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Quickline See Project Gigabit Broadband Progress in Lincolnshire and the East Yorkshire

25th Feb, 2025 (1 Comment)

UK ISP Quickline has today given a progress update on their £118.9m state aid backed contracts under the Government’s Project Gigabit broadband rollout scheme for Lincolnshire and the East Riding of Yorkshire (Lot 23), which will see their 10Gbps capable full fibre (FTTP) network being expanded to cover 72,000 premises in hard to reach rural areas.

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NET CHECK Study Names Vodafone UK as London’s Best Mobile Network

25th Feb, 2025 (10 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone UK has come top in a new network benchmarking study of 4G and 5G (broadband and calls) performance across London, which was conducted by the Berlin-based NET CHECK organisation and saw them score the highest number of ranking points (932.83 out of a possible 1,000 points).

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BDUK Close Gigabit Broadband Vouchers for Newcastle and North Tyneside

25th Feb, 2025 (0 Comments)

The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has made a change this week that closes their Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme (GBVS) for Newcastle and North Tyneside (Tyne and Wear), which means that local homes and businesses in poorly served rural areas can no longer apply for big grants to help get a much faster broadband ISP network installed.

Hiya Finds 32 Percent of Unknown UK Calls are SPAM in Q4 2024

25th Feb, 2025 (5 Comments)

The Q4 2024 Global Call Threat Report from Hiya, which works with broadband ISPs and mobile operators (BT, EE, O2, Virgin Media etc.) to help tackle SPAM and fraud calls, has revealed that UK residents received 4 spam calls per person each month (unchanged from Q3) and the percentage of unknown calls that are spam hit 32% (up from 28%).

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Vodafone UK Trial Simultaneous Use of Multiple 5G Standalone Network Slices

25th Feb, 2025 (7 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone has announced that they’ve completed a new trial that showcased their ability to deliver multiple 5G Standalone (SA) network slices simultaneously for different use cases. This included one that delivered a seamless live video stream and another that was required to ensure guaranteed upload speeds for a photography agency at the same site.

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London Ranks Bottom in MedUX Test of UK and EU 5G Mobile Performance

25th Feb, 2025 (1 Comment)

Network testing and benchmarking firm MedUX has today previewed a new study, which examined the performance and quality of 5G (mobile broadband) networks from EE, O2, Vodafone and Three UK across London. Sadly the results, which also tested 14 other major European cities, put the UK’s capital at the very bottom of the table.

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Wireless Broadband Provider Dyfed Telecom Hit by Winding Up Petition

25th Feb, 2025 (6 Comments)

Kidwelly-based wireless broadband provider and supplier Dyfed Telecom Limited, which over the past few years has helped to connect various premises in rural Wales to broadband using a mix of mobile (EE powered 4G/5G), satellite (Starlink) and WiFi based solutions, has suffered a blow after HMRC filed a winding-up petition against the business.

Starlink Quietly Add £8 Roaming Plan to UK Satellite Broadband Service

24th Feb, 2025 (20 Comments)

SpaceX’s Starlink service, which offers ultrafast broadband speeds via a mega constellation of satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), appears to have quietly added a new and super cheap £8 per month roaming plan for customers in the UK. But as usual, there are a few catches to consider.

TOTSCo Clarifies Status of Change Freeze in UK ISP Switching Process

24th Feb, 2025 (5 Comments)

The industry-led One Touch Switching Company (TOTSCo), which is the central messaging platform for implementing Ofcom’s recently launched (Sept 2024) solution for easier and quicker consumer switching between broadband and phone providers (One Touch Switching), has caused some head scratching after clarifying the status of a key change freeze.

UK ISP Virgin Media Suffers Broadband Outage After Routing Issue

24th Feb, 2025 (7 Comments)

Broadband ISP Virgin Media (O2) should now be coming back online after some of the provider’s customers suffered a partial outage of their internet connectivity this morning. This appears as if it could have stemmed from a peering/routing issue with some of their network partners (this may have also impacted other online services / providers).

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Study Compares UK and EU 5G Standalone and NSA Mobile Broadband Speeds

24th Feb, 2025 (3 Comments)

Network testing firm Ookla (i.e. Speedtest.net, Downdetector.co.uk) has today published an interesting new report that examines the adoption and performance of 5G Standalone (5GSA) based mobile broadband networks across the UK and Europe. This also compares the new technology against existing Non-Standalone (NSA) 5G networks.

Eutelsat OneWeb in First Successful Trial of a 5G Non-Terrestrial Network

24th Feb, 2025 (12 Comments)

European satellite operator Eutelsat has announced that their OneWeb network, which is a global constellation of broadband satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) that is partly still supported by the UK government (11% stake), has just conducted the “world’s first successful trial” of a 5G Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN).

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Signs of Life as UK Broadband Altnet WhyFibre Spotted Building FTTP

24th Feb, 2025 (1 Comment)

Four years have passed since we first reported on the emergence of a new alternative network (altnet) called WhyFibre (here). The operator had expressed a plan to build a new gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across “underserved” parts of South England, but until recently they had appeared to be dormant.

Virgin Media Set to Open Upgraded Full Fibre Network to UK Customers

24th Feb, 2025 (30 Comments)

Several credible sources have informed ISPreview that broadband ISP Virgin Media (O2) is gearing up for an important new product launch, which is expected to occur in March 2025 (delays still possible). The expectation is that this will reflect the opening up of their new XGS-PON powered full fibre network in existing coax (cable) areas to live customers.

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CEO of Broadband ISP Community Fibre Apologises After Second Outage

22nd Feb, 2025 (21 Comments)

Hopefully bad things don’t come in threes. Graeme Oxby, the CEO of London focused full fibre broadband ISP CommunityFibre, has apologised to customers after the operator suffered a second service outage yesterday, which much like the first one appears as if it could have been related to their Domain Name Servers (DNS). But this outage was much shorter.

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CityFibre UK Completes Primary FTTP Broadband Build in Aberdeen

21st Feb, 2025 (15 Comments)

Network access provider CityFibre, which has so far built their 2.5Gbps speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to cover 4.3 million UK premises (4.1m Ready for Service), have confirmed the completion of their “primary” £59m build in the city of Aberdeen (Scotland).

Mobile Operator Scores Key Court Win in Dispute Over UK Mast Leasing and Renewal UPDATE2

21st Feb, 2025 (2 Comments)

Mobile network operator Vodafone UK has won a key court case against leasing firm AP Wireless (inc. the affiliated Icon Tower company). Some operators believe the firm could risk damaging their roll-out of 5G based mobile broadband technology, such as by pushing up their costs and threatening the viability of future deployments.