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Rupert Murdoch’s News UK Sniffs Possible BT TV Partnership UPDATE

22nd Jun, 2021 (7 Comments)

Rupert Murdoch’s News UK (News Corp), which publishes the Sun and the Times newspapers, has reportedly expressed an interest in a partnership with BT’s Pay TV business. The telecoms giant is currently known to be considering a sale of BTSport in order to help fund their £15bn rollout of full fibre broadband.

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London Underground Set for Full 4G Mobile Coverage by 2024

22nd Jun, 2021 (12 Comments)

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, and Transport for London (TfL) have today confirmed that, following a recent trial on the Jubilee Line (here), they intend to proceed with their proposed plan to deploy a 4G based mobile (mobile broadband) network across the entire London Underground (platforms and tube trains) by late 2024.

Alncom and RunFibre Extend Full Fibre to South Gloucestershire

22nd Jun, 2021 (4 Comments)

Alnwick-based UK rural broadband ISP Alncom and new Bristol-based ISP RunFibre have joined forces in order to extend the reach of their joint gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, which was already available to remote parts of Northumberland and Durham, but is now growing into South Gloucestershire.

EE UK Extend 4G and WiFi Calling Feature to More Customers

21st Jun, 2021 (29 Comments)

Mobile network operator EE (BT) appears to have quietly made their “4G Calling” and “Wi-Fi Calling” features available to customers of their Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) and “no contract” Flex plans, which is part of a rollout process that started on the 9th June 2021.

DNS Providers May Be Forced to Block Internet Piracy Websites

21st Jun, 2021 (29 Comments)

In a possible sign of things to come, Sony has won a key court case in Germany that could force Domain Name Service (DNS) providers, such as Quad9 and eventually others too (Google Public DNS, OpenDNS, Cloudflare etc.), to block access to a website due to internet copyright infringement (piracy).

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Openreach Tweak Stop Sell Rules in Copper to Fibre Switch Areas

21st Jun, 2021 (22 Comments)

Openreach (BT) are making some tweaks to the “stop sell” rules in UK exchange areas that pass the 75% coverage milestone for their new 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network, which is the point at which the migration from older copper to fibre services can be triggered. The change adds some flexibility for FTTC lines.

ISP B4RN Extend Rural Full Fibre Network to 17,000 UK Premises

21st Jun, 2021 (15 Comments)

The B4RN (Broadband for the Rural North) project, which is deploying a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across rural premises in several English counties, has revealed that they’ve now covered around 17,000 premises (8,600 connected customers) and are trialling a new £5 Connect Plus tariff.

ISP VISPA Starts Rollout of its Own UK FTTP Broadband Network

20th Jun, 2021 (2 Comments)

UK ISP VISPA (Vispa Internet) appears to have officially started the rollout of their own gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network in the town of Marple, which is in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport (Greater Manchester) and home to a population of 24,000.

BDUK Consult on Gigabit Broadband Coverage in County Durham

19th Jun, 2021 (5 Comments)

The Government’s Building Digital UK team has started a new Public Review that aims to identify any existing or planned commercial coverage of gigabit broadband ISP networks in County Durham (England), which should help to establish the areas where public investment may be needed to deploy the service.

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Three UK Mobile Customers Plagued by Redirected Calling Bug UPDATE

19th Jun, 2021 (15 Comments)

Some customers of mobile operator Three UK were left scratching their heads yesterday after a bug resulted in many of their call attempts being redirected to the wrong number, which on the flip side also meant that other people started receiving unwanted calls from individuals who expected them to be somebody else.

Jurassic Fibre Extend Gigabit Broadband to the Sidmouth Area

18th Jun, 2021 (7 Comments)

Alternative UK network ISP Jurassic Fibre, which is deploying a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across parts of Somerset, Devon and Dorset (here), has finally confirmed that their next rollout location will be the coastal town of Sidmouth and its surrounding villages.

Lightspeed Broadband Reveal New East England Fibre Rollout

18th Jun, 2021 (11 Comments)

UK ISP Lightspeed Broadband, which is building a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across the East of England region as part of a £300m investment (here), has today unveiled the second wave of build locations that will extend into new parts of Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex.

New Full Fibre ISP YouFibre Celebrates 1000th UK Customer

18th Jun, 2021 (1 Comment)

New broadband ISP YouFibre, which alongside Netomnia is working to make a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network available to 1 million UK premises by 2024 – starting in the North East of England (here and here), has today announced that they’ve just signed-up their 1000th customer in the Durham area.

Virgin Media Business UK Doubles Broadband ISP Upload Speeds UPDATE

18th Jun, 2021 (23 Comments)

Customers of UK ISP Virgin Media Business (VMO2) have informed ISPreview.co.uk that the upload speeds on their “Voom Fibre” packages for small businesses are being roughly doubled, which for example means that subscribers to their 350Mbps Voom Fibre 1 plan will see their uploads go from 7Mbps to 20Mbps.

Full Fibre UK ISP Hyperoptic Improves Network Testing Tech

18th Jun, 2021 (1 Comment)

Broadband ISP Hyperoptic, which is currently deploying a gigabit speed “full fibre” (FTTP/B) network to residential flats (MDUs), office blocks and houses in 40 UK cities and towns, has adopted a new network testing technology from EXFO (Nova Fibre) in order to support their “first-time-right” build philosophy.

Vodafone UK Quietly Scrap London Underground WiFi Support

17th Jun, 2021 (25 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone UK has quietly dropped support for Virgin Media’s (VMO2) Wi-Fi network on the London Underground, which means that customers who want to get online with this wireless broadband service will now have to pay for a pass instead of connecting for free (1 day = £3, 1 Week = £5 or 1 Month = £15).

Value for Money Concerns Raised Over N.Ireland Broadband Projects

17th Jun, 2021 (10 Comments)

The Northern Ireland Audit Office (NIAO) has today published a new report into two recent state aid supported broadband rollout projects in Northern Ireland, which questions whether they delivered value for money, highlights a lack of contract bidding competition for BT and warns about a reliance on the contractor to self-certify its costs.