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Study Claims Poor Broadband and Mobile Drives People Out of UK Rural Areas

31st Jul, 2024 (9 Comments)

A new Strand Partners survey of 4,000 members of the UK public, which was commissioned by broadband and mobile providers Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2), has claimed that over a third of rural residents (or 66% of “young people“) are likely to be considering a move away to a town or city in the next 12 months. Poor internet connectivity is one of the key drivers for this.

Full Fibre UK ISP GoFibre Celebrates First Year of Community Fund

30th Jul, 2024 (0 Comments)

Edinburgh-based alternative network provider GoFibre (BorderLink), which has already rolled out their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to 100,000 rural premises across the North England and the Scottish Borders, has today celebrated the first anniversary of their £50,000 GoFurther charity fund by awarding more projects.

London ISP Community Fibre Expand Availability of Free FTTP Broadband

30th Jul, 2024 (2 Comments)

Network operator and broadband ISP CommunityFibre, which has built a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across 1.4 million UK premises – mostly in London, has today announced an expansion of their initiative offering “free access to 100% full fibre broadband to eligible Londoners struggling to get online“.

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Wildanet Pick Xantaro to Support Cornwall UK Gigabit Broadband Rollout

30th Jul, 2024 (1 Comment)

Rural broadband ISP Wildanet, which is building a new full fibre (FTTP) network across South West England, has chosen network solutions provider Xantaro and Nokia to help support their deployments in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly with Street Cabinet and Exchange Solutions etc.

Altnet UK ISP Grain to Expand Bolton’s FTTP Broadband Network

30th Jul, 2024 (0 Comments)

Alternative network provider Grain (Grain Connect), which has so far grown their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to cover 220k UK premises RFS (21st May 2024) and 30k customers, has just announced that they’re going to expand their existing deployment in the Greater Manchester town of Bolton.

bOnline Survey Finds UK Businesses Frustrated by Openreach FTTP Rollout

30th Jul, 2024 (12 Comments)

A new survey of 427 small UK business owners, which was conducted by business focused broadband ISP bOnline in the late June to mid-July 2024 period, has found that 70% of respondents either don’t know if Openreach’s (BT) gigabit-capable FTTP broadband network has reached their area or believe that it is not yet available.

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Cellnex, Vodafone and O2 Extend Existing UK Mast Sharing Partnership

29th Jul, 2024 (8 Comments)

Wireless infrastructure firm Cellnex has today extended their existing partnership with UK mobile providers Vodafone and O2 (Virgin Media), which will ensure that both operators continue to have access to share Cellnex’s national tower infrastructure to help deploy 5G (mobile broadband) and future services.

Openreach UK Warn Surrey Petrol Leak to Take At Least 1 Year to Fix

29th Jul, 2024 (20 Comments)

Network access provider Openreach (BT) has issued another update on a long-running underground petrol leak in the Surrey village of Bramley, which has already restricted the ability to safely work on their local broadband ISP and phone network. The bad news today is that “making [this] network safe and accessible” could now take “at least 12 months“.

Penmachno in Wales Builds Own WiFi Network to Tackle Poor Mobile Signal

29th Jul, 2024 (8 Comments)

Residents living in the tiny North Wales (UK) village of Penmachno in the isolated upland Machno valley area, which has long been known to suffer from flaky mobile coverage, have banded together to tackle the issue by installing a “cutting-edge, free WiFi [mesh] system” in the centre of the community.

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Ofcom Orders UK Phones Providers to Add Tougher Scam Call Blocking

29th Jul, 2024 (10 Comments)

The telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today given UK phone providers (fixed line and mobile) six months to implement changes that aim to help tackle scammers who call from abroad and imitate UK landline numbers (i.e. spoofed calls), which requires stricter measures against “Presentation Numbers” that are used to identify who is making a call.

A Month of Rural Broadband Connectivity Woes for Shropshire Village UPDATE

29th Jul, 2024 (0 Comments)

Residents in the rural Shropshire (England) village of Brockton (Lydbury North), which sits a few short miles from the town of Bishop’s Castle and is served by a hybrid full fibre (FTTP) and wireless broadband network from Voneus, have for the past month been “plagued with frequent outages and, when it is up, lots of packet loss, essentially making it unusable“.

Liberty Global CEO Updates on Virgin Media UK Going Wholesale, AltNets and TalkTalk

28th Jul, 2024 (21 Comments)

The CEO of Virgin Media’s co-parent operator Liberty Global, Michael Fries, has given a useful update on the progress they’re making with opening up their UK broadband network to wholesale (NetCo), the potential for consolidation within the alternative network (altnet) market and their position with respect to ISP TalkTalk’s debt problems.

Essex Council Take Legal Action Against Rural Broadband ISP Gigaclear

27th Jul, 2024 (23 Comments)

Abingdon-based UK broadband ISP Gigaclear, which has long been rolling out their gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to cover rural locations across Essex (England) – via a mix of commercial build and state aid supported contracts, is now facing legal action from Essex County Council (ECC) over an alleged failure to deliver on their contracted builds.

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First Residential UK Broadband Customers Change ISP via New Switching System

27th Jul, 2024 (8 Comments)

The industry-led One Touch Switching Company (TOTSCo), which holds responsibility for implementing Ofcom’s heavily delayed One Touch Switch (OTS) migration system for faster consumer switching between UK internet service providers, has reported its “first successful residential customer switches” during the final trial phase.

TalkTalk UK Shareholders Propose £400m Package to Entice Lenders

26th Jul, 2024 (8 Comments)

The efforts to try and save broadband ISP TalkTalk from its rapidly suffocating debts took another twist today after a report claimed that shareholders, led by company founder Sir Charles Dunstone, are attempting to sweeten their offer to lenders by introducing an asset pledge – worth c.£200m – to support an already proposed capital injection of over £200m.

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CEO of UK Broadband ISP Zzoomm Prep FTTP Growth via Consolidation

26th Jul, 2024 (9 Comments)

The CEO of Oxfordshire-based alternative broadband provider Zzoomm, Matthew Hare, has revealed that they’re still aspiring to cover 1 million UK premises with their 2Gbps FTTP network (despite the recent move to stop new building work), but “if we can’t build it ourselves then … you have to buy it” (growing through consolidation).

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Nexfibre Publish Q2 2024 UK Full Fibre Broadband Rollout Update

26th Jul, 2024 (27 Comments)

Network operator nexfibre, which shares some of their parentage with retail ISP partner Virgin Media (VMO2), has this morning published their latest quarterly (Q2 2024) progress update on the roll-out of their new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) broadband ISP network. This includes details on build locations for 2025 and early 2026.