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Broadband ISP BT Discount UK Home Fibre Broadband Packages

5th May, 2023 (0 Comments)

New customers who join BT’s fibre (FTTC, G.fast and FTTP) based home broadband packages may like to know that the ISP has introduced several significant discounts that will run for the next week or so, which removes their upfront charges and cuts the monthly rental for the entire 24-month of their contract term.

ISP Sky Broadband UK Preparing New Home Router for H2 2023

4th May, 2023 (33 Comments)

Sources have informed ISPreview that UK ISP Sky Broadband (Sky), which sells FTTC and FTTP packages via Openreach’s national network, are aiming to introduce a new WiFi 6 capable router for their residential customers sometime around the end of Q3 and early Q4 2023.

Gloucestershire UK Working to Boost Rural Broadband Grants

25th April, 2023 (0 Comments)

The Gloucestershire County Council (GCC) in England appears to be making progress on their plans to introduce a series of new digital and broadband grant schemes across the county, which will aim to help connect those who live in areas that currently lack access to “superfast broadband” (30Mbps+) connectivity.

Home Broadband ISP iTalk Raises Prices for UK Consumers

24th April, 2023 (1 Comment)

Internet service provider iTalk has recently become the latest broadband ISP to raise prices across their range of ADSL, FTTC and FTTP based internet and phone packages for consumers, which are all powered via Openreach’s national network. The change applies to their standard monthly prices and doesn’t impact existing first-term discounts.

ISP Plusnet Discount UK Residential Full Fibre Broadband Plans

13th April, 2023 (0 Comments)

Broadband provider Plusnet will this morning further discounted the offers on their existing range of ultrafast and gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) powered packages for new residential customers – provided via Openreach’s national network, which sees the provider shaving another few pounds off each of their plans.

Vodafone UK Struck by Easter Outage of Fixed Home Broadband

10th April, 2023 (20 Comments)

Customers of Vodafone’s fixed line broadband ISP, which is supplied to UK consumers via both Openreach and CityFibre’s respective networks (FTTC and FTTP lines), appear to be suffering from an Easter service outage that began earlier this morning (around 8:30am ish for some people).

UK ISP Plusnet Start Offering 900Mbps FTTP Broadband at £49.99

6th April, 2023 (54 Comments)

Budget UK broadband ISP Plusnet, which until now has only tended to promote Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based packages with speeds of up to 500Mbps on Openreach’s network, appears as if it will finally start offering their top 900Mbps tier to new customers today – starting at £49.99 per month on a 24-month term.

Openreach Extend UK FTTC Discount for Low-Income Homes

28th March, 2023 (9 Comments)

Openreach (BT) has announced that they’re extending their “Connect the Unconnected” special offer, which makes it possible for UK ISPs to waive FTTC (VDSL2) broadband connection fees for any customers who receive “Universal Credit” with no other earnings, and who aren’t currently connected to its network.

Former BT Execs Start New UK Broadband ISP – Rebel Internet

14th March, 2023 (25 Comments)

A new UK broadband ISP appears to have launched this month called Rebel Internet, which is run by two former BT executives – CEO Tucker George and COO David Groth – and aims to do things differently from others by pledging “no contracts“, “fair pricing” and a “customers first” approach with “Wi-Fi that actually works“.

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.

Ofcom UK Clamps Down on Misleading Uses of “Fibre” Broadband UPDATE2

8th March, 2023 (80 Comments)

Good news. The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today proposed new guidance that would only allow broadband ISPs to use the terms “fibre” and “full-fibre” on their websites and in contracts “if their network uses fibre-optic cables all the way from the exchange to the home” (i.e. FTTP).

ISP NOW Broadband Shuns Price Hikes from Parent Sky UK

3rd March, 2023 (41 Comments)

Customers of Sky’s sibling NOW Broadband (NOW TV) sub-brand are starting to receive notifications of this year’s price increases, but unlike their parent operator, they appear to be keeping their broadband and phone line rental prices frozen in 2023. Instead, only call charges are being increased.

SG Issues Short Update on Scotland’s R100 Fibre Broadband Build

9th February, 2023 (7 Comments)

The Scottish Government has released a small update on the progress of their £600m Reaching 100% (R100) project with Openreach (BT). This confirms that a total of 16,600 rural properties have so far been covered by a fixed “superfast broadband” (30Mbps+) ISP network under the scheme (inc. 2,800 connections via R100 vouchers).

BT Results See Openreach Near 10 Million FTTP Premises Milestone

2nd February, 2023 (30 Comments)

The BT Group has today published their latest Q3 FY23 results to December 2022, which saw the coverage of Openreach’s Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network reach 9.57 million premises (up by 810k in the quarter vs 805k last quarter) and EE increase their 5G customer based to 8.5 million (up from 8.157m).

Vodafone Reports UK Broadband Base of 1.16 Million Customers

1st February, 2023 (0 Comments)

Vodafone UK has published their latest quarterly (Q3 FY23) results, which states that their fixed broadband ISP base saw strong growth to total 1.158 million customers (up by 47k in the quarter vs 39k in Q2 FY23), while their mobile base also grew again to total 17.802 million (up by 259k vs 321k in the previous quarter).

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Openreach Trial Broadband Speed Limits to Nudge Users Off Copper UPDATE2

27th January, 2023 (121 Comments)

Openreach has announced that, as part of their plan to retire older analogue UK phone services by December 2025, they will conduct a trial that “responsibly [adjusts] the performance of the remaining analogue services” (i.e. blocking out-bound calls and limiting broadband ISP speeds) to “encourage” customers to upgrade. OUCH.

Vandals Cause £13k of Damage to Broadband Network in Shropshire Village

23rd January, 2023 (11 Comments)

The West Mercia police force in Shropshire (England) are appealing for information after repeated attacks by criminals, which have occurred over the last four weeks, caused an estimated £13,000 worth of damage to broadband infrastructure belonging, we think, to Openreach in the village of Selattyn (near Oswestry).