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CityFibre Start FTTP Broadband Rollout in Village of Binley Woods

8th Aug, 2022 (13 Comments)

CityFibre has announced that they’ve begun to extend their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across the large suburban village and civil parish of Binley Woods in Warwickshire, which is expected to cost somewhere around £500,000 – making it one of the operator’s smallest builds to date.

ISPA Unveil Finalists for the 2022 UK ISP Internet Industry Awards

8th Aug, 2022 (2 Comments)

The UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has published a shortlist of finalists for their 2022 annual industry awards, which sees various broadband ISPs being nominanted across several categories. Once again, Exa Networks received the highest number of nominations (4), with CommunityFibre, Giganet, KCOM and Ogi also doing well.

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nPerf Rank EE Top in 2022 Benchmark of UK Mobile Networks

8th Aug, 2022 (13 Comments)

Benchmarking firm nPerf has today published the results from their latest annual crowdsourced study into UK mobile broadband (4G, 5G) performance for the first half of 2022, which once again crowns EE as the best network operator for internet connectivity. But Three UK is starting to threaten and delivered the fastest download speeds.

Telecom Acquisitions Group Gobbles UK ISP Hive Telecom

8th Aug, 2022 (1 Comment)

The Telecom Acquisitions Group (Global4) has today announced that they’ve acquired yet another UK broadband ISP and phone provider in the shape of Poole-based Hive Telecom, which follows a series of prior acquisitions that included Home Telecom, Eclipse Broadband, Fleur Telecom and Weekly Broadband.

Brsk Extends UK Gigabit Broadband Rollout to the West Midlands UPDATE

8th Aug, 2022 (6 Comments)

Full fibre builder and UK ISP Brsk has announced that their rollout of a new gigabit-capable and “open access” Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network is being extended to parts of the West Midlands, with the operator anticipating that their deployment in the region will cover approximately 250,000 homes and businesses.

EU Publishes 2022 Broadband Connectivity Progress Study vs UK

8th Aug, 2022 (4 Comments)

The European Commission recently published their annual 2022 Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI), which charts how the EU’s fixed line broadband ISP and mobile networks compare across all of its 27 countries. The UK was removed from this report post-Brexit, but it’s still possible to see how we compare by using Ofcom’s data.

BT Successfully Aggregate Four 5G Bands in Standalone Network

8th Aug, 2022 (13 Comments)

Mobile and broadband provider BT (EE) and Nokia claim to have achieved somewhat of a “European first” by aggregate four channels of radio spectrum in a live 5G Standalone (SA) network. In theory, this could make their UK mobile network capable of delivering some exceptionally fast download and upload speeds.

UK ISP Sky Broadband Adds Free Wall to Wall WiFi Guarantee UPDATE

6th Aug, 2022 (16 Comments)

In a surprise development, new and existing customers who sign-up to one of Sky Broadband’s superfast, ultrafast or gigafast (FTTC, G.Fast or FTTP) powered internet access packages are now being given a “Wall to Wall WiFi guarantee” at no extra cost. Sky’s Wi-Fi Guarantee is normally only available as part of their paid ‘Boost’ add-on.

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Virgin Media O2 UK Expand FTTP Broadband South of Edinburgh

6th Aug, 2022 (11 Comments)

UK ISP Virgin Media (VMO2) has been spotted expanding their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across a number of new towns and villages to the south of Edinburgh in Scotland, which appears to be taking place at the same time as they upgrade some existing areas to XGS-PON technology.

4th Utility Fibre Exploding in City Picture

Full Fibre UK Broadband ISP 4th Utility Launch Cheap Social Tariff

5th Aug, 2022 (1 Comment)

UK ISP 4th Utility, which building a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to more homes (SDU) and large residential blocks (MDU), has today announced the full launch of their cheaper social tariff for those on benefits. The move is intended to help vulnerable users with the cost-of-living crisis.

ISPs See Minimal Impact from BT and Openreach Workers Strike

5th Aug, 2022 (15 Comments)

The recent two-day national strike by up to 38,000 of BT and Openreach’s unionised workers (here) – due to a dispute over pay – does not appear to have caused any significant problems for either the operator or its customers. At least that is the feedback we’ve had from UK broadband ISPs and alternative networks.

OVO Sells UK SSE Phone and Broadband Customers to TalkTalk UPDATE

5th Aug, 2022 (21 Comments)

Low cost focused UK ISP TalkTalk has finally reached an agreement to acquire around 100,000 broadband and phone customers from rival operator Ovo Energy, which is perhaps more familiar to consumers by the brand name of SSE (i.e. OVO’s retail division acquired that base in 2020 and has retained the brand under licence).

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BT Wholesale Launch New 100Gbps Product for UK ISPs and Data Centres

4th Aug, 2022 (14 Comments)

BT Wholesale has launched a new 100Gb Data Centre Connect (DCC) product, which enables network operators to benefit from a single 100Gbps data centre port, which marks a nice improvement on the current approach (i.e. achieving such speeds would normally require the aggregation and management of multiple 10Gbps circuits).

Linux Kernel Upgrade Release 5.19 Adds LiFi Networking Drivers

4th Aug, 2022 (1 Comment)

Scotland-based pureLiFi, which is developing the new Visible Light Communication (VLC) based networking method called LiFi (Light Fidelity) – using light instead of radio waves to transmit data – has informed us that the latest release of the Linux Kernel (v5.19) includes their LiFi drivers for the first time.

Three UK Reports Average Data Usage Per Customer Hits 21GB

4th Aug, 2022 (30 Comments)

Mobile operator Three UK has today reported their latest financial results, which among other things revealed that the average 4G / 5G data usage (mobile broadband), per customer, per month on their network had reached 21.3 GigaBytes in June 2022 (up from 19GB in Dec 2021).

Broadband ISP Zzoomm Adopt Iskratel’s Full Fibre XGS-PON Kit

4th Aug, 2022 (11 Comments)

UK ISP Zzoomm has today announced that they’ve decided to adopt Iskratel’s XGS-PON based Optical Line Terminals (OLTs) and Optical Network Terminals (ONTs) to help power their UK rollout of a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network, which already covers 50,000 premises.

Netomnia FTTP Broadband UK Rollout Map to 2023

Netomnia Publish UK Full Fibre Broadband Rollout Plan to 2023 UPDATE

4th Aug, 2022 (47 Comments)

Full Fibre network builder Netomnia, which is supported by broadband ISP partner YouFibre, has today revealed that their new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) network now covers 210,000 UK premises (up from 130,000 in April 2022) and they’ve also published their rollout plan to 2023.