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Netomnia, Wildanet and Alncom Pick ADTRAN to Fuel UK Fibre Rollouts

21st Sep, 2021 (0 Comments)

Alternative network ISPs Netomnia, Wildanet and Alncom have all confirmed that they’ve chosen ADTRAN’s 10Gbps capable XGS-PON solutions to help supply their respective deployments of a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across different parts of England.

Uncertainly Grips Vacant Post of UK Digital Infrastructure Minister UPDATE

21st Sep, 2021 (12 Comments)

Last week’s cabinet reshuffle saw Matt Warman MP being somewhat unexpectedly sacked from the role of ‘Minister for Digital Infrastructure‘ within the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS). Replacements are normally appointed within 24-48 hours, but six long days have nearly passed without any clarity.

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Half of All UK Premises Now Have Access to Gigabit Broadband

21st Sep, 2021 (34 Comments)

The latest data update from Thinkbroadband has estimated that 50.23% of properties in the United Kingdom now have access to take a fixed gigabit-capable (1000Mbps+) broadband ISP connection, which is up from 41.72% in July 2021 and largely reflects the impact from Virgin Media’s (VMO2) recent DOCSIS 3.1 upgrades.

Parliament to Debate B4RN’s Gigabit Voucher Scheme Concerns UPDATE3

21st Sep, 2021 (13 Comments)

Last month we reported that the UK Government’s £5bn Project Gigabit programme was threatening to disrupt B4RN’s rollout of a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network in rural parts of Cumbria and Northumberland. The good news is that Tim Farron, Lib Dem MP, has secured a parliamentary debate on the issue.

Connexin Pledge to End KCOM’s Broadband Monopoly in Hull UK UPDATE

20th Sep, 2021 (9 Comments)

Fixed wireless broadband ISP Connexin last year revealed that they were looking to deploy their own Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across the North of England (here). The provider has now confirmed that they’re investing £80m to “[end] the broadband monopoly” in Hull and East Yorkshire (tacit reference to KCOM).

Virgin Media Offer Plume WiFi Boosting Security to All UK Homes

20th Sep, 2021 (23 Comments)

Broadband ISP Virgin Media (VMO2) has today announced that they’re making Plume’s new HomePass smart home service available to all UK households (including those areas not yet covered by their network), which combines a WiFi 6 (802.11ax) based Mesh network boosting system with security features, such as Wi-Fi based motion detection.

Netomnia’s UK FTTP Broadband Rollout Hits 50,000 Premises

20th Sep, 2021 (35 Comments)

Netomnia, which recently started deploying a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network (XGS-PON) and aims to cover 1 million UK premises by 2024 (here and here), has announced that they’ve already passed 50,000 premises and 20,000 of those were added in just the last two months.

Broadband Giant BT Bring UK Net Zero Target Forward to 2030

20th Sep, 2021 (9 Comments)

Telecoms giant BT (EE) has today announced that they’re bringing forward their target for achieving Net Zero by 15 years (i.e. removing as many carbon emissions as they produce), moving it from 2045 to 2030 for their own operational emissions. But their supply chain and customer emissions won’t follow until 2040.

Student and Rental Focused UK Broadband ISP ASK4 Replace CEO

20th Sep, 2021 (0 Comments)

After 21 years, ASK4, which provides gigabit-capable broadband services to students and residents (renters) in multi-tenant buildings across the UK and nine other countries in Europe, is to finally wave farewell to Jonathan Burrows, its original founding CEO, on 1st October 2021 and replace him with Andrew Dutton.

Openreach Trial Air Wand to Boost UK FTTP Broadband Rollout

19th Sep, 2021 (3 Comments)

Openreach (BT) has confirmed to ISPreview.co.uk that they, alongside partner Circet and others, have begun trials of a new ‘Air Wand‘ (aka – Air Sabre or Air Lance) machine, which uses compressed air or high pressure water to break the ground and could speed up the rollout of their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network.

Starlink’s LEO Satellite Broadband Service to Exit Beta in October

18th Sep, 2021 (13 Comments)

The CEO of SpaceX, Elon Musk, has announced that the Starlink service, which delivers ultrafast low latency broadband across the world via a mega constellation of satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), will finally leave its long-running beta phase and get a full commercial launch in October 2021. But don’t expect too many changes, yet.

Virgin Media O2 UK Still Suffers Router Bug that Exposes VPN IPs

18th Sep, 2021 (37 Comments)

Broadband ISP Virgin Media UK (VMO2) has confirmed to ISPreview.co.uk that they’ve yet to fix a long-running security issue in their HUB 3.0 routers (ARRIS TG2492), which among other things could be used to “silently unmask” the actual, ISP issued, IP address of Virtual Private Network (VPN) users.

Affinity Systems Target Expansion of Small Rural UK Fibre Network

17th Sep, 2021 (1 Comment)

Houghton Le Spring (Sunderland)-based telecoms and IT provider Affinity Systems Limited (Rymote) has revealed tentative plans to expand a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to “serve people and businesses” in rural areas in the North East of England.

Google Test New 20Gbps Laser Broadband Link at up to 20km

17th Sep, 2021 (7 Comments)

The team working on Project Taara at Google’s X technology lab have successfully overcome traditional challenges with signal reliability to demonstrate a new laser-based wireless optical communications link that can deliver data at speeds of up to 20Gbps (Gigabits per second) over distances of up to 20 kilometres.

RootMetrics Name Top 13 UK Cities for 5G Speed and Availability

16th Sep, 2021 (0 Comments)

Mobile benchmarking firm RootMetrics has today published a general comparison of 5G based mobile (mobile broadband) speeds and availability across 13 of the United Kingdom’s key cities, which sees Glasgow take the top spot on an aggregated average (median) download speed of 144.3Mbps and availability of 28.3%.

Virgin Media O2 UK Set to Launch New IPTV Product Soon

16th Sep, 2021 (19 Comments)

The CEO of UK broadband ISP, mobile and TV giant Virgin Media (VMO2), Lutz Schueler, has confirmed that the operator “will be launching soon our first IPTV offer” (Internet Protocol Television), which is probably a reference to the new streaming entertainment service (here) that they began to trial earlier this year.

Sky’s UK TV via IP Broadband Service Set to Launch This Month

16th Sep, 2021 (54 Comments)

Last month, we reported that Sky (Sky Broadband), which is owned by Comcast, were gearing up to launch their long-awaited TV via broadband (instead of a satellite dish) service (here). Several sources have now informed us that this will go live this month and be called Sky over IP (SoIP).