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Mobile Coverage in Worcestershire UK is 1000x Worse Than Ofcom Suggests UPDATE

15th March, 2025 (28 Comments)

The Worcestershire County Council (WCC) in England has revealed the results of a recent study they conducted with Streetwave, which harnessed local bin lorries to map the coverage and performance of 4G and 5G mobile (broadband) networks across the county. Overall, it claims to have found that mobile coverage is “over 1,000 times worse than Ofcom and mobile operator data suggests“.

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North Lanarkshire to Deliver Free Broadband to 36,575 Council Homes

14th March, 2025 (26 Comments)

The North Lanarkshire Council (NLC) in Scotland has today announced a “groundbreaking digital plan” that, over the course of between 10 and 15 years, will aim to ensure that “all council housing tenants” (36,575 homes) will gain access to “free internet access, a first for any Scottish council“.

TOTSCo to Begin Testing of UK Business Broadband ISP Switching in June 2025

14th March, 2025 (3 Comments)

The One Touch Switching Company (TOTSCo), which is the industry-led company that is helping to implement Ofcom’s solution (One Touch Switching) for easier and quicker UK consumer switching between broadband and phone providers, has revealed that they’ll start testing a switching solution for businesses by the “end of June” 2025.

Broadband ISPs Vodafone, BT, KCOM and Zen Internet Prep New UK Battery Backup

14th March, 2025 (47 Comments)

Broadband, mobile and phone provider Vodafone UK has today announced that they’ve teamed up with rival ISPs BT, KCOM and Zen Internet to help bring an improved Broadband Battery Backup (BBU) device for WiFi routers to market, which is said to be capable of powering a customers broadband router (inc. digital phone/voice service) for up to 4-to-7 hours.

Alncom Prep £1.4m FTTP Broadband Build in Rothbury, Northumberland

13th March, 2025 (2 Comments)

Rural gigabit broadband ISP Alncom has today announced that they’re working on a £1.4m project to extend their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to cover over 200 of the hardest to reach premises in and around the remote town of Rothbury in Northumberland (England), which aims to tackle areas that are still “unable to access ultrafast broadband“.

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Gloucestershire UK Celebrate Over 98 Percent Superfast Broadband Cover

13th March, 2025 (4 Comments)

The Gloucestershire County Council (GCC) in England has today celebrated how their Fastershire programme, which was jointly conducted alongside Herefordshire Council, has now helped to enable 98.5% of properties in the county to access a “superfast broadband” (30Mbps+) connection, up from only 39% in 2012 and 36% in 2011.

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BDUK Release UPRN Level Data for UK Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout

13th March, 2025 (12 Comments)

The Government’s executive Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has today published fresh data that reveals the current levels of broadband connectivity, future commercial plans for gigabit broadband, and any premises included in BDUK’s publicly funded interventions (e.g gigabit vouchers and Project Gigabit contracts) down to the individual premises (UPRN) level.

Broadband ISP Sky Business Launch UK Cloud Voice Service

13th March, 2025 (0 Comments)

Broadband ISP Sky Business (Sky UK) has today announced the launch of their new Cloud Voice solution, which is partly intended to help businesses migrate away from the traditional Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) system before it’s switched-off at the end of this year (vulnerable consumers have longer, until 31st January 2027).

DrayTek Reveal Multiple New Security Vulnerabilities in their Routers

13th March, 2025 (15 Comments)

Customers of DrayTek‘s popular broadband routers, which are a familiar name in the UK ISP world, have this week been notified about two recently published security vulnerabilities in several of their products – both of which have a Common Vulnerability Score (CVSS) of 9.8 out of 10. But don’t worry, new firmware already exists to patch them.

Full Fibre Broadband ISP Hyperoptic Appoint Openreach Vet as COO

13th March, 2025 (4 Comments)

City-focused broadband ISP Hyperoptic, which since 2011 claims to have built an alternative full fibre (FTTP/B) network to reach “more than” 1.73 million UK homes in parts of 64 towns and cities (inc. 340,000 customers), has today announced that they’ve appointed former Openreach (BT) veteran Mark Barlett to be their new Chief Operating Officer (COO).

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YouFibre Become First UK ISP to Take 400G Port at LINX Manchester

13th March, 2025 (12 Comments)

Alternative UK broadband provider YouFibre, which is one of the retail outlets for Netomnia’s (Brsk) growing 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, today claims to have become the first ISP to take a 400G (Gbps) port at the London Internet Exchange’s (LINX) regional interconnection hub in the North – LINX Manchester.

Streetwave to Map 4G and 5G Mobile Cover Across Liverpool City Region

12th March, 2025 (1 Comment)

As hinted last week (here), network analyst firm Streetwave has confirmed that they’ve won yet another contract to map 4G and 5G based mobile broadband coverage using bin lorries, which will this time focus on the Liverpool City Region in Merseyside (England) and some 7,000km of the UK’s road network.

Mayor of London Releases Interactive Map of City Broadband Speeds

12th March, 2025 (13 Comments)

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan has this week published a new interactive map that shows how broadband speed availability varies across the city by postcode and where improvements may be needed.

CityFibre’s UK Full Fibre Broadband Network Suffering Disruption UPDATE2

12th March, 2025 (19 Comments)

Customers from a number of broadband ISPs on CityFibre’s national Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network – covering 4.3 million UK premises (4.1m RFS) – appear to be experiencing sporadic service issues this morning, which range from disconnection events to problems with high network packet loss and latency.

Rocket Fibre to Disconnect Legacy UK Wireless Broadband Users

12th March, 2025 (10 Comments)

Alternative network operator and ISP Rocket Fibre, which is in the process of expanding their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across more of Northamptonshire (here), has caused concern after they notified their legacy base of Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) customers that they would “cease providing” the service from 31st March 2025.

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BDUK Reveal Benefits and Impacts of UK Superfast Broadband Rollout

11th March, 2025 (6 Comments)

The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has posted a final evaluation of the previous ‘Superfast Broadband Programme’ (UK National Broadband Scheme), which reveals the various “economic, social, and environmental benefits” from the previous project to extend “superfast” (30Mbps+) coverage – run between 2016 and 2022.

EE UK Sees Positive Result from Trial of New Content Delivery Tech for TV Services

11th March, 2025 (13 Comments)

Broadband ISP and mobile operator EE has today revealed the results from last year’s trial delivery of TV content via a new Content Delivery Network (CDN) technology, which reflects BT’s effort to integrate their “world’s first” MAUD (Multicast-Assisted Unicast Delivery) solution into their CDN (originally Edgio).