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£7.66bn of Private Funding Pumped into UK Gigabit Altnets

13th Oct, 2020 (1 Comment)

A new report from Point Topic and the Independent Networks Co-operative Association (INCA) has revealed that over £1.76bn worth of private funding, related to the alternative gigabit broadband sector, was announced during 2019 until September 2020 and that brings the total so far to £7.66bn.

ISP Zzoomm Confirm Hereford as its Next Gigabit Fibre Rollout

13th Oct, 2020 (9 Comments)

Residents and businesses in the Herefordshire (England) city of Hereford, which is home to around 56,000 people, will be the next to gain access to Zzoomm’s 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband network after the ISP largely completed their build in Henley-on-Thames.

New UK FTTP Gigabit Broadband ISP Simply Fibre Surfaces

13th Oct, 2020 (1 Comment)

Once again we start the day with an announcement about yet another new entrant into the growing market of alternative UK networks, Simply Fibre, which appears to have been partially set up by a familiar name. The operator plans to deploy its own Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) service to homes and businesses.

EE Put Ultrafast 5G Network Live in 12 New UK Towns and Cities

13th Oct, 2020 (29 Comments)

Mobile operator EE (BT) has this morning announced that their new 5G ultrafast mobile broadband network has just started to go live in the busiest parts of a further 12 towns and cities across the United Kingdom, which includes locations such as Aberdeen, Blackpool and Oxford.

New Operator Broadreach Networks Plans UK Full Fibre Build

12th Oct, 2020 (21 Comments)

A new company called Broadreach Networks has just thrown its hat into the increasingly crowded ring of operator’s that all intend to build gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband networks, but this one seems to be less of an ISP and more of a wholesale provider – with a focus upon smaller towns.

Wireless ISP Wildanet to Deploy FTTP Broadband in Cornwall

12th Oct, 2020 (6 Comments)

Fixed wireless UK broadband ISP Wildanet, which covers some rural parts of Cornwall in England, has today revealed that they’re looking to branch out into building a Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network that would cater for “homes and commercial premises in urban and rural areas” within the county.

6,400 Homes in Mid Sussex UK Set for Gigabit Full Fibre Boost

12th Oct, 2020 (7 Comments)

The Mid Sussex District Council (MSDC) has announced that thousands of businesses, residents and communities across Mid Sussex will soon get access to a new “gigabit-capable” full fibre broadband network, which is being supported by an investment of £2.2m from the Government’s Local Full Fibre Network (LFFN) scheme.

Customers of UK ISP Zen Hit by Core Network Problems UPDATE

12th Oct, 2020 (10 Comments)

Some customers of Zen Internet’s broadband and Ethernet services, particularly those whose connections terminate in London, are this morning suffering from some unusual internet connectivity problems, which means that your line may be live but a few popular online services (e.g. web browsing) will not be fully functional.

Full Fibre UK ISP Hyperoptic Launch Nokia Hyperhub Router

12th Oct, 2020 (20 Comments)

Gigabit broadband ISP Hyperoptic has today announced the introduction of a new “Hyperhub” router, the Nokia HA-140W-B, which promises a peak theoretical combined WiFi speed of 2.92Gbps but will only be available to new customers who take out one of their top 500Mbps of 1Gbps full fibre (FTTP/B) packages.

Sky UK Trying to Fix Access Point Temporarily Full Router Bug

12th Oct, 2020 (25 Comments)

Some of Sky Broadband’s UK ISP customers, mostly those with one of their latest Sky Hub routers (SR203), are being faced with an intermittent bug that results in the WiFi connection giving an “access point temporarily full” message and disrupting local connectivity, even though the router is well below its device limit.

H1 2020 BDUK Take-up Data – UK Superfast Broadband Rollout

11th Oct, 2020 (40 Comments)

The Government’s £1.8bn Building Digital UK project has now helped to extend “superfast broadband” (24-30Mbps+) ISP networks to 5,293,139 extra premises since 2012 (up by 62,665 over the past 6 months) – about 390,000 of these are FTTP – and the latest take-up data to June 2020 reveals strong demand.

PC Pro Award Zen and Tesco Best for UK Broadband and Mobile

10th Oct, 2020 (4 Comments)

PC Pro has released the results of their annual 2020 Excellence Awards, which saw Tesco Mobile being named as the “Best Mobile Data Provider” and fixed line provider Zen Internet once again picking up a 17th consecutive win for the “Best Broadband ISP” category. Zen also scooped the “Best Web Host” category.

Telecoms Engineers and ISP Staff Get Queen’s Birthday Honours

9th Oct, 2020 (18 Comments)

The annual Queen’s Birthday Honours (2020) has just been published and it includes some figures from the United Kingdom’s broadband and telecoms sector, such as two Openreach (BT) engineers who have secured an MBE (Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) for their services.

ClearFibre and Connectus Deal to Extend 1Gbps Broadband

9th Oct, 2020 (0 Comments)

Thousands of UK new build homes across parts of the “Northern PowerHouse” region look set to gain access to a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network, thanks to a new partnership between residential managed ISP ClearFibre (Telcom) and commercial connectivity provider Connectus.

Progress on Gigaclear’s East Berkshire FTTP Broadband Rollout

9th Oct, 2020 (3 Comments)

After a bit of a delay it appears as if rural UK ISP Gigaclear is finally starting to make some solid progress on their state aid supported contract in East Berkshire, which over the last nine months has laid 55km of new fibre to help cover 4,300 premises with their 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network.

Three UK Launches £5 International Mobile Calling Add-on

9th Oct, 2020 (26 Comments)

Mobile operator Three UK has announced that Pay Monthly customers of their 4G and 5G network can now benefit from a selection of two optional new international calling add-ons, which cost from just £5 extra per month and make it cheaper to call people in 55 other countries.

Government Pledge to Help Tackle Huge Broadband USO Costs UPDATE

9th Oct, 2020 (45 Comments)

The UK Government’s Digital Minister, Matt Warman, has called on Ofcom and BT to find a “resolution” to the situation with the new Universal Service Obligation (USO) for broadband, which results in some homes being quoted tens or even hundreds of thousands of pounds to get a 10Mbps+ capable ISP connection.