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video streaming player

8th December, 2023 (7 Comments)

Telecoms giant BT has today unveiled the development of a new IP transmission technology, called MAUD (Multicast-Assisted Unicast Delivery), which promises to be a more reliable, quality-focused and sustainable way of delivering content (e.g. video and TV) over the internet – doing it in a way that’s both cheaper and more efficient.

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8th December, 2023 (11 Comments)

Mobile network operators including EE (BT), Vodafone, Three UK and O2 (VMO2) are facing a class action claim worth “at least” £3.285bn from consumer rights champion Justin Gutmann and the law firm Charles Lyndon, which accuses them of historically overcharging for mobile handsets beyond the end of their contractual term.

BT Internet Traffic 6th Dec 2023

7th December, 2023 (13 Comments)

Telecoms giant BT has revealed that the overall volume of internet traffic across their fixed broadband ISP network reached a new peak of 30.1Tbps (Terabits per second) last night at around 9pm, which is up from around 28Tbps last year and 25Tbps in 2021.

SpeedTestB

7th December, 2023 (5 Comments)

Benchmarking firm Opensignal has today published a supposedly “definitive” study of fixed broadband speeds across the United Kingdom, which reveals which ISPs are delivering both the best service quality and speeds to consumers. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the table ends up being topped by CommunityFibre, Virgin Media and Hyperoptic etc.

2023 Openreach Female Engineer on FTTP Pole

7th December, 2023 (82 Comments)

Network access provider Openreach (BT) has today revealed the next batch of 142 new locations to benefit from their ongoing deployment of a new multi-Gigabit capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network, which has just officially reached the half-way point by covering over 12.5 million UK premises.

2023-Openreach-Engineers-around-Street-Manhole

6th December, 2023 (6 Comments)

Openreach has today revealed that their £57m state aid supported Phase 2 Superfast Cymru contracts with the Welsh Government (WG), which required them to extend their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network to 39,000 extra premises in rural Wales, ultimately delivered 44,000 and came in under budget.

EE-TV-Service-Kit

6th December, 2023 (17 Comments)

Mobile network operator and broadband ISP EE have today officially launched their new paid EE TV service to customers, which is largely a re-branding of the BT TV service and one that includes a few changes. This is all part of the group’s ongoing effort to turn the provider into their “flagship brand for our consumer customers”.

Fiber Optic cables connected to an optic ports and Network cables connected to ethernet ports

6th December, 2023 (16 Comments)

Rochdale-based ISP Zen Internet has revealed that they’ve finally completed their exchange rollout (unbundling) programme, which means that over 80% of the United Kingdom should now be within reach of their cheaper on-net based Ethernet (leased lines) and broadband products (e.g. FTTP).

ee esn 4g mobile mast rural scotland

5th December, 2023 (4 Comments)

Mobile operator EE has successfully installed two new 4G mobile (mobile broadband) masts at Out Skerries and Foula on two of the UK’s most remote inhabited islands. This is also important because they mark the completion of the operator’s rollout under Scotland’s £28.75m 4G Infill programme (S4GI).

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30th November, 2023 (1 Comment)

The BT Group has moved to simplify and speed up the delivery of its network services to customers (orders etc.) by adopting Ciena’s Blue Planet automation system, which essentially replaces half a dozen of their legacy systems and processes with more digital automation.

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29th November, 2023 (18 Comments)

A coalition of community, conservation and outdoor recreation groups has called on the Government to review its “rushed” and “haphazard telecoms mast rollout” under the £1bn Shared Rural Network (SRN) project, which aims to extend geographic 4G (mobile broadband) coverage (aggregate) to 95% of the UK by the end of 2025.

bt ceo philip jansen 2019 uk

16th November, 2023 (23 Comments)

The outgoing CEO of telecoms and broadband giant BT Group, Philip Jansen, has this afternoon called on the Chancellor of the UK government, Jeremy Hunt, to use his forthcoming Spending Review to help support investment in the roll-out of full fibre (FTTP) broadband by making “Full Expensing” a permanent change.

BT-Engineer-Looking-at-UK-Map-on-Tablet

16th November, 2023 (28 Comments)

The Chief Security and Networks Officer of UK ISP BT (inc. EE and Plusnet), Howard Watson, has today published a blog post that reveals the approach they intend to take with customers as part of Openreach’s plan to close around 4,600 exchanges across the country – starting with a pilot in Deddington, Ballyclare and Kenton Road.

BN2T-4S-Islander-demonstrator-aircraft-PR-15th-Nov-2023

15th November, 2023 (7 Comments)

Stratospheric Platforms (SPL) and BT (EE) revealed earlier this year that they were developing a UK trial to harness High-Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) aircraft to help extend 5G (mobile broadband) coverage into remote rural areas (here). SPL now intends to trial similar technology, during 2024, aboard a Britten-Norman Islander aircraft.

BT Staff and Recruits UK

14th November, 2023 (12 Comments)

BT Group has today published their triennial Pension Scheme (BTPS) valuation – one of the UK’s largest private sector pension schemes with c.270,000 members and £47bn of assets under management, which shows progress on their recovery plan and the funding deficit falling from £7.98bn in 2020 to £3.7bn now.

BT-Smart-Hub-3-Router-2023

10th November, 2023 (0 Comments)

The latest broadband ISP to introduce a round of seasonal Black Friday discounts today is BT, which has added further reductions across their existing range of Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based packages and also complemented that by offering the first 3 months of service for free. All upfront costs have also been removed.

8th November, 2023 (17 Comments)

Residential customers of UK broadband ISP BT, specifically those who take their Pay TV service, are this week starting to be informed about the previously announced plan to re-brand their service to EE TV. The notice reveals that this change will officially take place from 6th December 2023.

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