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ISP Voneus Brings Superfast Wireless Broadband to Dadford

10th March, 2020 (3 Comments)

Some 100 homes in the tiny rural village of Dadford in Buckinghamshire (England) have finally gained access to “superfast broadband” speeds of 30-50Mbps, which occurred after UK ISP Voneus were able to extend their Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) network across the community, with a little help from the local School.

The Fastest London Underground Stations and Lines for WiFi

10th March, 2020 (6 Comments)

A new study from Uswitch.com claims to have revealed the fastest and slowest stations and train lines on the London Underground for wireless broadband (WiFi) speed. The fastest station was found to be Edgware Road (49.7Mbps), while the slowest was Westminster (0.9Mbps).

ISP Jurassic Fibre Update on East Devon FTTH Broadband Rollout

9th March, 2020 (6 Comments)

Full fibre UK ISP Jurassic Fibre, which toward the end of 2019 began to roll-out a new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network in South West England (here), has issued an update on their progress and to announce the next set of deployment locations in East Devon.

Xbox Live Issues Plague Three UK’s 4G Mobile Home Broadband UPDATE

9th March, 2020 (162 Comments)

Some customers of Three UK’s home 4G broadband service, such as those with their Huawei B535 or other mobile WiFi routers and “unlimited data“, have since the end of February 2020 been suffering from problems when connecting to and downloading content from Microsoft’s XBox Live service.

Operators Sign £1bn Deal for 95% Geographic UK 4G Cover by 2026

9th March, 2020 (11 Comments)

Mobile operators BT (EE), Vodafone, O2 and Three UK have today reached a final agreement on costs to support the Government’s £1bn Shared Rural Network (SRN) plan, which will work to extend geographic 4G mobile (mobile broadband) coverage to 95% of the UK by the end of 2025. But one aspect may have been watered down.

ISP G.Network Seek £200m to Boost Urban UK Full Fibre Rollout

9th March, 2020 (10 Comments)

UK ISP G.Network, which is currently deploying a new gigabit-capable (10Gbps) Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband network to homes and businesses across parts of central London, is reportedly seeking an investment boost of around £200 million in order to accelerate their future roll-out plans.

Birmingham Named Fastest of 16 UK Cities for Mobile Broadband

9th March, 2020 (3 Comments)

RootMetrics has published the results from their biannual H2 2019 study of mobile broadband (3G and 4G) speeds across 16 of the United Kingdom’s most populated cities, which found that people in Birmingham received the fastest aggregate median download speeds of 28.9Mbps. Sadly last place Newcastle only scored 20.1Mbps.

Security Vulnerabilities Strike 50 Models of Netgear Routers

7th March, 2020 (5 Comments)

Once again a mass of almost 50 different models of broadband wireless router(s), WiFi range extenders and gateways from Netgear, including some of their more recent kit (mostly affecting those within the D6000, R6000, R7000, R8000, PR2000, R9000 and XR500 families), have been hit by a string of new security vulnerabilities.

Vodafone UK Offers Half Price Unlimited Mobile Data Plans

7th March, 2020 (12 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone UK has cut the price of their 4G and 5G focused SIM-Only “unlimited data” (mobile broadband) plans in half, albeit only when you take one of them on a lengthy 24 month contract term. The catch is that this discount only lasts for the first 6 months of service.

Job Fears as Openreach Shut Customer Network Solutions Team

7th March, 2020 (4 Comments)

Openreach (BT) has confirmed to ISPreview.co.uk that they intend to “shut down” Customer Network Solutions (CNS), which is a national team of regionally based experts who would step in to deal with non-standard problems (e.g. moving a distribution point or drop wire etc.). Sadly redundancies may follow.

NOW TV Slash FTTC Broadband and Anytime Phone to £22

6th March, 2020 (11 Comments)

Sky’s sibling ISP and TV streaming service, NOW TV (NOW Broadband), has slashed the monthly price of their Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC / VDSL2) based “Fab Fibre” (36Mbps) and “Super Fibre” (63Mbps) broadband packages with inclusive anytime UK calls to £22 and £28 per month respectively. No setup fee.

Openreach Broadband Delays Criticised by Dorset UK Council UPDATE

6th March, 2020 (15 Comments)

The deputy leader of Dorset Council, Peter Wharf, this week told a cabinet meeting that he was “now going to be not so nice” to Openreach (BT), which occurred after one of their managers allegedly told the local authority that their current roll-out of “superfast broadband” (FTTC/P) was a “shambles.“

Cityfibre Confirm 62 UK Areas for £4bn FTTH Broadband Rollout

6th March, 2020 (37 Comments)

Full fibre builder Cityfibre has today confirmed that an additional 36 UK cities and towns have been added to their 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband roll-out programme (total of 62), which working with ISPs like Vodafone and TalkTalk aims to eventually cover 8 million premises by 2025 or a bit later.

Data Breach at Virgin Media Exposes 900,000 UK Customers UPDATE

6th March, 2020 (21 Comments)

As if yesterday’s broadband outage wasn’t bad enough. UK ISP Virgin Media is now facing their second embarrassment of the week after last night revealing that the personal details belonging to 900,000 of their customers had been exposed by an “incorrectly configured” marketing database. Oh and somebody unknown accessed it.

Three UK Bids Farewell to CEO Dave Dyson for Personal Reasons

5th March, 2020 (16 Comments)

Mobile operator Three UK has today announced that after 9 long years their CEO, Dave Dyson, is to step down from his role for “personal reasons.” Replacing him will be the current CEO of Three Ireland, Robert Finnegan, who from 30th March 2020 will act as CEO for both operators (talk about a workaholic!).

Major Virgin Media Broadband and TV Outage on South Coast UPDATE2

5th March, 2020 (30 Comments)

We’re receiving quite a few reports from Virgin Media’s UK cable broadband ISP and TV customers (including business clients – other ISPs will be impacted), specifically those resident along the south coast of England (Dorset, Hampshire etc.), which claim that a major service outage is occurring in that area.

£3.5m Deal Sees 3000 Tees Valley Premises Get FTTP Broadband

5th March, 2020 (11 Comments)

The Tees Valley Combined Authority (TVCA) has announced an investment of £3.5m with Openreach (BT) under the existing Digital Durham project, which will see the UK operator extend their 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to cover another 3,000+ homes and businesses by late June 2021.