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Wireless ISP Wildanet Offers 3 Months Free to Businesses

27th May, 2020 (0 Comments)

Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) UK ISP Wildanet, which is currently building a new broadband network in rural parts of South West England, has begun offering businesses in Cornwall “guaranteed superfast broadband, with no payments in the first three months and a free standard installation” to help with the impact from COVID-19.

Ofcom Sets Out Funding Rules for 10Mbps UK Broadband USO

22nd May, 2020 (14 Comments)

After the fact. Ofcom has today set out the final funding regulations for their legally-binding Universal Service Obligation (USO), which went live in March (summary) – supplied by BT and KCOM – and aims to ensure that people in disadvantaged areas can request a minimum broadband speed of “at least” 10Mbps (1Mbps upload).

Last Call for UK Municipalities to Win EU Funds for FREE WiFi

20th May, 2020 (0 Comments)

The European Commission’s €120m WiFi4EU initiative, which provides vouchers worth up to €15K (£13.42K) to help municipalities install FREE public WiFi wireless broadband hotspots, has announced that it will open up for a fourth and final call for applications between 3rd and 4th of June 2020.

UK ISP Voneus Appoints Mike Quinn to Head of Fibre Delivery

19th May, 2020 (0 Comments)

Fixed wireless and fibre optic broadband ISP Voneus has appointed industry veteran Mike Quinn to lead the development of their new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) roll-out across parts of the United Kingdom, which is being fuelled by last year’s injection (here) of up to £30m from Macquarie Capital.

BDUK Project – UK Superfast Broadband Take-up to H2 2019

19th May, 2020 (25 Comments)

The Government’s £1.8bn Building Digital UK scheme has now helped to extend “superfast broadband” (24Mbps+) ISP networks to 5,230,474 extra premises since 2012 (up by 32,038 over the past 6 months) – about 370,000 of these are FTTP – and the latest take-up data to Dec 2019 shows rising demand, averaging 62% (Phase 1).

Ofcom’s Next UK 5G Auction Faces Legal Challenge from O2

5th May, 2020 (4 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 (Telefonica UK) is today in the news for a second time this week after they issued a “letter before claim” (legal challenge) against Ofcom’s forthcoming auction of the 5G (ultrafast mobile broadband) friendly 700MHz and 3.6-3.8GHz radio spectrum bands, which demands more harmonisation of the spectrum.

Gigabit Broadband May Boost British Economy £51.4bn by 2025 UPDATE

27th April, 2020 (4 Comments)

A new study from Assembly Research, which was commissioned via the vested interests of Huawei, has forecast that the UK Government’s deployment of “gigabit-capable broadband” could provide £51.4bn gross value added to the economy in five years, growing to £68.8bn in 2030. But any delays could be very costly.

Rollout of Ultrafast Broadband Must Continue Despite COVID-19

23rd April, 2020 (23 Comments)

The Independent Networks Co-operative Association (INCA) has today said that “delivery of ultrafast broadband to all parts of the UK must continue” despite the current COVID-19 lockdown conditions, which have put significant strain on complex supply chains and exasperated the shortage of skilled telecoms engineers.

Virgin Media to Extend Hub 4 Availability for WiFi Boost.. sort of UPDATE

23rd April, 2020 (63 Comments)

Sources indicate that broadband ISP Virgin Media UK are imminently due to start expanding the availability of their latest HUB 4.0 (ARRIS TG3492LG-VMB) router outside of the new 1Gbps network areas, which we understand will be marketed as a WiFi improvement. But there are other reasons for the move.

BT Part Fixes InLink Kiosk Problem – Rebrands to Street Hubs

23rd April, 2020 (4 Comments)

BT has partly resolved an issue that left many of their InLink UK smart WiFi broadband kiosks without a working tablet or free phone calling functionality (feedback from ISPreview.co.uk readers suggests this has been going on for over a week). The units have also been rebranded to “Street Hubs.“

Voneus Bring Wireless Broadband to Gloucestershire Villages

15th April, 2020 (2 Comments)

UK ISP Voneus has announced that their “superfast broadband” (speeds of 30-50Mbps) capable Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) network has been extended to cover premises both in and around two rural Gloucestershire “villages” of Sharpness and Newton, which is a big improvement on the c.5Mbps that some were previously restricted to.

Rural Broadband ISP Voneus Restructures Management Team

8th April, 2020 (0 Comments)

UK ISP Voneus, which builds Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) and Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband networks in rural parts of England, today restructured its senior management team by announcing three key appointments to help boost their future roll-out plans.

Wireless UK ISP Wildanet Get £400k to Grow Cornwall Network

8th April, 2020 (1 Comment)

Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) ISP Wildanet, which is working to extend their superfast broadband network to rural premises across parts of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and possibly South Wales, has secured additional equity investment of £400,000 from the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Investment Fund (CIOSIF).

Wireless UK Broadband ISP Rural Comms Acquired by Voneus

1st April, 2020 (0 Comments)

Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) ISP Voneus has acquired another rival broadband network called Rural Comms Limited, which until recently served a number of remote rural communities in parts of Devon and Cornwall (England) – mostly operating from Ivybridge and focused around Exmoor, Dartmoor and South Hams.

COVID-19 – UK Smartphone Users Spend More Time on WiFi

31st March, 2020 (8 Comments)

The latest data from Opensignal, which conducts crowd-sourced testing of 3G, 4G and 5G Mobile networks, has perhaps unsurprisingly revealed that the current Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis is causing more Smartphone users to go online via WiFi from home broadband instead of mobile data.

Juice Broadband Gives Unlimited FREE UK Calls to Customers

27th March, 2020 (0 Comments)

Poole-based ISP Juice Broadband, which offers a mix of “full fibre” (FTTP) and wireless internet access services to homes and businesses around southern Dorset, has responded to the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) situation by giving all of their existing residential customers “unlimited” free UK landline and mobile calls.

Vodafone UK Bumps Home Broadband Contracts to 24 Months

27th March, 2020 (12 Comments)

Vodafone UK will today join some of the other major ISPs (e.g. BT) by increasing the minimum contract term of their “superfast” FTTC broadband and phone packages from 18 to 24 months. At the same time they’ll also discount the Superfast 1 (35Mbps) package to be priced the same as Superfast 2 (63Mbps) from £20.95 a month.