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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.

16th Nov, 2020 (11 Comments)

Fibre optic developer Cityfibre UK has today announced they will invest £50m to cover “nearly every home and business” in North Tyneside (Tyne and Wear, England) with access to their new gigabit-capable and Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network.

16th Nov, 2020 (10 Comments)

The House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee has launched a new inquiry, which will examine whether or not freedom of expression is under threat online and, if so, how modern technology might be used to help protect it. The inquiry will also weigh that against how such freedoms should be balanced with other rights.

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16th Nov, 2020 (1 Comment)

Rural UK ISP County Broadband, which is currently building a new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network in rural parts of Norfolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire, has today announced the first town in Suffolk to benefit from their on-going deployment – Sudbury.

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16th Nov, 2020 (17 Comments)

Broadband ISP and mobile operator Vodafone UK have published their latest results to the end of September 2020 (financial Q2 FY21), which saw their fixed broadband base top 838,000 customers (up by +45k in the quarter vs +42K in the previous quarter), while their mobile base declined to 17,380,000 (down by -200k).

16th Nov, 2020 (7 Comments)

The first 2,000 homes in the Staffordshire city of Stoke-on-Trent can now access one of the UK’s first part-publicly-owned open access Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP networks, which is being deployed under a £19.2m partnership between the city council and Swedish operator VXFIBER (inc. subsidiary LilaConnect).

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16th Nov, 2020 (20 Comments)

Cable ISP Virgin Media UK has today opened applications for their new £15 per month “Essential Broadband” plan, which offers download speeds of just 15Mbps (2Mbps upload), unlimited data usage and a 30-day rolling contract. But you can only get this if you’re receiving Universal Credit from the Government.

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15th Nov, 2020 (9 Comments)

Budget broadband ISP TalkTalk has reported that last week’s internet data traffic record of 6.85Tbps (Terabits per second), which was set on 10th Nov (here), has been broken again on Saturday 14th November 2020, when they hit a new peak of 6.94Tbps.

15th Nov, 2020 (11 Comments)

A new survey of 132 landlords who own properties in London, which was conducted by UK ISP CommunityFibre in collaboration with Inside Housing, has revealed that cost (77%) and installation complexities (55%) are still perceived to be the biggest barriers to housing owners getting “full fibre” broadband installed in their properties.

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14th Nov, 2020 (29 Comments)

After almost 20 months of waiting it’s become increasingly disappointing to find that three of the UK home broadband ISPs that originally pledged their support to Ofcom’s new automatic compensation system for customers – Vodafone, Plusnet and EE – have yet to officially join the scheme.

13th Nov, 2020 (10 Comments)

A new Cheshire-based alternative network provider called Delambre Infrastructure has just cropped up with a vague ambition to deploy a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to “provide ultrafast broadband to households and small and medium-sized enterprises.”

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13th Nov, 2020 (0 Comments)

Full fibre UK broadband ISP Jurassic Fibre has today announced that their new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, which is supported by an investment of £250m from Fern Trading Limited, is being extended again to reach Barnstaple, Wellington, West Hill and Marsh Green in Devon and Somerset (England).

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13th Nov, 2020 (19 Comments)

Ofcom’s new Q2 2020 consumer complaints report is out today, which names UK ISP TalkTalk as attracting the most gripes for both home broadband and landline phone, while Three UK did the same for Pay Monthly Mobile services and Virgin Media came bottom for Pay TV.

13th Nov, 2020 (6 Comments)

City focused broadband ISP Hyperoptic, which is currently deploying their gigabit-capable FTTP/B network to homes across parts of 43 UK towns and cities (mostly large apartment blocks), is about to open a new HQ in Kings House, Hammersmith (London) – complementing existing offices in West London, Manchester and Reading.

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13th Nov, 2020 (6 Comments)

The Carmarthenshire Council in South West Wales has approved, as part of the wider Swansea Bay City Deal, an investment of £55m to boost digital connectivity in the region, which among other things looks set to help deploy more “full fibre” broadband connectivity and support improvements to mobile networks.

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13th Nov, 2020 (0 Comments)

Fixed wireless and full fibre UK ISP LonsdaleNET (Lonsdale Network Services), which have recently been building a Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network into remote rural parts of Cumbria’s Eden District, has just been acquired by Voneus for an undisclosed sum.

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12th Nov, 2020 (3 Comments)

As expected CK Hutchison Holdings, which is the parent of mobile network operator Three UK and some other providers, has today agreed to sell interests in European tower assets (including the UK, Austria, Denmark, Ireland, Italy and Sweden) and businesses to Spanish company Cellnex for £9bn (€10 billion).

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