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Three UK Seek Policy Reform to Connect Rural Areas via 5G WiFi

26th Jul, 2021 (14 Comments)

Mobile operator Three UK, supported by research from CCS Insight, has today called on the Government not to overlook the benefits of “5G WiFi” in their plan to rollout gigabit-capable broadband across the country. Apparently, 5G based Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) could do it “faster and for half the cost of fixed lines.”

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Ofcom UK Propose Rule Changes for LEO Broadband Satellites

26th Jul, 2021 (2 Comments)

The new generation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) based ultrafast broadband satellite constellations, such as from Elon Musk’s Starlink (SpaceX) and British-registered OneWeb, has today prompted Ofcom to launch a new consultation on several licensing changes to help support them and tackle potential interference.

New Subsea Fibre Cable Linking to Norway Lands in the UK

26th Jul, 2021 (6 Comments)

Good news. The NO-UK cable project, which is being managed by consultancy firm SubSea Networks, has confirmed that a new subsea fibre optic cable between Norway and the UK, with capacity for data speeds of up to 216Tbps (Terabits), has finally arrived on this side of the sea by landing at Seaton Sluice beach near Newcastle.

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BeeDSL – Swarm of Bees Finds Home in Openreach UK Cabinet

26th Jul, 2021 (23 Comments)

Spare a moment this morning to think of the Openreach (BT or Bee Tee) engineers in West Cornwall (England) who were recently left buzzing (sorry) after opening the door of a street cabinet, which looks to be quite an old Primary Connection Point (PCP) for copper phone lines, only to find a hive of busy Bees occupying it.

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CityFibre Experiences Contractor Woes in Derby and Eastbourne

24th Jul, 2021 (20 Comments)

CityFibre’s UK rollout of a new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network in the city of Derby (Derbyshire) and the coastal East Sussex town of Eastbourne appear to both be suffering from a few separate problems with contractors, with some sub-contractors allegedly threatening to “rip-up tarmac” that has been laid.

Openreach UK Trials New Approach to FTTP Broadband Installs

24th Jul, 2021 (37 Comments)

Openreach (BT) this week announced the launch of a new ‘Build to the Wall‘ (BTTW) trial for UK ISPs selling their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network, which could increase the success rate of new provisions to homes by changing how they approach the final drop to homes.

O2 UK Launch Slightly Refreshed Pay As You Go Mobile Tariffs

23rd Jul, 2021 (15 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 (VMO2) has launched a refreshed range of ‘Pay As You Go’ (PAYG) tariffs, which start with a top-up of £10 (lasting for 30-days) and that gets you 7GB of data (mobile broadband), unlimited minutes and unlimited texts.

Survey Claims Most Rural UK Businesses Held Back by Poor Broadband

23rd Jul, 2021 (18 Comments)

A new survey involving 651 members of the Countryside Alliance, which was conducted by UK broadband ISP Gigaclear, has found that 85% of rural businesses view their current internet connection as being either poor but manageable (47%), or unmanageably poor (38%). Unsurprisingly, most of them want “ultrafast fibre” to fix it.

ISP Aquiss Launch Faster UK FTTP Home Broadband Packages

23rd Jul, 2021 (8 Comments)

Shropshire-based UK ISP Aquiss has today added three new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based home broadband packages – 300Mbps, 500Mbps and 900Mbps – to complement their existing 36Mbps, 75Mbps and 150Mbps tiers on the same Openreach based network platform.

High Court Orders Big UK ISPs to Block 19 More Piracy Websites

23rd Jul, 2021 (20 Comments)

The High Court in London has, following a case raised by the Motion Picture Association of Europe (MPA), issued a new injunction that forces most of the major UK broadband ISPs (e.g. BT, Sky Broadband, TalkTalk, Virgin Media, Plusnet etc.) to block 19 websites that were found to be facilitating internet copyright infringement (piracy).

ISP Zen Internet Finally Joins Ofcom’s UK Broadband Speed Code

23rd Jul, 2021 (1 Comment)

Rochdale-based UK ISP Zen Internet has today become one of the latest providers to sign-up to Ofcom’s voluntary 2019 Code of Practice on Broadband Speed, which gives residential consumers and businesses both more information on their estimated connection speeds and greater protection when things go wrong.

Vodafone UK Reaches 940,000 Fixed Broadband ISP Customers

23rd Jul, 2021 (7 Comments)

The latest quarterly results (financial Q1 FY22) from UK ISP and mobile operator Vodafone has today been published, which reveals that their fixed broadband base added another +29,000 customers (vs +35k in the previous quarter) to make for a total base of 940,000. But their mobile base declined again to 16,994,000.

Sky UK Today Extends 4K HDR Video Quality to Live TV Sport

23rd Jul, 2021 (20 Comments)

It’s been a long time coming, but Sky (Sky Broadband) is finally adding High Dynamic Range (HDR) video quality to their Ultra HD (UHD / 4K) broadcasts of live sport this summer, which starts today with their coverage of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 and continues from 13th August when the Premier League Football season kicks-off.

O2 UK Claims Strong Mobile Signal Adds GBP10k to House Value

23rd Jul, 2021 (9 Comments)

A new YouGov survey of 2,130 UK adults, which was commissioned by O2 (VMO2), has claimed that 70% of house-hunters would be prepared to walk away from a dream home if the local mobile signal wasn’t up to par, while 31% would pay more for a property with a good signal and 20% are prepared to pay up to £10,000 more!

Lords Committee Warn Online Safety Bill Threatens Free Speech

22nd Jul, 2021 (9 Comments)

The House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee has today published the outcome of its recent inquiry into freedom of expression, which warns that the UK Government’s new Online Safety Bill (Online Harms) is a “threat to free speech” due to its clampdown on “legal but harmful” content and “would be ineffective.”

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First Customers Live on Bradford’s CityFibre Broadband Network

22nd Jul, 2021 (1 Comment)

The first customers have now started to connect to CityFibre’s new £75 million Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network in the Bowling and Tyersal areas of the West Yorkshire UK city of Bradford, which is being built with support from civil engineering firm Network Plus.

Comms Council List 2021 Best UK VoIP Provider Award Finalists

22nd Jul, 2021 (1 Comment)

The Comms Council UK (formerly ITSPA), which represents the United Kingdom’s Unified Communications and Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) phone industry, has today published their shortlist of finalists for the organisation’s annual 2021 Awards event.