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Broadband ISP Andrews and Arnold Close UK SIP2SIM Service

9th Mar, 2024 (22 Comments)

UK ISP Andrews & Arnold (AAISP) has informed customers about the forthcoming closure of their long-running SIP2SIM (mobile voice) service, which is essentially a special SIM card that you could put in an ordinary dumb mobile phone, and it makes that device appear as if it is a SIP extension (SIP phone) on a phone system of your choice.

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SpaceX Show Latency Improvements on Starlink Broadband Network

9th Mar, 2024 (5 Comments)

Starlink (SpaceX) has revealed some of the progress they’ve been making to further improve the latency performance across their mega constellation of ultrafast broadband satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), which has long held the goal of delivering a service with stable 20 millisecond (ms) median latency and minimal packet loss.

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Gov Start Hunting New Supplier for £650m National Roadside Telecoms Service

9th Mar, 2024 (4 Comments)

The UK government-owned National Highways organisation, which operates, maintains and improves motorways and major A roads in England (they also set related UK standards), appears to have begun the process of hunting for a new supplier to manage the roadside National Roads Telecommunications Services (NRTS) network. The estimated contract value is £650m.

WightFibre Hits Isle of Wight Customers with Annual Price Hikes UPDATE

8th Mar, 2024 (21 Comments)

Broadband ISP WightFibre, which operates a gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across the Isle of Wight – just off the South Coast of Hampshire in England, has begun to notify existing customers of their latest annual price increase that is due to be implemented from 1st April 2024.

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Fusion Fibre Group Deploy FTTP Broadband to Escrick in North Yorkshire

8th Mar, 2024 (3 Comments)

The Fusion Fibre Group (formerly FACTCO), which is a rural ISP and UK full fibre network builder, has today announced that their new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network in the North Yorkshire village of Escrick has finally begun to go live and connect its first customers.

Customers of Broadband ISP No One Acquired by Home Telecom UK UPDATE

7th Mar, 2024 (25 Comments)

Internet service provider No One, which typically sells broadband packages via both Openreach and CityFibre’s national networks, have notified residential customers of their decision to “partner up” with Home Telecom, which is a subsidiary of the Telecom Acquisitions (TAL) group where TalkTalk holds a controlling stake.

Mobile Operator VOXI UK Launch First AI Chatbot to Support Customers

7th Mar, 2024 (29 Comments)

Contract-free mobile operator VOXI, which is Vodafone’s virtual network operator (MVNO) sibling, today claims to have become “the first telco in the UK” to develop and deploy a Large Language Model (LLM) based AI chatbot to help “transform its customer services“.

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Virgin Media and Nexfibre FTTP Add 14,000 Alfreton Premises

7th Mar, 2024 (8 Comments)

Broadband ISP Virgin Media UK (VMO2) has today announced that more than 14,000 additional homes and businesses in the Derbyshire (England) town and civil parish of Alfreton can now access their new 2Gbps speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, which was made possible by nexfibre’s supporting network expansion.

Rural UK Broadband ISP Gigaclear Sees Exit of Top Directors UPDATE

7th Mar, 2024 (36 Comments)

Abingdon-based broadband provider Gigaclear, which has so far deployed their gigabit speed full fibre (FTTP) network to cover 500,000 rural premises (430k RFS) in 26 counties of England, yesterday saw the surprise departure of both their CEO, Gareth Williams, and CFO, Ian Wade, as Directors. But there was also a new appointment.

Broadband Operators Call on UK Gov to Help STOP Physical Network Attacks

7th Mar, 2024 (4 Comments)

A group of full fibre broadband operators, which are being led by alternative network providers Ogi and Vorboss, have today called on the UK Government and Ofcom to urgently help tackle a recent rise in attacks – often committed by criminal gangs and vandals – against vital national telecoms infrastructure and the engineers who build it.

Netomnia Secures £147.5m Boost to Fuel UK Full Fibre Rollout

6th Mar, 2024 (30 Comments)

Broadband operator Netomnia, which is supported by ISP YouFibre and had been aiming to cover 1 million UK premises with their 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network by early 2024, has announced that they’ve covered 850,000 premises (up from 730k in Nov 2023) and raised a further £147.5m to fuel their rollout.

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London ISP Community Fibre Notifies UK Customers of Price Rise

6th Mar, 2024 (15 Comments)

Network operator and UK ISP CommunityFibre, which has deployed a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across a big chunk of London, has sadly just begun informing existing customers about a new round of annual price increases. The only good news is that their packages are still fairly competitive.

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CTG Bemoans Lack of Broadband Support in UK Budget 2024

6th Mar, 2024 (16 Comments)

The CCO of the Complete Technology Group (CTG), Kevin Monaghan, has criticised today’s Spring Budget 2024 announcement for both failing to “crackdown” on broadband ISPs “inflicting substantial mid-contract price hikes” on consumers and not announcing any new provisions to help upgrade digital infrastructure.

Utility Warehouse Target 2 Million UK Customers for Future Growth

6th Mar, 2024 (6 Comments)

Energy and telecoms provider UW (Utility Warehouse), which is also known as Telecom Plus, has today announced that the company has passed the “one million customer milestone” and are now setting their sights on “doubling in size to two million customers” (no timescale for this was given).

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Gov MP Calls on Julia Lopez to Tighten Rules on Broadband Poles

6th Mar, 2024 (18 Comments)

The Conservative MP for Beverley and Holderness, Graham Stuart, has followed up his previous calls for the UK government to clampdown on the use of “ugly and unnecessary” poles – used to deploy some gigabit broadband networks – by sending a letter to the Digital Infrastructure Minister, Julia Lopez, which makes five key “demands“.

ASA Ban Misleading Full Fibre Claim from UK Wireless ISP 6G Internet

6th Mar, 2024 (14 Comments)

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned another advert for UK fixed wireless broadband ISP 6G Internet (IX Wireless), albeit this time for sending out a “misleading” leaflet promotion that claimed the provider offered “Full Fibre Speed Broadband” (Full Fibre is a term that’s typically only be used by FTTP networks).

Broadband ISP Zzoomm Slows UK Full Fibre Build and Warns of Job Cuts UPDATE

5th Mar, 2024 (40 Comments)

Oxfordshire-based alternative network provider and ISP Zzoomm, which originally aimed to cover 1 million premises with their FTTP broadband network across 85 UK towns by the end of 2025, has today notified ISPreview that “new network construction is stopping” (some existing work will continue) and redundancies are expected.