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Project to Rollout 4G Mobile in Rural Scotland Reaches Halfway

4th July, 2022 (6 Comments)

The Scottish Government’s £28.75m 4G Infill Programme (S4GI), which is supported by WHP Telecoms and aims to improve rural mobile voice and data (broadband) coverage by building new masts (mostly in the Highlands and Islands), has officially reached the halfway point with 28 masts activated and 27 to go by 2023.

BT Secures TV Rights to UEFA Football Leagues as Amazon Takes Slice

1st July, 2022 (19 Comments)

Broadband, mobile and broadcasting giant BT has announced that their Sport TV streaming business has secured the rights to the majority of UEFA’s Champions League games, plus all the Europa League and the Europa Conference League exclusively live, for a further 3 seasons. But Amazon’s Prime Video service has also taken a slice.

Brief Progress Update on Scotland’s R100 Fibre Broadband Rollout

1st July, 2022 (9 Comments)

The Scottish Government’s Cabinet Secretary for the Economy, Kate Forbes, has issued a brief progress update on their £600m Reaching 100% (R100) project with BT (Openreach), which is busy extending fixed “superfast broadband” (30Mbps+) coverage – the vast majority of which is coming via FTTP – across rural parts of the country.

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BT Staff Vote to Strike Over Pay as Openreach Prep Contingency Plan

30th June, 2022 (44 Comments)

The Communications Workers Union (CWU), which represents c. 40,000 staff at the UK telecoms and broadband ISP giant BT (inc. Openreach), has today – following a dispute over pay – voted to hit the operator with its first national strike in 35 years. Delays to service provision are expected, unless a last minute deal can be done.

Broadband ISP BT Extends the UK Availability of its Social Tariffs

27th June, 2022 (6 Comments)

UK ISP BT has this afternoon announced that their low-cost home broadband social tariffs – ‘Home Essentials‘ – are also being made available to thousands of additional households, often alongside the inclusion of free laptops.

Broadband ISPs and Mobile Operators Agree UK Cost-of-Living Plan

27th June, 2022 (5 Comments)

The UK Government has today confirmed that the country’s biggest broadband and mobile providers have agreed to a raft of “new commitments“, which are designed to help people who may be struggling with the cost-of-living. But many of the pledges sound like those we’ve seen before, during the pandemic.

Q1 2022 Progress Update on BT FTTP Broadband Rollout in Wales

27th June, 2022 (2 Comments)

The Welsh Government has just shared a Q1 2022 progress update on their £52.5m Phase 2 Superfast Cymru contract with BT (Openreach), which confirms that 29,959 extra premises (up from 25,855 in Q4 2021) have now gained access to their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network.

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Top Fastest UK Mobile and Home Broadband ISPs for H1 2022

25th June, 2022 (23 Comments)

We’ve today taken our biannual (H1 2022) look back to see how the UK’s average broadband download and upload speeds have changed across the fastest nationally available fixed line ISPs and mobile operators. Suffice to say, the growing availability of gigabit-capable fixed and 5G networks is having a real impact.

Awkward Timing as BT Call Centre Sets up “Food bank” for Staff

24th June, 2022 (26 Comments)

Telecoms and broadband ISP giant BT, specifically EE’s call centre in Newcastle, appear to have demonstrated a surprising level of poor timing after a food donation point for staff was setup that looks and sounds a lot like a food bank. The move was revealed just as a ballot on national strike action over pay occurs.

H1 2022 Take-up in the UK Superfast Broadband Programme

23rd June, 2022 (15 Comments)

The Government’s £2.53bn Superfast Broadband Programme (SFBB) has so far helped to extend 24-30Mbps+ capable UK ISP networks to 5,440,086 extra premises since 2012 and the latest take-up data to March 2022 shows strong demand, with adoption in most of the original build areas now exceeding 80%.

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Gov Pressures UK ISPs and Mobile Operators on Cost of Living

22nd June, 2022 (54 Comments)

The UK government, which wants to be seen as at least trying to do something about the cost of living crisis, has reportedly summoned bosses from most of the major mobile and broadband providers to Downing Street next week. Seemingly in the hope of finding more ways to help those who may be struggling to pay their bills.

Openreach Still Coy on Plan to Fix 330Mbps Capped UK FTTP Lines

18th June, 2022 (38 Comments)

Openreach has informed ISPreview.co.uk that they recognise the plight of the less than 50,000 premises that are still stuck on older ECI based Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband lines, which limits such homes to a top download speed of 330Mbps. But there’s still no certainty about when this will be resolved.

Broadband ISP BT to Scrap Email and Cloud for New Customers

17th June, 2022 (32 Comments)

New broadband and mobile customers of UK ISP BT will, from the end of this month, no longer be able to benefit from the operator’s included Email and online Cloud storage features. The good news is that existing customers will be unaffected, at least for now.

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Openreach CEO Appears to Blame Brexit for Pace of Broadband Build UPDATE

14th June, 2022 (54 Comments)

The CEO of network access provider Openreach (BT), Clive Selley, appears to have risked a spat with the UK Government after he complained that the rollout of faster broadband services (e.g. gigabit-capable FTTP) had been slowed by the “tortuous” post-Brexit process of recruiting workers from the EU.

BT Quotes 15 Premises on Shetland £725k to Get Broadband

10th June, 2022 (26 Comments)

The MSP for the Shetland Islands (Scotland), Beatrice Wishart (LibDem), has helped to highlight the challenge of connecting some very remote rural communities after one group of 15 properties was quoted £725,000 to get faster broadband installed under the 10Mbps+ Universal Service Obligation (USO).

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Ofcom Moves to Protect Essential UK BT and KCOM Phone Boxes

8th June, 2022 (12 Comments)

Ofcom has today introduced new rules to protect public UK phone boxes (payphones) – specifically those built by BT and KCOM – when they exist in areas with “poor mobile signals or high accident rates“. In addition, payphones will now require battery backup so that they can keep working after going digital (all-IP).

ASA Ban Sky Mobile UK Ads for Misleading Perfect Network Claim

7th June, 2022 (6 Comments)

A complaint raised by broadband ISP and mobile giant BT looks set to result in the UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) banning a TV and poster advert for Sky Mobile (Sky Broadband), which was found to have “misleadingly” claimed to have offered “the perfect network“.