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29th Nov, 2021 (14 Comments)

Hull-based alternative network ISP MS3, backed by European infrastructure fund Asterion, has today revealed a major expansion of their existing service, which will see them deploy a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to serve over 500,000 homes and businesses across the North of England.

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29th Nov, 2021 (2 Comments)

The Leicester Crown Court has sent one man to prison, with another facing an arrest warrant, after the pair were found to have posed as fake broadband ISP engineers in order to steal telecoms equipment from several storage containers, which belonged to Virgin Media (VMO2).

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26th Nov, 2021 (10 Comments)

Broadband ISP Zen Internet UK has today enhanced their Refer-a-Friend scheme by making it so customers and their referee will both receive a £40 shopping voucher, the highest value since the initiative launched in 2019. The vouchers themselves are available for a range of retailers including Amazon, Argos, John Lewis, and M&S.

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Lit Fibre Engineers Working Near Pavement Chamber

26th Nov, 2021 (16 Comments)

UK ISP Lit Fibre, which is building a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to reach 500,000 homes by 2026, has announced that the next two towns to benefit from their rollout will be Sudbury (Suffolk) and Evesham (Worcestershire). But aggressive competition will soon follow.

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25th Nov, 2021 (20 Comments)

Openreach has today revealed the pilot pricing for the new Advanced Install option on their stand-alone broadband products for UK ISPs, which are more technically known as Single Order Generic Ethernet Access (SOGEA) products on FTTC (VDSL2) lines or SOGfast on G.fast lines. But it’s not intended for homes.

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25th Nov, 2021 (4 Comments)

Broadband ISP and TV provider Virgin Media UK (VMO2) has today announced that another 6,100 homes across Tyne and Wear, including in Bruton Park, Newcastle and Longbenton, North Tyneside, have now gained access to their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network.

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25th Nov, 2021 (4 Comments)

Residents in the rural Hartlepool borough village of Dalton Piercy (County Durham), which is home to almost 300 people, can now access faster broadband speeds of up to 45Mbps after UK ISP Voneus deployed a new Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) network. Previously, some locals often struggled to get fixed line speeds of above 1Mbps.

25th Nov, 2021 (2 Comments)

The town of South Shields, which sits at the mouth of the River Tyne just outside of Newcastle in North East England, has today been named as the next location to benefit from UK ISP Grain‘s rollout of a new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network.

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25th Nov, 2021 (17 Comments)

Anybody who thought mobile phone masts were ugly before could be in for a shock. Vodafone has announced that they’ve teamed up with Crossflow Energy and Cornerstone to start building a new range of “Eco-Towers” to support their 4G and 5G services across the UK, which are self-powered masts that use renewable energy.

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25th Nov, 2021 (6 Comments)

Manchester-based ISP Telcom Group (Pioneer, ClearFibre and WeFibre), which is building a gigabit-capable “full fibre” broadband and Ethernet network across the North West of England and Midlands, has today – via its social initiative (Recode) – launched the new ‘Telecoms Engineer Bootcamp‘ to help train up and recruit new fibre engineers.

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25th Nov, 2021 (2 Comments)

British-registered satellite operator OneWeb, which is partly owned by the UK government and aims to build a new global network of low latency ultrafast broadband satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), is considering the possibility of testing a new debris-removal service to deorbit one of their failed spacecraft (SL41).

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24th Nov, 2021 (1 Comment)

Rural focused UK broadband ISP Voneus, which is currently busy spreading their fixed wireless (FWA) and Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) networks across rural parts of 20 counties, has managed to appoint one of Virgin Media’s former Central Finance Directors, Ed Dannan, to be its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO).

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24th Nov, 2021 (11 Comments)

A new Opinium survey for Uswitch, which questioned 2,000 UK adults this month, has estimated that 65% of those deemed to be “financially vulnerable people” aren’t aware that social tariffs for broadband exist from various UK ISPs, with just 15% of eligible households actually applying for them.

CityFibre Cabinet Fibre feed

24th Nov, 2021 (12 Comments)

Fibre optic network builder CityFibre, which aims to cover around 8 million UK premises with their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network by the end of 2025, has partnered with Ciena to deploy its “first” 800Gbps capable backbone wavelength ring network across 29 cities and towns.

three uk mobile broadband

24th Nov, 2021 (19 Comments)

Customers of mobile operator Three UK can now access a new rewards app called “Three+” on Apple (iPhone etc.), Android and Huawei EMUI 11 based Smartphones, which they claim will give you exclusive offers and discounts from key brands and festivals, like Cineworld, Uber Eats, Frankie & Benny’s, the Telegraph and more.

Works to lay new paving slabs and temporary footpath closed red warning sign on London sidewalk by 123rf

24th Nov, 2021 (4 Comments)

The UK Government has today introduced their new Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Bill (PSTI), which among other things will make it easier for broadband and mobile operators to upgrade and share infrastructure. The bill will also aim to ensure that internet connected devices are more secure.

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24th Nov, 2021 (5 Comments)

A large group of farming and landowners’ organisations have launched a new survey to examine the current state of broadband connectivity in Wales. The survey is partly designed to help them understand how well-equipped rural communities are for forthcoming farming regulations, which require vast amounts of online forms.

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