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11th Dec, 2023 (0 Comments)

Horsham-based business telecoms and technology provider Global4 has today announced the acquisition of Gemini, which offers a similar range of broadband, I.T., voice and mobile connectivity solutions, for an undisclosed sum. Global4 hopes the deal will help to expand its offerings.

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11th Dec, 2023 (0 Comments)

UK ISP TalkTalk has published their annual accounts to 28th Feb 2023 and revealed that their broadband base fell to 3.94 million (down from 3.98m in 2022), while the provider’s bosses also reportedly warned that there is “material uncertainty” ahead of an expect debt refinancing that “may cast significant doubt” over its future.

Alncom Engineers and Vehicles in Field

11th Dec, 2023 (0 Comments)

Broadband ISP Alncom has announced that they’ve just added a another 350 properties to the coverage of their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network in rural Northumberland (England), which occurred after they extended their existing fibre in the village of Lowick to cater for the holiday site of Barmoor Castle Country Park.

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10th Dec, 2023 (12 Comments)

Broadband ISP Ecom, which is building a new gigabit-capable full fibre (FTTP) broadband network to remote rural communities across Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire in England, has announced that they’ve just extended again and started to go live in the village of Westcott – including the sizeable Westcott Venture Park.

9th Dec, 2023 (34 Comments)

Community internet provider B4RN (Broadband for the Rural North), which since 2011 has been working with volunteers inside villages to deploy a new 10Gbps full fibre (FTTP) network across rural parts of England, have revealed that they now cover 25k premises (up from 20k in early 2022) and 13k customers (up from 9,000).

Quickline Engineers up Ladder

8th Dec, 2023 (4 Comments)

Hull-based UK broadband ISP Quickline, which is rolling out a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across North and East England, has today announced that their new full fibre network has gone live in three more Lincolnshire villages, including Tealby, North Willingham and Metheringham.

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8th Dec, 2023 (21 Comments)

Ofcom has today proposed to update their resilience guidance to provide greater clarity on how UK broadband ISPs, mobile operators and other digital network companies can “reduce the risk of network outages“. Separately, they’re also seeking feedback on the issue of inadequate power backup at mobile network sites.

Connexin FTTP Cabinet on Crane

8th Dec, 2023 (5 Comments)

Broadband ISP Connexin has today announced a new agreement with network integrator firm STL, which will see them invest a further £3m to take on rival KCOM and extend their 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across 22,000 premises in the East Yorkshire (England) market town of Beverley.

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8th Dec, 2023 (7 Comments)

Telecoms giant BT has today unveiled the development of a new IP transmission technology, called MAUD (Multicast-Assisted Unicast Delivery), which promises to be a more reliable, quality-focused and sustainable way of delivering content (e.g. video and TV) over the internet – doing it in a way that’s both cheaper and more efficient.

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8th Dec, 2023 (11 Comments)

Mobile network operators including EE (BT), Vodafone, Three UK and O2 (VMO2) are facing a class action claim worth “at least” £3.285bn from consumer rights champion Justin Gutmann and the law firm Charles Lyndon, which accuses them of historically overcharging for mobile handsets beyond the end of their contractual term.

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8th Dec, 2023 (27 Comments)

Customers of Vodafone’s home broadband service, which is sold via FTTC and FTTP packages on Openreach and CityFibre’s national networks, may be pleased to learn that the ISP has finally confirmed to ISPreview – after some prodding – that they are starting to run a “limited trial” of IPv6 internet addressing.

CityFibre Enginers Over Trench

7th Dec, 2023 (12 Comments)

Network operator CityFibre has announced that they’ve managed to reach a new landlord agreement (wayleave) with the Newark and Sherwood District Council in Nottinghamshire, England. The deal will enable them to roll-out their full fibre (FTTP) broadband ISP network to cover an additional 500 homes in the area.

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7th Dec, 2023 (13 Comments)

In somewhat of an industry first, Virgin Media (VMO2) has today announced that they’re launching a new awareness campaign for their cheaper broadband social tariffs, which will see the ISP contacting every one of their 5 million UK customers to make them aware of the option and offer to support those struggling with bills. O2 also plan a mobile social tariff.

7th Dec, 2023 (16 Comments)

Customers of UK ISP Sky Broadband and mobile operator Sky Mobile may or may not be interested to know that the provider has setup a new internal Connectivity team, which brings together the two previously separate teams for their mobile and broadband divisions into one combined group.

BT Internet Traffic 6th Dec 2023

7th Dec, 2023 (13 Comments)

Telecoms giant BT has revealed that the overall volume of internet traffic across their fixed broadband ISP network reached a new peak of 30.1Tbps (Terabits per second) last night at around 9pm, which is up from around 28Tbps last year and 25Tbps in 2021.

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7th Dec, 2023 (5 Comments)

Benchmarking firm Opensignal has today published a supposedly “definitive” study of fixed broadband speeds across the United Kingdom, which reveals which ISPs are delivering both the best service quality and speeds to consumers. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the table ends up being topped by CommunityFibre, Virgin Media and Hyperoptic etc.

2023 Openreach Female Engineer on FTTP Pole

7th Dec, 2023 (82 Comments)

Network access provider Openreach (BT) has today revealed the next batch of 142 new locations to benefit from their ongoing deployment of a new multi-Gigabit capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network, which has just officially reached the half-way point by covering over 12.5 million UK premises.

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