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19th Dec 2023 (43 Comments)

Customers who first acquired their mobile number from Vectone Mobile, which one operator says “recently ceased all UK operators“, appear to be facing ongoing problems with routeing of calls and texts after major service problems began a couple of months ago. The bad news is that a change of number may be required to fully resolve it.

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18th Dec 2023 (4 Comments)

The Guernsey Competition & Regulatory Authority (GCRA) has posted its “final decision” on wholesale broadband charges for the English Channel Island of Guernsey, which has called for prices to be slashed by a significantly greater amount than the 11% reduction first proposed in May 2023.

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18th Dec 2023 (12 Comments)

UK ISP and mobile operator Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2) have today published their annual round-up of customer connectivity habits for 2023, which among other things finds that broadband usage on their fixed line network increased by 13% in 2023 (up from 9% last year). Similarly, the mobile traffic and data increased by 26% in 2023 (down from 36% last year).

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18th Dec 2023 (17 Comments)

The ITU’s World Radiocommunication Conference 2023 came to an end last week and one of its key decisions was to announce that the Upper 6GHz radio spectrum band (6425 to 7125MHz) can be used for mobile (5G and 6G), but also allows regulators like Ofcom in the UK to exploring a hybrid approach alongside WiFi.

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18th Dec 2023 (26 Comments)

The UK government has this morning announced the signing of a new charter with major broadband ISPs and landline phone providers, including Sky Broadband, BT, Virgin Media (O2) and TalkTalk, which sets out “new measures” to protect vulnerable customers when upgrading phone lines to a new digital (IP / VoIP based) network.

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16th Dec 2023 (19 Comments)

The Local Government Association, which represents councils across England and Wales, has warned that while the majority of councils are aware of the looming mobile network closures, almost two-thirds of them are still using devices and systems reliant on 2G and 3G connectivity to at least a small extent.

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16th Dec 2023 (28 Comments)

Network operator CityFibre has informed ISPreview that their new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network has just passed 3.37 million UK premises (3m of which are ‘Ready for Service’ by an ISP), which is up from 3 million (2.6m RFS) at the end of August 2023.

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15th Dec 2023 (22 Comments)

Abingdon-based rural broadband ISP Gigaclear, which has already extended their gigabit speed full fibre (FTTP) network to cover 500,000 premises (430k Ready for Service) across parts of 26 counties in England, has today secured a major new debt facility of up to £1.5bn to help fuel their roll-out.

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15th Dec 2023 (22 Comments)

UK ISP TalkTalk has announced that their Android TV powered ‘TV Hub‘ box, which was initially only made available to their full fibre (FTTP) customers, has expanded its availability to include both new and existing customers on their FTTC based “fibre broadband packages” (Fibre 35 & 65).

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15th Dec 2023 (0 Comments)

Hull-based UK broadband ISP Quickline, which is deploying a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across North and East England, has today announced that their network has gone live across two more villages in Lincolnshire and a further two in North Yorkshire.

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15th Dec 2023 (22 Comments)

Network operator CityFibre has announced that they’ve completed their £51m project to deploy a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network across the city of Southend-on-Sea (Essex), which originally began in 2019 and has now covered over 70,000 premises (RFS).

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15th Dec 2023 (3 Comments)

The Building Digital UK agency has released their Winter 2023 (Dec) progress update on the £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout scheme, which is so far running live contracts and procurements worth over £2bn in state aid to help extend coverage to an extra 1.1 million hard to reach premises.

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15th Dec 2023 (1 Comment)

The UK Government’s £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout scheme has today announced that they’ve awarded the regional £33m (state aid) rollout contract for Derbyshire (LOT 3) in England to ISP Connect Fibre, which will aim to extend their full fibre network to an additional 17,000+ premises in hard to reach rural areas.

Shell Energy Broadband

14th Dec 2023 (39 Comments)

News reports claim that the Octopus Energy Group will shortly sell Shell Energy’s remaining internet and phone customers, reflecting a total base of around 480,000, to budget broadband ISP TalkTalk for an as yet undisclosed sum. The deal could be formally announced within the next few days.

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14th Dec 2023 (1 Comment)

The Government’s executive Building Digital UK agency has today published a series of reports that evaluate different parts of their gigabit and full fibre broadband upgrade programmes, albeit broadly all focused on dark fibre style deployments to connect public sector sites (e.g. schools, council offices, hospitals etc.).

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14th Dec 2023 (0 Comments)

Business focused UK ISP and communications provider FluidOne has today announced the acquisition of Brighton based IT managed service provider (MSP), Computer and Network Consultants Limited (CNC), for an undisclosed sum. The move forms part of the provider’s wider strategic effort to expand its offerings in 2024

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14th Dec 2023 (3 Comments)

Back in 2020 we reported on the launch of a new Birmingham-based Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) called Zevvle (here), which offered a bit of a different twist on pay-as-you-go data (mobile broadband) pricing. But mounting costs and limited customer adoption appear to have now put an end to the provider.

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