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24th Nov, 2020 (3 Comments)

Fibre optic ISP Truespeed, which is deploying a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across rural parts of South West England, has today introduced a series of new packages that, among other things, push the provider’s top median average speeds to 900Mbps (gigabit class).

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24th Nov, 2020 (12 Comments)

The Government will today publish their Telecommunications (Security) Bill, which imposes new rules to improve the security of UK networks (mobile and broadband) and ban “high risk vendors” like Huawei, while also threatening fines of up to £100k a day (or 10% of turnover) against operators that fail to meet the standard.

24th Nov, 2020 (13 Comments)

Customers of UK ISP BT and its various home broadband packages, which come bundled with an included McAfee internet security solution called Virus Protect (can be installed on PCs, Android phones and tablets), are finding that the software fails to function properly or get updates on the latest release of Mac OS (v11 Big Sur).

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23rd Nov, 2020 (1 Comment)

Canterbury-based UK ISP Orbital Net (Vfast) has today signed a new multi-million pound deal with Park Holidays UK, which will see 13,000 holiday homes across Britain being provided with access to a new “high-speed broadband” connection.

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23rd Nov, 2020 (0 Comments)

The UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) has revealed that the telecoms industry has gone from last year’s report, when it was the fastest growing sector for R&D spending (up 25.4% to total £947m by the end of 2018), to this year (2019) when spending on research and development grew by just 0.95% to total £956m.

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23rd Nov, 2020 (0 Comments)

UK ISP Hyperoptic, which specialises in building 1Gbps capable “full fibre” (FTTP/B) broadband networks to large residential (MDU) and office buildings, has today announced a new partnership with Metropolitan Thames Valley (MTV) to rollout their “hyperfast” service across a “large proportion of its housing portfolio.”

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23rd Nov, 2020 (6 Comments)

UK broadband ISP iDNET has today announced that they’ve signed a 5-year deal with BTWholesale to help migrate their entire “phone network” to an all-IP solution in advance of the 2025 digital switch-over (when old analogue phones services are due to be withdrawn).

23rd Nov, 2020 (4 Comments)

Mobile network operator Vodafone has today become the latest telecoms giant to make a major climate related commitment, which will see them reduce their total global carbon emissions to ‘net zero’ by 2040 (i.e. removing as many emissions as they produce) – ten years sooner than previously planned.

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21st Nov, 2020 (9 Comments)

European space firm Eutelsat has released details of what their new KONNECT based satellite packages will look like for UK consumers, which will offer a top download speed of 100Mbps and “unlimited” data usage. But admittedly there are a few caveats to consider.

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20th Nov, 2020 (15 Comments)

Network access provider Openreach (BT) has just informed ISPreview.co.uk that yesterday’s launch of Sony’s new PlayStation 5 video game console, including its various associated internet downloads and patches, resulted in data traffic across their national UK network reaching a total of 161PB (PetaBytes).

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20th Nov, 2020 (10 Comments)

Space company OneWeb, which is owned by a consortium of the UK Government and Indian conglomerate Bharti Global (here), has today revealed that they will launch the next batch of 36 high-speed broadband capable Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Satellites into orbit on 17th December 2020.

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20th Nov, 2020 (62 Comments)

Mobile operator Three UK has just finished the build of 20 new data centres, complete with improved backhaul capacity, which should help to deliver faster network latency times and support the ever growing demands of their data (mobile broadband) hungry 4G and 5G based customers’.

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20th Nov, 2020 (22 Comments)

Cityfibre has today announced that popular UK broadband provider Zen Internet has just become the latest ISP to join their growing national Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, complementing others like TalkTalk and Vodafone. Until now Zen has been focused on selling Openreach’s products to homes.

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20th Nov, 2020 (17 Comments)

Mobile operator and UK ISP EE have this week updated the home broadband coverage checker for their new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based services, which since launch (here) hasn’t recognised availability in every area where the new Openreach network has already been deployed.

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19th Nov, 2020 (0 Comments)

Finnish-technology firm Nokia, which is separately helping to supply Openreach’s rollout of FTTP broadband in the UK, has today heralded their new 25G PON technology as the next step in Passive Optical Network evolution and one that “enables the converging of high-end services on a single fibre infrastructure.”

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19th Nov, 2020 (5 Comments)

The European Commission (EC) has today agreed that the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) should have the final say on Liberty Global’s proposed mega-merger between broadband ISP Virgin Media and mobile operator O2 (Telefonica UK), but this is not expected to delay the outcome.

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19th Nov, 2020 (2 Comments)

The CEO of BT Group, Philip Jansen, yesterday said that he was “open minded” about the possibility of selling a “minority” stake in their prized network access division – Openreach – to help fund the UK rollout of “full fibre” (FTTP) broadband, among other things. But they’re “not really interested” in a sale and leaseback style agreement.

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