A new survey of over 1,000 British Micro and SME businesses, which was commissioned by Three UK, has warned that such firms (i.e. those who provide their employees with work phones) are losing out on an average of 1 hour of working time per employee per week due to poor connecting – costing them £18.77bn […]
ISP EE UK Offers 3 Months Half Price on Broadband Packages
New customers of UK ISP and mobile operator EE, specifically those taking out one of their fibre-based home broadband packages (FTTC, G.fast or FTTP), can now benefit from an additional discount that offers the first three months of service at half-price (sale ends 7th July 2022). All customers will typically receive unlimited usage, an included […]
G.Network Bring Full Fibre to One of UK’s Largest Housing Associations
London-focused gigabit-broadband builder and ISP G.Network has signed a master wayleave agreement (legal land / property access) with one of the UK’s largest housing associations, London and Quadrant (L&Q), which will enable their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to reach tens of thousands more premises. L&Q is best known for housing around 250,000 people in more than […]
Broadband ISP BT Extends the UK Availability of its Social Tariffs
UK ISP BT has this afternoon announced that their low-cost home broadband social tariffs – ‘Home Essentials‘ – are also being made available to thousands of additional households, often alongside the inclusion of free laptops. Home Essentials is a “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) and call package that is usually only available to those receiving Universal Credit […]
NTIA provides $10.5m grant for Michigan's MOON-Light project
This program, named the Michigan Open Optical Network – Leveraging Innovation to Get High-Speed Technology (MOON-Light), will help address critical infrastructure gaps by enabling technologically advanced, middle-mile fiber optic infrastructure across the state. It will allow interconnecting local Internet service providers (ISPs) to bring affordable, robust, high-speed broadband Internet to homes and businesses in Michigan’s underserved/unserved population areas.
“The MOON-Light initiative will have a transformational impact across the state in providing Internet access and is a true force-multiplier for upcoming ISP last-mile projects…
BT partners Home-Start to help customers weather cost of living crisis
Today, BT extends its support for families worst hit by the cost-of-living crisis by partnering with family support charity Home-Start UK to offer 2,500 financially vulnerable households’ free devices and free connectivity to Home Essentials. The industry leading social tariff will also be available to families in need nationwide through the ‘Connected Families’ scheme available through Buttle UK and Barnardo’s following a pilot scheme in partnership with the Department of Education.
Home-Start supports families with young children across the UK who are facing a range of challenges. Now, local Home-Start branches are also being gifted 500 Samsung tablets to help their volunteers reach more families and develop new ways to support families who need it.
The move is set to provide those in need with a connection that helps unlock access to educational resources and job opportunities online and help people make the most of life in the digital world and learn new digital skills…
Europe’s new Connectivity Infrastructure Act could make big tech pay
Back in 2020, the European Commission launched a set of guidelines called the 2020 Connectivity Toolbox, aiming to give European Union (EU) countries the framework they needed to rollout fibre and 5G technologies rapidly and effectively.
Now, according to sources, the European Commission is preparing to codify some of these guidelines into European law as part of a revision of the 2014 Broadband Cost Reduction Directive…
Q1 2022 Progress Update on BT FTTP Broadband Rollout in Wales
The Welsh Government has just shared a Q1 2022 progress update on their £52.5m Phase 2 Superfast Cymru contract with BT (Openreach), which confirms that 29,959 extra premises (up from 25,855 in Q4 2021) have now gained access to their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network. The original contract consisted of two stages, the first […]
Broadband ISPs and Mobile Operators Agree UK Cost-of-Living Plan
The UK Government has today announced that the country’s biggest broadband and mobile operators have agreed to a raft of “new commitments“, which are designed to help people who may be struggling with the rising cost of living. But many of the changes sound like those we’ve seen providers take before, during the pandemic. Last […]
China welcomes fourth mobile operator to the world of 5G
Back in 2019, a group of Chinese cable broadcast and television operators, then known as China Broadcasting Network (CBN), won spectrum in the country’s national 5G spectrum auction, signalling their ambition to become the nation’s fourth fully-fledged nationwide mobile operator.
The government-backed company won 80 MHz of 700 MHz spectrum and 100 MHz of 4.9 GHz spectrum, both of which can be used to provide 5G services.
Catching up with the likes of China Unicom…