UK ISP Zzoomm has revealed that they’re expanding the rollout of their new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network further south to include the county of Wiltshire (England). The first location to benefit from this will be the town and civil parish of Calne. So far the provider, which launched in 2020 and aims to reach […]

UK ISP Virgin Media (VMO2) has today confirmed that both new and existing customers of their fixed line broadband packages, specifically those on their M100 and M200 tiers, will benefit from a modest boost to their download and upload speeds. As a result, M100 is being renamed to M125 and M200 becomes M250. Regular readers […]

Rural focused UK ISP Gigaclear, which already covers 300,000 premises in remote parts of England with their gigabit-capable full fibre (FTTP) network, will this morning kick off their early Black Friday sales by offering new customers the chance to take a 500Mbps (symmetric) speed package for just £19 a month. The package, which is a […]

The UK’s broadband industry has grown exponentially over the last five years and the influx of CPs and alternative networks serves to dilute the market, creating more options for the end user.

FullFibre is aware of the expense and support needed for CPs to grow and exist alongside their larger competitors and is the reason why the network builder helps them reach new customers and maximise crucial costs of service and acquisition.

Being able to utilise budget effectively allows for smarter customer uptake methods and understanding overall costs is crucial for a new CP to survive in today’s market.

At #ConnectedBritain 2022 we spoke to James Warner, Chief Sales Officer, FullFibre where he gave the low down on how CPs can expand their customer base and network footprint.

For further details, talk to the FullFibre team at fullfibre.co

 

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Press Release

Virgin Media O2 is today celebrating a major milestone as the company’s first joint product, Volt, which gives consumers more value, more speed and more data, surpasses one million customers just a year on from its launch

The joint offering from Virgin Media O2 launched within months of the companies’ £31bn merger in 2021, with the aim of boosting services for its customers by offering the best of Virgin Media’s ultrafast broadband and O2’s awarding winning mobile network in one combined bundle. This milestone means that around a fifth of Virgin Media O2’s broadband customers are already taking a Volt package.

Through Volt, customers can enjoy a broadband speed boost, double the mobile data and discounts on connected devices, as well as benefitting from its newly launched WiFi guarantee, the fastest of any major provider in the UK. Volt customers can also access exclusive rewards, perks and experiences from Priority – one of the UK’s best loyalty initiatives. Customers can take a range of Volt bundles which offer broadband speeds from a 100Mpbs to 1Gbps, with boosted mobile data at no extra cost.

To mark the occasion, Virgin Media O2 teamed up with British singer, Olly Murs, to surprise a lucky Volt customer – watch HERE – in  Manchester with a years’ free service and an epic tech bundle including a new TV, games console and earphones so they can make the most of their Volt benefits.

New insights from Virgin Media O2 show that existing Volt customers are enjoying average download speeds of 452Mbps, more than 100% faster than the average for non-Volt packages. This means that Volt customers could download Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (base game file size is 36.201 GB) more than twice as fast as the average customer without a Volt package in just 10 minutes and 40 seconds.

Jeff Dodds, Chief Operating Officer at Virgin Media O2, said: “We launched Volt within months of our merger as part of our commitment to supercharge connectivity across the UK and to disrupt the market to give consumers improved choice and a more affordable way to bundle the UK’s leading broadband and mobile services together.

“Reaching this milestone just a year after Volt launching demonstrates the momentum behind us and is testament to the quality of our offering and the real benefits available to our customers, which in the current climate have never been more valuable.”

Virgin Media O2 is supercharging the UK

More than a year on from the merger, Virgin Media O2 has announced a range of products and initiatives as part of its mission to upgrade the UK to better connectivity. It has also reacted to the cost-of-living crisis with a number of measures to support its customers and people. This includes Virgin Media O2’s plans to upgrade its entire broadband network to full fibre by 2028; continuing to offer inclusive roaming in the EU for its mobile customers; creating the UK’s first National Databank to help tackle digital poverty by providing free data to people in need; launching Stream, a new and innovative way to bring together the best TV content in one place and offer customers more value and flexibility as well as the UK’s fastest WiFi guarantee of all major providers.

Virgin Media O2 has also launched a series of new Volt offers exclusively for small businesses – providing more speed, more data and more value at a time when the UK’s entrepreneurs need it most. Any customer taking a Voom broadband service from Virgin Media Business and an eligible O2 Small Business mobile tariff can now choose from free O2 4G back-up for their Voom Fibre broadband or a boost to the next Voom speed tier – and as O2 customers, they also have the option to double their mobile data for free or receive a free 4G mobile hotspot at no extra cost. For more information on Volt, visit HERE.

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A major newspaper has reported that Virgin Media (VMO2) has allegedly gone cold on the idea of reaching a £3bn merger deal with budget UK ISP TalkTalk, which would have added the provider’s broadband base of over 4.2 million to their own base of 5.6 million in order to more effectively compete with BT. The […]

VIEWPOINT

At the Autonomous Networks Summit 2022 held by TM Forum in Bangkok, Thailand, Lin Yongming, Huawei’s Autonomous Driving Network (ADN) Chief Strategy Officer, delivered a keynote speech titled “Pave the Way to High-level Autonomous Networks with the Huawei ADN Solution” and released the Striding Towards the Intelligent World White Paper — Autonomous Driving Network.

With the rapid development of ICT technologies, digital transformation has profoundly changed human society and is delivering tremendous value despite the impact of numerous uncertainties. More than 170 countries have initiated their digital strategies, promoting a positive growth for digital economy over the past two years (and a growth rate of 15.6% in 2021), even though global GDP growth witnessed fluctuations due to the pandemic.

Along the journey towards an intelligent world, intelligent network automation will become a strategic focus for network transformation and areas of investment for communication service providers (CSPs). The intelligent digital infrastructure is built based on the capabilities of self-configuration, self-healing, and self-optimizing, making ADN one of Huawei’s important ICT strategies. Lin said, 2025 is a key milestone for Huawei’s ADN to reach Level 4 in order to support higher bandwidth and more diversified services. Huawei characterizes Level 4 ADN from six aspects, including Zero-X (zero-wait, zero-trouble, zero-touch) and Self-X (self-configuration, self-healing, and self-optimizing). Networks need to provide Self-X capabilities in order to deliver a Zero-X user experience. Level 3 ADN frees your hands and uses machines to assist you, while Level 4 ADN frees your mind and lets you assist machines, he explained.

Over the past three years, Huawei has been committed to promoting collaboration among nine standards organizations and improving the Autonomous Networks standards system. Huawei has participated in more than 36 Autonomous Networks standards projects, contributed more than 300 proposals, and hopes to further collaborate with industry partners in the future to work on key Autonomous Networks technologies and APIs in order to build a mature Autonomous Networks standards system.

As a vendor, Huawei has never ceased to develop innovative products and technologies. The ADN solution is a result of this continuous effort. Based on TM Forum’s Autonomous Networks architecture featuring full-stack AI, this solution is developed to offer digital intelligent capabilities at three different layers. At the network element (NE) layer, smart devices, smart boards, and smart protocols are introduced to implement native intelligence. At the network layer, intelligent management, control, and analysis platforms are deployed to implement single-domain autonomy. At the service layer, the intelligent engine is introduced to implement autonomous closed-loop management for services. Lin also said, Huawei’s ADN solution can improve the quality, revenue, and O&M efficiency for ToC, ToB, and ToH customers.

Lin officially released the Striding Towards the Intelligent World White Paper — Autonomous Driving Network. This white paper shares insights on the trends of intelligent network automation, and offers action plans and suggestions for evolving towards high-level Autonomous Networks, continuously promoting industry development. In particular, 10 forward-looking trends of intelligent network automation are highlighted alongside the ADN solution panorama, providing systematic guidance for intelligent network evolution.

At last, Lin concluded by saying that Huawei’s ADN is a solution characterized by full-stack AI at the NE, network, and service layers, which is developed based on TM Forum’s Autonomous Networks architecture and the principles of native intelligence, single-domain autonomy, and cross-domain collaboration. Huawei is also looking forward to launching extensive collaboration with global CSPs to achieve their goals of reaching Level 3 Autonomous Networks by 2023 and Level 4 by 2025, embracing the 5.5G era and jointly striding towards an intelligent world.

For more information, please download the whitepaper at: https://www-file.huawei.com/-/media/corp2020/pdf/giv/striding-towards-the-intelligent-world/the_intelligent_world_adn_en.pdf?la=en

 

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UK ISP BT has issued the latest biannual October 2022 update on the progress they’ve made in delivering the 10Mbps Universal Service Obligation (USO) for broadband, which confirms that they’ve so far built a USO connection to over 5,900 premises (up from 4,600), with more than 2,000 further builds in progress (down from 2,300). The […]

Broadband ISP Virgin Media UK and mobile operator O2, which not so long ago agreed a £31bn mega merger to become VMO2, have today celebrated after managing to attract 1 million customers to take-up their first joint product (bundle) under the ‘VOLT’ title – just one year after launching it. In case anybody has forgotten, […]

Network builder and UK ISP Brsk has announced that they will be launching a new ‘Black Friday‘ promotion on 1st November, which will offer new customers to their full fibre broadband network in Bradford, Accrington, Burnley and South Manchester a 50% discount for an entire year (e.g. £12.50 for 100Mbps ot £22.50 for 1Gbps). The […]