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Fibrus Covers 300,000 UK Premises with Full Fibre and Tops 50k Customers

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).

Openreach Nears 1 Million FTTP Broadband Premises in Scotland

30th Aug, 2023 (4 Comments)

Network access provider Openreach (BT) has revealed that their 1.8Gbps capable UK Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network now covers a total of 949,000 properties in Scotland (up from 800,000 in mid-March 2023), which is estimated to have cost them around £280m (assumes an average of £300 per premises passed).

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ISPs Move to Patch “Grave” Border Gateway Protocol Flaw

30th Aug, 2023 (0 Comments)

Broadband internet service providers (ISP) are being encouraged to patch or mitigate a “grave flaw” in the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), which could allow a remote attacker to craft a BGP UPDATE message that can de-peer (reset) BGP sessions and disrupt the global flow of internet traffic or cause a Denial of Service (DoS).

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Quad9 Founders on the Dangers of Global DNS Blocks by Rights Holders

30th Aug, 2023 (13 Comments)

The founders of third-party Domain Name Service (DNS) provider Quad9, including Chief Security Officer, Danielle Deibler, and GM, John Todd, have today spoken to ISPreview about the impact of recent court rulings that will force them to block sites suspected of internet copyright infringement (piracy) at DNS level.

BT Rolling Out UK Digital Voice Service into Northern Ireland

29th Aug, 2023 (9 Comments)

Broadband ISP BT has today continued the region-by-region deployment of their Internet Protocol (IP) based home phone service, Digital Voice, by announcing that they’re about to start the roll-out in Northern Ireland, which will be followed this autumn by customers in the North West and across London.

CityFibre Builds Full Fibre Broadband to 3 Million UK Premises

29th Aug, 2023 (45 Comments)

Network operator CityFibre has today announced that their 10Gbps capable full fibre (FTTP) broadband ISP network now covers 3 million UK premises (up from 2.5m in January 2023) and 2.6 million of those are considered to be ‘Ready For Service’ (up from 2.2m), which means that residents can place an order with one of around 35-40 ISPs.

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The Top 10 Largest Global Internet Service Outages for H1 2023

29th Aug, 2023 (0 Comments)

Internet benchmarking firm Ookla, which operates the popular broadband ISP performance testing service Speedtest.net and the real-time outage monitoring Downdetector service, has used data gathered from the latter to reveal which online services suffered the largest outages during the first half of 2023. Instagram tops the table.

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How UK Telcos Can Overcome the Barriers to MDU Fibre Installations

27th Aug, 2023 (0 Comments)

Project Gigabit, the UK government’s £5 billion plan to connect hard-to-reach properties to fibre optic broadband, is evidence of the value they place on digital inclusion. Access to high-speed internet means the ability to work remotely, work efficiently, communicate better and prevent children from being locked out of education.

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Freedom Fibre CEO Talks Future UK FTTP Rollout Challenges

26th Aug, 2023 (9 Comments)

The CEO of alternative broadband network builder Freedom Fibre, Neil McArthur, has today – as part of an exclusive interview with ISPreview – spoken about some of the challenges the operator has faced in building a new full fibre (FTTP) network and called on the government to be more overtly supportive of such efforts.

Octopus Energy Now Front Runner to Gobble Shell Energy UK

25th Aug, 2023 (35 Comments)

News reports are this afternoon claiming that Octopus Energy is now the frontrunner to acquire UK retail energy and broadband ISP Shell Energy from its parent group, although they haven’t yet entered formal exclusivity and that means rival bids (e.g. from Ovo Energy) could still upset an agreement.

Vodafone UK Enhances Apple TV 4K and Broadband Bundles

25th Aug, 2023 (11 Comments)

Mobile operator and UK ISP Vodafone has today launched a new home broadband Xtra bundle, which adds an Apple TV 4K box, a 24-month subscription to the Apple TV+ streaming service, as well as inclusive anytime landline calls – all for just £12 a month, saving customers over £200.

Hyperoptic Grab Liberty Global Vet Duncan Macdonald as New CTIO

25th Aug, 2023 (5 Comments)

Network builder and UK broadband ISP Hyperoptic, which has so far extended their gigabit-capable full fibre (FTTP/B) network to cover over 1.2 million homes (275,000+ customers), have announced that they’ve snapped up Liberty Global veteran Duncan Macdonald to be their new Chief Technology Innovation Officer (CTIO).

ISP Toob Puts New FTTP Broadband Network Live in Gosport

24th Aug, 2023 (2 Comments)

Network builder and UK gigabit broadband ISP toob has today announced that their £18m project to roll out a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across the Hampshire (England) town of Gosport, which will eventually reach 45,000 premises in 2024, has finally started to go live.

Netomnia Prep 8Gbps Broadband as Full Fibre Covers 600,000 UK Premises

24th Aug, 2023 (51 Comments)

The CEO of UK ISP Zen Internet, Richard Tang, has today published a new video interview with the CEO of network builder Netomnia (inc. sibling ISP YouFibre), Jeremy Chelot, which reveals a lot of useful information about the coverage of their alternative Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, costs, take-up and future targets.

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UK Court Convicts Lapsus$ Hacker for Breaching ISP BT and EE UPDATE

24th Aug, 2023 (16 Comments)

The Southwark Crown Court in London has today found an autistic Oxfordshire teenager, Arion Kurtaj (18), responsible for having hacked a number of major companies – including, among others, broadband ISP and mobile giant BT (EE)- while acting as a member of the wider Lapsus$ hacking group.

BT UK Trial Boosts 5G Standalone Upload Speeds to 230Mbps+

24th Aug, 2023 (16 Comments)

Telecoms giant BT (EE) and network supplier Nokia claim to have pushed mobile broadband upload speeds to over 230Mbps on a new trial network, which operated by harnessing the uplink aggregation of two carrier components in live spectrum for a 5G Standalone (SA) network.

Which? Accuse ISP Virgin Media UK of Unlawful Customer Contracts

24th Aug, 2023 (19 Comments)

A team of legal experts at Which? have today accused broadband ISP Virgin Media (VMO2) of potentially breaching consumer contract law by “effectively [maintaining] a licence to impose unlimited [price] increases” through their Terms & Conditions (T&Cs) for existing customers. The consumer magazine wants Ofcom to investigate.