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Broadband ISP TalkTalk Gain More Support for UK Refinancing Deal

16th Sep, 2024 (2 Comments)

Debt-troubled UK ISP TalkTalk has this afternoon issued a second update on their recently agreed refinancing package, which was announced on 12th August 2024 (here and here) and is said to be worth around £400m. As of today, 100% of the RCF and over 97% of bondholders have now signed up to the binding Lock-Up Agreement.

Brdy Offers Satellite Broadband to Bramley Homes Disconnected by Petrol Leak

16th Sep, 2024 (0 Comments)

Broadband satellite ISP Brdy has stepped in to help homes in the Surrey (England) village of Bramley, specifically the small number of properties that may be finding it difficult to get a working fixed-line internet connection due to the ongoing and long-running underground petrol leak in the area (here).

LightSpeed Broadband Open UK FTTP Network to Wholesale

16th Sep, 2024 (7 Comments)

Network operator and UK ISP LightSpeed Broadband, which claims to have already built their gigabit-capable broadband (FTTP) network to cover 250,000 premises in the East of England and West Midlands, has today opened their network up for use by rival ISPs and businesses via a new wholesale division – LightSpeed Networks.

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Openreach Spreads FTTP Broadband Across Perth in Scotland

16th Sep, 2024 (4 Comments)

Network access provider Openreach (BT) has today announced that the first 5,000 premises (homes and businesses) across Perth in Scotland can now access their new 1.8Gbps capable full fibre broadband ISP network. But thousands more are planned in the city and across more rural parts of the county over the next 12 months.

Full Fibre UK ISP Zzoomm Replaces 150Mbps Package with 200Mbps

16th Sep, 2024 (9 Comments)

Alternative full fibre operator Zzoomm, which has built a 2Gbps speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to cover 202,000 premises (RFS) in England, has today launched a new 200Mbps (symmetric) service that appears to replace their previous entry-level 150Mbps package. But the new entry-level tier is more expensive.

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Gigaloch Seek Code Powers to Continue UK FTTP Broadband Build

16th Sep, 2024 (0 Comments)

Fife-based network operator Gigaloch, which in 2020 began building their own Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across a few remote rural communities in West Cheshire (England) and Perthshire (Scotland), has put in an application for Code Powers from Ofcom to help with their network expansion plans.

London Full Fibre Provider Community Fibre See Benefits of New ISP Switching System

16th Sep, 2024 (3 Comments)

Broadband ISP CommunityFibre (CF), which has rolled out their 3Gbps speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across around 1.4 million UK premises (predominantly in London), has today claimed to already be “reaping the rewards” from Ofcom’s new One Touch Switching (OTS) system for consumers migrating between providers.

Wholesale Provider PXC Adopt Netomnia’s UK Full Fibre Broadband Network

16th Sep, 2024 (3 Comments)

Network provider PlatformX Communications (PXC), which was formerly known as TalkTalk Wholesale before the demerger (here), has today announced their “intention” to sign a new agreement that will give their UK wholesale business access to Netomnia’s (inc. Brsk) new full fibre (FTTP) broadband network – covering 1.75 million UK premises (RFS).

Safety Concerns Raised Over Virgin Media UK’s Legacy WiFi Boosters

16th Sep, 2024 (15 Comments)

Customers of UK broadband ISP Virgin Media (O2), specifically those who may own one of their legacy WiFi Booster devices – also called Powerline Boosters, should remain vigilant after a number of users reported that their units had failed after sparking and smoking. A tiny number of users even alleged that the units caught fire.

Ofcom UK to Enforce Rules on Misleading Use of “Fibre” Broadband UPDATE

15th Sep, 2024 (68 Comments)

The UK telecoms and media regulator, Ofcom, will tomorrow begin enforcing new rules that will only allow broadband ISPs to use terms like “fibre” and “full-fibre” on their websites, and in contracts, if their network brings the fibre optic cables all the way to your home (i.e. FTTP, FTTH and also FTTB).

ISP iDNET Launch 1.8Gbps and 2.3Gbps UK Broadband Plans via FullFibre Ltd

14th Sep, 2024 (3 Comments)

Broadband provider iDNET has just become one of the first ISPs to introduce both a 1.8Gbps (advertised as 1.6Gbps) and 2.3Gbps (2Gbps) symmetric speed package via FullFibre Limited‘s (Fibre Heroes) new network, which currently covers 380,000 UK premises across parts of 170 towns.

Full Fibre UK ISP Hyperoptic Launch Managed Wi-Fi Service

13th Sep, 2024 (4 Comments)

City-focused broadband ISP Hyperoptic, which has so far built their full fibre (FTTP/B) network to cover “more than” 1.73 million homes and 340,000 customers in parts of 64 UK towns and cities, has launched a Managed Wi-Fi service that aims to deliver “uninterrupted, high-speed internet” across larger residential developments / blocks of flats (MDUs).

UK ISP Zzoomm See 20 Percent Full Fibre Take-up in Northallerton

13th Sep, 2024 (8 Comments)

Oxfordshire-based alternative full fibre operator Zzoomm, which has built their 2Gbps speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to cover 202,000 premises (RFS) in England, has today reported that they’ve achieved 20% take-up in Northallerton on a network that has been available for “19 months“.

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BT, Toshiba and Equinix Link UK Data Centres with Quantum-Secure Network

13th Sep, 2024 (8 Comments)

ISP BT and partner Toshiba have today announced that they’ve worked with Equinix to achieve the UK’s “first data centre to data centre connection” using their new quantum-secured metro fibre optic network, which they claim will provide businesses that use these facilities with the ability to “protect their data against future sophisticated quantum attacks“.

CMA Demands Changes for Vodafone and Three UK to Merge

13th Sep, 2024 (29 Comments)

The Competition and Markets Authority has this morning revealed their provisional view on the outcome of their in-depth Phase 2 investigation into the proposed merger between mobile operators Three UK and Vodafone. This warns that it will only be able to approve the deal if the pair agree to key concessions that protect consumer prices and network competition.

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Telecoms Minister Updates on Effort to Limit UK Broadband Poles via Infrastructure Sharing UPDATE

13th Sep, 2024 (4 Comments)

The UK Government’s Minister for Telecoms, Sir Chris Bryant, yesterday held a round table meeting with a small selection of network operators in an effort to try and drive home the need for greater “infrastructure sharing” in order to “end the deployment of unnecessary telegraph poles” when rolling out new gigabit-capable broadband ISP networks.

Devon and Somerset Update on Wessex Internet’s Full Fibre Build

12th Sep, 2024 (3 Comments)

After a long period of silence, the state aid funded Connecting Devon and Somerset (CDS) programme has finally issued a new progress update on their contract with UK broadband ISP Wessex Internet, which has been tasked with rolling out a new gigabit-capable full fibre (FTTP) network across some rural parts of the region.