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CityFibre Win Five Big UK Project Gigabit Broadband Contracts

6th Feb, 2024 (55 Comments)

CityFibre has today secured another five of the UK government’s Project Gigabit broadband rollout contracts, totalling over £394m. The deals will spread their full fibre (FTTP) ISP network to over 202,000 hard to reach premises across parts of Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Berkshire, Leicestershire, Warwickshire, Sussex, Kent, Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire & Milton Keynes.

B4RN Celebrates UK Project HALO Network Upgrade with Video

6th Feb, 2024 (0 Comments)

Community broadband ISP B4RN, which typically works with volunteers inside rural villages to deploy their new 10Gbps full fibre (FTTP) network across parts of England, has today celebrated the effective completion of their resilient 400Gbps ring network across the North of England by uploading a new video of their work.

Vodafone Confirm Three UK Merger Under National Security Probe

5th Feb, 2024 (34 Comments)

The CEO of Vodafone Group, Margherita Della Valle, has revealed that their proposed mega-merger with Three UK (CK Hutchison) is being reviewed by the Government under the National Security and Investment Act 2021, which reports suggest is linked to CKH’s perceived ties to China and any potential risks of access to sensitive national infrastructure.

Exascale Bring Full Fibre to Wappenshall Junction Redevelopment

5th Feb, 2024 (0 Comments)

Broadband ISP Exascale, which is building their own gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to around 2,000 premises – mostly around Telford and Wrekin, has joined with the Shrewsbury & Newport Canals Trust (SNCT) to extend their network to the poorly served Wappenshall Junction redevelopment project in Shropshire (England).

Broadband ISP Gigabit Networks Extends Availability to Scotland

5th Feb, 2024 (4 Comments)

Leicester-based broadband ISP Gigabit Networks has today announced that they’ve extended the availability of their full fibre (FTTP and Ethernet) services and packages, via CityFibre’s national UK network, to include the Scottish cities of Edinburgh, Glasgow and Renfrewshire for the first time.

Vodafone UK Top 1.33 Million Broadband and 18.57m Mobile Users

5th Feb, 2024 (11 Comments)

Mobile operator and ISP Vodafone UK has just released their Q3 FY24 financial results, which saw their fixed line broadband base grow to total 1.331 million customers (up by 39k in Q3 vs 27k in the Q2), while their mobile customers grew to 18.572 million (up by 330k in Q3 vs 218k in Q2).

Freely’s New Live UK Broadband TV Service to Launch Q2 2024

5th Feb, 2024 (61 Comments)

The new Freely platform, which is designed to be a broadband internet (streaming) based evolution that goes beyond the UK’s existing Freeview (inc. Freeview Play and Freesat) TV service, has today given a first look at some of its features and confirmed that it will officially launch in Q2 2024.

Openreach Extend UK Analogue Line Rental Stop Sell Exemptions by 1 Year UPDATE

3rd Feb, 2024 (15 Comments)

A new briefing indicates that Openreach (BT) is extending some limited exemptions to their current “stop sell” on new Wholesale Line Rental (WLR) and related broadband ISP products by one year, which means the exemptions will now be removed on 25th March 2025 instead of this year.

Reminder – CityFibre Offering £200 Cashback to New Customers

3rd Feb, 2024 (15 Comments)

The chances are good that some of our readers, specifically those in UK areas covered by CityFibre’s new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network, who might be considering a switch, may not know about the operator’s latest ‘Switch and Connect‘ promotion and the potential offer of £200 cashback.

Broadband ISP Lit Fibre Send Engineers Out After Borking ONTs

2nd Feb, 2024 (19 Comments)

Some of Lit Fibre‘s customers are reporting that the provider, which is deploying a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across parts of England, is having to send engineers out to homes in order to fix a network outage that occurred after a software update broke some of their optical modems (ONT).

Long Range HaLow WiFi Network Test Pushes Signal to 3km

2nd Feb, 2024 (8 Comments)

Sydney-based fabless semiconductor startup Morse Micro has successfully demonstrated how outdoor Wi-Fi signals, using their HaLow (802.11ah) chips, can be made to work at distances that are many times the reach of a conventional Wi-Fi technology. The trial saw them push a working wireless network up to 3km from its source.

Top 16 Full Fibre Broadband Networks by Estimated UK Coverage UPDATE

2nd Feb, 2024 (12 Comments)

The latest data from Thinkbroadband has provided an informative independent assessment of how big – in terms of network coverage (premises passed) – the top 16 largest Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP networks in the UK have become by January 2024. In this article, we compare that data against official coverage claims.

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Gigabit Broadband Still Top Digital Priority for UK Councils

2nd Feb, 2024 (9 Comments)

Technical UK consultancy firm FarrPoint has today published their second annual (2024) survey of digital leaders at councils across England, Scotland and Wales. The results reveal that getting more areas covered by gigabit broadband is still the top priority for the second year running, while 5G divides opinion.

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UK Struggles in 2024 Country Ranking of Mobile Broadband Speeds

1st Feb, 2024 (18 Comments)

Crowdsourced benchmarking firm Opensignal, which collects data from consumer speedtests, has today published a new summary of mobile broadband (4G and 5G) speeds across Europe – based on data from Q4 2023. But if you want to find the UK, you’ll need to look toward the bottom of the tables.

Ofcom and UK Phone Providers to Further Tackle Spoofed Calls UPDATE

1st Feb, 2024 (11 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today moved to strengthen their existing rules against the use of “fake phone numbers” and “spoofed calls“, which involves a proposal for phone providers (fixed line and mobile) to introduce stricter measures against “Presentation Numbers” that are used to identify who is making a call.

UK ISP BT to Close Redcare Alarm Security Division in 2025 UPDATE

1st Feb, 2024 (22 Comments)

Customers of BT’s Redcare division, which supplies monitored alarm signalling systems to UK homes and businesses that enable fire, security and more to be monitored over a secure network, have informed ISPreview that the telecoms operator has communicated their plans to close the Redcare service on 1st August 2025.

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BT Group Add 950k Premises to FTTP Broadband Cover in Q4 2023

1st Feb, 2024 (40 Comments)

Broadband and telecoms giant BT Group has today posted a short trading update for the last quarter to December 2023, which reveals that Openreach expanded the UK coverage of their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network by another 950,000 premises (up from 860k last quarter) to total 13 million passed.