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16th August, 2024 (29 Comments)

Residential customers of BT’s (inc. EE) home broadband ISP and phone services may like to know that the UK telecoms provider is preparing to launch an “advanced” version of their existing Battery Backup Unit (BBU) “later this year“, which is said to be capable of “[lasting] for the full duration of most power outages.”

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14th August, 2024 (12 Comments)

The CEO of network access provider Openreach, Clive Selley, has today called on the new UK Government to help introduce “simple” fixes and reforms that would enable them to expand their gigabit-capable full fibre (FTTP) broadband ISP network into areas and properties that are still “missing out on upgrades” due to “red tape“.

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13th August, 2024 (0 Comments)

Everflow, which traditionally offers specific utility services to small and medium-sized UK businesses (i.e. water, waste management etc.), has teamed up with communications provider Gamma in order to expand their services into the broadband ISP and phone market.

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12th August, 2024 (6 Comments)

In a surprise development, Bharti Global (via Bharti Televentures UK Ltd), the Indian multinational conglomerate, has this morning formally agreed to acquire French billionaire Patrick Drahi’s (Altice UK) stake of 24.5% (issued share capital) – worth well over £3bn – in national broadband and telecoms giant BT Group.

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9th August, 2024 (23 Comments)

Network testing firm Ookla, which collects data from consumers via their popular Speedtest.net platform, has published their latest Q1-Q2 2024 (H1) study into the speed of 5G based mobile broadband networks in the United Kingdom. The results find that Three UK still delivers the fastest average download (255.23Mbps) and uploads (14.47Mbps).

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5th August, 2024 (6 Comments)

In an unsurprising development, both Sky TV (Sky Broadband) and EE (BT) have now confirmed their separate plans for withdrawing the old Netflix Basic (£7.99) plan from their various bundles. The move follows on from last year’s decision (here) by the video streaming giant to replace Basics with their “Standard with adverts” plan.

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5th August, 2024 (13 Comments)

Mobile benchmarking firm RootMetrics (Ookla) has today published their H1 2024 study of UK mobile networks (calls, texts etc.) and mobile broadband performance, which once again sees EE (BT) come top against rivals at Vodafone, Three UK and O2 (Virgin Media). EE also “edged past” Three UK to deliver the “best 5G experience“.

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5th August, 2024 (0 Comments)

Rural focused alternative UK broadband network B4RN, which is a community benefit ISP that has rolled out a 10Gbps speed full fibre network to 25,000 premises (inc. 13,000+ customers), has joined the government’s charter for protecting vulnerable people from harm during the upgrade to digital (IP / VoIP based) phone lines.

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2nd August, 2024 (6 Comments)

Benchmarking firm Opensignal has today published a complementary study to their recent research into the differences in broadband reliability across countries (here), which reveals the ISPs that deliver the strongest and poorest “broadband reliability experience” in the UK. Suffice to say that it’s a good day for Virgin Media and altnets.

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1st August, 2024 (22 Comments)

Some customers of mobile operator EE (BT) appear to be suffering from an outage or connectivity problems on their Wi-Fi Calling service today. This normally enables consumers with a supporting Smartphone to harness their home broadband or other WiFi connection in order to make mobile voice calls.

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29th July, 2024 (10 Comments)

The telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today given UK phone providers (fixed line and mobile) six months to implement changes that aim to help tackle scammers who call from abroad and imitate UK landline numbers (i.e. spoofed calls), which requires stricter measures against “Presentation Numbers” that are used to identify who is making a call.

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25th July, 2024 (8 Comments)

Ofcom has published their latest quarterly (Q1 2024) study of UK consumer complaints, which saw NOW Broadband (NOW TV) being labelled as the worst provider for attracting the most gripes about broadband and landline phone, while Virgin Media did the same for pay TV services and O2 were the worst for Mobile.

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25th July, 2024 (17 Comments)

Telecoms giant BT Group have today posted a brief trading update to the end of June 2024, which reveals that Openreach added another 1 million premises (unchanged on the previous quarter) to the coverage of their full fibre (FTTP) broadband ISP network – delivering total coverage to 15 million. Take-up also held at a steady 34%.

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24th July, 2024 (2 Comments)

Broadband ISP and UK mobile operator EE (BT) has today announced that customers of their pay TV service will be able to access discovery+’s extensive coverage of the Olympic Games Paris 24, regardless of what package they’re on and “at no extra cost” until 12th August.

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24th July, 2024 (7 Comments)

Mobile UK network analyst firm Streetwave has published the first results from their work with the Growing Mid Wales (GMW) programme, which uses bin lorries to map local network (4G, 5G etc.) coverage and broadband performance. Overall, none of the mobile operators provided “Good Coverage” across more than 50% of Powys’ road network, but EE does come top (49%).

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23rd July, 2024 (0 Comments)

A turboprop Britten-Norman Islander (BN2T-4S) aircraft has helped a group of UK companies, led by Stratospheric Platforms (SPL), to complete trials of a new advanced airborne 5G connectivity system that could be used to help extend mobile broadband coverage into remote rural areas or to provide coverage during events/disasters etc.

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23rd July, 2024 (1 Comment)

The UK telecoms regulator has announced that, following a request from BT, it has launched a review of the annual licence fees they charge mobile network operators (EE, Vodafone, Three UK and O2) for use of three popular mobile spectrum bands – 900MHz, 1800MHz and 2100MHz – supporting 2G, 3G and 4G (mobile broadband) services.

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