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TalkTalk Blame Ofcom and UK Wholesale Providers for Price Hikes UPDATE

18th January, 2023 (21 Comments)

Broadband ISP TalkTalk has moved to try and deflect some of the negative attention they’re likely to get from the confirmation of today’s annual inflation linked price hikes. The provider has done this by shifting the blame for those rises on to the shoulders of Ofcom and their wholesale providers (mainly Openreach).

Openreach Tweaks Leadership Team to Deliver on Strategic Goals

17th January, 2023 (2 Comments)

Network access provider Openreach (BT) has today announced a couple of big changes to their top leadership team, which is apparently intended to help them “continue delivering against [our] strategic goals” (e.g. the £15bn rollout of full fibre broadband to 25 million UK premises by December 2026).

Openreach Push FTTP Broadband Cover in Wales to 600,000 Premises

17th January, 2023 (11 Comments)

Openreach UK has issued a progress update on their £180m investment to deploy a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) ISP network across Wales, which reveals that their network now covers more than 600,000 homes and businesses in the country (roughly, that’s over 35% of premises).

Vodafone UK Extends Currys Partnership to include Home Broadband

16th January, 2023 (2 Comments)

Mobile operator and ISP Vodafone has announced that they’ve extended their existing partnership with high-street retail chain Currys, which tends to involve supplying mobile products and services to the shop’s customers, to go beyond mobile and include their Home Broadband products too.

UK Broadband ISP iTalk Launch New Full Fibre Packages

6th January, 2023 (5 Comments)

Internet service provider iTalk has finally branched-out beyond its old ADSL and Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC / VDSL2) based home broadband packages by launching a new range of Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) powered services on Openreach’s national network. Some of their new full fibre packages have also been discounted.

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Openreach UK Broadband Traffic Hit 64,364 PetaBytes in 2022 UPDATE

4th January, 2023 (16 Comments)

Openreach (BT) has revealed that broadband usage across their UK network of ISPs increased by around 2.5% during 2022 to 64,364 PetaBytes (PB) of data, which is up from 62,700 PB being downloaded in 2021, 50,000 PB in 2020 and 22,000 PB in 2019.

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2022 H2 – UK Full Fibre Broadband Cover Rockets to 45 Percent

4th January, 2023 (19 Comments)

The latest independent biannual summary of UK broadband coverage for H2 2022 has estimated that “full fibre” (FTTP) ISP network rollouts have surged to reach 45.13% of premises (up from 37.61% in H1 2022) and 72.66% are within reach of “gigabit” speeds (up from 69.24%). Read on for details of England, Wales, Scotland and N.Ireland.

2023 New Year Honours for Members of BT and TalkTalk’s Team

30th December, 2022 (18 Comments)

The UK Government is in the process of publishing the King’s New Year Honours List for 2023, which sees Brendan Dick, the former Director of BT in Scotland (2006-18) and former Chair of Openreach’s Scotland Board (2018-21), picking up an OBE for services to telecommunications in Scotland. But he’s not alone.

UK ISPs EE and TalkTalk Discount Full Fibre Broadband Plans

30th December, 2022 (0 Comments)

New customers signing up to broadband ISPs TalkTalk or EE may like to know that both have separately launched some early January Sale style promotions on their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) packages, which add another discount to some monthly rentals and throws in the odd bonus.

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Openreach Trial New FTTP Option for Copper Lines with Complex Faults

28th December, 2022 (61 Comments)

Network access provider Openreach has notified UK broadband ISPs about a new Complex to Fibre (C2F) trial, which could result in some copper-line based customers being given a Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) service in situations where it’s available and repairing the existing copper line would be too complex / costly.

Scotland’s R100 Fibre Broadband Build Won’t Finish Until 2028

26th December, 2022 (35 Comments)

A new Freedom-of-Information (FoI) request has revealed that the Scottish Government‘s £600m Reaching 100% (R100) project with Openreach (BT), which is extending fixed “superfast broadband” (30Mbps+) across rural parts of the country (predominantly via FTTP), is now not expected to reach full completion until March 2028.

A Summary of Openreach’s UK Network Traffic During 2022

21st December, 2022 (6 Comments)

Openreach (BT) has published a summary of their network traffic for 2022, which among other things reveals the average monthly UK data consumption of broadband users across their network for the past year. For example, the busiest month in 2022 was actually January, when a total of 5,701PB (PetaBytes) passed over their network.

ISP BT to Restart Troubled UK Digital Voice Rollout in Spring 2023

21st December, 2022 (57 Comments)

Broadband provider BT has issued an update on the national UK rollout of their new Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) based Digital Voice product, which was “paused” in May 2022 (here) following complaints about service outages during power cuts etc. But the ISP now says this is “likely” to restart during the “spring of 2023“.

Openreach Increases Wholesale Ethernet Prices for UK ISPs

20th December, 2022 (6 Comments)

Openreach (BT) has today announced large price increases across their various high-capacity Ethernet (EBD, EAD etc.) products and Excess Construction Charges (ECC) for UK ISPs, which are all due to be introduced from April 2023. The changes also help to position their 1Gb services as the new entry-level products.

A Case of Confusing Delays and FTTP Availability on Openreach’s Network

17th December, 2022 (52 Comments)

It’s happened to a few people. You move into a new house and are told by your ISP that Openreach’s Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network is available to the property, but soon after placing your order it becomes clear that some part of the network hasn’t been completed. Cue several months of waiting.

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BT and Openreach UK Staff Vote to Accept Pay Offer

16th December, 2022 (16 Comments)

As expected, the Communications Workers Union (CWU) – representing up to 38,000 of BT and Openreach’s employees – has voted to accept last month’s pay offer (here) from the UK telecoms giant, which will avert any further risk of strike action over Christmas. But the fireworks may begin again next September 2023.

Ofcom – Gigabit Broadband Covers 70% of UK as 5G Hits 67-77%

15th December, 2022 (12 Comments)

Ofcom has published their Connection Nations 2022 UK digital infrastructure report, which reveals that “gigabit-capable” broadband ISP networks cover 70% of the UK (21 million premises), which is up from 47% last year, and outdoor 5G mobile cover from at least one operator is available to 67-77% of premises (up from 42-57%).