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19th Nov, 2020 (0 Comments)

Customers of UK ISP Sky Broadband’s legacy capped data usage packages (e.g. Sky Everyday Lite, Broadband Lite, Broadband 12GB or SkyFibre), which earlier this year were given temporary access to an “unlimited usage” boost due to COVID-19, will now continue to benefit from this for the foreseeable future.

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18th Nov, 2020 (1 Comment)

The UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has just unveiled the winners of their 22nd annual 2020 internet industry and broadband awards, which among other categories saw CommunityFibre scoop the win for “Best Consumer ISP“, while Jurassic Fibre secured “Best New ISP” and Gigaclear won “Best Rural ISP.”

18th Nov, 2020 (18 Comments)

Existing customers of BT’s UK broadband or EE’s Pay Monthly mobile packages will tomorrow gain the ability to purchase one of Sony’s latest PlayStation 5 (PS5) video game consoles directly from the operator. But as with the prior Xbox deal, there won’t be any special discounts.

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18th Nov, 2020 (6 Comments)

Manchester-based UK ISP The 4th Utility and the ITS Technology Group (its.) in Cheshire have today signed a new partnership worth £15m, which will kick start a new project that aims to build “ultrafast broadband” connectivity to 100,000 homes within the next 12 months and then 500,000 before 2024.

18th Nov, 2020 (0 Comments)

The rural Northumberland (England) town of Rothbury, and its surrounding communities, have recently become the latest target for a new deployment of 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) technology, which is thanks to the efforts of UK ISP FACTCO and support from local councillor Steven Bridget.

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18th Nov, 2020 (13 Comments)

Customers of Sky TV (Sky Broadband) may be pleased to learn that, as expected, the provider is about to rollout 40+ movies with support for High Dynamic Range (HDR) picture quality to their Sky Q platform in time for Christmas 2020, which will be available via their Sky Cinema channel(s).

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18th Nov, 2020 (24 Comments)

Mobile network operators including EE (BT), O2, Three UK and Vodafone have today collaborated to launch a new service called NumberVerify (NV), which is a new consumer safety solution that aims to make it both easier and more secure to authenticate a user’s identity for online transactions.

18th Nov, 2020 (12 Comments)

Northern Ireland’s Department for the Economy (DfE) has today confirmed what we first revealed in September (here), which is that alternative network ISP Fibrus have secure the £165m Project Stratum contract and will be extending “superfast broadband” (30Mbps+) coverage to 76,000+ extra rural premises by March 2024.

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17th Nov, 2020 (4 Comments)

Telecoms giant BT (EE) and Cambridge spin-out Nu-Quantum today claim to have launched a “world-first trial” of end-to-end quantum-secured communications for the new generation of ultrafast 5G mobile (mobile broadband) networks, which is being called AIRQKD (Air Quantum Key Distribution).

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17th Nov, 2020 (13 Comments)

UK ISP TalkTalk Business has today announced the launch of their new “Business Full Fibre” (FTTP) and “Business Ultrafast Fibre” (G.fast) broadband products for small and medium sized businesses, which at present are both supplied via Openreach’s national network (although they’ll soon be offering FTTP from Cityfibre too).

17th Nov, 2020 (0 Comments)

Leicester-based ISP Gigabit Networks, which works alongside Cityfibre to supply “full fibre” style Ethernet services to businesses across the Midlands, has today announced the acquisition of Skyline Wireless – a telecoms and VoIP provider that predominantly covers the East of England – for an undisclosed sum.

17th Nov, 2020 (2 Comments)

UK ISP Virgin Media Business has today signed a new multi-year public sector contract with Falkirk Council in Scotland, which among other things will see additional bandwidth and WiFi improvements (coverage, speed and security) being supplied to 58 local schools.

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17th Nov, 2020 (0 Comments)

Wireless ISP Wifinity, which usually specialises in deploying WiFi style networks, has today acquired PCCW Global Networks (UK) Limited for an undisclosed sum, which is perhaps better known for operating under the broadband ISP brands of Mediaforce and Optify.

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17th Nov, 2020 (2 Comments)

Councillors in the East Midlands (England) town of Northampton claim to be receiving “numerous complaints” from locals about the quality of Cityfibre’s street works, which reflect an investment of £40m to deploy a new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network for homes and businesses.

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17th Nov, 2020 (8 Comments)

A new study from consulting and research firm Analysys Mason has estimated that the new generation of ultrafast 5G based (mobile broadband) networks, which are currently being deployed by Three UK, Vodafone, EE (BT) and O2, could deliver £14.8bn in economic growth to the UK between 2025-2040 (at a cost of c.£3bn).

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17th Nov, 2020 (30 Comments)

Broadband ISP BT appears to have begun informing customers about a “small” forthcoming change to their new Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) style ‘Digital Voice’ service (often supplied alongside FTTP or SOGEA based hybrid fibre packages), which will change how you dial when calling a local number.

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16th Nov, 2020 (16 Comments)

European space operator Eutelsat has today confirmed that their new all-electric (propulsion) broadband satellite, KONNECT, which was launched into Geostationary Orbit (7° East) around the Earth in January 2020 (here), has finally entered into commercial service and should soon be available from ISPs in the UK and EU.

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