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ISP News Archives for December 2024

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EE UK Helicopters in New 4G Mast to Boost Mobile Cover on Skye

4th Dec 2024 (4 Comments)

Mobile network operator EE (BT) has boosted 4G based mobile (mobile broadband) coverage across the Central and Northern parts of the remote rural Isle of Skye in Scotland. The operator used a helicopter to bring in a new mast, which has been strategically located among trees to minimise its visual impact on the natural surroundings.

Neos Networks Expands UK Partnership with CityFibre’s Network

4th Dec 2024 (0 Comments)

Network operator Neos Networks, which runs one of the biggest 34,000km long business fibre networks in the UK – spanning 550 exchanges, 90+ data centres and 676 Points of Presence (PoPs), has announced that they’ve expanded their strategic partnership with wholesale fibre optic FTTP broadband builder CityFibre to boost Ethernet availability.

Flotek to Supply Full Fibre Services via Elevate’s New Cardiff Hypercity Network

4th Dec 2024 (0 Comments)

Network operator Elevate Wholesale (formerly Telcom) has today announced its first strategic ISP and comms provider partner, Flotek, for the new Hypercity fibre optic broadband and Ethernet network that they’ve been contracted to build across Cardiff in South Wales.

TfL Complete 4G Mobile Rollout for the Elizabeth Line in London

4th Dec 2024 (11 Comments)

The latest update from Transport for London (TfL) and Boldyn Networks has today revealed that they’ve completed the work to bring 4G and 5G mobile (mobile broadband) coverage to the entire Elizabeth Line, including tunnelled sections in between stations, which can be harnessed by mobile operators including EE, Vodafone, Three UK and O2.

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Mobile Operator Three UK Introduce RCS Support for iOS with v18.2

4th Dec 2024 (8 Comments)

Mobile network operator Three UK has this week begun issuing text messages to customers on Apple’s iPhone devices, which confirms that they will officially introduce support for Rich Communications Services (RCS) with the release of the next iOS 18.2 update – due on 9th December 2024.

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Poverty Alliance Claims Millions in UK Choosing Between Broadband and Food

3rd Dec 2024 (11 Comments)

The Digital Poverty Alliance (DPA) has highlighted new data from Point Topic’s UK broadband affordability tracker as helping to show that the “cost-of-living crisis isn’t getting any easier“, with a digital divide still existing that is allegedly “forcing millions to choose between broadband and food.”

Netomnia to Build FTTP Broadband into Peabody’s UK Homes

3rd Dec 2024 (1 Comment)

Broadband network operator Netomnia (inc. Brsk and YouFibre) has today announced that they’ve signed a deal to expand their 10Gbps full fibre network into properties managed and owned by Peabody (inc. subsidiaries). This is a not-for-profit housing association that serves thousands of residents across their housing stock in Oxfordshire, Hertfordshire and Kent (England).

eSIM Go Partners with Vodafone UK to Remove MVNO Barriers

3rd Dec 2024 (1 Comment)

Mobile network operator Vodafone UK has today announced that they’ve signed a new partnership with eSIM Go, which will allow the latter to offer connectivity on Vodafone’s network in the UK to their business customers and thus remove MVNO (virtual operator) barriers to entry for organisations of all sizes.

Toob Extend FTTP Broadband Availability to 6 New UK Cities and Towns

3rd Dec 2024 (2 Comments)

Hampshire-based network builder and ISP toob, which has deployed a gigabit speed full fibre (FTTP) network across parts of South England, have today announced that they’ve expanded the availability of their services – under a strategic partnership with CityFibre – to include Lincoln, Loughborough, Milton Keynes, Nottingham, Peterborough and Derby.

Pulse Fibre Offer Blue Light Broadband Discount to Emergency Services Workers

3rd Dec 2024 (1 Comment)

London-based alternative broadband ISP Pulse Fibre, which over the next few years aspires to complete over 250,000 unique UK “full fibre” (FTTP) connections into new build homes and MDUs (here), has today announced that holders of the Blue Light Card (i.e. price cuts for workers in the emergency services and veterans) will be able to get a special discount.

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Ookla Name the Top 10 Global and European Internet Outages of 2024

3rd Dec 2024 (0 Comments)

Internet benchmarking firm Ookla, which runs the popular broadband ISP performance testing service Speedtest.net and the real-time outage monitoring Downdetector site, has used data gathered from the latter to reveal which online services suffered the largest outages during 2024 – Facebook’s outage on 5th March tops the table.

CityFibre Complete Primary FTTP Broadband Rollout in Hartlepool

3rd Dec 2024 (4 Comments)

Network operator CityFibre, which has so far extended their 2.5Gbps speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to cover around 4 million UK premises, have today confirmed the completion of their “primary” £21m build in the large port town of Hartlepool in County Durham (England).

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O2 UK Complete 4G and 5G Upgrades for 600 Postcodes in Aberdeen

3rd Dec 2024 (0 Comments)

Mobile network operator O2 (Virgin Media) has today announced that they’ve completed a project to upgrade the capacity of their 4G and 5G based mobile services across “over” 600 postcodes in the port city of Aberdeen (Scotland), which should mean “faster” mobile broadband speeds and greater reliability.

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Bin Lorries to Survey Mobile Coverage Across Glasgow City Region

3rd Dec 2024 (1 Comment)

Network analyst firm Streetwave has been contracted to conduct a huge survey of mobile broadband network (4G, 5G) coverage, using bin lorries, which will this time focus on 8 council areas within Scotland’s Glasgow City Region – including North Lanarkshire, West Dunbartonshire, South Lanarkshire, Glasgow, East Dunbartonshire, and East Renfrewshire.

Broadband ISP TalkTalk to Slash More UK Jobs After Refinancing Deal

3rd Dec 2024 (9 Comments)

Debt-troubled UK internet provider TalkTalk has confirmed that its staff were yesterday informed about another round of significant redundancies, which one report indicates could affect almost a quarter (c. 130) of their consumer division workforce across the country. But the specifics won’t be known until after Christmas.

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EE Named Best UK Mobile Operator in New 2024 Network Test Study

3rd Dec 2024 (21 Comments)

Mobile operator EE (BT) has come top in umlaut and Connect’s latest annual 2024 UK Mobile Network Test, which used a range of different benchmarks to test 4G (voice and data / broadband) and 5G performance across 19 cities, 27 towns and along 10,480km of major roads. On the flip side, O2 (Virgin Media) once again found themselves at the bottom.

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Ofcom Enhance Spectrum Sharing for UK Mobile and Wireless Broadband

2nd Dec 2024 (0 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today introduced changes that are designed to improve their spectrum sharing framework, which among other things have been designed to add more flexibility, facilitate more effective spectrum sharing and increase spectrum supply to support new types of fixed wireless (broadband) and mobile (4G, 5G etc.) services.