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Openreach Test Duct Overlay to Help Physical Infrastructure Access

5th Jan, 2021 (10 Comments)

Openreach has announced a new ‘Proof of Concept‘ (PoC) to test a change to the current Network Adjustment process in their Physical Infrastructure Access (PIA) product, which could help alternative UK network ISPs to more efficiently rollout new FTTP broadband networks via Duct Overlay.

Vodafone UK Finally Starts to Add SMS Support to WiFi Calling

5th Jan, 2021 (37 Comments)

It’s been a long.. time coming, but Vodafone has now confirmed to ISPreview.co.uk that they’ve finally started to add the ability to send and receive text (SMS) messages via Wi-Fi Calling, which is important news for those who no longer have the option of using a femtocell based Sure Signal (3G) router. Just O2 left to go.

Discovery+ TV Streaming Content Coming to Vodafone UK Mobile

5th Jan, 2021 (6 Comments)

Customers of telecoms giant Vodafone UK look set to benefit from a new long-term, multi-platform agreement with the Discovery TV channel in Europe, which among other things will see the new video streaming service – Discovery+ (Discovery Plus) – being made available to mobile customers.

Virgin Media UK Notifies Broadband and TV Users of Price Hike

4th Jan, 2021 (129 Comments)

Customers of cable broadband ISP Virgin Media UK (Liberty Global) will, from today, start receiving a new notification letter that informs them of a forthcoming price hike on their internet, TV and fixed-line phone services, which will see the average price of their services increase by around 4% or £3.63 including VAT.

euNetworks Acquires Manchester’s 180km Full Fibre Network

4th Jan, 2021 (2 Comments)

Bandwidth infrastructure company euNetworks has acquired 100% of the shares of The Loop from UK ISP Gamma, which is a 180km long Dark Fibre network that rings its way around central Manchester, Salford and Trafford. The network is used to serve major data centre operators, enterprises and public sector organisations.

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Report Claims First UK Customers Receive Starlink Broadband UPDATE2

2nd Jan, 2021 (99 Comments)

A few weeks ago SpaceX’s new Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite broadband service, Starlink, began sending out beta invites to selected trial applicants in the United Kingdom and now there are unverified indications that the first customer connections may soon be going live. We also know how much it will cost UK users.

Three UK Quietly Pauses eSIM Support for Mobile Smartphones UPDATE

31st Dec, 2020 (40 Comments)

Mobile operator Three UK appears to have “put a short pause” on eSIM support after first adding it to their network (4G and 5G) for mobile handsets (NOT Smart Watches.. yet) in late September 2020 (here), although the eSIM Support and Activation page on their website does a poor job of communicating this.

Openreach See UK Broadband Usage Double in 2020 to 50,000PB

30th Dec, 2020 (26 Comments)

Openreach (BT) has revealed that broadband usage across their network of UK ISPs “more than doubled” in 2020 to reach an annual total of 50,000 PetaBytes (PB), which is up from 22,000PB last year. Overall, the average property connected to their “fibre” networks used around 3000 GigaBytes (GB) of data (c.9GB per day).

2020 vs 2019 – UK Broadband and Mobile Speeds vs the World

30th Dec, 2020 (29 Comments)

We thought it might be interesting to end 2020 by looking at how the United Kingdom’s position has changed since 2019, at least in terms of the top 50 fastest countries for both fixed broadband and mobile broadband (4G, 5G) speeds. Overall the UK jumped from 52nd to 42nd for mobile, while we fell from 45th to 47th for fixed lines.

UK Mobile Operators Confirm No Change to Free EU Roaming

29th Dec, 2020 (32 Comments)

As expected all four of the UK’s primary mobile network operators, including Three UK, Vodafone, O2 and EE (BT), have now confirmed that they have “no plans” (yet) to remove free roaming when the UK fully leaves the European Union on Thursday 31st December 2020 this week.

InternetTY Bring 1Gbps Broadband to Village of Ulceby, North Lincs

29th Dec, 2020 (0 Comments)

New UK ISP InternetTY (aka – Internet ThankYou), which is deploying a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to 12,000+ premises in “rural and semi-urbanised areas” (starting in Staffordshire and North Lincolnshire, England), has now gone live in the village of a Ulceby.

The 2020 vs 2019 Top Fastest UK Mobile and Home Broadband ISPs

29th Dec, 2020 (16 Comments)

As usual we’re ending 2020 by taking a quick look back over the year to see how average download and upload speeds have changed across the top national fixed line home broadband ISPs and mobile network operators. Predictably, the rising take-up of faster connections has resulted in a general improvement.

Airbus May Move OneWeb Satellite Manufacturing to UK After All

27th Dec, 2020 (11 Comments)

Space firm OneWeb, which is owned by a consortium of the UK Government and Indian conglomerate Bharti Global (here) and is in the process of building a mega constellation of “high-speed” broadband satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), may move their Airbus supported manufacturing base to the UK.. eventually.

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Why Buying Gigabit Broadband Doesn’t Always Deliver 1Gbps UPDATED

27th Dec, 2020 (47 Comments)

As the level of “gigabit capable” UK broadband ISP network coverage continues to rapidly expand then more and more people are now finding out what those working within telecoms and computer networking have known for a long time – being able to get or harness the full 1000Mbps (1Gbps) isn’t always possible.. yet.

ISP TalkTalk Hikes the Cost of Unlimited UK Calls Boost Add-on

24th Dec, 2020 (41 Comments)

Customers of UK broadband ISP TalkTalk, specifically those that take a landline phone service with the optional “Unlimited UK Calls Boost” plan, may be unhappy to learn that the monthly price they pay will be hiked by an additional £2 per month from 15th January 2021.

Openreach Finish Cumbria UK Fibre Broadband Rollout Contract

23rd Dec, 2020 (62 Comments)

Openreach (BT) has today announced the completion of their second and final contract phase under the state aid supported Connecting Cumbria (CC) project, which has now made “superfast broadband” (24Mbps+) ISP services available to nearly 95% of premises in the county (i.e. 127,000 extra homes and businesses).

Op-ed by Matt Warman MP – Next Steps for the UK Gigabit Broadband Programme

23rd Dec, 2020 (0 Comments)

The pandemic has led to the migration of vast swathes of our daily lives to the internet, accelerating a process which many forecasters predicted wasn’t coming for another few decades.