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Virgin Media O2 Says UK Gov Must Get Serious with Tackling Fraud

4th Nov, 2024 (7 Comments)

Broadband ISP and mobile giant Virgin Media and O2, which invests millions in counter fraud measures each year and blocked more than £250m worth of fraud in 2023, has called on the UK Government to take “urgent action” to address the “epidemic” levels of fraud. The ISP is seeking stronger police powers and the appointment of a dedicated minister.

Mobile Operator O2 UK Quietly Discontinues Pay As You Go Data SIMs

4th Nov, 2024 (10 Comments)

Some customers of O2 UK’s (Virgin Media) Pay As You Go Data SIMs (mobile broadband) have recently been surprised to find that they can no longer top their plans up with extra data. The reason for this appears to be because the mobile operator quietly removed them from sale during early August 2024.

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New Vodafone 5G Mast Design Could Cut Number of UK Masts

4th Nov, 2024 (16 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone has recently begun to introduce a new space-saving “Quad Stack” design of 5G mast across parts of Greater London, which is not only intended to help improve mobile broadband speeds but could also contribute to actually reducing the number of masts and the number of street-level equipment cabinets in some areas.

BT Group UK Reportedly Edges Closer to Sale of Global Division

3rd Nov, 2024 (14 Comments)

Telecoms and broadband giant BT Group has reportedly begun the process of making their ‘Global’ division available for sale, either in whole or in pieces. The international arm of the business, which is overseen by Business CEO Bas Burger, typically sells internet, phone and other business solutions to over 1,000 multinational corporate clients worldwide.

Giffgaff UK Customers Face SIM Activation and Number Porting Delays

2nd Nov, 2024 (8 Comments)

Some customers of mobile network provider giffgaff, which is a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) on O2’s UK platform, appear to be experiencing a mix of two problems, including delays to new SIM activations and delays to transfers (ports) of mobile numbers – both in to or out of their network.

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Mobile Network Competition Row Erupts on Gibraltar

1st Nov, 2024 (4 Comments)

The HM Government of Gibraltar, which is a British overseas territory on Spain’s south coast, appears to have triggered a competition spat with the privately owned broadband operator, GibFibre, after it made amendments to the Communications Act 2006 that could create a “monopolistic environment within Gibraltar for Gibtelecom” (the state-owned mobile operator).

CityFibre Agrees to Sell UK Broadband ISP Lit Fibre to co-Founders

1st Nov, 2024 (4 Comments)

Network operator CityFibre, which earlier this year announced the acquisition of Lit Fibre’s full fibre network (here), has today resolved the problem of what to do with that provider’s customer base by agreeing to sell the retail ISP side of the business to the company’s co-founders, Tom Williams and Ben Bresler.

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Essex UK Gang Jailed for £1m Theft of Openreach Broadband Cables

1st Nov, 2024 (10 Comments)

The Essex Police, which had been investigating thefts of copper broadband and phone cables from Openreach (BT) across several counties in England, have announced that a gang of four men have been jailed for a combined total of 14 years. The men were responsible for stealing almost £1m worth of the operator’s telecoms cables.

Scottish Government Launches New Digital Connectivity Website

1st Nov, 2024 (0 Comments)

The Scottish Government (SG) has launched a new Digital Connectivity website, which is now directly integrated into the main government website and appears to replace the old Digital Scotland (Superfast Scotland) site. The new site continues to cover the SG’s various broadband (e.g. R100), mobile, IoT and green data centre projects.

Wavenet Confirms UK Job Cuts Expected After Daisy Merger

1st Nov, 2024 (0 Comments)

Broadband, communications and managed service provider (MSP) Wavenet has indicated to ISPreview that they’re expecting to make some redundancies as part of their merger with Daisy Corporate Services (here), which aims to create the UK’s “largest independent IT managed service provider”. But the figure should be “substantially less” than 400.

Devon and Somerset UK Broadband Project Scales Back Airband Rollout UPDATE

31st Oct, 2024 (33 Comments)

The state-aid supported Connecting Devon and Somerset (CDS) programme has suffered yet another problem with one of their rural broadband contracts, which occurred today after they announced that their full fibre roll-out deal with Worcestershire-based Airband was being “scaled back” following its underperformance.

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nPerf Finds Top EU Countries Beat UK for Mobile Broadband Speeds

31st Oct, 2024 (8 Comments)

Internet benchmarking firm nPerf has today released the results of a new study into mobile broadband (3G, 4G and 5G) performance across several EU countries, which analysed 61,696 internet speed tests via their app (crowdsourced) to reveal that the average UK download is 80Mbps – this makes the country slower than Italy, Spain, Germany, Ireland, France and Portugal.

Nexfibre Publish Q3 2024 UK Full Fibre Broadband Build Update

31st Oct, 2024 (21 Comments)

Network operator nexfibre, which shares some of their parentage with ISP partner Virgin Media (VMO2), has published their latest quarterly (Q3 2024) progress update on the roll-out of their new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) broadband network. This includes details on build locations for 2025 and 2026.

O2 UK Offers Pay As You Go Mobile Customers a Free DATA Boost

31st Oct, 2024 (2 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has announced that, until 5th February 2025, both new and existing Pay As You Go (PAYG) mobile customers will get the chance to boost their data (mobile broadband) by up to three times the amount for no extra cost (e.g. those with a 10GB plan can boost it to 30GB – GigaBytes).

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Virgin Media UK and Nexfibre Add 18k Homes to Horsham UK Fibre Network

31st Oct, 2024 (1 Comment)

Network operator nexfibre, which shares some of their parentage with broadband ISP partner Virgin Media (O2), has announced that they’ve extended their 2Gbps speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) network to cover 18,000 additional homes in the West Sussex (England) town of Horsham.

AllPoints Fibre Networks Acquires UK Broadband ISP Brillband

31st Oct, 2024 (10 Comments)

Alternative network operator AllPoints Fibre Networks, which is the UK wholesale division of Fern Trading’s recently consolidate alternative FTTP broadband ISP networks (Giganet, Jurassic Fibre, and Swish Fibre), has today announced that they’ve acquired Glasgow-based full fibre ISP Brillband for an undisclosed sum.

Netomnia’s Annual Fibre Broadband Build Rate Tops 1 Million UK Premises

31st Oct, 2024 (9 Comments)

Broadband network operator Netomnia (inc. Brsk and YouFibre) will today post their latest Q3 2024 results, which among other things reveals that the annual build rate for their new 8Gbps speed full fibre (FTTP) network has exceeded 1 million premises (total 1.82m, up 258k in quarter) and customer take-up hit 10.4% to total 190,000 (up 9% or 40k in quarter).