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virgin_mobile_sim_swap

24th August, 2022 (24 Comments)

BT has launched a High Court case against Virgin Media (VMO2), which it accuses of having migrated customers away from their EE based Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) platform (Virgin Mobile) before an agreement had been concluded. The broadband ISP and mobile giant is reportedly seeking £24.6m in compensation.

BT-Tower-in-London-UK-Wide-View

23rd August, 2022 (12 Comments)

The Government’s move in May 2022 to conduct a “full national security assessment” of last year’s decision by Patrick Drahi’s (French billionaire) Altice UK, which increased its stake in UK broadband and telecoms giant BT from 12.1% to 18% (here), will result in “no further action” being taken by the Secretary of State.

scotland 3d broadband map uk 123rf

19th August, 2022 (19 Comments)

The Scottish Government has unveiled an extension of their existing £600m Reaching 100% (R100) contract with BT (Openreach), which will see a further £36m being invested to cover an additional 2,637 rural properties with a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network. But completion is now 2028!

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ee mobile sim cards

17th August, 2022 (47 Comments)

Mobile operator EE (BT) has today launched a refreshed range of Pay Monthly ‘Essentials‘, ‘All Rounder‘ and ‘Full Works‘ mobile plans for SIM-Only, handset bundles and connected device customers, which add various new features (e.g. a WiFi Coverage Boost, the Apple One subscription plan and a Multi-Line SIM discount etc.).

BT-Workers-Strike-in-London-on-29th-July-2022-by-CWU

12th August, 2022 (24 Comments)

The Communications Workers Union (CWU) has today announced that up to 38,000 of BT and Openreach’s unionised workers, as part of their ongoing pay dispute with the telecoms and broadband provider, will go on a second major national strike this month – this time occurring on Tuesday 30th and Wednesday 31st August.

sky broadband 2020 uk isp logo

10th August, 2022 (10 Comments)

A complaint raised by rival UK ISP BT (EE) has resulted in the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) banning two adverts (a website and email promotion) for Sky Broadband’s service, both of which were found to have misleadingly claimed that the company was the “Top Performing Major Provider“.

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mobile smartphone and uk sim card sizes

8th August, 2022 (31 Comments)

A new MSE report has called on Ofcom to improve consumer protection measures for mobile roaming when within the EU, which follows after the organisation’s research highlighted that consumers are still at risk of being caught out by unexpected roaming costs. But operators aren’t helping by adopting different definitions of a “day“.

Mobile-broadband-UK-operator-network-speed by 123rf

8th August, 2022 (13 Comments)

Benchmarking firm nPerf has today published the results from their latest annual crowdsourced study into UK mobile broadband (4G, 5G) performance for the first half of 2022, which once again crowns EE as the best network operator for internet connectivity. But Three UK is starting to threaten and delivered the fastest download speeds.

EE-UK-5G-Mobile-Signal-on-the-Beach

8th August, 2022 (13 Comments)

Mobile and broadband provider BT (EE) and Nokia claim to have achieved somewhat of a “European first” by aggregate four channels of radio spectrum in a live 5G Standalone (SA) network. In theory, this could make their UK mobile network capable of delivering some exceptionally fast download and upload speeds.

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CWU-Banners-Draped-Over-a-Bush-in-UK

5th August, 2022 (15 Comments)

The recent two-day national strike by up to 38,000 of BT and Openreach’s unionised workers (here) – due to a dispute over pay – does not appear to have caused any significant problems for either the operator or its customers. At least that is the feedback we’ve had from UK broadband ISPs and alternative networks.

bt ceo philip jansen 2019 uk

1st August, 2022 (34 Comments)

The CEO of BT Group, Philip Jansen, has given a more detailed comment about the likely impact on their full fibre plans of broadband rival Virgin Media (VMO2) acquiring budget UK ISP TalkTalk, which he admitted would “knock off some cream of the FTTP case” but it apparently won’t “touch the fundamentals of it at all“.

bt mobile

29th July, 2022 (11 Comments)

Customers of both EE’s and BT’s mobile UK service will be able to enjoy it a bit more on Sunday this weekend after the operators announced that they were zero-rating data (mobile broadband) across their network this Sunday. The move is intended to celebrate the Women’s England vs. Germany UEFA European Championship final.

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BT-Workers-Strike-in-London-on-29th-July-2022-by-CWU

29th July, 2022 (54 Comments)

Up to 38,000 workers at national broadband and communications giant BT (including Openreach) are today beginning day one of their two-day national strike over pay (the first one since 1987), with the second due to take place on Monday next week. So far, BT has shown no sign of giving in to the pressure.

BT_WelcomeBack-5

28th July, 2022 (4 Comments)

The BT Group has published their Q1 2022/23 results to June 2022, which saw the coverage of Openreach’s gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network reach 7.957 million premises (up by a record of 763K in the quarter vs 752K last quarter). Meanwhile, EE’s 5G network now reaches 55% of the UK population.

exascale_fibre_optic_cable_drums

28th July, 2022 (14 Comments)

Network builders and broadband ISPs in the UK have confirmed that they’re also being affected by a shortage in optical fibre cables, which has caused significant delays to lead times on deliveries and pushed up prices of such cables by as much as 70% since March 2021. But contrary to some reports, the cable cost is not the main issue.

mobile broadband speed test uk

27th July, 2022 (2 Comments)

Mobile testing firm RootMetrics, which was last year acquired by Ookla (here), has today published their biannual H1 2022 study of mobile network (4G and 5G) and broadband performance across the United Kingdom, which sees EE collecting the most awards. But rival Three UK is threatening to pull ahead in 5G.

cityfibre Toby Box photo

24th July, 2022 (24 Comments)

The Competition Appeal Tribunal‘s (CAT) decision last week to reject CityFibre’s appeal against Ofcom’s approval process for Openreach’s “Equinox” price cut (here), which slashed the cost of the incumbent’s wholesale FTTP broadband products for UK ISPs, may not have been a total loss for the alternative network operator.

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