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Mobile Operators to Test UK Wide Emergency Alerts on 23rd April

20th March, 2023 (39 Comments)

The government and mobile operators have officially started activating the new UK-wide Emergency Alerts service, which has been designed to warn mobile users if there’s a “danger to life nearby” (e.g. severe flooding, fires and extreme weather). But it will only work on modern 4G and 5G Smartphones.

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Ofcom See Average UK Fixed Broadband ISP Speeds Hit 65.3Mbps

20th March, 2023 (14 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has posted a small interim update to the data they hold on fixed line home broadband ISP speeds, which reveals that the average (median) UK download speed has increased to 65.3Mbps (up by 10% from 59.4Mbps six months ago) and uploads hit 15.5Mbps (up by 45% from 10.7Mbps).

EE Invites BT Customers to Faster FTTP Broadband Speeds Trial

18th March, 2023 (45 Comments)

Selected customers of UK ISP EE and BT’s Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based home broadband packages are being invited to take part in a new “Faster Broadband Speeds Trial“, which we suspect will involve the use of Openreach’s new 1.2Gbps and 1.8Gbps tiers (both offer 120Mbps upstream).

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Openreach Bring FTTP Broadband to 800,000 Scotland Premises

14th March, 2023 (4 Comments)

Network access provider Openreach (BT) has announced that their new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network now covers over 800,000 premises across Scotland, which has been achieved via an investment of just £240 million (reflecting their “average UK build cost” of £300 per premises passed).

FarrPoint Maps 4G Mobile Coverage Across Cheshire in England

13th March, 2023 (1 Comment)

Consultancy firm FarrPoint has today posted the results of a recent survey they conducted alongside the Connecting Cheshire (Digital Cheshire) partnership to measure 4G mobile (mobile broadband) coverage across the region’s “main transport routes” (i.e. motorways, A and B roads), which reveals a mixed picture of network reach.

Uswitch 2023 Awards Name Best UK Broadband and Mobile Providers

9th March, 2023 (12 Comments)

Uswitch.com has unveiled the winners of their annual 2023 Telecoms Awards event, which among things saw Plusnet named as the best LARGE broadband ISP of the year, while Hyperoptic took the same award for smaller providers. Meanwhile, BT was named as the most reliable broadband ISP and giffgaff came top for mobile.

BT Updates on Expanded Pilots of New UK Digital Voice Rollout

8th March, 2023 (63 Comments)

Broadband ISP BT has today confirmed that they will restart the national UK rollout of their new Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) based Digital Voice product from April 2023, which will start gradually with a series of expanded pilot schemes that will be made up of “lower usage landline customers” who already have full fibre broadband.

Q4 2022 Openreach Progress Update on Wales FTTP Rollout

7th March, 2023 (10 Comments)

The Welsh Government (WG) has published a Q4 2022 progress update on their £52.5m Phase 2 Superfast Cymru contract with Openreach (BT), which reveals that a total of 35,770 extra premises (up from 34,122 in Q3) have now gained access to their gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network.

Openreach UK Rebranding All its Logos and Engineering Vans

3rd March, 2023 (95 Comments)

Network access provider Openreach, which supplies broadband and Ethernet services to ISPs and businesses across the United Kingdom, has begun re-branding their entire fleet of engineering vans and other paraphernalia – seemingly in order to underline their independence from BT and to better reflect their strategy.

Plusnet UK Sweeps the 2023 Expert Reviews Broadband ISP Awards

2nd March, 2023 (21 Comments)

Consumer website Expert Reviews has published the winners of their annual “Best Broadband Awards 2023” event, which has surveyed UK consumers in an effort to identify the best Internet Service Providers (ISP) across a range of categories. Much like last year, the overall winner was named as Plusnet, again.

Deutsche Telekom Ponders Future of its 12.5 Percent BT Stake

28th February, 2023 (27 Comments)

The boss of German telecoms giant Deutsche Telekom (DT), Tim Höttges, has said that taking out a £5.6bn stake in UK broadband and telecoms giant BT Group in 2015 has turned out to be the “biggest mistake” he ever made, after its value fell by almost £4bn. But DT hasn’t given up on the possibility of doing a deal for BT.

BT Estimates it Boosted UK Economy by £24bn GVA in 2021-22

28th February, 2023 (0 Comments)

Broadband ISP and telecoms giant BT and consultancy firm Hatch have today published their annual economic impact report for 2021/22, which among other things found that the operator provided an estimated boost of £24bn (Gross Value Added) to the UK economy last year and supported a total of 284,00 jobs.

Boss of Liberty Global Slams Openreach’s “Desperate” FTTP Price Cuts

24th February, 2023 (63 Comments)

The CEO and Vice Chairman of Liberty Global (VMO2), Mike Fries, has told an investor meeting that Openreach’s recently announced FTTP broadband price cuts for UK ISPs (Equinox 2) are a “desperate and premature” move by BT, which he sees as an “overreaction to the market more broadly.”

BT Calls for Tax Relief to Aid UK FTTP Broadband and 5G Builds

22nd February, 2023 (8 Comments)

BT Group’s Chief Financial Officer, Simon Lowth, has today called on the UK government – ahead of next month’s 2023 UK Budget – to consider the introduction of “a much more competitive system of capital allowances” in order to help operators roll-out new gigabit-capable broadband and 5G mobile networks.

BT Sport TV and Eurosport UK Being Rebranded to TNT Sport

22nd February, 2023 (13 Comments)

Farewell BT Sport. Last year’s agreement between broadband giant BT and Warner Bros. Discovery, which resulted in a 50:50 Joint Venture (JV) company between BTSport and Eurosport UK, will now officially result in the channels being rebranded as TNT Sport for the UK and Ireland.

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BT Launch National UK Roaming SIMs for Business IoT Smart Devices

16th February, 2023 (8 Comments)

Broadband and mobile giant BT (EE) has today launched their new IoT National Roaming SIMs for businesses across the UK, which are designed to help firms keep their smart Internet of Things (IoT) devices connected “wherever they are” by harnessing several different wireless and mobile network technologies.

Ookla Warns of Declining UK 5G Mobile Broadband Speeds

15th February, 2023 (41 Comments)

Ookla, which operates the popular internet Speedtest.net service, has warned that median 5G performance (mobile broadband download speeds) are declining in many early launch markets like the United Kingdom, where speeds fell by -38.26Mbps (Megabits per second) year-on-year.