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EE UK Discount Full Fibre Broadband Packages for Black Friday

19th November, 2021 (10 Comments)

Mobile operator and UK ISP EE has recently discounted some of their Home Broadband packages as part of the usual Black Friday offers, which for example has seen the price of their 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) plan on Openreach’s network fall to £49 per month for 24-months (£57 thereafter). Setup is also free.

TalkTalk UK Quietly Adds Cheap 1Gbps FTTP Broadband Package

19th November, 2021 (37 Comments)

Low-cost UK ISP TalkTalk appears to have quietly launched a new “Fibre 1Gbps” broadband service as part of their CityFibre and Openreach based Future Fibre packages, but at present it only seems to be available in Openreach’s Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) areas (CF areas are still limited to 500Mbps) and costs just £49.

RunFibre to Complement Own FTTP Build with Openreach Products

19th November, 2021 (0 Comments)

Bristol-based UK ISP RunFibre, which are currently busy building their own gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across rural parts of South Gloucestershire in England, has decided to complement that effort by signing a new partner plus agreement with BTWholesale.

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Rural ISP Wessex Internet Start Gigabit Fibre Rollout in Blandford

19th November, 2021 (2 Comments)

Rural focused ISP Wessex Internet has now started and made progress on the rollout of their new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network in the North Dorset (England) market town of Blandford, which aims to cover “more than” 6,000 premises (homes and businesses).

ISP BT UK Offers 3 Months FREE Broadband for Black Friday

19th November, 2021 (6 Comments)

Telecoms giant BT will today launch their official Black Friday sale, which looks set to offer the first 3 months of service completely free “across all our broadband packages.” On top of that, all of their TV and Sport packages will be half price for the first 3 months, which is in addition to the 3 months free broadband offer.

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Full Fibre ISP Trooli Upgrades to New HQ Office in Kent UK

18th November, 2021 (4 Comments)

Full fibre broadband ISP Trooli, which aims to cover 1 million premises with their new gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network by the end of 2024 (mostly across Kent, East Sussex, Berkshire and Suffolk), has upgraded their base in Kings Hill (Kent) to some significantly larger premises.

A Question of Eligibility as N.Ireland’s Fibre Rollout Skips Homes

18th November, 2021 (6 Comments)

The £165m state aid supported Project Stratum deployment in Northern Ireland, which is helping to spread a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to a further 76,000 premises in rural areas (84,500 if you include the expansion), has come under fire for how it appears to skip some nearby homes.

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Virgin Media O2 UK Train 500 Front Line Staff to Save Lives

18th November, 2021 (7 Comments)

Some 500 of Virgin Media’s front-line UK staff, including broadband ISP engineers, have been given special training by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) so that they have the ability to administer lifesaving CPR (Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation) and can use a defibrillator.

EE UK Customers Offered XBox Consoles and Game Pass Ultimate

18th November, 2021 (3 Comments)

Mobile operator EE UK has today announced that Pay Monthly Mobile customers of their service can now take a Microsoft Xbox Game Pass Ultimate with “unlimited gaming data” from £21 a month (£31 with the video data pass) and they can also have an Xbox Series X video gaming console for just £10 upfront.

Toob Adds GBP50 Amazon Voucher to FTTP Broadband Packages

18th November, 2021 (3 Comments)

New customers in areas covered by UK ISP toob, which is currently building a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network around parts of England, will from later this morning be able to benefit from an included £50 Amazon shopping voucher when they sign-up.

Old YouView TV and Broadband ISP Boxes Lose Access to ITV Hub

17th November, 2021 (8 Comments)

Owners of the first generation of YouView (IPTV) powered Pay TV set-top-boxes (e.g. the retail Humax T1010), including the Humax T1000 from UK broadband ISP BT and the Huawei DN370T from TalkTalk (TT Plus Box), have been informed that they will “no longer be able to access” the ITV Hub app from January 2022.

Emtelle Chosen to Supply Upp’s UK FTTP Broadband Rollout

17th November, 2021 (0 Comments)

Broadband ISP and network builder Upp, which is investing £1bn to rollout a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to 1 million UK premises in Eastern England by 2025, has today chosen Emtelle to become their main supplier of fibre optic network kit until March 2026.

Broadband ISP Plusnet Places Future of Email Under Review

17th November, 2021 (13 Comments)

Internet provider Plusnet has finally restored their embattled UK email service after a week of chaos, but its long-term future may now be in doubt after the ISP placed the service “under review.” A number of customers have allegedly also been told by the provider’s support staff that the email platform would close in 2022.

Openreach Officially Name the Next 170 UK FTTP Rollout Areas

17th November, 2021 (92 Comments)

Openreach (BT) has today officially added another 170 new towns and villages (covering 1.5 million premises) to the UK rollout plan of their 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network, which are all the same as those we published last month (here). The news comes as they reach 6 million premises passed.

Vodafone UK Launch New 5G TCL HH500V GigaCube Router

17th November, 2021 (10 Comments)

New customers of Vodafone‘s ultrafast 5G mobile based broadband packages may be interested to know that they’ve just introduced a new router to the bundle, which is named as the TCL HH500V GigaCube. In addition, their plans are currently half price for the first 6 months of service.

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Numbeo Ranks UK 39th in the World for Cost of Broadband Service

17th November, 2021 (4 Comments)

The latest data gathered by Numbeo, which is a crowd-sourced global database that examines the cost of living, has surveyed the cost of fixed broadband ISP provision across 109 countries and found that the United Kingdom ranked as the 39th most expensive country, with an average monthly cost of £30.87.

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Wireless UK ISP APC Solutions to Start Building FTTP Broadband

16th November, 2021 (0 Comments)

Wireless network and IT services provider APC Solutions (APC Communications Solutions), which also runs the Essex (England) focused ISP Essex WiFi, has revealed that they intend to expand into building their own gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband services.