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Broadband ISP BT to Scrap Email and Cloud for New Customers

17th Jun, 2022 (32 Comments)

New broadband and mobile customers of UK ISP BT will, from the end of this month, no longer be able to benefit from the operator’s included Email and online Cloud storage features. The good news is that existing customers will be unaffected, at least for now.

YouFibre’s FTTP Broadband Service Goes Live in Wakefield

17th Jun, 2022 (0 Comments)

UK ISP YouFibre has today announced that the first customers can now connect to their new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network in the West Yorkshire (England) city of Wakefield, which is impressive given that their network partner (Netomnia) only unveiled the build phase in January.

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Hyperoptic Bring Full Fibre to 11,000 Social Homes in Hillingdon

17th Jun, 2022 (8 Comments)

City-focused UK gigabit broadband ISP Hyperoptic has reached a new agreement with the Hillingdon Council in London, which will enable them to expand the reach of their full fibre (FTTP/B) network to cover over 11,000 social housing properties across the borough.

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Three UK eSIM and Apple Watch Support Goes LIVE UPDATE

17th Jun, 2022 (44 Comments)

After years of waiting and a few false starts, customers of mobile operator Three UK are this week reporting that they’ve finally been able to connect their Apple Watches to the operator via a new eSIM supported mobile plan – the ‘Smartwatch Pairing Plan‘, which is intended to complement an existing mobile package.

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Government Sets Out New UK Penalties for Nuisance Calls and Texts UPDATE

16th Jun, 2022 (13 Comments)

The UK Government has today responded to an earlier consultation on their new Data Reform Bill (DRB) by, among other things, setting out how they’ll increase the financial penalties for those pestering people with nuisance calls and text (SMS) messages. But this probably won’t do much to stop calls made from outside the country.

Jurassic Fibre Bring 10Gbps UK Broadband to 90,000 Premises

16th Jun, 2022 (16 Comments)

Exeter-based broadband ISP Jurassic Fibre, which is rolling out a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across rural parts of Devon, Somerset, Cornwall and Dorset in England, has today revealed that their network coverage has grown to “over” 90,000 premises in the South West.

Pine Media Brings FTTP Broadband to 7,600 Flats in Sheffield

16th Jun, 2022 (9 Comments)

ISP Pine Media, which is slowly building their own gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across parts of South Yorkshire, Kent and rural Derbyshire (they also sell products via Openreach‘s rival network), has revealed that their full fibre network now covers over 7,600 flats/apartments in Sheffield.

VX FIBER’s Stoke FTTP Rollout Hit with £2460 of Fines in 1 Week

16th Jun, 2022 (5 Comments)

Network developer VXFIBER (inc. subsidiary LilaConnect) has once again faced criticism over their work to build a new 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across the Staffordshire (England) city of Stoke-on-Trent, which recently saw them being hit with £2,460 of roadworks fines in just one week.

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Telford and Wrekin to Deploy Full Fibre via Virgin Media O2 Business

16th Jun, 2022 (7 Comments)

The Telford and Wrekin Council in Shropshire (England) and broadband ISP Virgin Media O2 Business have agreed a new “multimillion-pound” partnership to connect 200 public sector sites (schools, council, libraries etc.) to the operator’s “multi-gigabit … full fibre” network, which could also help to extend residential services.

H2 2021 – FTTP Broadband Covers 96% of New Build UK Homes

15th Jun, 2022 (18 Comments)

The latest H2 2021 study into the broadband coverage of new build UK homes has found that over 96% of houses constructed during the second half of last year were connected to a “full fibre” (FTTP) ISP network (up from 93% in H1 2021), which rises to 99%+ for 30Mbps+ “superfast broadband” services.

ISP Quickline Boosts Network with Proximity Data Centre Deal

15th Jun, 2022 (0 Comments)

Broadband ISP Quickline, which runs a mix of Full Fibre (FTTP) and Fixed Wireless (FWA) networks across parts of Lincolnshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire in England, has signed a deal to boost their network by taking rack space in Proximity’s Nottingham data centre (edge colocation facility).

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FullFibre Ltd Put Gigabit Broadband Network Live in Leominster

15th Jun, 2022 (2 Comments)

Network builder FullFibre Limited has announced that their new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based gigabit broadband ISP network has finally gone live in the Herefordshire (England) market town of Leominster, which is home to around 12,000 people and was one of the very first locations added to their rollout plan.

AltNets Trial Ability to Replace Openreach Copper with Fibre Lines on Poles

15th Jun, 2022 (31 Comments)

Alternative broadband providers are about to begin a new trial that will, for the first time, grant their engineers the ability to replace an existing copper dropwire on an existing Openreach pole (telegraph pole) with a new optical fibre one for gigabit-capable broadband, albeit only under certain circumstances.

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Vodafone Deploys First Live Self-Powering UK 4G Mobile Mast UPDATE

15th Jun, 2022 (17 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone UK has today switched on what they claim is the country’s first wind and solar-powered 4G mobile phone masts, which went live as part of a new trial in rural Pembrokeshire (Wales). The new technology is intended to help cover “not-spots” in the most remote and inaccessible locations.

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OneWeb In-Flight LEO Broadband Test Hits 260Mbps on Boeing B777

14th Jun, 2022 (1 Comment)

British-registered OneWeb, which is partly owned by the UK gov and building a global constellation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) based ultrafast low-latency broadband satellites, has worked with commercial aviation terminal partner Stellar Blu Solutions to successfully test in-flight connectivity aboard a Boeing B777-200LR plane.

CityFibre Prep £2m FTTP Broadband Build for Village of Yaxley

14th Jun, 2022 (4 Comments)

The village and civil parish of Yaxley in Cambridgeshire (England), which is home to a population of over 9,000, has just become one of CityFibre’s smallest builds after they confirmed their plan to invest £2m as part of their ongoing deployment of gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP technology.

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Openreach CEO Appears to Blame Brexit for Pace of Broadband Build UPDATE

14th Jun, 2022 (54 Comments)

The CEO of network access provider Openreach (BT), Clive Selley, appears to have risked a spat with the UK Government after he complained that the rollout of faster broadband services (e.g. gigabit-capable FTTP) had been slowed by the “tortuous” post-Brexit process of recruiting workers from the EU.