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9th Mar 2023 (2 Comments)

Mobile infrastructure firm BAI Communications (BAI), which has built a bunch of “neutral host” style 4G and 5G mobile networks in the UK (mobile operators buy access to these via wholesale), has today revealed it will rebrand as Boldyn Networks, bringing together its six companies under one, new brand.

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9th Mar 2023 (1 Comment)

CityFibre has today announced the completion of their £5m “primary build” in the Cambridgeshire (England) town of March, which has extended their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to cover 8,500 premises (around 80% of the town’s residential properties), including most businesses.

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9th Mar 2023 (45 Comments)

The Labour MP for Hull North, Dame Diana Johnson, has presented a petition to parliament – signed by residents of Hull North – that urges the government to make it a requirement for new telecoms poles to apply for local planning permission and consult residents before being built – risking delays to the gigabit broadband build.

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9th Mar 2023 (11 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone has today issued an update on their deployment progress under the £1bn Shared Rural Network (SRN) project, which reveals that it has already rolled out 4G (mobile broadband) connectivity across 57 rural locations in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland under the programme.

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9th Mar 2023 (12 Comments)

Uswitch.com has unveiled the winners of their annual 2023 Telecoms Awards event, which among things saw Plusnet named as the best LARGE broadband ISP of the year, while Hyperoptic took the same award for smaller providers. Meanwhile, BT was named as the most reliable broadband ISP and giffgaff came top for mobile.

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9th Mar 2023 (10 Comments)

Alternative broadband ISP toob, which aims to cover 1 million premises across the South of England by 2027 (mostly in Surrey and Hampshire), has joined the growing club of smaller providers that have bucked the trend of recent price hikes by opting to keep their package prices frozen.

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9th Mar 2023 (35 Comments)

Mobile network operator EE UK has quietly introduced an important change to their 4G based Pay As You Go (PAYG) plans, which means that customers who joined from 1st March 2023 will have their mobile broadband speeds capped at just 25Mbps – this is advertised as being “Superfast speeds“.

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8th Mar 2023 (7 Comments)

The National Audit Office has today published an assessment of the progress being made by the UK Government’s 4G based Emergency Services Network (ESN), which finds that it continues to be massively over budget and has “fallen further behind schedule“. In fact, not even the Home Office knows when it’ll be ready, but 2029 or later is hinted.

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8th Mar 2023 (9 Comments)

Network builder and UK ISP Zzoomm, which is being backed by Oaktree Capital and aims to cover 1 million premises with their full fibre broadband network by the end of 2025 (they’ve already covered 100,000), has reportedly joined the list of those interested in acquiring fellow network provider Trooli.

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8th Mar 2023 (63 Comments)

Broadband ISP BT has today confirmed that they will restart the national UK rollout of their new Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) based Digital Voice product from April 2023, which will start gradually with a series of expanded pilot schemes that will be made up of “lower usage landline customers” who already have full fibre broadband.

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8th Mar 2023 (30 Comments)

The Independent Networks Co-operative Association, which represents UK alternative broadband ISP networks, has today warned Ofcom that “more than £25bn worth of investment” to improve the UK’s digital infrastructure “will be directly threatened” if Openreach is allowed to introduce new FTTP wholesale price discounts (Equinox 2).

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8th Mar 2023 (80 Comments)

Good news. The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today proposed new guidance that would only allow broadband ISPs to use the terms “fibre” and “full-fibre” on their websites and in contracts “if their network uses fibre-optic cables all the way from the exchange to the home” (i.e. FTTP).

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IX Wireless Mast in Blackburn

8th Mar 2023 (21 Comments)

Blackburn-based network operator IX Wireless, which is building a new gigabit-capable wireless broadband network for UK ISP 6G Internet (NOT related to 6G mobile), has faced criticism after over a hundred residents in part of Bolton came out to protest against their installation of another 15 metre high metal pole (mast).

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8th Mar 2023 (4 Comments)

The UK Government’s Technology Secretary, Michelle Donelan MP, will today re-introduce the new Data Protection and Digital Information Bill (DPDI No.2) to parliament, which among other things will increase fines for nuisance calls and texts to be either up to 4% of global turnover or £17.5 million, whichever is greater.

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7th Mar 2023 (27 Comments)

New customers of the Sky Stream TV product, which uses your home broadband ISP (doesn’t have to be Sky Broadband) and WiFi to stream Sky’s on-demand video and live TV content directly to your existing TV without a satellite dish, may be displeased to learn that they no longer own the set-top-box (puck) itself.

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7th Mar 2023 (5 Comments)

A team of researchers from the University of Oxford – working in close collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University – claims to have made a breakthrough to enable “perfectly secure” hidden digital communications for the first time by tackling some of the flaws with steganography via a new computer algorithm.

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7th Mar 2023 (0 Comments)

Broadband ISP 4th Utility, which is rolling out a gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to serve UK homes (SDU) and large residential blocks (MDU), has today announced the appointment of Steve Wilson to be the CEO of their new consumer business unit.

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