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Virgin Media O2 Engineer Working Inside FTTP Cabinet

16th Feb, 2024 (15 Comments)

Broadband ISP and mobile giant VMO2 (Virgin Media and O2) has today published their Q4 2023 results, which suggests that their full fibre (FTTP) coverage via nexfibre has grown to add another c.299,000 premises (up from 251k in Q3) and Virgin’s fixed broadband base slowed its growth to 5,717,600 (up by 9.5k in Q4 vs 40.8k in Q3).

mobile network speeds uk

15th Feb, 2024 (24 Comments)

Benchmarking firm nPerf has today published the results from their annual 2024 crowdsourced study into UK mobile broadband (4G, 5G) performance, which once again sees Three UK being named as the country’s best and fastest operator for mobile internet performance. The runner-up was once again EE (BT), followed by Vodafone and then O2 (VMO2)

15th Feb, 2024 (9 Comments)

Some 235 premises in the village of Charlton can finally access gigabit broadband speeds after the Worcestershire County Council (WCC) in England committed £62k towards Openreach’s (BT) project to build a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network in the area, which helped to “top up” with funding provided via the UK’s previous gigabit voucher scheme (RGC).

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GoFibre-Engineers-next-to-van

15th Feb, 2024 (5 Comments)

Rural broadband ISP and network builder GoFibre (BorderLink), which is deploying a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network around parts of the North of England and Scottish Borders, has expanded the availability of their existing £50k GoFurther charity fund to Aberdeenshire and Angus.

Virgin-Media-O2-UK-Gig2-Hub-5x-Router

14th Feb, 2024 (79 Comments)

New and existing customers of residential broadband ISP Virgin Media (VMO2), at least those covered by their new nexfibre based Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network expansion, can finally start to place an order for their new 2Gbps (200Mbps upload) package via the provider’s website.

Richard Tang interviews Rajiv Datta

14th Feb, 2024 (54 Comments)

The CEO of nexfibre, Rajiv Datta, has revealed in a new interview with the CEO of ISP Zen Internet, Richard Tang, that they intend to roll-out their full fibre (FTTP) broadband network to “more homes in 2024 than any [other] altnet” and will shortly pass 1 million homes. But Virgin Media (VMO2) remains their only ISP, for now.

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finger touching fiber optic on technology background

14th Feb, 2024 (10 Comments)

The Independent Networks Co-operative Association (INCA), which represents some of the UK’s alternative broadband networks, has helped to setup a new Infrastructure Sharing Group (ISG) to ensure that the rollout of full fibre (FTTP) is “not held back by inconsistencies in the availability of Openreach physical infrastructure“.

CityFibre-UK-2024-Engineer-Kneeling-in-front-of-Cabinet

14th Feb, 2024 (6 Comments)

CityFibre has announced that they’ve completed the “primary build” of their new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network in the East Midlands (England) town of Northampton. The network is now Ready for Service at over 87,700 premises – reflecting c.82% of local homes and businesses.

FW Networks-Engineer-Working-on-FTTP

14th Feb, 2024 (4 Comments)

Altrincham-based alternative network provider F&W Networks, which is rolling out their new gigabit-capable full fibre (FTTP) broadband ISP network to various parts of England, has today announced that they’ve almost doubled their coverage over the past year to 410,000 premises (up from 250k in Feb 2023).

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spacex_starlink_leo_broadband_satellites PR image

14th Feb, 2024 (6 Comments)

SpaceX has announced that they will have to de-orbit (scrap) around a hundred of their older “early-version 1” Starlink ultrafast low-latency broadband satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) because of a design flaw, which might otherwise cause the space platforms to fail in orbit and become non-manoeuvrable.

Virgin-Media-O2-Office-Building-Logo

14th Feb, 2024 (27 Comments)

The release of the latest monthly UK inflation figures, which saw the Retail Price Index (RPI) fall to 4.9% (down from 13.4% at this time last year), means that UK customers of Virgin Media and O2 can now confirm how much they’re going to be impacted by the operator’s next round of annual price hikes.

eSim on a Smartphone by 123rf

13th Feb, 2024 (22 Comments)

Customers of banking and money management app Revolut may be interested to learn that they’ve just become the “first financial institution in the UK” to launch an eSIM based mobile service, which is intended more for travellers (roaming) than those seeking an alternative mobile service in the home market.

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TalkTalk-Logo-in-Office-Next-to-Balloons

13th Feb, 2024 (7 Comments)

The TalkTalk Group has today issued a progress update on their ongoing demerger and refinancing efforts, which claims that “significant progress” has been made since their last update (Nov 2023) toward the separation of their network wholesale platform business (“PlatformX Communications“) and their residential ISP (“TalkTalk Consumer“).

Vodafone Fly Tipping CCTV PR Image 13th Feb 2024

13th Feb, 2024 (2 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone has today launched their “Connected Spaces Vision” plan, which offers unlimited data to business customers that need to live stream video from IoT smart surveillance cameras over a mobile broadband (4G or 5G) network. But this is more than just a mobile plan, it’s a suit of video security features.

Virgin Media O2 SRN 4G 5G mobile site

13th Feb, 2024 (14 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 (VMO2) has today hit a key milestone after they rolled out enhanced 4G (mobile broadband) coverage across 100 rural sites as part of their commitment under the £1bn industry-led Shared Rural Network (SRN) programme, which aims to extend geographic 4G cover (aggregate) to 95% of the UK by the end of 2025.

consumer switching uk broadband and phone

13th Feb, 2024 (7 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has written a new letter that singles out big ISPs, including BT, Sky Broadband, TalkTalk and Virgin Media (VMO2), for being too slow to implement their One Touch Switch (OTS) system, which aims to make it quicker and easier for consumers to switch providers on different networks.

toob van parker

13th Feb, 2024 (13 Comments)

Hampshire-based network builder and gigabit broadband ISP toob, which is rolling out its own Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across parts of South England, claims to have “fixed” a major network outage that began during the small hours of this morning and only began to subside an hour or so ago. But issues are ongoing in Southampton.

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