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5th Sep 2023 (22 Comments)

Some customers of mobile network operators EE (BT), Vodafone and O2 (Virgin Media) are this morning continuing to report problems with making and receiving calls between the aforementioned networks (this also impacted some landline calls), which is an issue that first began around midday on Monday (4th Sept).

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5th Sep 2023 (58 Comments)

Openreach (BT) has this morning confirmed that they’ve formally introduced their long-planned UK wide “stop sell” on sales of new Wholesale Line Rental (WLR) and related broadband ISP products, which is part of their aim to completely withdraw the old copper-based Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) by December 2025.

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4th Sep 2023 (3 Comments)

The Common Wholesale Platform (CWP) and related Common Switching Platform (CSP), which is a non-profit member-owned organisation that helps alternative broadband networks to provide wholesale services to the UK market (ISPs), has hailed successful switching tests with the TOTSCo One Touch Switching (OTS) platform.

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4th Sep 2023 (3 Comments)

Network operator Upp, which is investing £1bn (via LetterOne) to deploy a new gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network for homes and businesses across the East of England, has launched a new ‘BusinessEssentials’ package that is designed to provide its “Next Level Broadband” service to smaller firms.

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4th Sep 2023 (4 Comments)

London-focused network builder and UK ISP CommunityFibre, which is rolling out a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across the city (currently covering 1.2m premises), has launched a special set of two packages for students that come attached to 3 months of free service.

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4th Sep 2023 (6 Comments)

The Government has posted an updated State Aid evaluation of the previous ‘Superfast Broadband Programme’ (UK National Broadband Scheme), which specifically examines the final Phase 3 of the project to extend “superfast” (30Mbps+) coverage – run between 2016 and 2022. Suffice to say, it finds various economic and coverage benefits.

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4th Sep 2023 (2 Comments)

Alternative UK network operator and ISP County Broadband, which holds an aspiration to cover 500,000 premises across the East of England with their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network by the end of 2027, has donated £10,000 worth of computers to Digital Essex to tackle digital exclusion.

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4th Sep 2023 (6 Comments)

The first cohort of at least 90 apprentice full fibre (FTTP) engineers have just begun their training for future telecoms jobs, which forms part of the UK Government’s £108m investment under their Project Gigabit broadband rollout contract with ISP Fibrus – alongside network build partner Viberoptix – in rural Cumbria.

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4th Sep 2023 (56 Comments)

CityFibre has confirmed to ISPreview that they’ve recently taken the decision to exit a number of UK full fibre (FTTP) broadband contracts with build partners for a variety of reasons. One of those is known to be the Kier Group, which held various contracts for places such as Weston-Super-Mare, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Bath and Worcester etc.

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2nd Sep 2023 (73 Comments)

More bad news for any broadband ISPs that were planning to launch faster packages based off Openreach’s forthcoming Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) tiers, which push top download speeds to 1.2Gbps and 1.8Gbps (both offer 120Mbps upstream). The current service pilot has just been extended for yet another 3 months.

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2nd Sep 2023 (11 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has written to the Office of the Telecoms Adjudicator (OTA) as part of efforts to encourage the adoption of changes to improve phone number porting between providers, ideally in time for the revised launch of the One Touch Switch (OTS) migration system for broadband ISPs.

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1st Sep 2023 (0 Comments)

The LSBUD (Line Search Before You Dig) organisation, which provides an online asset search facility to UK civil engineering firms for underground pipes and cables, has published their annual Digging Up Britain 2023 report and revealed that telecoms remained the most active industry when it comes to searching before digging.

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Shell Energy Broadband

1st Sep 2023 (21 Comments)

The Shell Petroleum Company, through its 100% owned subsidiary Impello Limited (“Shell”), has today caused no big surprises by announcing that the Octopus Energy Group has acquired its retail energy and broadband ISP business – Shell Energy (UK and Germany) – for an as yet undisclosed sum.

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1st Sep 2023 (5 Comments)

Inverness-based ISP BrawBand (HighNet), which currently sells home broadband services over CityFibre’s Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network in cities such as Inverness, Glasgow, Renfrewshire and Edinburgh, has today announced that they plan to double the coverage of their service by adding several additional areas.

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1st Sep 2023 (21 Comments)

The non-profit Silver Voices organisation, which campaigns on behalf of senior UK citizens, has withdrawn its support for UK broadband ISP BT’s transition to Digital Voice (phone) services after the provider allegedly “reneged” on a deal with the group to help safeguard the interests of those over the age of 70.

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1st Sep 2023 (3 Comments)

The UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has today started inviting feedback to help them pick the shortlist for this year’s “Internet Hero” category as part of their 2023 internet industry awards event, which is due to take place on 9th November at the Old War Offices in Whitehall (Raffles London at the OWO Hotel).

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1st Sep 2023 (65 Comments)

Internet service provider YouFibre, which predominantly harnesses Netomnia’s growing UK Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based network (currently available to 600,000 premises), has today officially taken the wrappings off one of the country’s fastest 8Gbps (Gigabits per second) broadband packages for homes!

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