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CityFibre Update – Full Fibre Plans for Glasgow, Blackpool and Cheltenham

11th March, 2021 (9 Comments)

CityFibre UK has today issued some important progress updates on their plans to deploy a new 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to cover premises (homes and businesses) across the city of Glasgow (Scotland), and the towns of Cheltenham in Gloucestershire and Blackpool in Lancashire (England).

CityFibre Spend £1.5m to Extend Peterborough’s FTTP Broadband

10th March, 2021 (5 Comments)

CityFibre has announced that they will invest an additional £1.5m to boost the coverage of their original £30m project in the Cambridgeshire city of Peterborough, which was one of their first deployments of a 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network with UK ISP partner Vodafone (plus TalkTalk).

ISP TalkTalk to Hike Some UK Broadband and Phone Prices UPDATE

1st March, 2021 (28 Comments)

UK ISP TalkTalk appears to have kicked off the week by revealing that some of their home broadband and phone packages will see price rises from April 2021. After that – from April next year – the monthly charges will be hiked by the rate of inflation plus 3.7% – mirroring similar moves by BT and some other operators.

ISP TalkTalk Bundling Home Broadband with 4K Freesat TV Box

26th February, 2021 (13 Comments)

Low cost UK broadband ISP TalkTalk, which last year appeared to be taking a step back from their existing YouView (IPTV) based Pay TV products (here), appears to have quietly launched a new promotion that bundles their “fibre broadband” plans with a Freesat 500GB Recordable 4K TV Box (satellite dish and cabling not included).

Broadband ISP TalkTalk Reveals Q4 2020 UK Internet Trends

24th February, 2021 (5 Comments)

TalkTalk has today shared a preview from the latest volume (2) of their new ‘Internet Insights‘ report with us, which is a quarterly analysis of the ISP’s network traffic and usage trends. For example, it notes that UK internet usage rose nationally by 40% during 2020, driven by streaming, online gaming and working from home.

Broadband ISP TalkTalk to Create 50 New Jobs for Young People

22nd February, 2021 (5 Comments)

UK ISP TalkTalk has announced that it will create six-month work placements for more than 50 young people in the North West, which forms part of the Government’s (Department for Work and Pensions) wider Kickstart Scheme – this provides funding to help create new job placements for 16 to 24-year-olds on Universal Credit.

Court Order Forces UK ISP TalkTalk to Block Sci-Hub Website

18th February, 2021 (17 Comments)

Broadband ISP TalkTalk has this week updated their list of blocked websites (i.e. those where they’ve been ordered by the UK high court to do so) to include the controversial Sci-Hub, which describes itself as being “the first pirate website in the world to provide [free] mass and public access to tens of millions of research papers.”

ISP TalkTalk Launch Cityfibre’s FTTP Broadband in 4 UK Cities

17th February, 2021 (25 Comments)

Broadband ISP TalkTalk has today announced that they’ve started selling ‘Future Fibre‘ packages on Cityfibre’s new gigabit-speed capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network in four UK cities and towns including Aberdeen, Bolton, Milton Keynes and Peterborough. Prices start at £32 per month for 147Mbps (symmetric).

Uswitch 2021 Awards Name Top UK Broadband and TV Providers

15th February, 2021 (20 Comments)

The winners of the annual Uswitch.com Awards 2021 have today been unveiled, which among other categories saw UK ISP Plusnet scoop the win for “Broadband Provider of the Year“, while Virgin Media once again grabbed the “Fastest Broadband Provider” crown and BT were named best “TV Provider of the Year.” Read on for the full list.

First Homes Live on Cityfibre’s Inverness FTTP Broadband Build

10th February, 2021 (13 Comments)

Cityfibre has announced that the first homes have now connected to their new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network in the city of Inverness (Scotland), which began its £20m rollout last June 2020 and has so far completed in the Culloden, Balloch and Smithton areas of the city.

Rights Holders Seek to Extend UK ISP Site Blocks to Stream Rippers UPDATE

5th February, 2021 (23 Comments)

Major record labels, including the British Recorded Music Industry (BPI) and Phonographic Performance (PPL), have gone to the UK High Court in an attempt to force six of the country’s largest broadband ISPs to extend their website blocks for copyright infringement to include sites that facilitate stream ripping and cyberlocker Nitroflare.

TalkTalk Trial FTTP Broadband with Freedom Fibre in Cheshire UPDATE

4th February, 2021 (9 Comments)

In a surprise development we’ve spotted that UK ISP TalkTalk has partnered up with a new network operator called Freedom Fibre, which seems set to deploy a 500Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband network across the large village of Culcheth in Warrington (Cheshire, England).

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Vodafone Attract Most UK Broadband ISP Complaints in Q3 2020

2nd February, 2021 (15 Comments)

Ofcom’s latest Q3 2020 consumer complaints report has just been published, which names UK ISP Vodafone as attracting the most gripes for home broadband, while Plusnet did the same for landline phone, Virgin Mobile were the worst for Mobile services and Virgin Media came bottom for Pay TV.

Broadband ISP Zen Internet UK Sweeps the Expert Reviews Awards

2nd February, 2021 (9 Comments)

Consumer site Expert Reviews has posted the winners of their annual ‘Best Broadband Awards 2021‘ event, which surveyed their readers in an effort to identify the best UK Internet Service Providers across a range of different categories. But the overall winner, by a comfortable margin, came out as Zen Internet.

ISP TalkTalk Appoints New Group Fibre Development Director

30th January, 2021 (0 Comments)

UK ISP TalkTalk has appointed Ruth Kennedy to the newly created role of Group Fibre Development Director, which is a position focused on enabling more businesses and communities across the UK to benefit from faster and more reliable fibre broadband connectivity.

Cityfibre UK Set to Expand FTTP Broadband Rollout in York

25th January, 2021 (9 Comments)

Cityfibre (CF) have today announced that they will begin expanding the coverage of their existing Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based gigabit broadband ISP network in the North Yorkshire city of York, which will aim to reach “nearly every home and business.” The network was previously owned by TalkTalk via FibreNation.

Cityfibre’s UK FTTP Broadband Rollout Tops 500,000 Premises

23rd January, 2021 (38 Comments)

For the first time Cityfibre has revealed to ISPreview.co.uk that their £4bn programme, which is deploying a new gigabit-capable (1000Mbps+) Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to 30% of UK homes and businesses over the next few years, has now reached a total of over 500,000 premises passed.