UK ISP BT has today announced that they’re making their home broadband social tariffs – ‘Home Essentials‘ – available to sign-up for on the high street for the first time, which forms part of their response to today’s affordability report from Ofcom (here). BT and EE share a sizeable number of retail shops on the […]
Three UK Launch New 5G Hub for Unlimited Home Broadband
New customers of mobile operator Three UK, specifically those taking their 5G based unlimited Home Broadband packages (priced from £21 per month), are now being supplied with a new hub (router) from ZTE. This appears to replace the prior model that was supplied by Huawei (their 4G hub also moved to ZTE last year). As […]
Virgin Media O2 Aims to Reach 50 Percent of UK with 5G in 2023
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. The operator claims […]
Uswitch 2022 Awards Reveal Top UK Broadband and TV Providers
The winners of the annual Uswitch.com Awards 2022 have today been announced, which saw UK ISP BT scoop the surprise win for ‘Broadband Provider of the Year‘ and they also picked up wins across various other categories too. But oddly, this year’s event scrapped the “fastest provider” category. Read on for the full list. The […]
Ofcom Finds Just 55000 UK Homes on a Social Broadband Tariff
Ofcom has published their latest report on the availability and take-up of cheaper broadband social tariffs from UK ISPs, which finds that – out of an estimated 4.2 million households in receipt of Universal Credit – just 55,000 homes have taken such a package (1.2% of those eligible). The regulator calls on all providers to […]
ISP Glide Appoints New Head of Regulation and Compliance
Business and residential ISP Glide Group, which is busy extending their UK full fibre broadband network (leased lines and FTTP etc.), has this week announced the appointment of Max Fernando as their new Head of Regulation & Compliance to represent the company in related discussions. The name Max Fernando is a familiar one as he […]
Rakuten Symphony expands operations in Europe
Rakuten Symphony, Inc. today announced the expansion of its operations across the UK, France and Germany. The expansion will allow the company to support the business operations and growth in the European market and collaboration with operators and vendors in the region to support the transformation of mobile network operations and adoption of Open RAN (Radio Access Network) technologies…
Greece and Egypt strengthen relationship through subsea cooperation
The agreement will see both partners work together to consider future submarine cable routes between Egypt and Greece, as well as how the two companies’ assets can better support each other across their international infrastructure portfolios.
However, as pointed out by a Grid Telecom spokesperson, the partnership is not in reference to any specific submarine cable system but is rather a signal of future intent…
Vodafone UK to accelerate new 5G services with Oracle
Today, Vodafone UK has announced a new partnership with US software giant Oracle, aiming to use the latter’s cloud-native network policy management to support its burgeoning standalone 5G network.
The partnership will see Vodafone UK employ Oracle’s 5G Core Policy Control Function (PCF) and Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF)…
Connect Fibre Get Funding for Full Fibre Rollout in East England
Cambridgeshire-based UK ISP Connect Fibre (Fibre Assets Ltd.) has today secured a “significant” new investment from Foresight Group LLP, which will enable them to rollout a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to cover 100,000 premises across the East of England. We first reported on this provider all the way back in 2019 (here). At […]