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28th Sep, 2023 (9 Comments)

The European Commission has published their annual ‘Broadband Coverage in Europe’ study, which reveals how the EU’s fixed broadband and 5G mobile networks compare across all of its 27 countries, plus Norway, Iceland, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. We take a closer look to see how the UK is fairing.

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28th Sep, 2023 (12 Comments)

Opensignal has published their latest biannual Mobile Network Experience Report for H2 2023, which benchmarks the 4G and 5G (mobile broadband) services from all four primary UK mobile operators – EE, Vodafone, O2 and Three UK – to find which ones deliver the best performance. Overall, EE and Three UK seem to fair the best.

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28th Sep, 2023 (9 Comments)

A new analysis of 265,572 consumer broadband ISP speed tests claims to have revealed the top fastest and slowest five areas, as well as five cities, across the United Kingdom. For example, the village of Halkirk in the Highlands of Scotland was named as the slowest area (2.8Mbps), while Canterbury came out as the slowest city (34.3Mbps).

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27th Sep, 2023 (7 Comments)

The UK media and telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today revealed more details about their proposed plan to auction off a large chunk of millimetre wave (mmW) radio spectrum frequency across the 26GHz and 40GHz bands, which will be used by mobile operators to deliver even faster 5G (mobile broadband) services in urban areas.

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27th Sep, 2023 (26 Comments)

Customers of BT’s national UK network of free and premium public WiFi hotspots, which are currently branded as BT Wi-Fi, have noted that the operator recently started to inform users that the service is shortly going to be rebranded under the EE WiFi name.

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27th Sep, 2023 (4 Comments)

The Zayo Group, which runs a large metro and long-haul fibre optic network that delivers global reach, has just announced that their network capacity across the United Kingdom and Europe has been “supercharged” by becoming fully 400G (Gbps) enabled. Next stop.. 800G!

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26th Sep, 2023 (0 Comments)

UK ISP Home Telecom, which is a subsidiary of the wider Telecom Acquisitions (TAL) group (TalkTalk holds a controlling stake in them), has today announced two further interesting acquisitions by welcoming customers from local operators Bloomtel and OpenFibre to the business – all for an undisclosed sum.

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26th Sep, 2023 (6 Comments)

The NGMN Alliance (Next Generation Mobile Networks Alliance), which is an open forum founded by mobile operators from across the world (e.g. BT, Vodafone, Tele2 etc.), has today taken a more “proactive” stance on influencing the development of future 6G mobile broadband tech by pushing for a more “graceful evolution“.

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26th Sep, 2023 (0 Comments)

Broadband ISP Virgin Media O2 Business UK (VMO2) has today announced that they’re including F-Secure’s internet security solution in all newly contracted “Voom Fibre Bundle” packages, free of charge for their small business customers.

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26th Sep, 2023 (3 Comments)

Transport for London (TfL) – in partnership with Boldyn Networks – today confirmed that Euston station on the Charing Cross branch platforms has today become the latest place on the London Underground to go live with 4G and 5G mobile (mobile broadband) cover, which customers of EE, Vodafone, O2 and Three UK will benefit from.

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26th Sep, 2023 (41 Comments)

Broadband ISP BT has today published a wider region-by-region UK rollout schedule for their new Internet Protocol (IP) based home phone service, Digital Voice, which covers the remaining regions across England, Wales and Scotland. But not everybody will be happy when it happens.

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26th Sep, 2023 (13 Comments)

Rural network builder and UK ISP County Broadband (CB), which holds an aspiration to cover 500,000 premises across the East of England with their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network by the end of 2027, appears as if it may soon become the latest network operator to make redundancies.

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26th Sep, 2023 (6 Comments)

A new study has analysed 5,603 mobile data (mobile broadband) plans from across 237 countries in order to compare the cost of a 1GB (GigaByte) data allowance, which reveals that the United Kingdom slightly improved its rank from 59th in 2022 to 58th in 2023, with an average price of USD $0.62 per GB (down from $0.79).

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25th Sep, 2023 (12 Comments)

The UK telecoms and media regulator, Ofcom, has today proposed to “take back” a sizeable amount of phone numbers from a long list of broadband and communication providers that are no longer trading (i.e. those that have been dissolved, gone into liquidation or closed).

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25th Sep, 2023 (9 Comments)

Communications, insurance and energy provider Utility Warehouse (Telecom Plus) has today become the latest broadband ISP to join CityFibre’s growing national Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to help reach more homes, which is being handled via their existing relationships with TalkTalk’s Wholesale division.

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25th Sep, 2023 (32 Comments)

Gigabit broadband ISP YouFibre, which sells packages via Netomnia and Cityfibre’s respective 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) networks – across different parts of the United Kingdom, has today reported that they now have a total customer base of 50,000 (up from 22,000 at the start of 2023 and 45,000 in August 2023).

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25th Sep, 2023 (5 Comments)

UK ISP Voneus, which is deploying gigabit-capable wireless (FWA) and full fibre (FTTP) broadband networks across rural parts of England and Wales, has today announced that SWS Broadband and Cadence Networks are being merged into their operations. On top of that, they’ve acquired Broadway Partners from administration.

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