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GoFibre Finish Phase 1 of Project Gigabit Broadband Build in Rural Northumberland

21st Dec, 2023 (0 Comments)

Rural broadband ISP GoFibre (BorderLink) has announced that they’ve completed their first phase of build under the £7.3m state-aid supported Project Gigabit broadband rollout contract for North Northumberland (England), which has seen their network cover more than 1,100 hard-to-reach homes in three areas.

Freedom Fibre and VX FIBER Agree to Merge UK Full Fibre Networks

21st Dec, 2023 (10 Comments)

Alternative network operator Freedom Fibre has this week confirmed earlier speculation by announcing that they’ve signed an agreement with InfraBridge-backed VX UK Holdings ltd (VXFIBER) to combine their respective UK full fibre (FTTP) broadband networks – reflecting a combined total of 285,000 premises passed.

Zzoomm’s Full Fibre Covers 185,000 UK Premises and 20k Customers

21st Dec, 2023 (11 Comments)

Broadband ISP Zzoomm has today announced that their 2Gbps speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, which is being deployed across various towns in England, has now covered 185,000 premises (RFS) across 25 towns (up from 150k on 30th June 2023) and topped 20,000 customers (up from 12k at the end of May 2023).

Ogi Revisits Full Fibre Rollout Plan for Rural Pembrokeshire

21st Dec, 2023 (3 Comments)

Welsh broadband ISP Ogi has informed ISPreview that they’re having to “re-plan” some of their complex rural full fibre (FTTP) network builds in the Pembrokeshire area of South Wales, which occurred after they unearthed some “previously unknown challenges” during the engineering survey stage.

O2 UK Extend 4G Mobile Small Cells to Birmingham’s Busiest Sites

20th Dec, 2023 (24 Comments)

Mobile network operator O2 (VMO2) and IaaS provider Ontix have worked together to boost the provider’s 4G mobile (mobile broadband) capacity across the busiest parts of the UK’s second-largest city, which began after they started deploying their latest small cells into the area.

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Survey Claims 17 Million UK People Hit by Broadband Outages in 2023

20th Dec, 2023 (12 Comments)

A new Uswitch commissioned Opinium survey of 2,000 UK adults, which was conducted earlier this month, has claimed that 17 million people have “lost their broadband connection or had it drop out” in the last 12 months and the average number of such incidents experienced (i.e. those lasting longer than 3 hours) came out as 33.

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4G Mobile Extended to Elizabeth Line on London Underground UPDATE

20th Dec, 2023 (9 Comments)

Mobile operators EE (BT) and Three UK have this morning become the first providers to announce that their ongoing deployment of a new 4G and 5G (mobile broadband) network on the London Underground – in partnership with Boldyn Networks and Nokia – has now been extended to the Elizabeth line for the first time.

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Cityfibre Completes Full Fibre Broadband Rollout in Lowestoft

20th Dec, 2023 (14 Comments)

CityFibre has announced that they’ve completed their £15 million project to deploy a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network across the seaside town of Lowestof in Suffolk (England), which originally began during the spring of 2020 and has now covered nearly 30,000 premises (RFS).

NASA Tests Space Laser Network to 267Mbps with Cat Video

19th Dec, 2023 (9 Comments)

Space cat! Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California claims to have recently conducted the first video stream from deep space using lasers via their new Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) network, which naturally consisted of a 15-second video featuring “Taters” the cat chasing a laser cursor.

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Wessex Internet Start Project Gigabit Broadband Build in New Forest

19th Dec, 2023 (0 Comments)

Rural broadband ISP Wessex Internet has today announced that they’ve entered the roll-out phase of their £14m state aid supported Project Gigabit broadband contract for the New Forest area (Lot 27.01) of Hampshire (England), which will see them extend a full fibre (FTTP) network to “around” 10,500 hard-to-reach premises.

Virgin Media O2 Update on Rural UK 4G and 5G Upgrades in 2023

19th Dec, 2023 (13 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 (VMO2) has today furnished us with a brief progress update on the 4G and 5G network upgrades they’ve been making across rural postcodes over the past year. Some of these have been focused on ensuring that their network is ready to cope with a surge in traffic over the peak Christmas shopping period.

Openreach Confirm More UK Ethernet, PIA and Dark Fibre Price Rises

19th Dec, 2023 (14 Comments)

Network access provider Openreach (BT) has just announced the second batch of annual price increases, albeit this time focused more on their wholesale Ethernet (EAD, EBD etc.), OSA, Excess Construction Charges (ECC), Dark Fibre and Physical Infrastructure Access (PIA) products for UK ISPs, businesses and other networks.

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Ofcom – UK Gigabit Broadband Rises to 78% as 5G Tops 85-93%

19th Dec, 2023 (12 Comments)

The latest Connection Nations 2023 UK digital infrastructure report has today been published by Ofcom, which finds that “gigabit-capable broadband” ISP networks now cover 78% of the UK (up from 70% in 2022), while outdoor 5G mobile cover from at least one operator is available to 85-93% of premises (up from 67-77%).

People with Vectone Mobile UK Numbers Face Ongoing Issues UPDATE

19th Dec, 2023 (43 Comments)

Customers who first acquired their mobile number from Vectone Mobile, which one operator says “recently ceased all UK operators“, appear to be facing ongoing problems with routeing of calls and texts after major service problems began a couple of months ago. The bad news is that a change of number may be required to fully resolve it.

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Regulator’s Decision Means Cheaper Guernsey Broadband Prices

18th Dec, 2023 (4 Comments)

The Guernsey Competition & Regulatory Authority (GCRA) has posted its “final decision” on wholesale broadband charges for the English Channel Island of Guernsey, which has called for prices to be slashed by a significantly greater amount than the 11% reduction first proposed in May 2023.

Virgin Media O2 Reveals UK Connectivity Trends for 2023

18th Dec, 2023 (12 Comments)

UK ISP and mobile operator Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2) have today published their annual round-up of customer connectivity habits for 2023, which among other things finds that broadband usage on their fixed line network increased by 13% in 2023 (up from 9% last year). Similarly, the mobile traffic and data increased by 26% in 2023 (down from 36% last year).

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ITU Decides Upper 6GHz Band is for Mobile Broadband, Sort Of UPDATE

18th Dec, 2023 (17 Comments)

The ITU’s World Radiocommunication Conference 2023 came to an end last week and one of its key decisions was to announce that the Upper 6GHz radio spectrum band (6425 to 7125MHz) can be used for mobile (5G and 6G), but also allows regulators like Ofcom in the UK to exploring a hybrid approach alongside WiFi.