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24th Apr 2023 (38 Comments)
The Scottish Government (SG) and NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) have today awarded BT (EE) with a contract worth up to £350m over the next 6-years, which will see the UK telecoms giant become the sole provider to deliver public sector connectivity across Scotland via the Scottish Wide Area Network (SWAN).
24th Apr 2023 (1 Comment)
Internet service provider iTalk has recently become the latest broadband ISP to raise prices across their range of ADSL, FTTC and FTTP based internet and phone packages for consumers, which are all powered via Openreach’s national network. The change applies to their standard monthly prices and doesn’t impact existing first-term discounts.
24th Apr 2023 (74 Comments)
Mobile operator Three UK appears to have been one of the worst affected yesterday after many of their customers (including yours truly) did NOT receive a notification during the Government’s nationwide test of their new Emergency Alerts service, despite using supported kit. A smaller portion of users on Vodafone, O2 and EE also had problems.
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24th Apr 2023 (11 Comments)
Ofcom has today published their latest UK consumer affordability report, which finds the take-up of cheaper social broadband ISP and mobile tariffs for those on state benefits has increased to 220,000 households (up from 136,000 six months ago). But that still represents just 5.1% of households on Universal Credit (4.3 million).
21st Apr 2023 (0 Comments)
21st Apr 2023 (11 Comments)
Mobile operator O2 (VMO2) has, after analysing and blocking tens of millions of malicious and fraudulent text (SMS) messages targeting its UK customers, revealed the top five most common fraud texts blocked on their network (firewall) in March 2023. Topping the table were texts from criminals posing as someone’s mum or dad.
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21st Apr 2023 (12 Comments)
Good news. Openreach has quietly re-opened their Fibre Community Partnership (FCP) scheme, which works with disadvantaged communities (e.g. rural villages) around England, Wales and Scotland to help co-fund the deployment of new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP networks.
21st Apr 2023 (4 Comments)
The 2023 Northern Tech Awards has ranked broadband ISP and network builder Connexin as the 16th (out of 100) Fastest Growing Technology Company in the North. The provider is currently building a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network (here) across parts of Hull and Yorkshire in England.
20th Apr 2023 (0 Comments)
Mobile operator Superdrug Mobile, which is a virtual operator (MVNO) on Three UK’s national network, has just confirmed a continued price freeze across all of its plans. The operator says they’ve not raised their costs in over 4 years and are opting again to buck the current trend, which has seen some rivals hike prices by up to 17.3%.
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20th Apr 2023 (5 Comments)
UK ISP Glide Group, which is busy extending their full fibre broadband network (leased lines and FTTP etc.), has announced that they’re upgrading more of their “legacy network” kit in BT exchanges across the country to “improve hardware, reduce electricity consumption and enable their network to support [10-100Gbps speeds]“.
20th Apr 2023 (77 Comments)
The Director of Fixed Infrastructure, Engineering and Delivery at broadband ISP Virgin Media UK (VMO2), Matt Tully, has revealed that their upgrade from legacy Hybrid Fibre Coax (HFC) infrastructure to 10Gbps capable XGS-PON based Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) lines will start to go live for homes “later this year“.
20th Apr 2023 (20 Comments)
Broadband ISP and mobile giant Virgin Media (VM O2) have reportedly started the process that could lead to them selling off all or part of their stake in the UK’s largest mobile tower network, which could fetch around £750m (half its stake). The funding would then be used to help fuel their full fibre (XGS-PON) and 5G mobile rollout.
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19th Apr 2023 (2 Comments)
A new study from economic consultancy firm Fideres has accused UK telecoms regulator Ofcom of “tacitly allowing” TalkTalk, Virgin Media (VMO2) and other voice-only landline providers (e.g. SSE) to overcharge consumers by up to £200 million since 2009 (£100m by TT, £50m by VMO2, and a further £50m by smaller providers).
19th Apr 2023 (1 Comment)
Network operator Neos Networks, which runs one of the fastest growing, high capacity business fibre networks in the UK – spanning 34,000km and 550 exchanges, has today announced that its existing CEO, Colin Sempill, is to be replaced by Lee Myall, who joins the business from Kao Data where he is the CEO.
19th Apr 2023 (11 Comments)
The FTTH Council Europe has today released their 2023 ranking of the European countries with the strongest take-up and annual growth of gigabit-capable “full fibre” (FTTP/H/B) broadband ISP networks. Once again, the United Kingdom continues to see exceptional growth (42% in homes passed) over the past year.
19th Apr 2023 (7 Comments)
A new study from SaaSGenius, which contacted ten of the UK’s “leading utility companies” to test the quality and responsiveness of their customer help desks, has perhaps surprisingly found that home energy and broadband ISP Shell Energy came top of the table with a customer support score of 80.1 out of 100.
19th Apr 2023 (28 Comments)
The FTTH Council Europe‘s annual conference in Vienna (Austria) has today announced the winners of their 2023 awards, which among other things saw national UK network operator Openreach being named as the winner of their ‘FTTH Operator Award‘.
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