened the scope of their recently launched investigation into rural broadband ISP Gigaclear, which was probing their possible failure to “provide accurate and reliable caller location information to emergency organisations“ (i.e. making it more difficult for police, fire and ambulances to find callers).

iD Mobile Doubles Data on UK Mobile Plans for Black Friday

19th Nov 2024 (0 Comments)

Low-cost mobile network operator iD Mobile (Currys), which harnesses Three UK’s national 4G and 5G platform under a virtual operator (MVNO) partnership, has launched a range of Black Friday promotions for new customers that doubles the included data (mobile broadband) allowances across all of their 1, 12 and 24-month SIM Only mobile plans.

Pulse Fibre Offers 12 Months Free Broadband to Wain Homes

19th Nov 2024 (0 Comments)

London-based broadband ISP Pulse Fibre, which over the next few years aspires to complete over 250,000 unique “full fibre” (FTTP) connections into new build homes and MDUs (here), has announced a collaboration with property developer Wain Homes to offer associated homeowners “free broadband for 12 months“.

London Full Fibre Broadband ISP G.Network Cuts Jobs and Shifts Strategy

19th Nov 2024 (10 Comments)

London focused UK broadband ISP G.Network, which has spent the past few years deploying a gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across parts of the city centre, has today announced a “strategic update” that will see some redundancies as the operator shifts their strategy and moves to “drive further commercialisation” (growing take-up).

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O2 UK Boost 4G and 5G Network Capacity for 850 Wolverhampton Postcodes

19th Nov 2024 (2 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has today announced that they’ve completed a project to improve their 4G and 5G based mobile (mobile broadband) network in the West Midlands city of Wolverhampton, which since the start of 2024 has seen network capacity upgraded in 850 postcodes across the area.

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Survey Warns Some UK ISPs Continue to Mislead by Advertising Copper Broadband as Fibre

19th Nov 2024 (12 Comments)

A new YouGov survey conducted by network operator AllPoints Fibre, which is the UK wholesale division of Fern Trading’s recently consolidate alternative FTTP broadband ISP networks (Giganet, Jurassic Fibre, and Swish Fibre), claims to have found that the “vast majority of people” (72%) think it’s “misleading” to advertise part-copper broadband (e.g. FTTC) as ‘fibre’.

Pembrokeshire Celebrate Passing 60 Percent Gigabit Broadband Cover

19th Nov 2024 (1 Comment)

The Pembrokeshire County Council (Cyngor Sir Penfro) in Wales has celebrated the news that 60% of local premises can now access gigabit-speed full fibre (FTTP) broadband (up from just 5% in 2019). But this is still well behind the UK’s current level of gigabit coverage, which stands at over 85%, due largely to the remote rural nature of the county.

Gov Reach New Deal with UK Phone Operators to Protect Vulnerable Users

19th Nov 2024 (5 Comments)

The UK Government’s Telecoms Minister, Sir Chris Bryant, has today announced that he’s agreed a new ‘Telecare National Action Plan‘ with major UK broadband and phone providers (e.g. BT, Virgin Media, Vodafone and Sky Broadband), which requires them to do more to protect vulnerable telecare users when upgrading phone lines to new digital (IP based) networks.

Sky UK Extends Agreement to Retain Amazon Prime Video

18th Nov 2024 (4 Comments)

Customers of Sky (Sky TV, Sky Broadband etc.) may like to know that the media giant has today announced an extension of their long-term collaboration with Amazon, which will see ‘Prime Video’ apps and related content continue to be available on Sky devices (e.g. Sky Q, Sky Glass, Sky Stream etc.).

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ISP Hey! Broadband Cuts UK 900Mbps Full Fibre Price to £21.50

18th Nov 2024 (0 Comments)

UK ISP Hey! Broadband, which caters for homes covered by F&W Networks‘ (Fibre and Wireless) new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network – mostly across the South East of England, has today announced that new customers will be able to get 50% off the price of their 900Mbps full fibre packages during the Black Friday period.

Virgin Media O2 UK See Success of Digital Phone Switch and Telecare Trial

18th Nov 2024 (5 Comments)

Broadband ISP Virgin Media (O2) has today released a progress update on their Digital Landline Switchover (DLS) programme (i.e. migrating old analogue landline phones to IP-based services). This revealed some positive results from their recent trial with the telecare advisory body, TSA, which provided enhanced support to telecare users.

Full Fibre UK Network Operator Telcom Rebrands to Elevate

18th Nov 2024 (2 Comments)

The Telcom Group, which operates a mix of fixed wireless access (FWA) and gigabit-capable “full fibre” broadband and Ethernet networks across England via its various sub-brands (ClearFibre, WeFibre, HyperCity etc.), has this morning announced that they’re re-branding to Elevate following a year of growth, consolidation and integration.

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Broadband ISP Ogi Launch Referral Scheme and Black Friday Speed Boost

18th Nov 2024 (0 Comments)

Infracapital-backed network builder and UK ISP Ogi, which is rolling out a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across South Wales (100,000 premises are already covered / RFS), has today introduced Black Friday discounts across their broadband packages and simultaneously launched their new referral programme.

Updated Ways to Find ISPreview on Social Media Outlets

17th Nov 2024 (0 Comments)

ISPreview has long had a social media presence on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter (X), where we engage with readers, industry figures and share our daily news. But this is just a quick note to say that in recent months we’ve expanded and can now also be found on Bluesky, Mastodon and Threads.net. The downside is that a lot of telecoms operators have yet to establish themselves on these new pastures, which we hope will change.