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FullFibre Ltd Creates 10 New Job Opportunities for 16-24 Year Olds

10th Jan, 2022 (7 Comments)

Broadband network builder FullFibre Limited, which aims to extend their gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network for UK ISPs to cover at least 500,000 premises by 2025 (here), has partnered up with the Kickstart Scheme to create 10 new job opportunities for 16-24 year-olds within their company.

London ISP G.Network Hires Former Chief Financial Officer of TfL

10th Jan, 2022 (7 Comments)

UK ISP G.Network, which is busy investing £1bn to build a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across London and beyond (here), has hired the former Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Transport for London (TfL) – Simon Kilonback – to take on the same role within their company.

CityFibre UK Start GBP5m FTTP Broadband Rollout in Town of March

10th Jan, 2022 (11 Comments)

CityFibre has today confirmed that they’re investing £5 million to extend their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to reach “thousands of premises” in the Cambridgeshire (England) town of March, which is currently home to over 22,000 people.

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Borderlink Get GBP164m for Full Fibre Rollout in North England and Scotland

10th Jan, 2022 (10 Comments)

Broadband ISP BorderLink, which currently covers rural areas across Northumberland, Cumbria and the Scottish Borders with their wireless network, has today secured a huge investment of £164m to build a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to cover 500,000 premises across the North of England and Borders areas.

GBP450K Brings FTTP Broadband to Two Rural Powys Communities

10th Jan, 2022 (1 Comment)

Rural broadband builder Broadway Partners (aka – UK ISP Broadway Broadband) has secured another contract in Powys (Wales), worth £450,000, to extend their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to serve premises in the communities of Aberedw and Glascwm (this follows Dwyriw and Manafon).

Shell Energy UK Increases the Price of Calls and Calling Plans

10th Jan, 2022 (2 Comments)

Energy provider and UK broadband ISP Shell Energy will later this morning increase the prices of their calling plans and related features. For example, the monthly price of their ‘Anytime Calls‘ add-on will rise from £10 to £10.61 per month.

Virgin Media O2 UK Commits to Retain Free EU Mobile Roaming

9th Jan, 2022 (37 Comments)

Customers of O2 and Virgin Mobile (VMO2) may be pleased to learn that the mobile operator has just said they “will not be reintroducing roaming fees in Europe.” The move is likely to afford them a distinct competitive advantage for travellers over rivals at EE (BT), Three UK and Vodafone, where inclusive EU roaming is due to end (example).

Homes in Cartmel Fell Still Without Broadband After 6 Weeks

7th Jan, 2022 (24 Comments)

Some homes in the remote rural hamlet of Cartel Fell, which sits in the South Lakeland district of Cumbria (England), have been left without access to a working fixed line broadband ISP or phone service for six long weeks. The problems began after Openreach’s local telecoms infrastructure was significantly damaged by Storm Arwen.

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BDUK Start National Rolling Open Market Review for Project Gigabit

6th Jan, 2022 (25 Comments)

The UK Government’s Building Digital UK team has today “soft launched” a new “Rolling National Open Market Review” (RN-OMR) process for their £5bn Project Gigabit broadband scheme, which aims to do a better job of identifying areas that will benefit from a commercial rollout so that they can more effectively target public money towards those who will miss out.

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New Wi-Fi 6 Release 2 Standard to Boost Upload Speed and Efficiency

6th Jan, 2022 (16 Comments)

The Wi-Fi Alliance has just taken the wraps off yet another update to the still fairly young 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6) wireless networking standard which, for marketing purposes, is simply to be called ‘Wi-Fi 6 Release 2‘ and brings with it a couple of key improvements – mostly focused upon boosting upload speeds and power management.

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ISP TalkTalk UK Reveals the Top 5 XMas Gaming Gifts by Traffic

6th Jan, 2022 (9 Comments)

Broadband ISP TalkTalk has taken a closer look at the internet traffic from over 1 million of their customers on Christmas Day and managed to identify the top five video gaming console gifts. The data reveals that Nintendo’s Switch console was by far the most popular gaming gift for 2021, with 22,995 new devices being connected on the big day.

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ISP KCOM Grows UK Broadband Customer Base to 139,700

6th Jan, 2022 (47 Comments)

KCOM, which recently extended their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to cover 250,000 premises across East Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire in England (here), have published their annual accounts and revealed that their total broadband customer base has grown to 139,700 (most are now on fibre, having migrated from copper).

Vodafone UK and EE Delay Reintroduction of EU Roaming Charges

6th Jan, 2022 (31 Comments)

Mobile operators Vodafone and EE (BT) have moved to mildly delay the planned reintroduction of EU roaming charges, which will eventually see most customers being charged £2 per day to use their UK allowances (calls, texts and data / mobile broadband) across related countries. Previously, you could do this at no extra cost.

GBP20m Boost Fuels Lothian Broadband’s FTTP Rollout in Scotland

5th Jan, 2022 (5 Comments)

ISP Lothian Broadband, which last year proposed to extend their 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to cover 50,000 premises across rural parts of East and Mid Lothian, has secured a major funding boost of £20m from the Scottish National Investment Bank (SNIB) and their rollout target has been raised to 70,000 premises.

Business UK ISP FluidOne Acquires SAS Global Communications

5th Jan, 2022 (5 Comments)

Business focused UK ISP and communications provider FluidOne has today announced the acquisition of SAS Global Communications, a provider of SD-WAN-enabled global hybrid networks, to help enhance its own service offering to mid-market and enterprise customers.

Virgin Media Hits UK Broadband and Mobile Users with Price Hike

4th Jan, 2022 (70 Comments)

Customers of broadband ISP Virgin Media UK, including those on Virgin Mobile, are starting to receive a new notification that informs them of a forthcoming price hike to their fixed line broadband, phone, TV and or mobile services, which for example will see the average price of their cable services increase by £4.70 from March 2022.

Criminals Attack Openreach’s Network in Witchford.. AGAIN

4th Jan, 2022 (23 Comments)

Broadband and phone services have been disrupted for a second time in the Witchford area of Cambridgeshire (England) after thieves caused “significant damage” by cutting through one of Openreach’s secure boxes. But it’s unclear what, if anything, was actually stolen as a result of this attack.