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Giganet Name 5 More Hampshire Areas for FTTP Broadband Build

20th Oct, 2022 (10 Comments)

Fern Trading-backed UK broadband ISP Giganet (Cuckoo), which is currently investing £250m to build a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband across parts of Southern England, has this week unveiled a new batch of five locations in Hampshire to benefit from their ongoing deployment.

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Broadband Disrupted to Shetland After Subsea Fibre Cables Break UPDATE

20th Oct, 2022 (15 Comments)

Homes and businesses on Shetland, which is a remote subarctic archipelago that resides some way north of Scotland, have suffered two breakages to different parts of their main SHEFA-2 (Faroese Telecom) submarine (subsea) fibre optic cable. As a result, a lot of broadband and phone connections on the island are being disrupted.

Confusion as CityFibre Says Four Story Building Too Tall for FTTP UPDATE

20th Oct, 2022 (30 Comments)

Residents of a block of flats in Edinburgh (Scotland) – called ‘Tytler Court‘ – have been left confused after Cityfibre, which had just completed the build of a new 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network in the area, told them that they could not serve the building because it was “too tall“.. at just four-stories high.

EE UK Launch New Bundles in Quest to Become Top Network for Gaming

20th Oct, 2022 (3 Comments)

Mobile operator and broadband ISP EE has today begun a new drive to become the “no.1 network for gaming in the UK” by launching a range of bundles for their 5G and full fibre (FTTP) customers, which match the latest PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch consoles to their various connectivity packages.

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GoFibre Win North Northumberland Gigabit Broadband Rollout Contract

20th Oct, 2022 (0 Comments)

The third Local Supplier contract under the UK Government’s £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout scheme – worth £7.3m – has today been awarded to rural ISP GoFibre (BorderLink), which will upgrade broadband for more than 3,750 hard-to-reach premises across North Northumberland (England).

Smarty Named Best Mobile Operator in Expert Reviews Awards 2022

19th Oct, 2022 (9 Comments)

Consumer site Expert Reviews has today revealed the winners of their annual ‘Mobile Network Awards 2022’ event, which surveyed their readers in an effort to identify the top performing UK mobile operators across a range of different categories. This year saw Smarty being named as the best overall mobile operator.

Avonline Networks to Boost Ogi’s FTTP Broadband Rollout in Wales

19th Oct, 2022 (1 Comment)

Infracapital-backed ISP Ogi, which is currently investing £200m to deploy a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across 150,000 premises in Wales by 2025, has expanded their existing civil engineering contract with Avonline Networks (M Group Services). The move will increase Avonline’s business for Ogi three-fold.

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ISP Vodafone UK Launch £12 Social Tariff for Home Broadband

19th Oct, 2022 (20 Comments)

Mobile operator and broadband ISP Vodafone UK has today responded to pressure from Ofcom by announcing the launch of their own social broadband tariff for those on benefits (Universal Credit etc.) – called ‘Essentials Broadband‘, which is one of the cheapest social tariffs on the market at £12 per month.

Rural ISP Truespeed Appoint New Chief Commercial Officer to Accelerate Growth

19th Oct, 2022 (0 Comments)

Full fibre broadband ISP Truespeed, which is rolling out a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across rural parts of South West England, has today appointed Nelson Missier to be their new Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) to “further strengthen our leadership team and accelerate company growth“.

Full Fibre UK ISP Hyperoptic Launch New ZTE WiFi6 Hyperhub UPDATE

19th Oct, 2022 (17 Comments)

Customers of city-focused gigabit broadband ISP Hyperoptic, which aims to cover 2 million UK premises with their full fibre (FTTP / FTTB) network by the end of 2023, may like to know that the provider has introduced a new ZTE ZXHN H3600 Hyperhub router, which appears to be their first Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) capable device.

Sky Stream’s UK Broadband ISP Based TV Service Now Available

18th Oct, 2022 (53 Comments)

As expected, Sky (Sky Broadband) has today made their new standalone Sky Stream TV product available to UK consumers, which uses your home broadband ISP and WiFi connection to stream Sky’s on-demand video content and live TV channels directly to your existing TV without a satellite dish (no engineer install necessary).

Cloud Gaming UK ISP ZYBRE Goes Live FullFibre Ltd’s FTTP Network

18th Oct, 2022 (5 Comments)

Broadband and Cloud Gaming ISP ZYBRE has just become the latest internet provider to hop on to FullFibre Limited‘s new wholesale network (Fibre Heroes), which is in the process of deploying a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) service to “at least” 500,000 UK premises by 2025 (they’re building across 80+ towns).

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OneWeb and Panasonic to Put Faster Broadband WiFi on Airlines

18th Oct, 2022 (3 Comments)

British-registered firm OneWeb, which is building a global constellation of compact Low Earth Orbit (LEO) based ultrafast broadband satellites, has reached an agreement that will see the Panasonic Avionics Corporation work to market, sell, and support the rollout of their in-flight internet services to commercial airlines worldwide.

Netomnia Start Fibre Rollouts in Newport, Huntingdon and Sleaford

18th Oct, 2022 (15 Comments)

Network provider Netomnia – supported by UK broadband ISP YouFibre – has today announced the start of their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network rollout across three new locations including Newport (Wales), Huntingdon (Cambridgeshire) and Sleaford (Lincolnshire).

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Ofcom Name Shell Energy as UK ISP with Most Complaints in Q2 2022

18th Oct, 2022 (6 Comments)

Ofcom’s latest Q2 2022 survey of UK consumer complaints has named ISP Shell Energy as attracting the most moans for both fixed line broadband and landline phone services, while BT (BTMobile) did the same for Pay Monthly mobile services and Virgin Media (VMO2) were on the naughty step for Pay TV.

UK Struggles in Ranking of World’s Fastest Cities for Broadband

18th Oct, 2022 (14 Comments)

Internet connectivity benchmarking firm Ookla, which maintains the popular Speedtest.net service, has updated their ranking of broadband performance in countries around the world to include internet speed rankings for some of the “world’s largest cities“. But London and Manchester in the UK appear nowhere near the top.

Welsh Broadband ISP Ogi Boosts Staff Pay to Help Cost of Living

18th Oct, 2022 (1 Comment)

Broadband ISP and network builder Ogi, which is currently investing £200m to roll-out a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across 150,000 premises in Wales by 2025, has introduced a series of measures to support staff during the ongoing cost-of-living crisis.