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Devon UK Use BT Broadband Gainshare to Tackle Council Deficit

15th Jan, 2024 (8 Comments)

The Devon County Council (DCC) in England has confirmed that it plans to use £7.8 million returned by BT, which relates to the clawback (gainshare) mechanism in past rural broadband upgrade contracts, to help plug the local authority’s financial deficit – instead of reinvesting it into further broadband upgrades.

BT and EE Explore Starlink to Boost UK Broadband and Mobile

15th Jan, 2024 (10 Comments)

National telecoms giant BT (EE) has reportedly entered into talks that could eventually see them harnessing SpaceX’s global constellation of Starlink ultrafast low-latency broadband satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), which could be used to help improve both internet and mobile connectivity to remote areas.

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Openreach Boosts UK EV Van Charging with First Bus Deal

13th Jan, 2024 (7 Comments)

Network access provider Openreach, which is currently in the process of upgrading all of their c. 29,000 fleet of UK diesel vans and cars to electric (EV) by March 2031 (3,000 have already been done), has given their plans another boost by reaching a deal that will allow their fibre broadband engineers to use First Bus’ existing chargers.

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Court Trial to Start Over BT’s Alleged UK Landline Overcharging UPDATE

13th Jan, 2024 (3 Comments)

After a three-year battle, the Collective Action on Land Lines (CALL) campaign will this month finally take national broadband ISP and phone provider BT to trial as part of a £600m £1.3bn class-action lawsuit, which alleges that the UK telecoms giant overcharged 2.3 million of its landline-only phone customers between 2015 and 2018.

A Look at UK Domain and IP Address Seizures in the Criminal Justice Bill

12th Jan, 2024 (16 Comments)

The new UK Criminal Justice Bill (CJB), which was first tabled in parliament toward the end of last year, includes a number of interesting new powers that can force Regional Internet Registries, Local Internet Registries or Internet Service Providers (ISP) to suspend internet domain names and IP addresses used for criminal purposes.

Starlink Successfully Tests Space Direct to Cell Mobile Service

12th Jan, 2024 (5 Comments)

Starlink (SpaceX) has conducted the first successful live test of their new global Direct to Cell mobile roaming service with regular unmodified Smartphones, which came only six days after they launched (here) the first small batch of DtC capable broadband satellites. But at present it’s only being used to send and receive text (SMS) messages.

Fibrus Grow FTTP Broadband Cover in Cumbria to 36K Premises

11th Jan, 2024 (6 Comments)

Infracapital-backed broadband ISP Fibrus, which is building a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across Northern Ireland and parts of North England, has revealed that their deployment in Cumbria has now reached 36,000 premises (including nearly 12,000 across the town of Workington).

Cityfibre UK Completes Full Fibre Broadband Rollout in Slough

11th Jan, 2024 (14 Comments)

Network operator CityFibre has announced that they’ve completed their project to deploy a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network across the Berkshire (England) town of Slough. The new network is now ‘Ready for Service’ across almost 42,000 homes, or about 80% of local premises.

MS3 Error Sees Broadband Poles Installed in Historic Monument Area

11th Jan, 2024 (18 Comments)

Fibre optic network builder MS3 has apologised after a mistake resulted in several of its new telecoms poles being erected within an area of Hedon (East Yorkshire) that has Scheduled Monument status. The government-linked Historic England agency said consent had not been granted ahead of the work.

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Questions After UK Chancellor Says CMA May Probe Mid Contract UK ISP Price Hikes

11th Jan, 2024 (46 Comments)

The UK Government’s Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, has, in a new ITV interview with MSE’s Martin Lewis, raised a few questions after he proposed to ask the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to probe mid-contract prices hikes by broadband ISPs and proclaimed that the network costs for providers “don’t go up at all.“

Openreach to Hit Quarterly UK FTTP Broadband Build Rate of 1m Premises

11th Jan, 2024 (36 Comments)

Openreach (BT) are expecting to reach a record peak quarterly build rate on their new gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network of 1 million premises passed in Q4 FY24 (i.e. end of March 2024), which is up from the 860K seen in Q2 (Sept 2023). Commercial build costs are also said to still be below £300 per premises.

Broadband ISP Zzoomm Sees 20 Percent Full Fibre Take-up in Shiplake

10th Jan, 2024 (5 Comments)

Alternative network provider and UK ISP Zzoomm is in the news for a second time today, albeit this time to celebrate the fact that their new gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network in Shiplake (Oxfordshire), which only went live on 20th December 2023, has already exceeded a take-up rate of 20%.

Ofcom UK Explore Reflective Surfaces to Boost Mobile Coverage

10th Jan, 2024 (10 Comments)

The UK communications regulator, Ofcom, has today published an interesting new white paper that, in collaboration with Queen Mary University of London, explores whether “reflective surfaces” could be used to cost-effectively extend the coverage of wireless broadband and mobile networks. But more research is required.

Juniper Networks Gobbled by Hewlett Packard Enterprise

10th Jan, 2024 (9 Comments)

Network operators and telecoms service providers across the world will be watching with a great deal of interest, and some unease, after it was announced that HP Enterprise (HPE) has acquired Juniper Networks in an all-cash transaction for $40.00 per share, representing an equity value of approximately $14 billion (£11bn).

Vodafone UK Suffering Mobile Network Service Disruption UPDATE4

10th Jan, 2024 (30 Comments)

A growing number of customers on Vodafone’s UK mobile network are this morning reporting a significant service disruption, which appears to have started just after 6am and is currently continuing to grow. The issue appears to be mostly impacting 4G and 5G data (mobile broadband) connectivity, but others have also seen issues with texts.

Comex 2000 Expansion Boosts Virgin Media’s FTTP Rollout in Scotland

10th Jan, 2024 (6 Comments)

Civil UK engineering firm Comex 2000 has announced that they’re expanding their operations into Scotland, which forms part of an effort to grow their support for Virgin Media (VMO2’s) rollout of Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based gigabit broadband ISP infrastructure. This will also create 300 new jobs over the next 2 years.

ASA Bans Zzoomm Broadband Ad Over Misleading Savings Claim

10th Jan, 2024 (10 Comments)

The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has today banned a direct mailing advert for alternative full fibre network and ISP Zzoomm, which compared their 150Mbps broadband package with BT’s 35Mbps Fibre 1 service, after it was found to have contained “misleading” savings claims.