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Cuckoo Launch Service to Get Broadband Online Within 24 Hours

27th April, 2022 (6 Comments)

UK ISP Cuckoo has today launched a new “world-first” service called “24-Hour Eggspress Wi-Fi“, which claims it can beat the “industry’s standard 14-day wait time” when switching broadband providers by getting customers online “anywhere” in the United Kingdom within 24 hours. But there’s a little more to it than that.

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Rural Cornwall ISP Wildanet Extends Full Fibre Build to Pensilva

26th April, 2022 (0 Comments)

Rural broadband ISP Wildanet, which a year ago began the £50m rollout of a new gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) and fixed wireless (FWA) network across parts of Cornwall (here), has now begun to rollout their network to local homes and businesses in the village of Pensilva, which sits in the civil parish of St Ive.

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Testing Satellite Broadband on a British Airways Flight to Dubai

16th April, 2022 (19 Comments)

A few years ago we got the chance to test the performance of in-flight internet access on a long-haul British Airways flight from the UK to USA (here) – mostly conducted over water. We’ve now been able to run a similar test by going in the other direction, from the UK to Dubai (UAE), which mostly occurred over land.

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Rotherham Scraps Plan for Free Wi-Fi Network in Town Centre

14th April, 2022 (2 Comments)

The Rotherham Council in South Yorkshire (England) has scrapped its original 2018 plan to deploy a free public WiFi (wireless broadband) network to serve the town centre area, which occurred after the chosen supplier went through some unspecified changes and showed a “general lack of engagement” in progressing the contract.

Broadband ISP VISPA UK Faces Compulsory Strike-off Action UPDATE

30th March, 2022 (0 Comments)

Customers of UK ISP VISPA may be concerned to note this week that the broadband provider has suddenly become the subject of a “compulsory strike-off” notice, which usually occurs when Companies House finds reasonable grounds to believe that a limited company is no longer trading.

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Broadband ISP Quickline to Upgrade UK Wireless Links to 10Gbps

29th March, 2022 (2 Comments)

UK ISP Quickline, which operates a mix of full fibre (FTTP) and Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) broadband networks across parts of Lincolnshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire, has revealed that they plan to upgrade their existing Microwave capacity links to support data speeds of 10Gbps (Gigabits per second) over distances of 10-12km.

North Yorkshire UK Completes Rollout of Free WiFi to 20 Towns UPDATE

28th March, 2022 (0 Comments)

The North Yorkshire County Council (NYCC), in partnership with NYnet, has today announced the completion of their £3.6 million project to deploy a “free public” Wi-Fi (wireless) internet access network across a total of 20 market towns in the county (up from the originally planned list of 16).

Broadband ISP BT’s New TV Box Pro Kit Hit by Recording Bugs

2nd March, 2022 (10 Comments)

Owners of UK ISP BT’s latest set-top-box hardware for their broadband-based Pay TV (IPTV) service – TV Box Pro – have recently begun complaining about a series of new bugs related to problems with recordings (e.g. scheduled recordings failing to record) and some apps not working. But there’s a partial fix.

Cornwall Focused ISP Wildanet Keeps Broadband Prices Frozen

1st March, 2022 (1 Comment)

Rural UK ISP Wildanet, which last year began the £50m rollout of a new gigabit-capable broadband (FTTP) and fixed wireless (FWA) network in Cornwall (here), has today confirmed that they “have no plans to put our prices up” like many of the market’s largest providers (most of those recently hit consumers with huge price hikes).

Airband Upgrades Wireless Broadband in Dartmoor and Exmoor

1st March, 2022 (1 Comment)

The Connecting Devon and Somerset (CDS) programme have announced that UK ISP Airband has upgraded their Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) based “superfast broadband” (30Mbps+) network in remote rural parts of England’s Dartmoor and Exmoor National Parks, which should bring more capacity and reliability.

Ofcom UK Propose Upper 6GHz Band for Shared Access Licences

28th February, 2022 (3 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today proposed to make the upper 6GHz radio spectrum band (6425-7070MHz) available to Shared Access Licences for low-power, indoor use. But the move raises questions over the future use of this band to help improve 5G and WiFi performance, which has not yet been ruled out.

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North Lanarkshire Approve GBP150m Broadband and WiFi Upgrade

27th February, 2022 (2 Comments)

The North Lanarkshire Council in Scotland has announced that up to £150 million could be spent as part of an “initial” 15-year deal with ISP Commsworld, which will work to create lots of free public WiFi networks and to upgrade local public sector sites to gigabit broadband connectivity. Local homes and businesses may also benefit.

Virgin Media O2 Aims to Reach 50 Percent of UK with 5G in 2023

15th February, 2022 (13 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media / VMO2) has today pledged to extend their ultrafast 5G (mobile broadband) network coverage to reach 50% of the UK’s population in 2023 (not to be confused with geographic coverage). At the same time, they’ve also revealed that their 5G network already reaches 64% of London’s population.

INCA Seek Feedback from AltNets to Assess UK Broadband Plans

14th February, 2022 (6 Comments)

The Independent Networks Co-operative Association (INCA), which represents UK alternative broadband ISP networks, has called on AltNets to help it by participating in a new survey assessing the development of the country’s independent networks.

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Quickline Claim UK First with Launch of 5G Standalone Broadband UPDATE

14th February, 2022 (6 Comments)

Broadband ISP Quickline has today claimed to be the “first” company in the UK to offer Standalone 5G (SA) technology, which will be used to bring superfast and ultrafast broadband speeds to rural areas. The first services will offer speeds of up to 450Mbps, but there are “plans” to hit “gigabit capability” by summer 2022.

Wildanet Appoint New Leaders for Cornwall’s Gigabit Broadband Rollout

11th February, 2022 (5 Comments)

Rural UK ISP Wildanet, which last year started the £50m rollout of a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) and Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) network in Cornwall (here), has appointed Helen Wylde to be its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Virgin Media’s former COO, Paul Buttery, to join as Chair of the Board.

Ofcom Sets Initial Views on Future of UK Mobile and Spectrum

9th February, 2022 (13 Comments)

The telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today published two new discussion papers that set out their “initial thinking” on how UK mobile markets might develop and how networks may need to evolve to meet future demand. But they do not currently propose any major new regulatory interventions or new consumer pricing rules.