The Public Accounts Committee has today issued a new report on the progress being made by the UK Government’s £5bn Project Gigabit rural broadband rollout programme, which questions whether it will meet its targets and criticises the project for “relying too heavily on commercial contractors for the progress that has been made.” In case anybody […]
Connexin challenges KCOM’s monopoly in Hull with full fibre launch
UK digital infrastructure provider and IoT specialist, Connexin, has announced the launch of its new full fibre network in Hull and East Riding.
Connexin announced its plans to launch a new full fibre network in September 2021 with ambitions to disrupt KCOM&rsquo…
RootMetrics Benchmarks the Best UK Mobile Networks in H2 2021
Mobile testing firm RootMetrics, which was recently gobbled by Ookla (here), has today published their latest H2 2021 study of mobile network (4G and 5G) and broadband performance across the United Kingdom, which once again awards the top spot to EE (BT), with Vodafone being the runner-up. As usual, this study used the “latest” Samsung […]
Big UK Broadband ISPs Can Now Confirm Huge 2022 Price Hikes
The Office of National Statistics has today published the latest UK inflation figures, which sees the Consumer Price Index (CPI) hit 5.4% and the Retail Price Index (RPI) reach 7.5%! Many of the country’s biggest broadband ISPs base their annual price rises off the figure published in January, thus we now know how huge the […]
Ericsson and Apple renew 5G patent clash
Back in 2015, Apple signed a seven-year patent-licencing agreement with Ericsson, authorising the iPhone maker to use various technology patents covering 2G, 3G, and 4G.
Now, with that agreement likely expired, the time has come for Apple to renew the patents, as well as signing new ones for Ericsson’s latest 5G technologies. However, the relationship between the two companies has grown shaky…
CityFibre Re-adds Wakefield to their UK FTTP Broadband Rollout
The city of Wakefield in West Yorkshire (England), which a couple of years ago was quietly removed from CityFibre’s UK rollout plan for a 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network, has now been re-added to their programme and the first build is just getting started. For those with a long enough memory, CityFibre has […]
Phase 4 of the Superfast North Yorkshire Broadband Rollout Begins
The first rural homes to benefit from faster broadband under Phase 4 of the Superfast North Yorkshire (SFNY) project, which reflects a partnership between NYnet, a North Yorkshire County Council-owned broadband company, and UK ISP Quickline Communications, have just gone live in the village of Picton. Just to recap. At the end of 2020 Quickline […]
Jisc Pick Neos Networks for 100Gbps Network in North West England
Jisc, which provides network and IT services to education institutions, has chosen Neos Networks to deliver their new Dark Fibre network, which will serve their sites (e.g. Universities and Research Centres) in the North West of England with data speeds of up to 100Gbps (Gigabits per second). The new network will replace Jisc’s existing Janet […]
Sky UK’s Business ISP Sky Connect Launches FTTP Broadband
Sky’s (Sky Broadband) UK ISP sibling for small businesses, Sky Connect, has today launched their first Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband packages. Sky claims they’re the only business ISP to offer ‘Speed Flex’, a dedicated account manager, 4G back-up and internet security as standard on all their ultrafast Full Fibre packages. Sky Connect appears to be […]
Tongan volcano eruption severs vital subsea communications
On the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano, situated on a small island around 65km north of Tongatapu, Tonga’s main island, erupted, causing tsunamis across the Pacific. The crisis is still ongoing, with people missing, property damaged, and fears that further eruptions could be imminent.
Dealing with the fallout of natural disasters such as this is never an easy task…