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Gov Updates on UK 4G Shared Rural Network Rollout Progress

29th Jun, 2021 (6 Comments)

The UK Government has today published somewhat of a progress update on their £1bn Shared Rural Network (SRN) project, which reveals that Scotland, Wales and North East England will benefit most from the expansion of 4G based mobile network (mobile broadband) coverage into rural areas.

ISP Fibrus Secures Full Fibre Contract for 10 N.Ireland Councils

29th Jun, 2021 (0 Comments)

Broadband ISP Fibrus has this morning finally confirmed that they’ve won the Full Fibre Northern Ireland Consortium (FFNI) contract, which is valued at £23m and will see the UK operator expand a new gigabit-capable “full fibre” network to connect over 969 public-sector sites (police, GPs, council offices etc.) in “up to” 10 council areas.

234,000 Premises in Wales to Benefit from £5bn Project Gigabit

29th Jun, 2021 (7 Comments)

The UK Government will today reveal that “up to” 234,000 hard-to-reach rural homes and businesses in Wales have been identified as “in scope” to potentially receive a gigabit-capable broadband upgrade, which should come as part of the new £5bn Project Gigabit programme.

Air Broadband Expands CityFibre FTTP Coverage to 10 UK Cities

28th Jun, 2021 (4 Comments)

UK ISP Air Broadband has announced that their gigabit capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband service on CityFibre’s network has now become available to homes and businesses in a further 10 of their cities and towns, such as Solihull, Gloucester and Cheltenham among others.

Vodafone UK Signs New MNO Deal with Dixons Carphone UPDATE

28th Jun, 2021 (10 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone UK has today announced that they’ve signed a new multi-year Mobile Network Operator (MNO) partnership deal with Dixons Carphone, which separately runs the MVNO provider iD Mobile and will thus see new packages launch “later in the year.”

Virgin Media O2 Use Gigabit Broadband Vouchers to Cover Rural Areas

28th Jun, 2021 (10 Comments)

Telecoms and media giant Virgin Media (VMO2) has, for the first time, harnessed the UK Government’s Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme in order to extend their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to connect rural locations in West Sussex (England) – with residents in Steyning, Upper Beeding and Bramber being invited to participate.

VIDEO – Virtual Walk-Through of CityFibre’s UK Full Fibre Network

28th Jun, 2021 (15 Comments)

CityFibre has published a new video online that acts as a moderately basic, but still interesting, “virtual walk-through” of their new full fibre (FTTP) gigabit broadband ISP network, which at a cost of some £4bn (details) is currently being deployed to cover 8 million UK premises by around the end of 2025.

New UK ISP Brsk Starts FTTP Broadband Build in West Yorkshire

28th Jun, 2021 (8 Comments)

Bath-based UK ISP brsk has today named the first locations in West Yorkshire (England) to benefit from their new gigabit-capable “open access” Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network, which has already begun its civil engineering phase, and they’ve even managed to connect their first customer.

Cheap BT Home Essentials Social Broadband Tariff Goes Live

28th Jun, 2021 (12 Comments)

UK ISP BT has now made their new low cost “Home Essentials” social tariff available to those on Universal Credit and other means-tested benefits, which gives eligible customers an unlimited 36Mbps (10Mbps up) “fibre broadband” (FTTC / FTTP) service – plus 700 minutes of included phone calls – for £15 a month.

BT Sign OneWeb Deal to Tackle UK Rural Broadband Slow Spots

27th Jun, 2021 (21 Comments)

UK ISP BT and satellite operator OneWeb, which is partly owned by the UK government, have reached an agreement that will see the two working together to bring ultrafast low-latency broadband speeds to some of the hardest to reach rural parts of the country, where even their £5bn Project Gigabit programme would struggle to go.

H1 2021 – Fastest National UK Mobile and Home Broadband ISPs

26th Jun, 2021 (9 Comments)

We’re nearly six months into 2021 and that means it’s time to take a quick look back to see how the UK’s average broadband download and upload speeds have changed across the fastest nationally available fixed line ISPs and mobile network operators. The good news is there’s been a good increase from most providers.

Full Fibre ISP KCOM Sells National UK ICT Business to Nasstar

25th Jun, 2021 (3 Comments)

Hull-based UK broadband ISP KCOM has followed last month’s sale of their off-net Eclipse Internet base (here), which went to the Global 4 Group, by selling off its national ICT business to Nasstar, which is an established managed services specialist provider.

Cisco Survey Says UK Recovery Must be Built on Better and Free Broadband

25th Jun, 2021 (26 Comments)

Technology firm Cisco has today published their UK Broadband Index, which surveyed 2,000 employees across the country to get their take on the current standard of home internet connectivity. Overall, 70% want to see the economic recovery post-COVID19 being built on better internet access, and 55% believe “broadband should be free.“

Giffgaff UK Boost Mobile Data Allowances for Existing Plans

25th Jun, 2021 (14 Comments)

Mobile operator giffgaff has announced that they’re boosting the data (mobile broadband) allowances on some of their existing 4G and ultrafast 5G plans, which will apply to both new and existing customers. For example, their £12 per month “goodybag” will grow from 10GB to 12GB at no extra cost.

Hyperoptic Get Full Fibre Boost in Birmingham and Wolverhampton

25th Jun, 2021 (8 Comments)

Full fibre broadband ISP Hyperoptic UK has secured new partnership agreements with Birmingham Council and the City of Wolverhampton Council in the West Midlands of England. The move will enable them to expand their gigabit-capable network to cover tens of thousands of additional homes in both cities.

Zzoomm Apologises for Disruption in Oxfordshire UK After DDoS

25th Jun, 2021 (6 Comments)

Alternative broadband ISP Zzoomm, which is deploying a 10Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to 1 million UK homes by the end of 2025, has apologised to their customers in the Oxfordshire town of Henley-on-Thames after a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) assault disrupted their connectivity.

5G Mobile Users Gobble up to 2.7 Times More Data Than 4G

25th Jun, 2021 (5 Comments)

Opensignal, which uses crowd-sourced data to benchmark mobile networks, has found that 5G connected users in 20 of the leading markets for the new mobile broadband tech see much greater mobile data usage than 4G users. The biggest increase was in Japan (2.7x), while the UK scores 2.0x and Ireland came last on 1.2x.