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31st Jul 2024 (1 Comment)

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned a website advert for internet streaming and broadband provider NOW TV (aka – NOW Broadband), which is a sibling of Sky UK, after it was found to have failed to clearly set out that their basic TV plans (subscriptions) included ads (unless you paid extra for the ‘Boost’ upgrade).

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31st Jul 2024 (9 Comments)

A new Strand Partners survey of 4,000 members of the UK public, which was commissioned by broadband and mobile providers Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2), has claimed that over a third of rural residents (or 66% of “young people“) are likely to be considering a move away to a town or city in the next 12 months. Poor internet connectivity is one of the key drivers for this.

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30th Jul 2024 (0 Comments)

Edinburgh-based alternative network provider GoFibre (BorderLink), which has already rolled out their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to 100,000 rural premises across the North England and the Scottish Borders, has today celebrated the first anniversary of their £50,000 GoFurther charity fund by awarding more projects.

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30th Jul 2024 (2 Comments)

Network operator and broadband ISP CommunityFibre, which has built a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across 1.4 million UK premises – mostly in London, has today announced an expansion of their initiative offering “free access to 100% full fibre broadband to eligible Londoners struggling to get online“.

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30th Jul 2024 (1 Comment)

Rural broadband ISP Wildanet, which is building a new full fibre (FTTP) network across South West England, has chosen network solutions provider Xantaro and Nokia to help support their deployments in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly with Street Cabinet and Exchange Solutions etc.

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30th Jul 2024 (0 Comments)

Alternative network provider Grain (Grain Connect), which has so far grown their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to cover 220k UK premises RFS (21st May 2024) and 30k customers, has just announced that they’re going to expand their existing deployment in the Greater Manchester town of Bolton.

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30th Jul 2024 (12 Comments)

A new survey of 427 small UK business owners, which was conducted by business focused broadband ISP bOnline in the late June to mid-July 2024 period, has found that 70% of respondents either don’t know if Openreach’s (BT) gigabit-capable FTTP broadband network has reached their area or believe that it is not yet available.

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29th Jul 2024 (8 Comments)

Wireless infrastructure firm Cellnex has today extended their existing partnership with UK mobile providers Vodafone and O2 (Virgin Media), which will ensure that both operators continue to have access to share Cellnex’s national tower infrastructure to help deploy 5G (mobile broadband) and future services.

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29th Jul 2024 (20 Comments)

Network access provider Openreach (BT) has issued another update on a long-running underground petrol leak in the Surrey village of Bramley, which has already restricted the ability to safely work on their local broadband ISP and phone network. The bad news today is that “making [this] network safe and accessible” could now take “at least 12 months“.

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29th Jul 2024 (8 Comments)

Residents living in the tiny North Wales (UK) village of Penmachno in the isolated upland Machno valley area, which has long been known to suffer from flaky mobile coverage, have banded together to tackle the issue by installing a “cutting-edge, free WiFi [mesh] system” in the centre of the community.

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29th Jul 2024 (10 Comments)

The telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today given UK phone providers (fixed line and mobile) six months to implement changes that aim to help tackle scammers who call from abroad and imitate UK landline numbers (i.e. spoofed calls), which requires stricter measures against “Presentation Numbers” that are used to identify who is making a call.

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29th Jul 2024 (0 Comments)

Residents in the rural Shropshire (England) village of Brockton (Lydbury North), which sits a few short miles from the town of Bishop’s Castle and is served by a hybrid full fibre (FTTP) and wireless broadband network from Voneus, have for the past month been “plagued with frequent outages and, when it is up, lots of packet loss, essentially making it unusable“.

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28th Jul 2024 (21 Comments)

The CEO of Virgin Media’s co-parent operator Liberty Global, Michael Fries, has given a useful update on the progress they’re making with opening up their UK broadband network to wholesale (NetCo), the potential for consolidation within the alternative network (altnet) market and their position with respect to ISP TalkTalk’s debt problems.

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27th Jul 2024 (23 Comments)

Abingdon-based UK broadband ISP Gigaclear, which has long been rolling out their gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to cover rural locations across Essex (England) – via a mix of commercial build and state aid supported contracts, is now facing legal action from Essex County Council (ECC) over an alleged failure to deliver on their contracted builds.

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27th Jul 2024 (8 Comments)

The industry-led One Touch Switching Company (TOTSCo), which holds responsibility for implementing Ofcom’s heavily delayed One Touch Switch (OTS) migration system for faster consumer switching between UK internet service providers, has reported its “first successful residential customer switches” during the final trial phase.

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26th Jul 2024 (8 Comments)

The efforts to try and save broadband ISP TalkTalk from its rapidly suffocating debts took another twist today after a report claimed that shareholders, led by company founder Sir Charles Dunstone, are attempting to sweeten their offer to lenders by introducing an asset pledge – worth c.£200m – to support an already proposed capital injection of over £200m.

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26th Jul 2024 (9 Comments)

The CEO of Oxfordshire-based alternative broadband provider Zzoomm, Matthew Hare, has revealed that they’re still aspiring to cover 1 million UK premises with their 2Gbps FTTP network (despite the recent move to stop new building work), but “if we can’t build it ourselves then … you have to buy it” (growing through consolidation).

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