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FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 Drives BT UK Internet Traffic Surge

4th Aug, 2023 (12 Comments)

The FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 kicked off last month and UK ISP EE (BT) reports that the three matches involving England’s squad have caused a modest, but noticeable, increase in broadband data traffic, rising by between 7-8% compared to an “average” day.

TalkTalk Extends UK Partnership with Business ISP Gamma

4th Aug, 2023 (6 Comments)

The wholesale division of broadband ISP TalkTalk has this week announced that they’ve signed a new agreement with business provider Gamma Communications, which will extend their existing “25-year partnership” to run for another three years until at least April 2026.

ISP Grain to Build FTTP Broadband Across Part of Warrington

4th Aug, 2023 (7 Comments)

Alternative network operator and UK ISP Grain has revealed that they intend to deploy their new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across “more than” 10,000 homes in the Cheshire (England) town of Warrington, which reflects about one tenth of the town’s c.98,000 residential properties.

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Openreach Save £10m on Rural UK Full Fibre Builds with Mini-Exchanges

3rd Aug, 2023 (49 Comments)

A few years ago we reported that Openreach (BT) had moved to accelerate and expand their rollout of Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP technology into more challenging rural areas by installing “Subtended Headends” (SHE). The technology has now saved them £10m in build costs in the last year alone (Fiscal Year 22/23).

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Administrators Report Updates on Future of Broadway Partners

3rd Aug, 2023 (19 Comments)

The administrators for troubled UK network operator Broadway Partners (Broadway Broadband), which had been building fixed wireless and full fibre (FTTP) ISP networks across rural parts of Scotland and Wales, have published their first report and revealed that several interested parties have bid for the business.

RunFibre Bring FTTP Broadband to Falfield in South Gloucestershire

3rd Aug, 2023 (2 Comments)

Broadband ISP RunFibre, which is building a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across rural areas of South Gloucestershire in England, has announced that they’re extending into the rural South Gloucestershire village of Falfield – home to a population of around 800.

Openreach Discounts Proactive UK Copper to FTTP Upgrades

3rd Aug, 2023 (28 Comments)

Network access provider Openreach (BT) has made it easier for UK broadband ISPs that want to migrate existing customers on slower copper-based ADSL, FTTC (VDSL2) and G.fast lines to faster full fibre (FTTP) ones, which they’ve done by introducing a new discount for their related “Proactive Upgrades” service.

Three UK Slowly Grows Outdoor 5G Mobile Coverage to 61%

3rd Aug, 2023 (19 Comments)

Mobile operator Three UK has today reported their latest results to 30th June 2023, which among other things reveals that their 5G based mobile broadband network is now live across more than 4,400 sites (up from 4,250 at the end of 2022) in over 610 towns and cities – achieving 61% outdoor population coverage (up from just 60%).

Gov Commits £40m to Trial New UK 5G and Wireless Broadband Tech

3rd Aug, 2023 (6 Comments)

The UK Government’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) has opened a new £40 million fund to help local and regional authorities to test and adopt 5G and other advanced wireless network technologies, which could be used to “pioneer digital connectivity for residents and business“.

Welsh ISP Ogi Become One of the First AltNets with High Street Presence

3rd Aug, 2023 (6 Comments)

Infracapital-backed UK broadband ISP Ogi, which is investing £200m to build a new full fibre (FTTP) network across 150,000 premises in South Wales by 2025, appears to have become one of the first (possibly THE first) alternative network providers to have a high street presence thanks to a new deal with the ‘Get Connection’ retail chain.

UK Broadband ISP Octaplus Confirms IPv6 Readiness

2nd Aug, 2023 (12 Comments)

Broadband and Pay TV provider Octaplus (Octaplus Supercharged), which sells services to consumers over various full fibre (FTTP) networks (e.g. MS3, CityFibre and FullFibre Limited), has announced that their network is now finally ready for the IPv6 internet addressing standard and customer migrations will begin next week.

Vodafone UK to Upgrade Energy Smart Meters with 4G Mobile UPDATE

2nd Aug, 2023 (58 Comments)

Broadband and mobile operator Vodafone has today signed a new agreement – lasting for up to 15 years – with the Data Communications Company (DCC), which manages Britain’s national Smart Meter network. Under the deal, the operator will work to upgrade the Smart Meter network to harness 4G infrastructure.

Neos Networks Bring National 400Gbps Services to UK Businesses

2nd Aug, 2023 (14 Comments)

Network operator Neos Networks, which operates one of the fastest growing and highest capacity business fibre networks in the UK – spanning 34,000km, 550 exchanges and 676 Points of Presence (PoPs), has today launched its new national 400Gbps Optical Wavelength services across 26 data centres (they have a total of 90 on-net).

Court Rejects BT Attempt to Sue Virgin Mobile Over Migrations UPDATE

2nd Aug, 2023 (7 Comments)

The High Court has thrown out a “fanciful” legal challenge by EE (BT) against Virgin Media (VMO2), which last year (here) accused the UK operator of having migrated customers away from their then EE powered Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) platform – Virgin Mobile – before the agreement had been concluded.

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Cable Hungry Rats Knock Out Openreach Broadband in Tring UPDATE

2nd Aug, 2023 (18 Comments)

Homes and businesses in the Hertfordshire (England) market town of Tring have faced several days of disruption to their broadband ISP connectivity, which occurred after rodents with a taste for optical fibre chewed through one of Openreach’s (BT) main high capacity fibre trunking cables in the area.

Virgin Media O2 Business Launch UK Portable 5G Private Network

2nd Aug, 2023 (0 Comments)

Broadband and mobile giant Virgin Media O2 Business (VMO2) has today announced somewhat of a UK first by becoming the first telecoms operator to launch a commercially-available portable 5G private network (PN), which is currently under trial at a number of UK businesses and harnesses Nokia’s 5G Standalone (SA) tech.

Local vs Roaming – UK and EU Mobile Broadband Speeds Compared

2nd Aug, 2023 (10 Comments)

Ookla, which operates the popular internet Speedtest.net benchmarking service, has published the results of an interesting new study that examines how mobile broadband (4G and 5G) performance (i.e. downloads and latency) differs between local vs roaming connectivity across the United Kingdom and European Union.