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26th Jul 2022 (9 Comments)

New research has analysed 5,292 mobile data (mobile broadband) plans from across 233 countries in order to compare the cost of a 1GB (GigaByte) data allowance, which found that the United Kingdom has improved its rank from 78th in 2021 to 59th in 2022, with an average price of USD $0.79 per GB (down from $1.42).

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26th Jul 2022 (6 Comments)

The UK Government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has today set aside £25m as part of their new Future Open Networks Research Challenge (FONRC) fund to help support the development of future 5G and 6G based mobile broadband equipment (focused primarily on O-RAN).

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26th Jul 2022 (1 Comment)

Broadband and mobile giant Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2) have agreed to supply a further 15 million GigaBytes (GB) of free data to the Good Things Foundation’s National Databank, which gifts free mobile broadband data to community groups and the people they support to aid internet connectivity – either via SIM cards or vouchers.

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25th Jul 2022 (77 Comments)

Budget conscious UK ISP TalkTalk appears to have begun a new programme trial, which is giving “some” existing customers a free automatic upgrade to full fibre broadband – provided they don’t already have such a package and are covered by the new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network.

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25th Jul 2022 (30 Comments)

Network builder CityFibre has today announced that they will begin upgrading their national UK GPON based full fibre broadband ISP network to harness XGS-PON technology from April 2023, which will enable them to offer symmetrical download and upload speeds of up to 10Gbps – Gigabits per second (9.953Gbps to be exact).

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25th Jul 2022 (3 Comments)

London-focused gigabit-broadband ISP G.Network has signed a “City Wide Wayleave” (legal land access) agreement with the Hackney Council in London, which will see them build their new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to cover public housing in the borough.

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25th Jul 2022 (6 Comments)

Satellite broadband firm OneWeb, which is British-registered and partly owned by the UK Government, is about to sign a merger deal with existing investor and rival French operator Eutelsat. But the UK is understood to have secured a number of concessions to help protect its strategic investment.

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25th Jul 2022 (8 Comments)

Vodafone UK has just published their latest Q1 FY23 results, which reveals that their fixed broadband base grew again to total 1,072,000 customers (up by 22k in the quarter vs 59k in Q4 FY22) and their mobile base also increased to total 17.22m (up by 115k vs 51k in the previous quarter).

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24th Jul 2022 (24 Comments)

The Competition Appeal Tribunal‘s (CAT) decision last week to reject CityFibre’s appeal against Ofcom’s approval process for Openreach’s “Equinox” price cut (here), which slashed the cost of the incumbent’s wholesale FTTP broadband products for UK ISPs, may not have been a total loss for the alternative network operator.

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23rd Jul 2022 (17 Comments)

Hull-based UK broadband ISP KCOM has, thus far, been fairly quiet on the operator’s plans to withdraw their older copper-based broadband (ADSL and VDSL) and phone (PSTN) products. But a recent update, which was given to their wholesale customers, appears to have included a solid indication of the likely timeline.

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22nd Jul 2022 (3 Comments)

A new alternative network (altnet) operator called Connect InfraCo, which has close links to UK ISP Connexin, has cropped up with a plan to rollout a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband platform to homes and businesses in the North of England, albeit “primarily” in a wholesale capacity.

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22nd Jul 2022 (3 Comments)

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has today cleared BT Group’s agreement with Warner Bros. Discovery, which is intended to result in a 50:50 Joint Venture (JV) company between BT Sport and Eurosport UK that will create a new TV sports offering for the UK and Ireland.

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22nd Jul 2022 (26 Comments)

The state aid supported Connecting Devon and Somerset (CDS) programme has been hit by yet another controversy after it “terminated” two contracts with Bath-based broadband ISP Truespeed, which had suffered delays in its £6.7m (public investment) deal to deploy a full fibre network to cover 15,172 premises.

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21st Jul 2022 (6 Comments)

Fibre optic network builder Freedom Fibre, which is being supported by UK ISP TalkTalk and is currently rolling out a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across semi-rural parts of North England, has today added 10 new towns and villages in Cheshire to their rollout plan.

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21st Jul 2022 (3 Comments)

European satellite operator Eutelsat, which is also the parent of UK ISP Konnect (We Konnect), has announced that their next generation Very High Throughput Satellite (VHTS) is finally on its way to Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou (French Guiana), ready to be launched via an Ariane 5 rocket on 6th September 2022.

21st Jul 2022 (13 Comments)

Consumers in the north of Scotland who have been waiting to adopt SpaceX’s popular Starlink service, which offers ultrafast latency and internet speeds via a mega constellation of broadband satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), may be pleased to learn that ISP has just expanded its availability to cover the highlands and Orkney.

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21st Jul 2022 (22 Comments)

Openreach (BT) has published the Tranche 9 batch of 65 new UK exchange areas where they plan to move away from copper-based analogue phone (PSTN / WLR etc.) services and on to a new all-IP network, which will also occur once over 75% of premises in an area can get their “ultrafast broadband” (FTTP and G.fast at 300Mbps+).

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