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Virgin Media O2 Donate Another 15 Million GigaBytes to National Databank

26th Jul, 2022 (1 Comment)

Broadband and mobile giant Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2) have agreed to supply a further 15 million GigaBytes (GB) of free data to the Good Things Foundation’s National Databank, which gifts free mobile broadband data to community groups and the people they support to aid internet connectivity – either via SIM cards or vouchers.

TalkTalk Trial Free Automatic UK Upgrades to FTTP Broadband UPDATE

25th Jul, 2022 (77 Comments)

Budget conscious UK ISP TalkTalk appears to have begun a new programme trial, which is giving “some” existing customers a free automatic upgrade to full fibre broadband – provided they don’t already have such a package and are covered by the new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network.

CityFibre Upgrade UK Network to 10Gbps Full Fibre Broadband UPDATE

25th Jul, 2022 (30 Comments)

Network builder CityFibre has today announced that they will begin upgrading their national UK GPON based full fibre broadband ISP network to harness XGS-PON technology from April 2023, which will enable them to offer symmetrical download and upload speeds of up to 10Gbps – Gigabits per second (9.953Gbps to be exact).

G.Network to Rollout Full Fibre Across Social Housing in Hackney

25th Jul, 2022 (3 Comments)

London-focused gigabit-broadband ISP G.Network has signed a “City Wide Wayleave” (legal land access) agreement with the Hackney Council in London, which will see them build their new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to cover public housing in the borough.

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British Satellite Broadband Operator OneWeb and Eutelsat to Merge UPDATE2

25th Jul, 2022 (6 Comments)

Satellite broadband firm OneWeb, which is British-registered and partly owned by the UK Government, is about to sign a merger deal with existing investor and rival French operator Eutelsat. But the UK is understood to have secured a number of concessions to help protect its strategic investment.

Vodafone UK Sees 1.07 Million Customers Take Fixed Broadband

25th Jul, 2022 (8 Comments)

Vodafone UK has just published their latest Q1 FY23 results, which reveals that their fixed broadband base grew again to total 1,072,000 customers (up by 22k in the quarter vs 59k in Q4 FY22) and their mobile base also increased to total 17.22m (up by 115k vs 51k in the previous quarter).

CityFibre Find Positives in its Failed FTTP Prices Appeal vs Ofcom

24th Jul, 2022 (24 Comments)

The Competition Appeal Tribunal‘s (CAT) decision last week to reject CityFibre’s appeal against Ofcom’s approval process for Openreach’s “Equinox” price cut (here), which slashed the cost of the incumbent’s wholesale FTTP broadband products for UK ISPs, may not have been a total loss for the alternative network operator.

Hull ISP KCOM to Start Migrating DSL Broadband Lines to FTTP

23rd Jul, 2022 (17 Comments)

Hull-based UK broadband ISP KCOM has, thus far, been fairly quiet on the operator’s plans to withdraw their older copper-based broadband (ADSL and VDSL) and phone (PSTN) products. But a recent update, which was given to their wholesale customers, appears to have included a solid indication of the likely timeline.

Connexin Create InfraCo to Support Full Fibre Build in Northern England

22nd Jul, 2022 (3 Comments)

A new alternative network (altnet) operator called Connect InfraCo, which has close links to UK ISP Connexin, has cropped up with a plan to rollout a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband platform to homes and businesses in the North of England, albeit “primarily” in a wholesale capacity.

Competition Authority Clears BT Sport TV and Eurosport UK Joint Venture

22nd Jul, 2022 (3 Comments)

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has today cleared BT Group’s agreement with Warner Bros. Discovery, which is intended to result in a 50:50 Joint Venture (JV) company between BT Sport and Eurosport UK that will create a new TV sports offering for the UK and Ireland.

Devon and Somerset UK Scrap Truespeed FTTP Broadband Contracts

22nd Jul, 2022 (26 Comments)

The state aid supported Connecting Devon and Somerset (CDS) programme has been hit by yet another controversy after it “terminated” two contracts with Bath-based broadband ISP Truespeed, which had suffered delays in its £6.7m (public investment) deal to deploy a full fibre network to cover 15,172 premises.

Freedom Fibre Add 10 Cheshire Locations to FTTP Broadband Build

21st Jul, 2022 (6 Comments)

Fibre optic network builder Freedom Fibre, which is being supported by UK ISP TalkTalk and is currently rolling out a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across semi-rural parts of North England, has today added 10 new towns and villages in Cheshire to their rollout plan.

Eutelsat Set to Launch New 500Gbps VHTS Broadband Satellite

21st Jul, 2022 (3 Comments)

European satellite operator Eutelsat, which is also the parent of UK ISP Konnect (We Konnect), has announced that their next generation Very High Throughput Satellite (VHTS) is finally on its way to Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou (French Guiana), ready to be launched via an Ariane 5 rocket on 6th September 2022.

Starlink Expand UK Availability of Ultrafast LEO Satellite Broadband

21st Jul, 2022 (13 Comments)

Consumers in the north of Scotland who have been waiting to adopt SpaceX’s popular Starlink service, which offers ultrafast latency and internet speeds via a mega constellation of broadband satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), may be pleased to learn that ISP has just expanded its availability to cover the highlands and Orkney.

Openreach Add 65 More UK Exchanges to Copper Phone to Fibre Switch – Tranche 9

21st Jul, 2022 (22 Comments)

Openreach (BT) has published the Tranche 9 batch of 65 new UK exchange areas where they plan to move away from copper-based analogue phone (PSTN / WLR etc.) services and on to a new all-IP network, which will also occur once over 75% of premises in an area can get their “ultrafast broadband” (FTTP and G.fast at 300Mbps+).

O2 and Virgin Mobile UK Zero Rate Mobile Data on More Websites

21st Jul, 2022 (15 Comments)

Mobile operators O2 and Virgin Mobile (VMO2) have today announced that, as part of their measures to help tackle the ongoing cost-of-living crisis, they’ve expanded the number of websites and internet services that can be accessed without eating into your mobile broadband data allowance (i.e. zero rating).

CEO of ISP 4th Utility Calls for HS2 Funding to be Spent on Broadband

20th Jul, 2022 (45 Comments)

The CEO of UK ISP 4th Utility, Tony Hughes, has today said that access to reliable broadband should be a basic human right and that now is the time for the Government to “rethink” their investment in the High Speed 2 (HS2) rail project. Instead, Tony believes that such funding should be diverted to upgrade broadband infrastructure.