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Rural Dorset UK Village Left Without Broadband for Ten Weeks

29th Sep, 2023 (4 Comments)

Residents in the tiny rural Dorset community of North Bowood, near Bridport, have complained after a failure of Openreach’s local network left them without access to fast broadband connectivity for a whopping 10 long weeks, which the network access provider has struggled to repair due to unspecified safety considerations.

Persimmon Homes ISP Fibrenest Raises UK Prices and Boosts Uploads UPDATE

29th Sep, 2023 (22 Comments)

Broadband ISP FibreNest, which is the Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) operator for Persimmon Homes‘ new build UK housing sites, has ended their long-running price freeze by announcing price rises and a change to adopt annual increases. But it’s not all bad news, as they’re also boosting upload speeds for existing customers.

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F&W Networks Scales Back Some UK Full Fibre Builds and Cuts Jobs

29th Sep, 2023 (16 Comments)

Altrincham-based F&W Networks, which has so far managed to extend their gigabit-capable full fibre (FTTP) broadband ISP network to cover 360,000 UK premises (up from 250k in Feb 2023), appears to have become the latest alternative network to scale-back some of their build plans and notify staff of future redundancies.

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SMF Proposes New Approach to UK Broadband Social Tariffs

28th Sep, 2023 (29 Comments)

A new report from the Social Market Foundation (SMF), which is a British cross-party think-tank, has recommended that companies providing essentials (broadband, energy, water and transport) are made to offer Social Tariffs to vulnerable customers “in a consistent manner” in order to ensure all eligible users can benefit.

Comms Council UK Name Best 2023 VoIP Provider Award Winners

28th Sep, 2023 (4 Comments)

The Comms Council UK, which represents the United Kingdom’s national Unified Communications and Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) phone industry, has today revealed the winners of their 15th annual 2023 awards event.

Gigaclear Expands FTTP Broadband Rollout to Rural Norfolk UK

28th Sep, 2023 (0 Comments)

Broadband ISP and network builder Gigaclear, which currently covers 500,000 premises (430k Ready for Service) across 25 counties in England with their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, has today announced that they’re investing £10m to expand their fibre into rural parts of Norfolk.

Eutelsat Complete Merger with UK Satellite Broadband Operator OneWeb

28th Sep, 2023 (2 Comments)

European satellite operator Eutelsat has today announced the completion of their all-share combination with London-based broadband satellite operator OneWeb, which had been partly owned by the UK Government but will now become a subsidiary of the Paris-based operator.

EU Reveal 2023 Broadband and 5G Connectivity Progress vs UK

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.

Opensignal Name UK Best 4G and 5G Mobile Networks for H2 2023

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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The Top 5 Fastest and Slowest Parts of the UK for Broadband

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).

Ofcom UK Sets Plan to Auction 26GHz and 40GHz for Faster 5G Mobile

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.

BT Wi-Fi Starts Promoting Future UK Rebrand to EE WiFi

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.

Zayo’s UK and European Fibre Network Gets Fully 400G Enabled

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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Broadband ISP Home Telecom Acquires Bloomtel and OpenFibre

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.

Global Mobile Operators Call for More Graceful Evolution of 6G Mobile

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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Virgin Media O2 Business Add Free Internet Security to Broadband Plans

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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London’s Euston Underground Station Gets 4G and 5G Mobile

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.