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30th Sep, 2024 (1 Comment)
Eastbourne-based alternative UK broadband ISP Lightning Fibre, which has built a new full fibre (FTTP) network across parts of Sussex and Kent in England, have today begun to “trial” a new 50Mbps (symmetric) package that costs just £15 per month for 24-months. But it’s only available to people born before 23rd September 1958.
30th Sep, 2024 (21 Comments)
Mobile network operators Vodafone and Three UK (CK Hutchison) have today responded to the recently raised competition concerns over their proposed mega-merger by setting out a series of commitments, which they hope will satisfy the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) enough to approve the deal.
30th Sep, 2024 (0 Comments)
Alternative network provider Cityfibre has today announced that they’ve connected the first homes to their new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network in rural parts of Norfolk, which is being built as part of their £114m state aid supported Project Gigabit contract (Lot 7) with the Government.
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30th Sep, 2024 (3 Comments)
Network operator Brsk, which is in the process of being merged into Netomnia (here), are facing an investigation by Ofcom after the regulator suggested that the operator may have “failed to comply with its obligations” under Code Powers during the roll-out of new “telegraph poles” as part of their new full fibre (FTTP) broadband ISP network in Birmingham.
30th Sep, 2024 (6 Comments)
Customers of UK broadband ISP Virgin Media (O2), specifically those who also take their pay TV service and have kids, may like to know that the provider will be offering free access to children’s TV channels throughout the whole of October 2024 “as a way of saying thank you to customers and helping to keep families entertained throughout the month“.
30th Sep, 2024 (17 Comments)
The BT Group has confirmed that they recently received their first upfront prepayment of £105m for the sale of leftover copper cables. The cables had been extracted from their legacy UK exchange network (broadband and phone lines) as part of the operator’s gradual move to replace those with newer fibre optic lines.
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30th Sep, 2024 (10 Comments)
A new survey of 3,045 UK internet users, which was conducted by Broadband Genie between 1st January and 26th April 2024, has revealed that 89% of respondents have never updated the firmware of their home router and 86% have never changed the device’s administrator password (falling to 72% for those who have never changed their WiFi password).
30th Sep, 2024 (7 Comments)
The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, will tomorrow (1st Oct 2024) begin enforcing new roaming rules that require mobile network operators, such as Three UK, Vodafone, EE and O2 (including their many virtual / MVNO partners), to protect consumers who travel abroad from mobile BILL SHOCKS on data (broadband), call and text charges.
28th Sep, 2024 (18 Comments)
Openreach (BT) has told ISPreview they’re reviewing new options with broadband operators (CPs) for making better and more efficient use of their existing cable ducts. This occurred after a dispute was raised over one operator’s deployment of large 51.2mm optical diameter (OD) multitube cabling (the limit is normally 25mm to a single cable/subduct diameter).
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27th Sep, 2024 (2 Comments)
The Peterborough-based Rydal Group, which is a UK telecoms and managed IT provider, has today announced that they’ve acquired the Cambridgeshire-based data centre (they have one site in Huntingdon), phone and broadband provider Merula for an undisclosed sum.
27th Sep, 2024 (5 Comments)
The annual 2024 Comms National Awards were held this week, which each year works to recognise the stand-out organisations, technologies, leaders and innovations in the communications and ICT communities. The event covers a lot of different categories, and there were several wins for alternative broadband networks / ISPs.
27th Sep, 2024 (6 Comments)
The company that owns and manages most of the railway network in Great Britain, Network Rail, suffered a major service outage on their national Wi-Fi network this week, which began on Wednesday and impacted 19 stations. But it appears to have been caused by an “employee of Global Reach [who] corrupted the system“.
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27th Sep, 2024 (6 Comments)
Rural broadband ISP Gigaclear appears to have nearly completed their state aid supported contract under the Fastershire scheme, which originally instructed the operator to extend their gigabit-capable “full fibre” (FTTP) network to 70,000 of the hardest to reach premises in Gloucestershire and Herefordshire (this was revised upwards to 110,000 in 2020 – here).
27th Sep, 2024 (5 Comments)
The States of Guernsey, which governs the English Channel Island of Guernsey (British Crown dependency), yesterday voted to do something extraordinary by temporarily suspending local competition law in order to allow the dominant telecoms and broadband operator, Sure, to acquire Airtel Vodafone. The reward is a £48m deal to deploy 5G services.
26th Sep, 2024 (0 Comments)
The Comms Council UK, which represents the United Kingdom’s national Unified Communications and Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) phone industry, has this afternoon announced the winners of their 16th annual 2024 awards event at a ceremony at The IET in London.
26th Sep, 2024 (3 Comments)
The Independent Networks Co-operative Association (INCA), which represents many of the UK’s alternative gigabit broadband builders, has today announced that long-time CEO and founding member, Malcolm Corbett, is to be succeeded by industry veteran Paddy Paddison in the role.
26th Sep, 2024 (0 Comments)
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of broadband and mobile giant Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2), Lutz Schüler, has today announced that he will be temporarily stepping back from his role following a diagnosis of prostate cancer. The operator’s current CFO, Patricia Cobian, will step into his role for the next 4 to 8 weeks.
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