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EE Has Upgraded or Built Over 40 4G Mobile Masts in North Yorkshire

20th February, 2024 (11 Comments)

Mobile operator EE (BT) has announced that they’ve upgraded or built more than 40 mobile masts in North Yorkshire (England) over the last two years, which is part of their commitment to expand rural 4G (mobile broadband) connectivity under the £1bn industry-led Shared Rural Network (SRN) project.

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Virgin Media O2 Takes UK Fibre Broadband Network Wholesale

16th February, 2024 (88 Comments)

Broadband ISP Virgin Media (VMO2) and its shareholders (Liberty Global and Telefónica) have this afternoon finally announced plans to “create the biggest direct network challenger to BT Openreach in UK history“, which for the first time will open their existing fixed line broadband network up to wholesale by other internet service providers.

nPerf Names Three UK Fastest Mobile Network in 2024 Benchmark

15th February, 2024 (24 Comments)

Benchmarking firm nPerf has today published the results from their annual 2024 crowdsourced study into UK mobile broadband (4G, 5G) performance, which once again sees Three UK being named as the country’s best and fastest operator for mobile internet performance. The runner-up was once again EE (BT), followed by Vodafone and then O2 (VMO2)

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Ofcom Pressures Big UK ISPs to Set New Broadband Switching Date

13th February, 2024 (7 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has written a new letter that singles out big ISPs, including BT, Sky Broadband, TalkTalk and Virgin Media (VMO2), for being too slow to implement their One Touch Switch (OTS) system, which aims to make it quicker and easier for consumers to switch providers on different networks.

Virgin Media, Fibrus and Vodafone Top nPerf UK Broadband Speed Survey

12th February, 2024 (8 Comments)

European benchmarking firm nPerf has just published the results from their annual 2024 crowdsourced study into UK fixed broadband ISP performance, which finds that subscribers of Virgin Media, Fibrus and Vodafone enjoyed the best internet connection performances over the past year.

Broadband ISP BT UK Discounts 500Mbps Full Fibre to £34.99

9th February, 2024 (0 Comments)

New customers looking to take one of BT’s ultrafast broadband packages may like to know that the ISP has just discounted their 150Mbps and 500Mbps full fibre (FTTP) plans to £29.99 and £34.99 per month respectively, at least when taken without a phone service and on a 24-month contract (rising to £34.99 and £39.99 post-contract).

Three UK Tops Ookla H2 2023 Study of 5G Mobile Broadband Speeds

9th February, 2024 (15 Comments)

Internet connection testing firm Ookla, which collects its data via the popular Speedtest.net service, recently published their latest Q3-Q4 2023 (H2) study into the performance of 5G based mobile broadband networks in the United Kingdom and found that Three UK continues to deliver the fastest speeds. But performance has declined.

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Results from BT UK 5G Network Slicing Trial Hint at Future Products

8th February, 2024 (19 Comments)

BT (EE) has today announced the outcome of their recent 5G based mobile network slicing trial at their Adastral Park facility. The trial showed how future products could be launched that establish optimised network connections specifically for online Gaming, Enterprise and Enhance Mobile Broadband (eMBB) services.

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StreetWave Name EE UK Fastest for Mobile Broadband in London

7th February, 2024 (2 Comments)

Mobile network analyst firm Streetwave has today published the results of a new real-world benchmark, which examined the mobile operator performance of EE (BT), O2 (Virgin Media), Vodafone and Three UK across the country’s capital city of London. Suffice to say that EE came out top for mobile broadband speeds and network coverage.

Openreach Extend UK Analogue Line Rental Stop Sell Exemptions by 1 Year UPDATE

3rd February, 2024 (15 Comments)

A new briefing indicates that Openreach (BT) is extending some limited exemptions to their current “stop sell” on new Wholesale Line Rental (WLR) and related broadband ISP products by one year, which means the exemptions will now be removed on 25th March 2025 instead of this year.

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UK Struggles in 2024 Country Ranking of Mobile Broadband Speeds

1st February, 2024 (18 Comments)

Crowdsourced benchmarking firm Opensignal, which collects data from consumer speedtests, has today published a new summary of mobile broadband (4G and 5G) speeds across Europe – based on data from Q4 2023. But if you want to find the UK, you’ll need to look toward the bottom of the tables.

Ofcom and UK Phone Providers to Further Tackle Spoofed Calls UPDATE

1st February, 2024 (11 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today moved to strengthen their existing rules against the use of “fake phone numbers” and “spoofed calls“, which involves a proposal for phone providers (fixed line and mobile) to introduce stricter measures against “Presentation Numbers” that are used to identify who is making a call.

UK ISP BT to Close Redcare Alarm Security Division in 2025 UPDATE

1st February, 2024 (22 Comments)

Customers of BT’s Redcare division, which supplies monitored alarm signalling systems to UK homes and businesses that enable fire, security and more to be monitored over a secure network, have informed ISPreview that the telecoms operator has communicated their plans to close the Redcare service on 1st August 2025.

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BT Group Add 950k Premises to FTTP Broadband Cover in Q4 2023

1st February, 2024 (40 Comments)

Broadband and telecoms giant BT Group has today posted a short trading update for the last quarter to December 2023, which reveals that Openreach expanded the UK coverage of their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network by another 950,000 premises (up from 860k last quarter) to total 13 million passed.

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Openreach UK Discount 10Gbps Cablelinks for Fibre Broadband

30th January, 2024 (8 Comments)

Openreach (BT) has launched a new special offer for broadband ISPs that discounts the charge on 10Gbps Cablelinks for FTTP and FTTX/C lines (GEA), nationwide, when taken on Layer 2 Switches (L2S) built before 31st December 2023 to just £499 +vat (the regular connection cost is normally £1,270.58).

RootMetrics Benchmark Reveals Top UK Mobile Networks for H2 2023

29th January, 2024 (7 Comments)

Mobile network analyst firm RootMetrics (Ookla) has published their latest biannual H2 2023 benchmark study of UK mobile networks (4G and 5G) and mobile broadband performance, which once again sees EE (BT) come top against rivals at Vodafone, Three UK and O2 (VMO2). But the picture for 5G performance isn’t so clear-cut.

BT Group to Recruit 500 More UK Apprentices and Graduates

29th January, 2024 (7 Comments)

Broadband ISP and telecoms giant BT have today confirmed that they will recruit another 500 apprentices and graduates in 2024 (up from 400 in 2023) – forming part of their September 2024 intake. The roles will span across areas such as engineering (5G, FTTP etc.), customer service, applied research, data analytics and cyber-security.