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Creative Attempt at Car Parking Wrecks Gigaclear Broadband Cabinet UPDATE

2nd April, 2025 (22 Comments)

Customers of alternative UK broadband ISP Gigaclear, specifically those who take their full fibre (FTTP) network in the Northamptonshire (England) village of Brixworth South, have been impacted by a complex network outage since Sunday. This occurred after a car discovered a novel approach to parking by wiping out one of the operator’s street cabinets.

UK ISP Community Fibre Launches 5Gbps Home Broadband Plan UPDATE

2nd April, 2025 (22 Comments)

New customers considering whether to join UK broadband ISP CommunityFibre (CF), which has rolled out their full fibre (FTTP) network across 1.35 million UK premises (mostly in Greater London), may like to know that the provider will today replace their top 3Gbps (symmetric) speed package with an even faster 5Gbps premium plan.

Three UK Business Mobile Customers Top 1 Million Milestone

2nd April, 2025 (4 Comments)

Three Business, the business-to-business arm of mobile network operator Three UK, has today revealed it has reached 1 million customers. This might not seem like a big number for an operator with an overall base of 10.9 million customers (mostly residential / domestic users), but it reflects rapid growth over the last 4 years “from a virtual standing start“.

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Streetwave Data Casts Doubt on Ofcom’s 4G UK Mobile Coverage Claims UPDATE

2nd April, 2025 (10 Comments)

Network analyst firm Streetwave, which is harnessing bin lorries to map the coverage and performance of 4G and 5G mobile (broadband) networks across 113 UK councils, has said its data “calls into question” Ofcom’s claim that 88-89% of the UK’s landmass (geographic coverage) can access a 4G network if you look across all operators.

Cornwall ISP Wildanet Completes Training of First In-House Engineers

1st April, 2025 (0 Comments)

Rural UK ISP Wildanet, which is building a gigabit speed full fibre broadband (FTTP) network across rural parts of Cornwall and Devon in England, has today celebrated the graduation of their first cohort of five apprentices (telecommunication engineers etc.) from their new training academy.

GoFibre Adopts Calix Platform to Support UK FTTP Broadband Rollout

1st April, 2025 (2 Comments)

Edinburgh-based UK alternative network operator and ISP GoFibre, which is primarily focused on deploying their new full fibre (FTTP) broadband network across parts of remote rural Scotland and Northern England, has announced that it’s adopting more of Calix’s cloud, software, and appliance-based platform to help boost their roll-out.

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Wales Adopts Rules to Ensure New Build Homes Get Gigabit Broadband

1st April, 2025 (2 Comments)

The Welsh Government (WG) has confirmed that new rules will be introduced across wales from 1st July 2025, which broadly follow England’s own updated Building Regulations by requiring housing developers to “ensure all new build houses be equipped with gigabit broadband capability” (some exceptions apply).

Legal Dispute Over Mast Disconnects Strathspey Broadband Customers UPDATE2

1st April, 2025 (3 Comments)

Fife-based ISP Transmitair, which specialises in rolling out ultrafast Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) broadband networks to rural parts of Scotland, has confirmed that homes and businesses across their coverage patch in Strathspey (Highlands of Scotland) have been left disconnected for around 5 days due to a legal dispute over a mast.

Superdrug Mobile Cuts Prices on UK 4G and 5G SIM Only Plans

1st April, 2025 (0 Comments)

Mobile provider Superdrug Mobile, which is a virtual operator (MVNO) on Three UK’s national network, has today kicked off April 2025 by bucking the industry trend of annual price hikes and instead discounting the prices of several 4G and 5G capable SIM Only plans.

UK Mobile Operators Attempt to Dismiss GBP3.3bn Overcharging Case

1st April, 2025 (14 Comments)

Mobile operators including EE (BT), Vodafone, Three UK and O2 (Virgin Media) yesterday attempted to dismiss a class action claim worth “at least” £3.285bn. The case, brought by consumer rights champion Justin Gutmann and law firm Charles Lyndon, accuses the operators of overcharging for mobile handsets beyond the end of their contractual term.

ISP Cuckoo Broadband Hails Launch of Scented Wi-Fi – Whiff-Fi UPDATE

1st April, 2025 (13 Comments)

Internet service provider Cuckoo today claims to have launched the “world’s first Wi-Fi-powered fragrance diffusion system” – Whiff-Fi, which is expressed as being a “stylish egg-shaped router” that also integrates a “revolutionary diffuser” and enables you to smell what you’re browsing online.

ISP LilaConnect Pick Genexis Kit to Enhance UK FTTP Broadband Service

31st March, 2025 (3 Comments)

UK ISP LilaConnect, which following the VX FIBER merger is now part of Freedom Fibre‘s new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network (here), has reached an agreement with Genexis to help “enhance their home broadband experience” through the use of new wireless routers and extenders.

Broadband and UK Network Supplier Net Lynk Ceases Trading

31st March, 2025 (4 Comments)

More sad news for the UK telecommunications and broadband industry today as Net Lynk (Net Lynk Direct Limited), which was a widely used distribution supplier for many network operators and ISPs, has “ceased trading” and “no further orders can now be taken“. A good number of providers (e.g. KCOM, Zen Internet and others) are likely to feel the impact.

Nokia and Amazon Sign Patent Deal to Settle Streaming Dispute

31st March, 2025 (0 Comments)

The long-running pan-European battle over video streaming-related technology between Nokia and Amazon (Prime) has this morning been settled with the announcement of a new license agreement – Nokia’s first patent license deal with a major streaming platform. But the terms of the agreement remain confidential.

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ISP Sky Broadband Saw Data Traffic Peak at 28Tbps in Dec 2024

31st March, 2025 (3 Comments)

Sky UK has today published their latest bi-annual Attention Index report for the July to December 2024 period, which reveals various TV viewing figures across their network and also states that Sky Broadband customers used 19.1 billion gigabytes of data in the last six months.

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Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme Expanded to UK Urban Areas

31st March, 2025 (6 Comments)

The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has today tweaked the language on the information page for their Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme (GBVS) in a number of key ways. This sees the removal of “rural” specific language and the introduction of language stating that some areas are “open for urban voucher projects“.

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Owner of Three UK Considers Spinning Off Global Telecommunications Biz

31st March, 2025 (8 Comments)

The Hong Kong conglomerate behind mobile operator Three UK and several other operators in different countries, CK Hutchison Holdings (CKH), has confirmed that they’re currently engaged in talks that could see them spinning off their global telecommunications network in the near future. But an agreement is not yet certain.