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Altitude Tweak to Boost Starlink Broadband Speeds and Latency

28th Apr, 2021 (17 Comments)

Global ISP Starlink (SpaceX) has secured approval from the FCC to make several tweaks to their new mega constellation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) based ultrafast broadband satellites, which among other things will result in improved internet speeds and latency for customers across the world and UK.

Full Fibre Could Bring 1 Million UK People Back into Workforce

28th Apr, 2021 (3 Comments)

The Centre for Economics & Business Research and Ofcom have today released separate, albeit complementary, reports that take a post-COVID19 look at the UK’s digital divide. The CEBR in particular estimates that 1 million people could return to the workforce with FTTP broadband available across the UK (up from the previous estimate of 500k).

OneWeb Get GBP395m from Rival to Grow LEO Broadband Satellites

27th Apr, 2021 (2 Comments)

OneWeb, which is partly owned by the UK Government and aims to deploy a global network of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites for ultrafast low-latency broadband provision (here), has today secured $550m (£395m) in funding from rival operator Eutelsat. This brings their total funding to $1.9bn (£1.37bn) in fresh equity.

BT Sport TV to Air Monday’s Non-League Finals Day for FREE

27th Apr, 2021 (0 Comments)

Broadband ISP BT has informed us that their BTSport TV streaming service will be making next Monday’s (3rd May 2021) Non-League Finals Day available for anyone to watch via a range of platforms, allowing fans to watch both the FA Vase and FA Trophy finals “without a subscription“.

Broadway Win Phase3 Full Fibre Contracts in Rural Pembrokeshire

27th Apr, 2021 (0 Comments)

Alternative UK network developer Broadway Partners (ISP Broadway Broadband) has today secured several contracts to deploy Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband networks to cover the rural Pembrokeshire communities of Angle, Tiers Cross and Lawrenny and Marletwy in Wales.

CityFibre UK Expands 1Gbps Broadband Rollout in Coventry

27th Apr, 2021 (2 Comments)

CityFibre has today committed an additional £12.5 million to help boost their ongoing deployment of a new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network in the West Midlands city of Coventry, which will see them reach “tens of thousands more homes and businesses” across the location.

London UK ISP G.Network to Train 255 New Full Fibre Engineers

27th Apr, 2021 (10 Comments)

UK ISP G.Network, which is building a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network for homes and businesses across London, has launched a new recruitment and training programme that it hopes will tackle the shortage of qualified telecoms engineers by training up an extra workforce of 255 people this year.

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Rival Broadband ISPs May Scoop 4 Million UK Customers by 2025

27th Apr, 2021 (5 Comments)

A new Point Topic study, commissioned by TV and WiFi Mesh provider Netgem, has predicted that Alternative Networks (AltNet) and “Challenger ISPs” could gain up to 1 million additional UK customers by 2025, which would increase their market share to 14.5% (3.74 million customers) from 12.5% in 2021.

Ofcom Reveal Final Results of UK 5G Mobile Spectrum Auction

27th Apr, 2021 (23 Comments)

The telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today published the final results from their recent £1.38bn auction of 5G friendly radio spectrum in the 700MHz and 3.6-3.8GHz frequency bands, which includes a few key changes from last month’s principal stage. Better mobile broadband coverage and speeds are expected.

Broadband ISP Plusnet UK Predicted to Launch FTTP in H2 2021

27th Apr, 2021 (46 Comments)

After an excruciatingly long wait, budget conscious UK ISP Plusnet finally looks set to move into the ultrafast broadband era by launching their first Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband packages later this year. The product also seems likely to be accompanied by a new router (possibly a re-brand of BT’s Smart Hub 2).

Global Fixed Broadband Users Hit 1.18bn as UK FTTP Surges in Q4 2020

26th Apr, 2021 (17 Comments)

The latest research from Point Topic has found that world fixed broadband subscribers grew by 1.6% (18.59 million) in Q4 2020, which is down slightly from 2.07% in the previous quarter but still pushes the overall total to 1.18 billion. Meanwhile, the UK reported the strongest quarterly “full fibre” (FTTP) growth of any country on 28.6%.

Broadband and Mobile Policy by Political Party in Wales and Scotland

26th Apr, 2021 (3 Comments)

Anybody living in Wales or Scotland will be aware that both are currently preparing for their 2021 Parliamentary Elections, which are due to take place on 6th May 2021. As such we thought it might be useful to take a quick look at what each of the main parties are promising in terms of broadband and mobile policy.

Broadband ISP Cuckoo Raises GBP4.3 Million in Extra UK Funding

26th Apr, 2021 (7 Comments)

Cuckoo, which only launched last summer and is thus still a relatively new broadband ISP in the UK, has just completed a fresh funding round – led by RTP Global with participation from JamJar Investments – that saw them raise £4.3 million in order to help fuel their future growth.

Broadband and 5G Boost as Network Rail Plan GBP1bn Cable Auction

26th Apr, 2021 (9 Comments)

Network Rail, which is responsible for running Britain’s railways, has revealed they will auction off 10,000 miles worth of their old trackside cable network (much of this still runs off legacy copper lines and is in need of an upgrade). The £1bn auction could help to support the UK rollout of gigabit broadband and 5G mobile.

VIDEO – Virgin Media Broadband Engineer Shows How it All Works UPDATE

24th Apr, 2021 (64 Comments)

One of Liberty Global’s principal UK engineers and technologists, Stephen Scott, has recently posted a series of new videos that offer a refreshingly detailed insight into the inner workings of Virgin Media’s Hybrid Fibre Coax (HFC) and Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP and TV network.

Northleaf Capital Acquire Majority Stake in UK ISP Quickline

24th Apr, 2021 (2 Comments)

Broadband ISP Quickline (Quickfire), which specialises in deploying “full fibre” FTTP and Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) broadband networks around Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, has set a target of covering 500,000 premises with their network after Northleaf Capital Partners acquired a majority stake in the company.

Lightspeed Broadband Start FTTP Rollout in Lincolnshire and Norfolk

23rd Apr, 2021 (14 Comments)

Lincolnshire-based UK ISP Lightspeed Broadband, which recently burst on to the scene with a plan to invest £300m into a large deployment of 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) technology across the East of England, has today kicked off its build work in several towns across South Lincolnshire and West Norfolk.