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Broadband ISP TalkTalk Breaks Own UK Internet Traffic Record

15th November, 2020 (9 Comments)

Budget broadband ISP TalkTalk has reported that last week’s internet data traffic record of 6.85Tbps (Terabits per second), which was set on 10th Nov (here), has been broken again on Saturday 14th November 2020, when they hit a new peak of 6.94Tbps.

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ISP TalkTalk Tops Ofcom Broadband Complaints Table for Q2 2020

13th November, 2020 (19 Comments)

Ofcom’s new Q2 2020 consumer complaints report is out today, which names UK ISP TalkTalk as attracting the most gripes for both home broadband and landline phone, while Three UK did the same for Pay Monthly Mobile services and Virgin Media came bottom for Pay TV.

Record Internet Traffic Surge Seen by UK ISPs on Tuesday UPDATE4

11th November, 2020 (9 Comments)

A combination of the COVID-19 lockdown in various parts of the UK, plus the release of another Call of Duty Warzone game update, a Microsoft Windows patch and the Xbox Series X console release (inc. related day 1 patches) seems to have pushed internet traffic at some broadband ISPs to a new record.

Cityfibre Begin £26m FTTP Broadband Rollout in Eastbourne

9th November, 2020 (5 Comments)

Fibre optic developer Cityfibre UK has announced that they’ve begun work to rollout a new gigabit capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network in the coastal East Sussex town of Eastborne, which is being supported by a private investment of £26 million.

CityFibre Invest £42m to Cover Middlesbrough with 1Gbps FTTP

9th November, 2020 (1 Comment)

Cityfibre has today announced that they intend to invest £42 million in order to cover the large North Yorkshire (England) town of Middlesbrough with access to their new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network, which is being supported by civil engineering firm MAP Group (UK).

ISP TalkTalk Adds 24 Month Terms and Offer 3 Months FREE Broadband

9th November, 2020 (17 Comments)

Budget conscious UK ISP TalkTalk will today reintroduce 24 month contract terms to their home broadband packages, at least for a limited period, and start offering “3 months free” service on all of their most popular “fibre” plans (FTTC, G.fast and FTTP). The one-off postage cost for routers has also been reduced to £4.95.

TalkTalk Reports UK Traffic Spike on First Night of Lockdown 2

6th November, 2020 (2 Comments)

Broadband ISP TalkTalk has reported an increase in the amount of internet traffic flowing over their network during the first night (Thursday) of the new COVID-19 lockdown in England, which at 9:10pm yesterday saw data traffic jump to 6.46Tbps (Terabits per second).

Cityfibre Sign £1.5bn of Contracts for UK FTTP Broadband Rollout UPDATE

5th November, 2020 (12 Comments)

Cityfibre has today signed £1.5bn worth of civil engineering contracts (overall total of £2.5bn), which means they’ve now secured enough capacity to extend their 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network to 5 million UK premises, with all projects scheduled to be in build by summer 2021.

Broadband ISP TalkTalk UK Has Stopped Selling Pay TV Boosts UPDATE

2nd November, 2020 (22 Comments)

Low cost broadband ISP TalkTalk has confirmed that they’ve today stopped selling paid TV Boosts (premium channel packs) and the internet provider intends to begin “phasing out” the boosts completely in 2021. Instead the company will be doubling down on their integration with the NOW TV video streaming platform from Sky.

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Broadband ISPs that Cause UK Consumers the Most Stress Named

30th October, 2020 (15 Comments)

A new survey from Broadband Genie, which used a special tool to analyse and estimate the consumer stress levels of 305,568 tweets that were aimed at major UK broadband ISPs, has revealed which providers had the most stressed customers. Overall it’s bad news for Shell Energy, but good news for Hyperoptic.

TalkTalk ISP Data Claims Commuter Towns are Home Working Hubs

30th October, 2020 (2 Comments)

New data from UK broadband ISP TalkTalk, which examined the internet usage of their customers between January to August 2020, has helped the provider to identify the top 20 British hub locations for Home Working. Overall Huddersfield saw the largest increase of network data usage (37%).

Broadband ISP TalkTalk Reveals UK Internet Usage Trends

26th October, 2020 (6 Comments)

Budget broadband ISP TalkTalk has today published their first ‘Internet Insights‘ report, which is a quarterly analysis of the provider’s network data with bitesize insights about internet usage trends in the UK. For example, between July 2019 and June 2020 customers of their FTTP packages increased their usage by 108%.

Shell, Sky and TalkTalk Eyeing Post Office Telecoms Acquisition

23rd October, 2020 (10 Comments)

Several UK ISPs including Shell Energy, Sky Broadband and TalkTalk are today reportedly all being named as the “remaining bidders” for the Post Office’s telecoms division, specially its base of around 500,000 broadband and phone customers – said to be valued at around £100m.

Ookla Q3 2020 Study Shows Fastest Big UK Broadband ISPs and Cities

21st October, 2020 (11 Comments)

Ookla, which runs the popular Speedtest.net service, has this week published their latest Q3 2020 study of UK fixed broadband and mobile data speeds across the market’s largest providers, which perhaps unsurprisingly sees Virgin Media (fixed) and EE (mobile) come top of the table.

Cityfibre Confirms £117m Rollout of 1Gbps Fibre in Nottingham UPDATE

20th October, 2020 (10 Comments)

Fibre optic network developer Cityfibre has today revealed that they intend to invest £117m in order to deploy a new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across the central England city of Nottingham, which is to be supported by civil engineering firm McCann.

Cityfibre Starts £40m Gigabit Broadband Rollout in Dundee

20th October, 2020 (2 Comments)

Network builder Cityfibre UK has today announced that they’ve started the construction phase of a new £40m project to rollout their 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTH) broadband ISP network across the coastal city of Dundee, which sits on the Firth of Tay estuary in eastern Scotland and is home to around 150,000 people.

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Cityfibre Start £40m Swindon Build of 1Gbps FTTP Broadband

19th October, 2020 (7 Comments)

Network builder Cityfibre UK have just kicked off the construction phase of their £40m project to deploy a new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTH) broadband network across the Wiltshire town of Swindon, which is being supported by civil engineering firm VolkerSmart Technologies.