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Cityfibre Preps £75m FTTP Broadband Rollout in Bradford UK

9th December, 2020 (2 Comments)

After a long wait Cityfibre has finally confirmed that they will begin the £75m rollout of a new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network in the West Yorkshire city of Bradford in Spring 2021. The city was first included into their plan two years ago, but until now not much has happened.

Hyperoptic in FTTP Rollout with London’s Largest Housing Association

9th December, 2020 (18 Comments)

UK ISP Hyperoptic, which specialises in building 1Gbps capable “full fibre” (FTTP/B) broadband networks for large residential (MDU) or office buildings, has today confirmed a new agreement that will see them connect a “large proportion” of homes for L&Q, which is the largest housing association in London.

Wessex Internet Start 5G Project to Connect Rural Dorset Farms

9th December, 2020 (1 Comment)

UK ISP Wessex Internet has today kicked off their side of the 5G RuralDorset (5GRD) project, which will use a mix of 5G technology and their existing fibre optic infrastructure to help bring data connectivity to remote rural farms. All of this will support the use of new sensors, drones and other so-called Internet of Things (IoT) solutions.

O2 UK Tests OpenRAN to Boost Indoor 4G and 5G Coverage

9th December, 2020 (3 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 (Telefonica UK) has today announced that they’ve completed a successful pilot of Open Radio Access Network (OpenRAN) tech from Vilicom, which unlike other trials was this time used to extend indoor 4G and 5G mobile coverage in order to tackle signal blackspots.

Vodafone UK Makes Big Changes to Pay As You Go 1 Tariff

8th December, 2020 (71 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone UK are set to make a bunch of big changes to their ‘Pay As You Go 1’ tariff from 12th January 2021, which depending upon how you use the service could result in significantly higher charges being applied to customers. The cost of some non-standard calls will also be hiked.

Digital Scotland’s Highlands Broadband Rollout Completes

8th December, 2020 (5 Comments)

The Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) has today announced that their £146m “fibre broadband” roll-out contract with Openreach (BT) is “making its final connections“. The project has helped to deliver 6,500km of new fibre optic cable to improve broadband across 290 rural communities (benefiting over 193,000 extra premises).

Virgin Media UK’s Next Generation TV 360 Platform Goes LIVE

8th December, 2020 (19 Comments)

Cable broadband ISP Virgin Media UK (Liberty Global) has today made their new next generation TV 360 platform available to take by all new TV customers as standard, as well as to existing customers who already take, or choose to upgrade to, the top Ultimate Oomph bundle.

Powerline Based WiFi Extenders May Disrupt MG ZS EV Car Charging UPDATE

8th December, 2020 (16 Comments)

Some owners of UK electric vehicles, particularly the MG ZS EV, who struggle to get their cars charged at home are finding that the culprit can sometimes be traced back to the use of Powerline (HomePlug) adapters, which extend your home’s wired and / or WiFi network (LAN / WLAN) by harnessing the building’s existing power cables.

Shell Now Favourite to Gobble Post Office Broadband Division

7th December, 2020 (8 Comments)

A report claims that UK ISP and energy provider Shell Energy has now emerged as the preferred bidder for the Post Office’s telecoms division, which specially relates to its base of around 500,000 broadband and phone customers that is currently said to be valued at c.£100 million.

Comparison of UK 5G Mobile Broadband Speeds and Operators

7th December, 2020 (29 Comments)

Telecoms analyst firm Point Topic has published the results of a new study, which examined how 4G and 5G based mobile broadband speeds compare across the United Kingdom and between different operators. Overall EE appeared to deliver the best speed, but Vodafone or Three UK are close behind.

ISP TalkTalk Sees Sunday UK Internet Data Traffic Hit 7.23Tbps

7th December, 2020 (18 Comments)

Budget broadband ISP TalkTalk has reported yet another new internet data traffic record of 7.23Tbps (Terabits per second), which was set yesterday evening at 8:30pm. This is enough to beat their previous record of 6.94Tbps (here), which was set on 14th November 2020 when various popular video game updates were released.

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Quickline Win £14.5m North Yorkshire UK Broadband Contract

7th December, 2020 (4 Comments)

Broadband ISP Quickline (part of Bigblu) has today won a fourth state aid supported UK rural broadband delivery contract, which is worth £14.5m and will see them extend their “fibre-backed fixed wireless” network to bring “superfast, ultrafast and in some cases gigabit speed broadband” to a further 15,830 premises in North Yorkshire.

World Distance Record as 5G mmW Pushes 1Gbps Over 6.5km

7th December, 2020 (17 Comments)

A new world record has been achieved after a collaboration between TIM, Ericsson, Casa Systems and Qualcomm resulted in the companies, for the first time, reaching a broadband speed of 1Gbps over a distance of 6.5km from a radio antenna. This was done using 5G tech in the millimetre-wave (mmWave) band on a live network.

Yayzi Broadband Brings 1Gbps to Homes in Part of Blackpool

5th December, 2020 (9 Comments)

A new UK ISP called Yayzi Broadband has announced that their new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network has just gone live in the large seaside resort town of Blackpool (Lancashire), which appears to be based off the infrastructure that the ITS Technology Group are currently deploying in the area.

Ofcom See Average UK Broadband ISP Speeds Rise to 71.8Mbps

5th December, 2020 (40 Comments)

Ofcom has published a biannual update for their latest dataset on fixed broadband speeds, which among other things found that the average (mean) actual download speed of UK residential ISPs has increased from 64Mbps (14Mbps upload) in their May 2020 report (here) to 71.8Mbps (14.2Mbps) now.

Ofcom Consults on Future UK Spectrum Management Strategy

4th December, 2020 (0 Comments)

Ofcom UK has today launched a new consultation to help define their future spectrum management strategy for the 2020s, which among other things aims to boost support for localised spectrum access (e.g. creating local wireless networks via 5G etc.) and promote greater sharing of existing spectrum in higher frequencies.

Ofcom UK Probes Sky TV Over End-of-Contract Notifications UPDATE

4th December, 2020 (23 Comments)

The UK communications and media regulator, Ofcom, has launched a new investigation into Sky (Sky Broadband) over their apparent refusal to issue end-of-contract notifications to Pay TV customers. At issue is whether or not Sky’s standalone Pay TV services fall within the definition of an “electronic communications service“.