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24th Mar, 2022 (2 Comments)
Bad news folks, SpaceX has just hiked the price of everything from rocket launches to their already expensive Starlink constellation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) based ultrafast broadband ISP satellites, the latter of which due to increase in price by 11.11% per month (20% for the hardware) in order to “keep pace with rising inflation.”
23rd Mar, 2022 (17 Comments)
The Government’s Education Secretary, Nadhim Zahawi MP, has today made a new commitment for “every school across the country” to be able to access “high speed internet” by 2025, which is said to complement the wider £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout programme. Funding will also be provided for related WiFi upgrades.
23rd Mar, 2022 (37 Comments)
Some of Vodafone’s potential UK broadband ISP customers, specifically those trying to order one of their Openreach powered Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) plans, have run into an unusual problem that limits their choice of package to a top speed of 200Mbps (instead of 900Mbps+). But don’t worry, it’s only a temporary measure.
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22nd Mar, 2022 (3 Comments)
Rivada Space Networks has become the latest company to announce a plan to launch their own mega-constellation of 600 broadband satellites into Low Earth Orbit (LEO), which will serve the Telecom, Enterprise, Maritime, Energy and Government services markets. But they’re also “planning” to tackle poor connectivity in rural areas.
22nd Mar, 2022 (18 Comments)
The two sides of VMO2 – O2 and Virgin Media – have today issued somewhat of a progress update on their various fixed broadband and mobile deployments across Wales, which among others things reveals that they’ve boosted 4G network capacity in 5,800 postcodes during 2021 and 412,000 premises can now get gigabit speeds.
22nd Mar, 2022 (0 Comments)
British-registered satellite company OneWeb, which is partly owned by the UK Government, has today announced a global, multi-year Distribution Partnership Agreement (DPA) with Eutelsat to help commercialise the company’s broadband services for key sectors including Maritime, Aviation, Enterprise, Telcos and Government.
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22nd Mar, 2022 (14 Comments)
Network access provider Openreach (BT) has today announced a new 6-month special offer to support UK trials of “accelerated migrations” for their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband service, which is focused on making it quicker for ISPs to move existing customers from copper to full fibre lines.
22nd Mar, 2022 (6 Comments)
The National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise (NICRE), which is collaborating with the UK Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) team within DCMS, has launched a new survey that seeks views and experiences of rural broadband connectivity from small and medium-sized businesses (SME) present in such areas.
22nd Mar, 2022 (0 Comments)
Slovenia-headquartered ICT provider Iskratel has today announced that they’ve opened a new branch in the United Kingdom, which aims to supply those ISPs currently deploying Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband networks with various types of optical fibre kit to help complete their services.
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22nd Mar, 2022 (9 Comments)
Network operator Netomnia has today confirmed their intention to invest up to £21 million in order to extend their 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP – XGS-PON) broadband ISP network to serve around 72,000 premises across the town of Maidstone in Kent (England).
22nd Mar, 2022 (0 Comments)
Broadband ISP Hyperoptic has today joined the Broadband Stakeholder Group (BSG), which is a think-tank that advises the UK Government on various related areas of policy. The operator is currently working to extend their “full fibre” (FTTP/B) network to 2 million UK premises by the end of 2023 (currently at 750,000).
22nd Mar, 2022 (8 Comments)
The Government has today announced the proposed launch of a new body called the ‘UK Telecoms Innovation Network‘ (UKTIN), which will help to guide mobile network operators and broadband ISPs that seek funding for key telecoms related research and development projects (e.g. OpenRAN technologies).
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21st Mar, 2022 (6 Comments)
21st Mar, 2022 (6 Comments)
British-registered space company OneWeb has today announced a new agreement to “resume” launches of their ultrafast low-latency broadband satellites into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) by harnessing rockets (e.g. the Falcon9) from SpaceX, which is the owner and operator of arch rival Starlink. The first launch is expected this year.
21st Mar, 2022 (27 Comments)
Budget conscious UK ISP TalkTalk has today finally made their new Netgem powered pay TV (IPTV) platform and “TV 4K Box” device available to both new and existing customers on their fibre broadband plans (FTTC and FTTP). On top of that, the provider also claims to be the “first ISP in Europe” to launch TikTok on a TV set-top-box.
21st Mar, 2022 (1 Comment)
Hull-based alternative network operator MS3, which is busy building a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to serve over 500,000 premises across the North of England (here), has today appointed the former COO of O2, Derek McManus, to be its new Chairman (effective from 1st April 2022).
21st Mar, 2022 (2 Comments)
Broadband ISP Connexin, which recently started work on their £80m investment to build a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across parts of Hull and East Yorkshire (here and here), has today appointed the former CEO of Kelly Group, Simon Burckhardt, to be the new Managing Director of its Consumer, Business and Enterprise division (CBE).
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