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First BT EV Car Charger from UK Broadband Cabinet Goes LIVE

1st May, 2024 (37 Comments)

Telecoms giant BT, specifically their awkwardly named UK digital incubation team, Etc., has today “powered up” their first Electric Vehicle (EV) charger under a 2-year pilot, which is one of potentially tens of thousands that could be established by repurposing Openreach’s old fixed broadband street cabinets.

iD Mobile Finally Introduce eSIM Support to UK Network

1st May, 2024 (8 Comments)

Some of our readers have spotted that low-cost UK mobile operator iD Mobile (Currys), which uses Three UK’s national 4G and 5G network via a virtual operator (MVNO) agreement, has recently introduced eSIM (Electronic SIM) support to their mobile service.

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Ogi Highlights New Broadband Engineer Training Programme

1st May, 2024 (1 Comment)

Welsh internet provider Ogi, which is deploying a gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to homes and businesses across South Wales, has developed a new bespoke and in-house 8-week fibre engineer training programme and the first recruits have just completed the course.

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Quickline Hails Progress Building FTTP Broadband to Isle of Axholme

30th Apr, 2024 (6 Comments)

Broadband ISP Quickline, which is building a new gigabit-capable full fibre (FTTP) and fixed wireless (5G FWA) network across rural and semi-rural parts of North England and beyond, has revealed that their service has now gone live for thousands of premises in villages across the Isle of Axholme area in North Lincolnshire (England).

Vodafone UK Launch New Power Hub Router and Wi-Fi 6 Booster UPDATE

30th Apr, 2024 (24 Comments)

Mobile operator and ISP Vodafone UK has today announced the launch of both a new ‘Power Hub‘ router for their home broadband packages and a complementary new ‘Super Wi-Fi 6 Booster‘ device to help improve home wireless connectivity. New customers, joining from today, on any standard plan will receive the Power Hub router.

Brsk Builds Full Fibre Broadband Cover to 500,000 UK Homes UPDATE

30th Apr, 2024 (4 Comments)

Network operator and ISP Brsk, which is deploying a new gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across the West Midlands and North West of England (rollout plan), has revealed that they’ve now passed a key milestone by expanding to cover half a million homes (up from 450,000 on 2nd March 2024).

Freely’s Live UK Broadband TV Stream Service Goes Live TODAY UPDATE

30th Apr, 2024 (75 Comments)

Major broadcasters including the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 will this morning come together to launch their new stream service called Freely, which has been in development for a while now and is designed to be an evolution of the existing broadband internet based Freeview (inc. Freeview Play and Freesat) TV service.

Local Artists Paint Some of Freedom Fibre’s UK Broadband Cabinets

29th Apr, 2024 (3 Comments)

Alternative network operator Freedom Fibre, which has already rolled out their full fibre (FTTP) gigabit broadband ISP network to cover 300,000 UK premises and aspires to cover 2 million in the future, has engaged local artists and school children in the Irlam (Salford) area to help give their street cabinets a colourful lick of paint.

FRITZBOX Router Manufacturer AVM Settles Huawei Patent Dispute

29th Apr, 2024 (5 Comments)

Germany-based AVM, which manufactures the popular FRITZ!Box range of broadband ISP routers and smart home devices (widely used in the UK), has quietly settled their patent dispute with Huawei over WiFi 6 technology. As a result, some of the recent changes made to AVM’s device firmware will be rolled back.

Broadband ISP Andrews and Arnold Prep New UK SIP2SIM Service

29th Apr, 2024 (10 Comments)

Over a month has passed since ISP Andrews & Arnold (AAISP) announced the closure of their long-running and “somewhat niche” SIP2SIM (mobile voice) service (here), which is due to take effect tomorrow night. But it now seems like the provider is preparing to launch a replacement solution with the help of ONSIM.

UK ISP TalkTalk’s Bundled Echo Dots Get Turned into WiFi Extenders

29th Apr, 2024 (8 Comments)

Broadband ISP TalkTalk last week informed their customers, specifically those who are using one of their Amazon supplied ‘eero’ routers, that they can now benefit from a free eero software upgrade that turns Echo Dot (4th and 5th Fen) smart speakers into WiFi extenders (the provider is currently bundling Dots for free with several packages).

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Gov Enforce New UK Internet Security and Broadband Boosting Law

29th Apr, 2024 (21 Comments)

The UK Government has this morning announced that new laws, which are designed to help protect consumers from cyber criminals, such as by requiring that network devices, like broadband ISP routers, receive greater protection (e.g. regular security updates and stronger default passwords), have finally come into force.

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Broadband ISPs Prep FTTP Plans for Openreach’s 1.2Gbps and 1.8Gbps Tiers UPDATE

27th Apr, 2024 (42 Comments)

Network operator Openreach (BT) officially launched their fastest Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband tiers – 1.2Gbps and 1.8Gbps (both 120Mbps upstream) – into the UK market earlier this month (here). But so far the only ISP to launch any consumer packages using these have been EE, although that will soon change.

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Wessex Internet Bring Gigabit Broadband to 20 Rural UK Locations

26th Apr, 2024 (0 Comments)

Rural UK ISP Wessex Internet, which is deploying a full fibre (FTTP) gigabit broadband network across isolated parts of Dorset, Wiltshire, Hampshire and Somerset in England, has today named the 20 locations where their new network has gone live during just the first three months of 2024 (Q1).

SpaceX Looks to Expand Starlink’s Broadband Capacity in UK

26th Apr, 2024 (20 Comments)

SpaceX is seeking approval from Ofcom for a variation of its existing gateway licence, which would enable Starlink’s mega constellation of ultrafast broadband satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to improve its capacity, such as by expanding the number of gateway antennas at several UK sites and adopting additional bands.

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Rural Yorkshire Village of Stockton on the Forest Gets FTTP Broadband

26th Apr, 2024 (0 Comments)

The Fusion Fibre Group, which is both a UK internet provider and Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network builder, has today announced that the first homes in the rural Yorkshire (England) village of Stockton on the Forest can now access their new gigabit-capable full fibre broadband network after a £350k investment.

Upp’s UK Full Fibre Service to Close on 1st June 2024, Says Virgin Media

26th Apr, 2024 (20 Comments)

Remaining customers of full fibre broadband ISP Upp (i.e. those who have not yet agreed to migrate to Virgin Media), which was last year acquired by UK network builder nexfibre from investment firm LetterOne (here), will shortly start to receive “final termination of service notices” ahead of the service ending on 1st June 2024.