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Vodafone UK Starts Large Scale Build of OpenRAN to 2,500 Sites

31st Aug, 2023 (3 Comments)

Broadband ISP and mobile operator Vodafone has today moved out of the pilot phase for its new 4G and 5G capable Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) technology and begun their “volume deployment“, which aims to reach 2,500 sites across mostly rural parts of Wales and the South-West of England by 2027.

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Virgin Media O2 UK Offers Free Airport Lounge Access to Delayed Travellers

31st Aug, 2023 (9 Comments)

Customers of Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2), specifically those who are currently facing airport delays of 60 minutes or more at over 500 airports around the world – something that has been in the news quite a lot this week, are being offered free access via up to four passes to 1,200 airport lounges.

Broadband ISP Brsk Face Full Fibre Anti-Pole Campaign in Burnley UPDATE

31st Aug, 2023 (42 Comments)

Broadband ISP and network builder Brsk, which has so far deployed their own gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to 250,000 UK premises (RFS) – mostly in the Midlands (rollout plan), is facing a petition from 40 residents in Burnley who want to see their newly installed telecoms poles removed.

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5G Download Speeds Have Fallen in 9 out of 12 UK Regions

31st Aug, 2023 (18 Comments)

Internet benchmarking firm Ookla, which operates the popular broadband and mobile network performance testing service Speedtest.net, has revealed that 5G based mobile broadband download speeds have fallen across most regions of the UK over the past year. But despite this, overall data speeds (4G + 5G) have increased.

Mobile Operator Three UK Renames Pay Monthly Mobile Plans

31st Aug, 2023 (16 Comments)

Customers of primary mobile network operator Three UK may like to know that the provider has quietly renamed their Pay Monthly plans in order to ensure they are simple for customers to understand and reflect the benefits within the tariff, but otherwise there are no changes to what each plan includes or their pricing.

Mobile Operator Talkmobile Launch UK Unlimited Data Plan

31st Aug, 2023 (19 Comments)

Mobile operator Talkmobile, which is a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) on parent Vodafone’s national UK 4G and 5G network, has finally launched their first plan offering “unlimited data” and at launch it’ll set you back just £16 per month (similar to SMARTY’s plan on Three UK’s network).

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Lothian Broadband Expands FTTP Network to 3 Stirlingshire Villages

30th Aug, 2023 (2 Comments)

Scottish ISP Lothian Broadband (LBN), which is building a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) network across rural parts of East Lothian, the Highlands and Fife, has announced that they’re extending into the rural areas surrounding the city of Stirling – starting with 3,400 premises across three villages.

ISP Yayzi Broadband Launch 2.5Gbps Plan and Slash 1Gbps Price

30th Aug, 2023 (43 Comments)

UK ISP Yayzi Broadband, which mainly sells packages via Cityfibre’s national Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, has made a bold move today by scrapping their existing 150Mbps and 500Mbps packages in order to focus on a 1Gbps and new 2.5Gbps tier. But to compensate for this, they’ve introduced a huge price discount.

Fibrus Covers 300,000 UK Premises with Full Fibre and Tops 50k Customers

30th Aug, 2023 (6 Comments)

Infracapital-backed ISP Fibrus, which is rolling out a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across Northern Ireland and the North of England, has today revealed that their network now covers 300,000 premises (up from 250k in March) and is home to 50,000 customers (up from 36,000).

Openreach Nears 1 Million FTTP Broadband Premises in Scotland

30th Aug, 2023 (4 Comments)

Network access provider Openreach (BT) has revealed that their 1.8Gbps capable UK Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network now covers a total of 949,000 properties in Scotland (up from 800,000 in mid-March 2023), which is estimated to have cost them around £280m (assumes an average of £300 per premises passed).

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ISPs Move to Patch “Grave” Border Gateway Protocol Flaw

30th Aug, 2023 (0 Comments)

Broadband internet service providers (ISP) are being encouraged to patch or mitigate a “grave flaw” in the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), which could allow a remote attacker to craft a BGP UPDATE message that can de-peer (reset) BGP sessions and disrupt the global flow of internet traffic or cause a Denial of Service (DoS).

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Quad9 Founders on the Dangers of Global DNS Blocks by Rights Holders

30th Aug, 2023 (13 Comments)

The founders of third-party Domain Name Service (DNS) provider Quad9, including Chief Security Officer, Danielle Deibler, and GM, John Todd, have today spoken to ISPreview about the impact of recent court rulings that will force them to block sites suspected of internet copyright infringement (piracy) at DNS level.

BT Rolling Out UK Digital Voice Service into Northern Ireland

29th Aug, 2023 (9 Comments)

Broadband ISP BT has today continued the region-by-region deployment of their Internet Protocol (IP) based home phone service, Digital Voice, by announcing that they’re about to start the roll-out in Northern Ireland, which will be followed this autumn by customers in the North West and across London.

CityFibre Builds Full Fibre Broadband to 3 Million UK Premises

29th Aug, 2023 (45 Comments)

Network operator CityFibre has today announced that their 10Gbps capable full fibre (FTTP) broadband ISP network now covers 3 million UK premises (up from 2.5m in January 2023) and 2.6 million of those are considered to be ‘Ready For Service’ (up from 2.2m), which means that residents can place an order with one of around 35-40 ISPs.

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The Top 10 Largest Global Internet Service Outages for H1 2023

29th Aug, 2023 (0 Comments)

Internet benchmarking firm Ookla, which operates the popular broadband ISP performance testing service Speedtest.net and the real-time outage monitoring Downdetector service, has used data gathered from the latter to reveal which online services suffered the largest outages during the first half of 2023. Instagram tops the table.

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How UK Telcos Can Overcome the Barriers to MDU Fibre Installations

27th Aug, 2023 (0 Comments)

Project Gigabit, the UK government’s £5 billion plan to connect hard-to-reach properties to fibre optic broadband, is evidence of the value they place on digital inclusion. Access to high-speed internet means the ability to work remotely, work efficiently, communicate better and prevent children from being locked out of education.

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Freedom Fibre CEO Talks Future UK FTTP Rollout Challenges

26th Aug, 2023 (9 Comments)

The CEO of alternative broadband network builder Freedom Fibre, Neil McArthur, has today – as part of an exclusive interview with ISPreview – spoken about some of the challenges the operator has faced in building a new full fibre (FTTP) network and called on the government to be more overtly supportive of such efforts.