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Progress on Gigaclear’s East Berkshire FTTP Broadband Rollout

9th October, 2020 (3 Comments)

After a bit of a delay it appears as if rural UK ISP Gigaclear is finally starting to make some solid progress on their state aid supported contract in East Berkshire, which over the last nine months has laid 55km of new fibre to help cover 4,300 premises with their 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network.

Three UK Launches £5 International Mobile Calling Add-on

9th October, 2020 (26 Comments)

Mobile operator Three UK has announced that Pay Monthly customers of their 4G and 5G network can now benefit from a selection of two optional new international calling add-ons, which cost from just £5 extra per month and make it cheaper to call people in 55 other countries.

Government Pledge to Help Tackle Huge Broadband USO Costs UPDATE

9th October, 2020 (45 Comments)

The UK Government’s Digital Minister, Matt Warman, has called on Ofcom and BT to find a “resolution” to the situation with the new Universal Service Obligation (USO) for broadband, which results in some homes being quoted tens or even hundreds of thousands of pounds to get a 10Mbps+ capable ISP connection.

Magdalene Tapped to Help Three UK Deploy its 5G Network

9th October, 2020 (2 Comments)

Infrastructure firm Magdalene (M Group Services) has secured another contract with Mobile Broadband Network Ltd, which will see them support Three UK’s new 5G focused Unilateral Street Works Build (USWB) programme. The firm is already supporting MBNLs Notice to Quit (NTQ) and Towers & Antennas (T&A) operations.

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Free Public WiFi Goes Live in Huntingdonshire Market Towns

9th October, 2020 (0 Comments)

Residents, visitors and businesses in the Huntingdonshire market towns of St Neots, St Ives, Ramsey and Huntingdon are in the process of gaining access to a free public WiFi network (CambWiFi), which is being delivered as part of the wider Connecting Cambridgeshire programme.

ISP TalkTalk Opens £1.1bn UK Takeover Talks with Toscafund

8th October, 2020 (3 Comments)

Broadband provider TalkTalk has today announced that they have received a preliminary and non-binding takeover proposal from Toscafund Asset Management (TAM), which intends to pay 97p for every share (valuing the deal at around £1.1bn). The new owner, if successful, would seek to take the ISP private.

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Ofcom Reveals Key UK Mobile Network and WiFi Usage Trends

8th October, 2020 (2 Comments)

Ofcom and crowdsourced benchmark firm umlaut have examined a sample size of 200,000 Android using UK mobile users between January and April 2020 to identify key trends. For example, people were connected to 4G for 82% of the time in urban areas, but only 76% in rural ones (most of the rest was spent on 3G).

North Yorkshire UK Targets 97% Superfast Broadband Coverage

8th October, 2020 (6 Comments)

The North Yorkshire County Council (NYCC) will next Tuesday vote on a key decision to award the contract for Phase 4 of their Superfast Broadband North Yorkshire (SFNY) project, which is worth £12.5m and predicted to push local “superfast broadband” (30Mbps+) coverage up to 97% (currently 92%).

Three UK Signs Fibre Optic Network Capacity Deal with Colt

8th October, 2020 (7 Comments)

Mobile operator Three UK has today signed another fibre optic capacity deal, this time with Colt Technology Services, in order to help fuel their latest 5G and existing 4G based (mobile broadband) network. The deal will see Colt become a “preferred provider of fibre backhaul connectivity” for the operator.

Sky UK Adds HDR Support for Netflix to their TV Platform

8th October, 2020 (7 Comments)

Sky (Sky Broadband) has today expanded their existing Sky Q TV platform support for High Dynamic Range (HDR) picture quality by enabling it on the popular Netflix video streaming service. Admittedly if you have a modern internet-connected HDR TV then you can probably already get this via the streaming giants own app.

Vodafone UK Cuts Carbon Footprint by 25,000 Tonnes of CO2

8th October, 2020 (8 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone UK has managed to save 100 Gigawatt hours (GWh) of energy, equivalent to 25,000 tonnes of CO2 or a financial saving of around £10m, in the space of just three years. All of this will support their pledge to use 100% renewable electricity by July 2021 and to help customers save 350 million tonnes of CO2 by 2030.

N.Ireland Fixed Wireless ISP Air Fibre Hoists the For Sale Sign

8th October, 2020 (6 Comments)

Fixed wireless ISP Air Fibre, which delivers a broadband network to connect premises across some of the most challenging parts of Northern Ireland and recently opened a new office in Enniskillen, has confirmed to ISPreview.co.uk that they are indeed on the market for sale.

Jurassic Fibre Add Yeovil to Somerset FTTP Broadband Rollout

7th October, 2020 (10 Comments)

Full fibre UK broadband ISP Jurassic Fibre has today announced that the South Somerset town of Yeovil, which is home to a population of 45,000 people, will be one of the next to benefit from their ongoing deployment of a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network.

Full Fibre ISP Vorboss Lays Groundwork for London Expansion

7th October, 2020 (1 Comment)

Broadband ISP Vorboss, which has previously hinted at plans to bring their own gigabit FTTP network to 250,000 premises in large UK urban areas by 2022 (here), has moved to “accelerate the expansion” of their fibre network across London with a new data centre deal.

Full Fibre UK ISP Hyperoptic Appoints New Infrastructure Boss

7th October, 2020 (13 Comments)

Gigabit broadband ISP Hyperoptic, which has an ambition to cover 2 million UK premises with FTTB / FTTP by the end of 2021 and then 5 million by the end of 2024 (mostly in urban areas), has strengthened its executive team by appointing industry veteran Peter Ryan to be their new MD of infrastructure.

SMF Report Warns 2025 Gigabit Broadband Target to be Missed UPDATE

7th October, 2020 (15 Comments)

A new report from the Social Market Foundation (SMF), which is a British cross-party think-tank, has warned that the Government is “unlikely to meet its target” of deploying gigabit-capable “full fibre to the premises” broadband to all by the end of 2025 without “significant policy reform.”

UK ISP Plusnet Joins BT and EE in CPI + 3.9% Price Hike Change UPDATE

7th October, 2020 (20 Comments)

In a predictable move UK broadband ISP Plusnet has today gone the same way as their parent (BT) by announcing their intention to hike prices, which will see future increases on contracts taken on or after October 7th 2020 being calculated by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) rate of inflation plus an additional 3.9%.