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O2 UK Give Mobile Customers Discount with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate

24th April, 2025 (3 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has today informed us that customers of their various Airtime plans can now take ‘Xbox Game Pass Ultimate’ for £14.99 per month and get a £1 airtime saving – offering access to hundreds of games with an annual saving of £12.

Virgin Media Find Tuesdays are the Biggest for UK Broadband Usage

4th March, 2025 (2 Comments)

Network data from broadband ISP Virgin Media has revealed that Tuesday is the UK’s new “big night in“, with evening peak (between 8-10pm) internet traffic pushing higher than on any other day of the week – usually driven by online video gaming (mostly big update/patch downloads) and TV sports events (streaming).

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Three UK Picks Ericsson to Build New Cloud Native Core Network

17th January, 2025 (14 Comments)

Mobile operator Three UK has this morning announced that they’ve selected Ericsson to build their new cloud-native core network, which it claims will be the “largest in Europe” and one that will end up “more than tripling its core capacity” to 9Tbps (Terabits per second).

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ISP Zen Internet Reveals its UK Network Traffic Peaks for 2024

30th December, 2024 (6 Comments)

Rochdale-base broadband ISP Zen Internet has revealed that they saw their busiest ever period for network traffic on 4th December 2024, when streaming of live Premier League Football caused usage on their network to peak at 17% higher than 2023’s record and 10% above the average for a typical December evening. This was a 4% increase over their previous record high in September 2024.

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Black Ops 6 Drives Biggest Ever UK Gaming Traffic on EE and BT Network

25th October, 2024 (0 Comments)

Consumer broadband ISP, phone, mobile and TV provider EE (BT) has today claimed that this week’s release of “Call of Duty: Black Ops 6” on PC and consoles has “driven the biggest ever amount of gaming traffic for a game launch” on their network, with the largest spike actually hitting on Monday (21st) due to the start of the preload period.

Broadband ISPs Brace for UK Traffic Surge on CoD Black Ops 6 Release

23rd October, 2024 (11 Comments)

Internet service providers across the UK are gearing up for a busy Friday and surge in data traffic, which is once again expected to be fuelled by the release of another ‘Call of Duty’ video game on PC and consoles – Black Ops 6. But despite some frivolous claims that this could cause a “broadband blackout” (here), the event is nothing that ISPs haven’t had to handle before.

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Broadband Forum Push Home ISPs to Adopt Low Latency L4S Technology

19th September, 2024 (4 Comments)

The Broadband Forum has launched a new roadmap that they hope will aid ISPs in implementing the new Low Latency, Low Loss and Scalable Throughput (L4S) technology, which has the potential to improve network latency times for popular UK internet activities like online video games, video conferencing, cloud gaming and so forth.

ISP iDNET Launch 1.8Gbps and 2.3Gbps UK Broadband Plans via FullFibre Ltd

14th September, 2024 (3 Comments)

Broadband provider iDNET has just become one of the first ISPs to introduce both a 1.8Gbps (advertised as 1.6Gbps) and 2.3Gbps (2Gbps) symmetric speed package via FullFibre Limited‘s (Fibre Heroes) new network, which currently covers 380,000 UK premises across parts of 170 towns.

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Three UK’s Home Broadband Users Suffer Intermittent Connectivity

9th September, 2024 (28 Comments)

Some customers of mobile network operator Three UK, specifically those who are taking one of their 4G and 5G powered unlimited Three Home Broadband packages, have – for the best part of a year – been complaining about an intermittent connectivity problem that is sporadically disrupting their use of various internet services.

ISP Sky Broadband UK Launch Sky City Map in Fortnite Video Game

15th August, 2024 (3 Comments)

Customers of UK ISP Sky Broadband, particularly those who enjoy certain online multiplayer video and computer games, may be interested to learn that the provider has launched a custom-built world (map) created for Fortnite called ‘Sky City‘. This is said to form part of their “ambition to be the #1 broadband provider for gamers”.

Microsoft Hikes UK Xbox Game Pass Prices for Online Video Gamers

10th July, 2024 (3 Comments)

Software and internet giant Microsoft have announced that they’re increasing the monthly price of their online Game Pass service for multiplayer Xbox and PC gamers. On top of that, they’re soon be replacing the standard sub for Xbox users, which means you’ll have to stump up for ‘Game Pass Ultimate‘ to access new games on release day.

BT Tops MedUX 2024 Study of Big UK Broadband ISP Performance UPDATE2

3rd July, 2024 (0 Comments)

Network benchmarking firm MedUX has today published the results of a new study, which examined the fixed broadband performance and quality of three major UK ISPs – BT, Sky Broadband and Vodafone. Overall, BT ended up topping the rankings, but it’s unclear why they left out TalkTalk and Virgin Media, both of which are bigger than Vodafone.

EE UK Launch 1.6Gbps FTTP Broadband Package for Gamers

27th June, 2024 (27 Comments)

Broadband ISP and mobile operator EE (BT) has today launched a second 1.6Gbps speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) package on Openreach’s network, which is called the ‘Broadband Made for Gamers‘ bundle and claims to offer online gamers “lower latency, game server geofencing and in-home network prioritisation,” among other things.

EE UK Prep Call of Duty Black Ops 6 via EE Store and Xbox Game Pass UPDATE

10th June, 2024 (5 Comments)

Consumer broadband ISP, phone, mobile and TV provider EE (BT), which has long bundled Xbox Game Pass Ultimate on some of their UK packages, has today followed Microsoft’s announcement about the availability of their popular Call of Duty®: Black Ops 6 video game by confirming that their customers will also be able to benefit.

Virgin Media O2 UK to Expand Streaming Services via Single Subscription

14th May, 2024 (5 Comments)

Broadband, TV, digital phone and mobile provider Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2) look set to expand their existing multi-platform streaming services, which appears set to include a new range of streaming, gaming, health, lifestyle and security services for UK customers.

Sky Glass and Sky Stream OS v1.3 Update to Add New UK Features

17th April, 2024 (25 Comments)

Sky (Sky Broadband) has today announced plans to deploy the next major new update (Entertainment OS v1.3) for the operating system firmware (software) that underpins their broadband-based Sky Glass and Sky Stream pay TV platforms, which will introduce a variety of new features when it begins rolling out in the next few weeks.

Vodafone UK and Nokia Trial L4S on FTTP Broadband to Reduce Latency

3rd April, 2024 (14 Comments)

Mobile operator and UK ISP Vodafone have teamed up with Nokia Bell Labs to conduct a “world’s first trial” of the “viability” of harnessing L4S (Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable Throughput) technology over passive optical networks (PON), which could “greatly improve” network latency times for internet activities like AR, video conferencing and multiplayer gaming, even during peak hours.