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Dorset UK Inject £1m Boost into Gigabit Broadband Vouchers

30th Jul, 2020 (2 Comments)

The Dorset County Council (DCC) has this week become the latest in a string of local authorities to invest £1m into a “top up” scheme alongside the UK Government’s £200m Rural Gigabit Connectivity (RGC) programme, which helps properties in the most remote rural locations to access ultrafast broadband.

Virgin Media UK Pledge No Cable Broadband Price Rise in 2020

30th Jul, 2020 (44 Comments)

Existing customers of cable TV and ultrafast broadband ISP Virgin Media UK (Liberty Global) have this week begun receiving a new email from the operator, which informs them of “a little good news” and reveals that they “won’t see any other price rise in 2020.” The provider normally hikes prices annually by around 5% (average).

Losing Broadband Places High on List of Top Inconveniences

30th Jul, 2020 (0 Comments)

A new Opinium survey has found that the loss of electricity for longer than 24 hours would be the biggest “inconvenience” for those surveyed in the East of England (76%), which is followed by the broadband link going down (9%), fridge not working (8%), loss of central heating (5%) and the car failing to start (3%).

62% of Brits Might Not Buy a House Without Strong Broadband

30th Jul, 2020 (16 Comments)

A new survey of from low cost ISP TalkTalk has claimed that nearly two thirds (62%) of British people admit they would consider NOT buying a house if it didn’t have a “strong, reliable internet connection,” although they neglect to define what “strong” means (we suspect it’s likely to vary from person to person).

Community Fibre Invest £400m in Mass London FTTP Fibre Rollout

29th Jul, 2020 (12 Comments)

London-focused broadband ISP CommunityFibre has today announced a major investment of £400 million to help fuel a huge expansion of their 10Gbps speed capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across the UK’s capital city, which is being funded by global equity firm Warburg Pincus LLC and management group DTCP.

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Ofcom to Help BT Fibre Rollout Reach 3.2 Million Rural Premises UPDATE

29th Jul, 2020 (74 Comments)

Ofcom has proposed to change their UK regulation as a result of Openreach’s (BT) recent commitment to extend their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to a further 3.2 million rural properties, which will allow the operator to include these investment costs in its prices upfront.

Openreach Expands FTTP Broadband Discount for UK ISPs UPDATE

29th Jul, 2020 (9 Comments)

At the end of last year Openreach (BT) introduced a new wholesale discount on their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) service (here), which encouraged ISPs to build stronger take-up in return for reductions on service rental and connection fees. The good news is that this has now been expanded and improved.

G.Network Brings FTTP Broadband to Howard de Walden Estate

29th Jul, 2020 (4 Comments)

UK ISP G.Network and a major London landlord, the Howard de Walden Estate (HDWE), have agreed a deal that means 850 properties across 92 acres of London’s Marylebone area will now gain access to their 900Mbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network “as a standard feature for its residential occupiers.”

EE Retains Lead as the UK’s Best Mobile Network for H1 2020

29th Jul, 2020 (11 Comments)

The latest biannual H1 2020 study of mobile network (4G and 5G) performance across the United Kingdom, which was conducted by RootMetrics, has once again named EE (BT) as the best overall operator. On top of that they delivered the fastest median (average) broadband download speed of 42.6Mbps (up from 36.5Mbps).

Slow Broadband Drags UK Down Digital Quality of Life Index

29th Jul, 2020 (6 Comments)

Surfshark has examined internet affordability, internet quality, e-infrastructure, e-security and e-government services across 85 countries to produce their latest ‘Digital Quality of Life Index 2020‘, which ranks the United Kingdom 7th overall. But we’re being dragging down by poor broadband and mobile connectivity.

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Google’s Grace Hopper Subsea Fibre to Link UK, USA and Spain

28th Jul, 2020 (9 Comments)

Internet technology giant Google has announced plans to construct a new private subsea fibre optic cable – called ‘Grace Hopper‘ – between the USA (New York), United Kingdom (Bude in Cornwall) and Spain (Bilbao), which could improve the performance of their online services and ensure plenty of data capacity for the future.

Talk Talk Launch Openreach FTTP 500Mbps Broadband Service UPDATE

28th Jul, 2020 (31 Comments)

Budget conscious UK ISP TalkTalk has finally soft launched their first “Future Fibre” broadband packages based off Openreach’s (BT) ever expanding Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, which at the time of writing appears to offer ultrafast speeds from 150Mbps to 500Mbps. No 1Gbps, yet.

EE UK Boosts Parental Controls Over Children’s Smartphones

28th Jul, 2020 (2 Comments)

Mobile operator EE (BT) has today launched “Set Up Safe” for all UK Pay Monthly customers, which is a free new SMS service that is designed to help parents “quickly and easily set up their child’s phone with safety features” (i.e. block adult internet content, set spending caps and stop them adding extra charges to the bill etc.).

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More Big UK Home Broadband ISPs Commit to Fairer Pricing

28th Jul, 2020 (2 Comments)

Industry regulator Ofcom has today secured new commitments from UK ISPs EE, Plusnet and Sky Broadband to reduce prices automatically for “vulnerable customers” who are out of contract, which mirrors a similar move agreed last year with BT, TalkTalk and Virgin Media. Savings of £270m are forecast.

Broadband ISP TalkTalk UK Rejects £1.5bn Bid by Key Investor

28th Jul, 2020 (0 Comments)

Low cost UK internet provider TalkTalk is confirmed to have quietly rejected a takeover bid by one of its biggest investors (Toscafund) last year, which would have valued the entire company at an impressive £1.5bn or 135p a share (roughly equating to double its current share price of around 75p).

VIDEO Full Fibre Ltd Highlight Broadband Rollout in Shrewsbury

28th Jul, 2020 (1 Comment)

New UK operator Full Fibre Limited, which last year started building a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband network (here) – aimed at “rural and semi-urban areas” around Devon, Surrey, Somerset, Gloucestershire and Herefordshire, has done a new video to showcase their progress in Shrewsbury.

Ofcom Adds 39GHz as Option for Supplying WiFi on UK Trains

27th Jul, 2020 (9 Comments)

Ofcom has today updated their advice to the UK Government on spectrum bands suitable for providing “trackside to train connectivity,” which adds the 39GHz band as a possible option. In the future this could be used to support on-board ultrafast broadband capable WiFi access points or mobile (4G, 5G) small cells for commuters.