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Community Fibre Discounts UK Broadband Plans as Mid-Contract Hikes Return | ISPreview UK

Original article ISPreview UK:Read More UK ISP CommunityFibre, which has deployed their 5Gbps speed full fibre broadband network to 1.4 million homes (mostly in London and the South East), will later this morning enable new customers to get 10% off 12-month and 24-month deals until 23:59 on 16th September 2026. But on the flip side, they’ve reintroduced mid-contract price hikes. The deals mean that, for example, new customers can take packages from as low as £11.25 per month on a 24-month term...

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Apple iOS 27 Beta 6 Starts Showing the 5G+ Mobile Symbol in the UK | ISPreview UK

Original article ISPreview UK:Read More A small but interesting development today. Apple released the latest iOS 27 Beta 6 software to developers yesterday and those who have updated their iPhone’s to the new firmware are finding that it finally shows a “5G+” symbol (or icon, if you prefer), when in areas covered by a 5G Standalone (5GSA) based mobile broadband network. The 5G Standalone technology offers a pure end-to-end 5G network that can deliver ultra-low latency times, greater energy...

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Why Your Optical Layer Is Now an Energy Per Inference Strategy | Total Telecom

Original article Total Telecom:Read More Contributed Article Provided by: Belden For over a decade, Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) has been the go-to metric for evaluating data center efficiency. As artificial intelligence (AI) workloads scale rapidly, however, relying so heavily on PUE has run into a problem. Unfortunately, PUE’s facility-wide perspective provides little insight into how efficiently an AI workload is being executed. As AI workloads continue to demand growing amounts of...

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The build is over, but can you operate what you built?  | Total Telecom

Original article Total Telecom:Read More Contributed Article by Andrian Visnevschi, CEO and CTO of ITcare At 03:00 next Sunday, someone will be on shift, responsible for your network. It is worth asking who that actually is, and whether they can read a BGP table or only acknowledge an alarm. For a growing number of UK fibre operators, the honest answer is the second one, and for 128 of the 168 hours in a week there may be no answer at all.  That question used to be survivable, because the...

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Investor INPP Declines Further Funding for UK Altnet Broadband ISP Toob | ISPreview UK

Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Hampshire-based alternative network toob, which has deployed their own gigabit speed full fibre (FTTP) broadband network across South England and also harnesses CityFibre’s network in other UK areas, has suffered a blow today after investor INPP “elected not to commit further capital” to the provider and handed most of its original £24.1m investment off to debt holders. At present toob, which has in the past secured up to £395m of funding (equity and...

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Managed Broadband ISP ASK4 Completes £170 Million Refinancing | ISPreview UK

Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Managed ISP ASK4, which is headquartered in the UK and delivers gigabit-capable broadband to students and residents (renters) in multi-tenant buildings across the UK (as well as parts of Europe), has announced the completion of a £170 million refinancing project with new capital expenditure facility to help “accelerate growth“. The transaction, which is said to be backed by a syndicate of leading lenders who recognise that in-building connectivity is...

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Warning for Future UK Broadband TV Services as Freely Suffers Big Outage | ISPreview UK

Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The UK government’s proposed plan to switch-off Digital Terrestrial TV (DTT) signals in either 2034 or 2044 as part of a wider change to move toward broadband-based TV streaming (here), such as via the new Freely service, arguably suffered a bit of a reality check last week after that very same service experienced a major outage. Broadband-based live TV streaming service Freely, which is backed by the major UK broadcasters, is currently said to be an...

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Broadband ISP Olilo Set to Adopt Dotlines UK’s Catena Cloud Platform | ISPreview UK

Original article ISPreview UK:Read More A business update from technology provider Dotlines UK has today revealed that they’ve signed a 5-year contract with retail broadband provider Olilo, which will see the ISP deploy Dotlines Catena Cloud platform, which is an all-in-one system that’s designed to help internet providers to “seamlessly sell, deliver and manage end-to-end telecoms services“. The aim of Catena is to help ISPs unify their various, siloed teams, systems and data within the...

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EE UK Prep 5G Network Slicing Boost for Consumers and 5G+ Icons for Phones | ISPreview UK

Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network operator EE Mobile is preparing to launch a new “Full Works Plus” airtime plan in the near future (probably the next month or so), which will cost £5 extra per month than their regular “Full Works” plan and introduce enhanced 5G+ (5G Standalone) mobile broadband network slicing via a new ‘Fast Lane‘ feature. But there’s a big caveat. Just for some context. EE already includes a ‘Network Boost‘ feature on all of their Full Works (and All-Rounder)...

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Government Prepares £20m Phase 2 of Schools Gigabit Broadband Rollout | ISPreview UK

Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Government’s Department for Education (DfE) has launched an early market engagement exercise to identify organisations that might be interested in supplying the second phase of their gigabit broadband roll-out programme for Schools, which has been allocated £20m of public funding to reach around a further 800 schools across England. In case anybody has forgotten, we’ve already seen several past programmes that have attempted to improve gigabit...

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