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24th Jan 2024 (2 Comments)
Community ISP B4RN (Broadband for the Rural North), which since 2011 has been working with volunteers to deploy a new 10Gbps full fibre (FTTP) network across rural parts of England, has secured a key grant of £66,000 from the Ray Wind Farm to help their network extend across more of the Barrasford area in Northumberland.
23rd Jan 2024 (29 Comments)
Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) last week became the first operator to launch a 48-month contract option for customers who take one of the latest Samsung Galaxy S24 smartphones alongside a mobile plan, which on the surface might appear to break Ofcom’s contract limit of 24-months. But as you’d expect, it’s not that simple.
23rd Jan 2024 (6 Comments)
Alternative network operator and UK ISP Connect Fibre (Fibre Assets), which aspires to cover 100,000 premises across the East of England with their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, has launched a new 150Mbps (symmetric) option on their social tariff to help complement the existing 50Mbps plan.
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23rd Jan 2024 (1 Comment)
The Institute of Customer Service (ICS) has today published their first biannual UK Customer Satisfaction Index for January 2024, which reveals that three telecoms providers made it into their table of the country’s top 50 organisations, including Tesco Mobile (5th), Giffgaff (23rd) and Sky Mobile (42nd). The odd broadband ISP also gets a nod.
23rd Jan 2024 (2 Comments)
Broadband ISP, TV and mobile provider Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2) have today announced that they intend to create around 200 new graduate, intern and apprenticeship roles across the UK in 2024 (starting salaries go up to £35,000 per year), which is down from the c.350 they pledged to create during 2023.
23rd Jan 2024 (0 Comments)
Software as a service provider Strategic Imperatives, which among other things operates the Fibre Café connectivity aggregation platform to help UK alternative broadband networks to grow, has today announced a deal to merge with technology firm X3T in order to harness its wholesale networks solution.
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23rd Jan 2024 (17 Comments)
Network builder and UK ISP Pine Media, which has been steadily deploying their own gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband infrastructure across parts of South Yorkshire, Kent and rural Derbyshire, has informed ISPreview that part of their network in Sheffield was recently hit by what appears to be a targeted attack.
22nd Jan 2024 (45 Comments)
BT’s Chief Security and Networks Officer, Howard Watson, has written a new blog post that contrasts their delivery progress on the £1bn industry-led Shared Rural Network (SRN) project (i.e. extending 4G mobile coverage to 95% of the UK by the end of 2025) with the slower pace at Vodafone, Three UK and O2 (VMO2).
22nd Jan 2024 (20 Comments)
British mobile operator Vodafone claims to have conducted the “first European test” of “advanced 5G uplink technology” by harnessing the latest Qualcomm processors and Xiaomi smartphone via their 5G Standalone (5GSA) network, which enabled them to achieve faster mobile broadband upload speeds of “up to” 273Mbps.
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22nd Jan 2024 (7 Comments)
Welsh broadband ISP Ogi, which is busy building a multi-Gigabit capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network for homes and businesses across parts of South Wales, has today revealed that they’ve made a number of improvements to their customer care provision (e.g. more support staff and longer opening times).
22nd Jan 2024 (1 Comment)
UK ISP Shell Energy, which is in the process of being acquired from the Octopus Energy Group by TalkTalk (here), will today announce annual price increases across their broadband and phone plans (including add-ons and call charges). The changes will impact both new customers and existing customers who are agreeing to a new contract.
20th Jan 2024 (32 Comments)
The latest research from Point Topic has revealed that world fixed broadband lines grew by 1.6% (22.39 million) in Q3 2023 to total 1.42 billion connections, which compares with 1.87% (24.59m) in the same quarter last year. But the subscriber growth rate of “full fibre” (FTTP/B) networks in the UK almost stalled in the latest quarter.
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19th Jan 2024 (5 Comments)
Rural focused network builder and ISP Voneus, which currently aims to cover 350,000 UK premises via both their gigabit fixed wireless access (FWA) and Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband networks, has today secured a further £25m investment boost from Global Connectivity PLC (G-CON).
19th Jan 2024 (20 Comments)
Broadband ISP and network builder Airband, which originally aimed to cover 600,000 UK premises in rural areas via a mix of their wireless (FWA) and full fibre (FTTP) networks by the end of 2025, has revealed that it’s going through a “period of restructuring” after claims of redundancies and build pauses surfaced.
19th Jan 2024 (0 Comments)
Eastbourne-based UK ISP and network builder Lightning Fibre, which is deploying a Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across parts of Sussex and Kent in England, has signed a new deal that will see their multi-gigabit speed full fibre service being expanded to cover homes managed by Southern Housing in East Sussex.
19th Jan 2024 (8 Comments)
Yesterday the First Minister of the Scottish Government, Humza Yousaf, revealed that the £600m Reaching 100% (R100) broadband upgrade project with Openreach (BT) “remains on track to complete build … by 2028” and had so far covered “more than 36,100 premises“. But in October 2023 the figure was stated as 42,000, so which is correct?
19th Jan 2024 (21 Comments)
In a perhaps unsurprising development, given recent news, Infracapital-backed broadband ISP Fibrus, which is building a new full fibre (FTTP) network across Northern Ireland and parts of North England, have begun a redundancy consultation that is expected to result in an unspecified number of job losses among their civil engineers.
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