Broadband ISPs Vodafone, BT, KCOM and Zen Internet Prep New UK Battery Backup | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Broadband, mobile and phone provider Vodafone UK has today announced that they’ve teamed up with rival ISPs BT, KCOM and Zen Internet to help bring an improved Broadband Battery Backup (BBU) device for WiFi routers to market, which is said to be capable of powering a customers broadband router (inc. digital phone/voice service) for up to 4-to-7 hours. At present, many ISPs already provide a BBU to “vulnerable customers” who have taken their IP-based...
Nine European countries launch join forces on semiconductors | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News The ‘Semicon Coalition’ will collaborate on research and development, as well as bolstering Europe’s chip production capabilities This week, nine European countries have founded the ‘Semicon Coalition’, pledging to cooperate to better support the continent’s semiconductor industry. The initiative, spearheaded by the Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs Dirk Beljaarts, was formally initiated today in Brussels, Belgium, with ministers of Belgium,...
Alncom Prep £1.4m FTTP Broadband Build in Rothbury, Northumberland | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Rural gigabit broadband ISP Alncom has today announced that they’re working on a £1.4m project to extend their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to cover over 200 of the hardest to reach premises in and around the remote town of Rothbury in Northumberland (England), which aims to tackle areas that are still “unable to access superfast broadband“. In fact, Alncom’s network already reaches into central Rothbury, although their new roll-out looks to be...
BDUK Release UPRN Level Data for UK Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Government’s executive Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has today published fresh data that reveals the current levels of broadband connectivity, future commercial plans for gigabit broadband, and any premises included in BDUK’s publicly funded interventions (e.g gigabit vouchers and Project Gigabit contracts) down to the individual premises (UPRN) level. The data, which currently only covers England and Wales up to September 2024, does not contain...
Gloucestershire UK Celebrate Over 98 Percent Superfast Broadband Cover | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Gloucestershire County Council (GCC) in England has today celebrated how their Fastershire programme, which was jointly conducted alongside Herefordshire Council, has now helped to enable 98.5% of properties in the county to access a “superfast broadband” (30Mbps+) connection, up from only 39% in 2012 and 36% in 2011. The Fastershire project, which was backed by millions in state aid and delivered various different deployment contracts with Openreach...
DrayTek Reveal Multiple New Security Vulnerabilities in their Routers | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Customers of DrayTek‘s popular broadband routers, which are a familiar name in the UK ISP world, have this week been notified about two recently published security vulnerabilities in several of their products – both of which have a Common Vulnerability Score (CVSS) of 9.8 out of 10. But don’t worry, new firmware already exists to patch them. In security terms, the past few months have been rather bumpy for DrayTek, which took a hit late last year after...
Broadband ISP Sky Business Launch UK Cloud Voice Service | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Broadband ISP Sky Business (Sky UK) has today announced the launch of their new Cloud Voice solution, which is partly intended to help businesses migrate away from the traditional Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) system before it’s switched-off at the end of this year (vulnerable consumers have longer, until 31st January 2027). The service claims to offer a “flexible, cost-effective, and future-ready cloud communication solution that enables...
Full Fibre Broadband ISP Hyperoptic Appoint Openreach Vet as COO | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More City-focused broadband ISP Hyperoptic, which since 2011 claims to have built an alternative full fibre (FTTP/B) network to reach “more than” 1.73 million UK homes in parts of 64 towns and cities (inc. 340,000 customers), has today announced that they’ve appointed former Openreach (BT) veteran Mark Barlett to be their new Chief Operating Officer (COO). The operator, which recently suffered another round of redundancies and spoke about having their “target...
YouFibre Become First UK ISP to Take 400G Port at LINX Manchester | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Alternative UK broadband provider YouFibre, which is one of the retail outlets for Netomnia’s (Brsk) growing 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, today claims to have become the first ISP to take a 400G (Gbps) port at the London Internet Exchange’s (LINX) regional interconnection hub in the North – LINX Manchester. Just for some context. Netomnia’s full fibre network currently covers over 2.08 million premises across parts of more than 90...
CityFibre’s UK Full Fibre Broadband Network Suffering Disruption UPDATE2 | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Customers from a number of broadband ISPs on CityFibre’s national Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network – covering 4.3 million UK premises (4.1m RFS) – appear to be experiencing sporadic service issues this morning, which range from disconnection events to problems with high network packet loss and latency. The problems appear to have started at around 2:40am this morning and have gradually become more noticeable as people wake up, although the issue...