The CEO of BT’s Consumer division, Marc Allera, has revealed that the future of their low-cost phone and broadband ISP sub-brand, Plusnet, is under assessment. The move is understood to form part of their ongoing work to turn EE – over time – into their “flagship brand for our consumer customers“. The BT Group unveiled […]
ISPA Starts Hunt for UK Internet Hero and Villain in 2022 Awards
The UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has today begun inviting feedback to help them choose the shortlist for this year’s “Internet Hero” and “Internet Villain” category as part of their 2022 internet industry awards event, which is due to take place on the 24th November 2022 at the Landmark Hotel in London. Last year’s […]
Mobile Operator Tries to Hide UK Mobile Mast.. As a Toilet Brush?
Sometimes when you try particularly hard to hide something big, you end up making it even more obvious – this seems to be what happened after EE and Three UK attempted to hide a new 25-metre mobile mast in the town of South Queensferry by making it look like a tree. But it ended up […]
BDUK Publish New Batch of Gigabit Broadband Coverage Reviews
The Building Digital UK team have published another batch of Public Reviews (PR) for the Government’s £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout – this time covering Herefordshire, Lincolnshire (inc. north-east Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire) and East Riding, Cheshire and Gloucestershire in England. Project Gigabit seeks to ensure that 85% of UK premises can access a gigabit-capable […]
ISP Hyperoptic Offers 9 Months FREE UK Full Fibre Broadband
City-focused UK broadband ISP Hyperoptic, which is rolling out a new gigabit speed “full fibre” (FTTP/B) network to serve 2 million UK homes by the end of 2023 (900,000 premises are already covered), has launched a new promotion that offers 9 months’ of free broadband to anyone switching from their current contract. The provider claims […]
ISP Sky Broadband Freezes UK Package Prices for 18 Months
New customers joining UK ISP Sky Broadband may like to know that the provider has adopted an 18-month “price freeze” on their Openreach based (FTTC + FTTP) superfast, ultrafast and gigafast broadband packages (including some TV bundles), which removes the usual mid-contract price hikes. Unlike most of the other major providers, Sky Broadband doesn’t adopt […]
UK Jumps to 35th out of 220 Countries for Broadband Speed in 2022
Research firm M-Lab and Cable.co.uk have today published their annual 2022 global broadband ISP speeds report, which reveals that the United Kingdom delivered an average (mean) download speed of 72.06Mbps (up from 51.48Mbps last year), ranking us 35th fastest in the world (up from 43rd in 2021 and 47th in 2020). The research stems from […]
CityFibre to Start £17m Rollout of 1Gbps Broadband in Rugby
Network developer CityFibre has today confirmed that they’ll begin the £17 million rollout of a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across the Warwickshire (England) town of Rugby this month, which aims to reach “almost every home and business locally.” The project is being backed by one of the operator’s existing civil engineering partners […]
Cheshire UK Boosts Value of Gigabit Broadband Rollout Vouchers
The Cheshire East Council has announced that the wider Connecting Cheshire Partnership have committed £2.9m to boost the value of the UK Government’s local Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme (GBVS), which offers vouchers to help rural homes and businesses install gigabit-capable internet connections. The rural-focused GBVS scheme – as managed by the Building Digital UK (BDUK) […]
Cable Thieves Knock Out Openreach’s Broadband in Shenley
Openreach UK has confirmed that around 970 premises (homes and businesses) in the village of Shenley (Hertfordshire), near Watford, were impacted late last month after copper thieves ripped 1,400 metres worth of the operator’s cable out of the ground, which has so far taken several weeks to fully resolve. According to the Watford Observer, the […]