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road_works_broadband_uk_street 123rf

1st Sep, 2023 (0 Comments)

The LSBUD (Line Search Before You Dig) organisation, which provides an online asset search facility to UK civil engineering firms for underground pipes and cables, has published their annual Digging Up Britain 2023 report and revealed that telecoms remained the most active industry when it comes to searching before digging.

Shell Energy Broadband

1st Sep, 2023 (21 Comments)

The Shell Petroleum Company, through its 100% owned subsidiary Impello Limited (“Shell”), has today caused no big surprises by announcing that the Octopus Energy Group has acquired its retail energy and broadband ISP business – Shell Energy (UK and Germany) – for an as yet undisclosed sum.

brawband_uk_isp_picture

1st Sep, 2023 (5 Comments)

Inverness-based ISP BrawBand (HighNet), which currently sells home broadband services over CityFibre’s Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network in cities such as Inverness, Glasgow, Renfrewshire and Edinburgh, has today announced that they plan to double the coverage of their service by adding several additional areas.

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bt_digital_voice_handset_uk_voip

1st Sep, 2023 (21 Comments)

The non-profit Silver Voices organisation, which campaigns on behalf of senior UK citizens, has withdrawn its support for UK broadband ISP BT’s transition to Digital Voice (phone) services after the provider allegedly “reneged” on a deal with the group to help safeguard the interests of those over the age of 70.

ISPA-Awards-Logo-Dark-Blue

1st Sep, 2023 (3 Comments)

The UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has today started inviting feedback to help them pick the shortlist for this year’s “Internet Hero” category as part of their 2023 internet industry awards event, which is due to take place on 9th November at the Old War Offices in Whitehall (Raffles London at the OWO Hotel).

Asus ROG Rapture GT-AXE16000

1st Sep, 2023 (65 Comments)

Internet service provider YouFibre, which predominantly harnesses Netomnia’s growing UK Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based network (currently available to 600,000 premises), has today officially taken the wrappings off one of the country’s fastest 8Gbps (Gigabits per second) broadband packages for homes!

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BT-Customer-Support

31st Aug, 2023 (0 Comments)

Broadband ISP and communications provider BT has announced that it’s adopting new technology from network automation firm Infovista that could help to more rapidly identify the root-cause of customer or service disruptions, which it hopes will improve both “operational efficiency and customer satisfaction“.

Internet traffic uk broadband surge chart

31st Aug, 2023 (6 Comments)

Broadband ISPs from across the industry have said that they saw a UK internet traffic surge yesterday (30th August 2023), which appears to have been driven by the release of both the latest ‘Call of Duty‘ Season 05 Reloaded update and the start of preloading for Bethesda’s hotly anticipated game ‘Starfield‘.

vodafone_uk_openran_mast

31st Aug, 2023 (3 Comments)

Broadband ISP and mobile operator Vodafone has today moved out of the pilot phase for its new 4G and 5G capable Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) technology and begun their “volume deployment“, which aims to reach 2,500 sites across mostly rural parts of Wales and the South-West of England by 2027.

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LONDON, UK: British Airways A380 on final approach into London Heathrow on 06 July 2017(Picture by Nick Morrish/British Airways)

31st Aug, 2023 (9 Comments)

Customers of Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2), specifically those who are currently facing airport delays of 60 minutes or more at over 500 airports around the world – something that has been in the news quite a lot this week, are being offered free access via up to four passes to 1,200 airport lounges.

Brsk engineer next to telegraph pole

31st Aug, 2023 (42 Comments)

Broadband ISP and network builder Brsk, which has so far deployed their own gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to 250,000 UK premises (RFS) – mostly in the Midlands (rollout plan), is facing a petition from 40 residents in Burnley who want to see their newly installed telecoms poles removed.

mobile network speed test on UK smartphone

31st Aug, 2023 (18 Comments)

Internet benchmarking firm Ookla, which operates the popular broadband and mobile network performance testing service Speedtest.net, has revealed that 5G based mobile broadband download speeds have fallen across most regions of the UK over the past year. But despite this, overall data speeds (4G + 5G) have increased.

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Three-UK-Mobile-Black-on-White-Logo-2021

31st Aug, 2023 (16 Comments)

Customers of primary mobile network operator Three UK may like to know that the provider has quietly renamed their Pay Monthly plans in order to ensure they are simple for customers to understand and reflect the benefits within the tariff, but otherwise there are no changes to what each plan includes or their pricing.

talkmobile_logo

31st Aug, 2023 (19 Comments)

Mobile operator Talkmobile, which is a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) on parent Vodafone’s national UK 4G and 5G network, has finally launched their first plan offering “unlimited data” and at launch it’ll set you back just £16 per month (similar to SMARTY’s plan on Three UK’s network).

Lothian Broadband Engineers Next to Cabinet in Scotland

30th Aug, 2023 (2 Comments)

Scottish ISP Lothian Broadband (LBN), which is building a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) network across rural parts of East Lothian, the Highlands and Fife, has announced that they’re extending into the rural areas surrounding the city of Stirling – starting with 3,400 premises across three villages.

yayzi_broadband_logo_image

30th Aug, 2023 (43 Comments)

UK ISP Yayzi Broadband, which mainly sells packages via Cityfibre’s national Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, has made a bold move today by scrapping their existing 150Mbps and 500Mbps packages in order to focus on a 1Gbps and new 2.5Gbps tier. But to compensate for this, they’ve introduced a huge price discount.

Fibrus Digger Trenching Soft Verge

30th Aug, 2023 (6 Comments)

Infracapital-backed ISP Fibrus, which is rolling out a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across Northern Ireland and the North of England, has today revealed that their network now covers 300,000 premises (up from 250k in March) and is home to 50,000 customers (up from 36,000).

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