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Statkraft UK Wind Farm in Loch Laith to Help Rural Broadband

19th May, 2023 (0 Comments)

The UK division of Norwegian renewable energy generator firm, Statkraft, has commissioned mapping firm FarrPoint to conduct a study of their proposed Loch Liath wind farm in Scotland, near Loch Ness. The work could help to facilitate the rollout of faster broadband into remote rural communities in the surrounding area.

OneWeb to Launch Final 15 and 1 Prototype Broadband Satellite UPDATE

19th May, 2023 (2 Comments)

Space firm OneWeb, which is part-owned by the UK government, has announced that the final batch of 15 first generation (GEN1) Low Earth Orbit (LEO) based ultrafast (100Mbps+) and low-latency (sub-100ms) broadband satellites – plus a single GEN2 prototype “Joey-Sat” – are to be launched on a SpaceX Falcon9 rocket today.

Gigaclear Builds FTTP Broadband to 3 More Surrey UK Villages

19th May, 2023 (0 Comments)

Abingdon-based rural ISP Gigaclear, which has already built their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to cover 380,000 premises, have announced that the operator’s £10m network expansion in Surrey (England) is now starting to reach the villages of Gomshall and Westcott, with Wonersh to follow in 2024.

ISP NOW Broadband to Hike UK Prices by £3.50 a Month

18th May, 2023 (14 Comments)

Customers of Sky UK’s sibling NOW Broadband (NOW TV) sub-brand, which in March 2023 reportedly said that it would keep their broadband and phone prices frozen (here), has now begun notifying customers of an imminent price hike that will be introduced from 5th July 2023 – hiking monthly prices by an extra £3.50.

Ofcom Compare Broadband ISPs by Call Waits, Faults and Quality etc

18th May, 2023 (9 Comments)

Ofcom has today published their 2023 UK study of broadband ISP, phone and mobile service quality, call waiting times, complaint levels, faults, repairs, compensation and install times amongst the largest providers. For example, TalkTalk attracted the lowest satisfaction for broadband (78%), while Plusnet secured the highest (89%).

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After Long Delay – CityFibre Starts FTTP Build in Great Yarmouth

18th May, 2023 (13 Comments)

CityFibre has announced that they’ve finally started the construction phase of their £15m project to rollout a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to reach across “nearly every” home and business in the Norfolk seaside town of Great Yarmouth, which was originally due to begin last winter.

UK ISP TalkTalk and CityFibre Sign New Strategic Biz Partnership

18th May, 2023 (0 Comments)

The wholesale division of broadband ISP TalkTalk – TT Wholesale Services – has today agreed to a new strategic business-to-business (B2B) partnership with full fibre network builder CityFibre, which will see the internet provider’s wholesale customers (often including rival ISPs) being offered more choice.

Brsk Reveals UK Full Fibre Rollout Plan for 800,000 Premises

18th May, 2023 (5 Comments)

Broadband ISP and network builder Brsk has confirmed that their gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network has doubled in size over the last 5 months to 200,000 UK premises. But they’ve today also revealed the next locations that will benefit as they deploy to the next 800,000 premises.

BT Slows FTTP Build as Cover Grows to 10.27 Million UK Premises UPDATE

18th May, 2023 (46 Comments)

BT Group has today published their latest Q4 FY23 (quarterly) results to March 2023, which saw Openreach’s Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network grow to cover 10.274 million premises (up by 702k in the quarter vs 810k last quarter) and EE increase their 5G Ready customer base to 9.12 million (up from 8.5m).

Citizens Advice Claim 1 Million UK Peeps Disconnected Broadband in Last Year UPDATE

18th May, 2023 (9 Comments)

A new survey of over 6,000 adults in the UK, which was conducted by consumer charity Citizen’s Advice, claims to have uncovered that “up to” 1 million broadband customers “disconnected” their broadband ISP connection over the past year because the cost-of-living crisis left them unable to afford it.

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Ogi to Extend FTTP Broadband Across More of Bridgend County

18th May, 2023 (4 Comments)

Broadband ISP Ogi has today announced that their 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network is to be extended across more of Bridgend county, which will form part of their £200m Infracapital-backed project to cover 150,000 premises in rural parts of South Wales by 2025.

F&W Networks Builds Full Fibre to Cover 335,000 UK Premises UPDATE

17th May, 2023 (11 Comments)

Hammersmith-based F&W Networks has this afternoon announced that their new gigabit-capable full fibre (FTTP) broadband network has grown to cover 335,000 UK premises (up from 250,000 in late Feb 2023), which puts them on course to reach their goal of 1 million premises by 2025.

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ISP County Broadband Boosts FTTP Rollout in East of England

17th May, 2023 (8 Comments)

Colchester-based alternative network ISP County Broadband, which has an ambition to cover 500,000 premises across the East of England with their new 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network by the end of 2027, has today signed a new partnership with civil engineering firm AB Installs to accelerate their rollout.

Lyca Mobile UK Finally Launches its e-SIM Service

17th May, 2023 (21 Comments)

Mobile network operator Lyca Mobile has today announced that they’ve become one of the first Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNO) – based off O2’s (VMO2) national platform – to launch an e-SIM service for customers in the United Kingdom.

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Next Cambridgeshire UK Towns Named for Free WiFi Rollout

17th May, 2023 (3 Comments)

The Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority (CPCA), which is working alongside the Connecting Cambridgeshire broadband rollout project, has today announced the next set of three locations to benefit from their ongoing rollout of free public access WiFi (“CambWifi“).

Starlink Discounts Broadband Kit to £99 for UK Rural areas

17th May, 2023 (46 Comments)

SpaceX’s popular Starlink ISP, which harnesses thousands of compact satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to deliver ultrafast broadband speeds and fast latency times to homes, has launched a new promotion for people in UK rural areas that slashes the one-off hardware cost by 75% from £460 to just £99.

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Ookla Study Finds UK Home WiFi Speeds Lag Wired Ethernet

17th May, 2023 (19 Comments)

A new study from Ookla, which operates the popular broadband connection testing service Speedtest.net, has surprised absolutely nobody today by revealing that home WiFi performance continues to lag behind wired Ethernet (LAN) performance in many advanced markets (e.g. Wi-Fi speeds in the UK were just 29.8% of Ethernet in Q1 2023).