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Starlink’s LEO Satellite Broadband Speeds to Reach 300Mbps

23rd Feb, 2021 (70 Comments)

The CEO of SpaceX, Elon Musk, has revealed that the on-going expansion of Starlink‘s Low Earth Orbit (LEO) based broadband satellites will, by the end of this year, push customer download speeds up to around 300Mbps and bring network latency down to around 20ms (milliseconds). A cheaper budget package is also planned.

Vodafone UK Trial 4G Drones to Deliver NHS Supplies and Samples

23rd Feb, 2021 (1 Comment)

Mobile operator Vodafone UK has joined forces with Skyports, Deloitte and NHS Scotland to conduct a new 3-month drone trial using 4G technology, which will see the small unmanned aircraft being used to transport essential medical supplies and samples between sites for the National Health Service (NHS).

Report Finds EE’s UK Mobile Network Still Best for 5G Broadband

23rd Feb, 2021 (19 Comments)

A new study from mobile benchmarking firm RootMetrics, which exclusively examined the latest network availability and mobile broadband speeds on 5G operators in the UK, has found the EE still “continues to lead the way” on both fronts. Meanwhile O2 seems to be lagging behind their rivals.

Major Broadband Outage Hits Openreach Exchange in Glasgow UPDATE2

22nd Feb, 2021 (23 Comments)

Customers on various Openreach based UK broadband ISPs (e.g Sky Broadband, BT, TalkTalk etc.) in parts of Glasgow (Scotland) have been left without internet and VoIP (digital phone) connectivity today after a “power incident” (fault) hit the Bridgeton exchange last night, which could take a while to fully resolve.

Vodafone UK Extend Free Mobile Data to 150,000 More School Kids

22nd Feb, 2021 (0 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone have today extended their offer of free Data SIMs (mobile broadband), which come packed with a 30GB (GigaByte) allowance – valid for 90 days, to help another 150,000 primary and secondary school children to stay connected with their education during the COVID-19 crisis.

Broadband ISP TalkTalk to Create 50 New Jobs for Young People

22nd Feb, 2021 (5 Comments)

UK ISP TalkTalk has announced that it will create six-month work placements for more than 50 young people in the North West, which forms part of the Government’s (Department for Work and Pensions) wider Kickstart Scheme – this provides funding to help create new job placements for 16 to 24-year-olds on Universal Credit.

Uswitch 2021 Awards Name the Best UK Mobile Operators

22nd Feb, 2021 (12 Comments)

The winners of the annual Uswitch.com Mobile Awards 2021 have today been unveiled, which among other categories saw smaller operators like giffgaff scooping “Network of the Year,” while Asda Mobile were hailed as the “Best Network for Customer Service” and Smarty took home the win for “Best Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) Network.”

ISP Hey! Broadband Spotted Building FTTP in Hemel Hempstead UPDATE

22nd Feb, 2021 (14 Comments)

The large Hertfordshire town of Hemel Hempstead in England appears to be next on the list of areas where UK ISP Hey! Broadband (F&W Networks) are deploying their new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network. Some build has already begun between the Chaulden and Boxmoor areas.

ISP Exascale Extend FTTP Broadband Rollout to West Bromwich

21st Feb, 2021 (0 Comments)

Shropshire-based UK ISP Exascale, which since 2019 has been busy building a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to cover premises in Telford and Wrekin (here), appears to have expanded to new parts of the West Midlands by adding homes and business in West Bromwich to their plan.

Gigaclear to Build 18,500 UK FTTP Premises in the South West

20th Feb, 2021 (25 Comments)

Rural focused gigabit broadband ISP Gigaclear, which aims to cover 500,000 UK properties with their full fibre (FTTP) network by the end of 2023 (here), has announced that they will build their network to a further 18,500 premises in the South West of England during 2021.

An Unusual Capacity Problem on Openreach’s UK FTTP Poles

20th Feb, 2021 (51 Comments)

Network capacity problems come in all sorts of different shapes and sizes, but the case of one street in London shows that those looking to order Openreach’s swanky new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband service may sometimes also run into an issue with there being no space for new lines on local poles.

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GWS Names the Best Mobile Operators for 37 UK Cities in 2021

19th Feb, 2021 (16 Comments)

Global Wireless Solutions has today published the results of their annual (2021) study of mobile network (4G and 5G) performance (broadband speeds etc.) across 37 UK cities, which concludes that O2 is the “most reliable network” – performing best in 18 of 37 cities, towns, and motorways tested, followed by EE, Vodafone and Three UK.

Barnet Council in London Begins New Gigabit Broadband Rollout

19th Feb, 2021 (9 Comments)

The Barnet Council, which acts as a landlord for nearly 14,000 properties in the London Borough, have announced that work has now started to connect the first 1,000 council homes to their new “borough-wide gigabit broadband network” project in Colindale’s Grahame Park estate.

Broadband Forum Propose Fibre Extension over Old Copper Lines

19th Feb, 2021 (28 Comments)

The Broadband Forum has published a new technical report (TR-419), which proposes a different way for “full fibre” (FTTP) builders to cut their deployment costs via a Fibre-to-the-extension-point (FTTep) approach. In short, it’s another way of cutting out the need to replace the last few metres of copper with fibre.

Court Order Forces UK ISP TalkTalk to Block Sci-Hub Website

18th Feb, 2021 (17 Comments)

Broadband ISP TalkTalk has this week updated their list of blocked websites (i.e. those where they’ve been ordered by the UK high court to do so) to include the controversial Sci-Hub, which describes itself as being “the first pirate website in the world to provide [free] mass and public access to tens of millions of research papers.”

ISP VISPA Set to Rollout FTTP Broadband to 10,000 UK Homes

18th Feb, 2021 (0 Comments)

Manchester-based UK ISP VISPA has today revealed a little bit of extra detail about their tentative plan to deploy their own gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network, which over the next 18-months will aim to cover 10,000 homes.

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ISP Lightspeed Broadband in £300m UK FTTP Broadband Rollout

18th Feb, 2021 (19 Comments)

A new UK ISP called Lightspeed Broadband has emerged with a plan to invest £300m in order to deploy their new 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network, starting in towns across the East of England, to cover 100,000 homes by end of 2022 – followed by an ambition to reach 1 million by 2025.