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Fibrus Storm Outages Northern Ireland

25th Jan, 2024 (10 Comments)

Over 3,000 of Fibrus’ full fibre broadband ISP customers, mostly across rural parts of Northern Ireland, have been left disconnected from the internet after two named storms – Isha and Jocelyn – hit across the UK in quick succession. Some of those affected have been told to wait as long as a week for service restoration.

24th Jan, 2024 (7 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has today highlighted the deployment of a new mobile mast to boost 4G (mobile broadband) coverage on the remote rural Shetland island, which sits far away off the north coast of Scotland. Several more masts are due to follow under the £1bn Shared Rural Network (SRN) project.

Nintendo Wii and 3DS Official Page Picture

24th Jan, 2024 (4 Comments)

Global video gaming giant Nintendo has today confirmed the sad, albeit not entirely unexpected (they’ve hinted at it before), news that the online service underpinning their once hugely popular 3DS and Wii U consoles will finally be discontinued on 8th April 2024.

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Vodafone Pro II UltraHub UK Router 2022

24th Jan, 2024 (9 Comments)

Mobile network operator and ISP Vodafone UK has now, after previously announcing that they were retiring both their old c.35-38Mbps Fibre 1 (FTTC / VDSL2) and related Full Fibre 1 (FTTP) home broadband packages for new customers (not existing subscribers), said this was done in error. But the related Social Tariff is still missing.

Virgin-Media-Stream

24th Jan, 2024 (12 Comments)

Broadband ISP Virgin Media (VMO2) recently started to roll-out their first new device firmware update(s) of 2024 for both their Virgin TV 360 (v5.06) and STREAM (v5.07) platforms, which make a variety of smaller changes to the User Interface (UI). But none of the changes are particularly big this time around.

scotland r100 broadband lots map uk

24th Jan, 2024 (4 Comments)

In an unsurprising development, the Scottish Government recently issued a new contract notice to help it commission an evaluation study of their £600m Reaching 100% (R100) “superfast broadband” (30Mbps+) rollout programme with Openreach (BT), which will aim to assess the project’s Value for Money.

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Complete-Fibre-MDU-Diagram

24th Jan, 2024 (3 Comments)

The Raven Housing Trust, which owns and manages more than 7,000 homes across the South East of England, has agreed a deal that will see Complete Fibre deploy their open access full fibre infrastructure across the company’s estate of rented and shared ownership homes in Surrey and Sussex.

B4RN Laying Fibre in Snowy Field - Official Twitter

24th Jan, 2024 (2 Comments)

Community ISP B4RN (Broadband for the Rural North), which since 2011 has been working with volunteers to deploy a new 10Gbps full fibre (FTTP) network across rural parts of England, has secured a key grant of £66,000 from the Ray Wind Farm to help their network extend across more of the Barrasford area in Northumberland.

Virgin_Media_O2_VMO2_UK_Colourful_Logo_2021

23rd Jan, 2024 (29 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) last week became the first operator to launch a 48-month contract option for customers who take one of the latest Samsung Galaxy S24 smartphones alongside a mobile plan, which on the surface might appear to break Ofcom’s contract limit of 24-months. But as you’d expect, it’s not that simple.

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Connect Fibre Router 2023

23rd Jan, 2024 (6 Comments)

Alternative network operator and UK ISP Connect Fibre (Fibre Assets), which aspires to cover 100,000 premises across the East of England with their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, has launched a new 150Mbps (symmetric) option on their social tariff to help complement the existing 50Mbps plan.

uk customer satisfaction index

23rd Jan, 2024 (1 Comment)

The Institute of Customer Service (ICS) has today published their first biannual UK Customer Satisfaction Index for January 2024, which reveals that three telecoms providers made it into their table of the country’s top 50 organisations, including Tesco Mobile (5th), Giffgaff (23rd) and Sky Mobile (42nd). The odd broadband ISP also gets a nod.

VMO2-EV-Electric-Van

23rd Jan, 2024 (2 Comments)

Broadband ISP, TV and mobile provider Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2) have today announced that they intend to create around 200 new graduate, intern and apprenticeship roles across the UK in 2024 (starting salaries go up to £35,000 per year), which is down from the c.350 they pledged to create during 2023.

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Bundle of optical fibers with lights in the ends lay on keyboard.

23rd Jan, 2024 (0 Comments)

Software as a service provider Strategic Imperatives, which among other things operates the Fibre Café connectivity aggregation platform to help UK alternative broadband networks to grow, has today announced a deal to merge with technology firm X3T in order to harness its wholesale networks solution.

Pine Media Engineer Shows Damaged Fibre Chamber - Permission via Slack (Will Dear)

23rd Jan, 2024 (17 Comments)

Network builder and UK ISP Pine Media, which has been steadily deploying their own gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband infrastructure across parts of South Yorkshire, Kent and rural Derbyshire, has informed ISPreview that part of their network in Sheffield was recently hit by what appears to be a targeted attack.

EE Lake District SRN Monopole Mast 2023

22nd Jan, 2024 (45 Comments)

BT’s Chief Security and Networks Officer, Howard Watson, has written a new blog post that contrasts their delivery progress on the £1bn industry-led Shared Rural Network (SRN) project (i.e. extending 4G mobile coverage to 95% of the UK by the end of 2025) with the slower pace at Vodafone, Three UK and O2 (VMO2).

Vodafone-5G-Advanced-Uplink-Test-Picture

22nd Jan, 2024 (20 Comments)

British mobile operator Vodafone claims to have conducted the “first European test” of “advanced 5G uplink technology” by harnessing the latest Qualcomm processors and Xiaomi smartphone via their 5G Standalone (5GSA) network, which enabled them to achieve faster mobile broadband upload speeds of “up to” 273Mbps.

Ogi Customer Support at Work

22nd Jan, 2024 (7 Comments)

Welsh broadband ISP Ogi, which is busy building a multi-Gigabit capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network for homes and businesses across parts of South Wales, has today revealed that they’ve made a number of improvements to their customer care provision (e.g. more support staff and longer opening times).

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