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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...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

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...

Original article ISPreview UK:Read More New student customers of mobile operator giffgaff, which is controlled by Telefónica UK (part of the VMO2 Group) and uses O2’s virtual network platform, may like to know that the provider recently introduced a new SIM that gives you 100GB (GigaBytes) of mobile broadband data and other features for just £10 per month. The special student plan (affiliate link), which must be activated before 4th August 2027 next year in order to benefit, also includes a...

Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The UK government may have surprised a few people just after 7pm tonight after using the Emergency Alerts service via mobile network operators to send out a national warning about the “very high risk of wildfires nationally“, which advises people across the country to avoid undertaking any activity that could start a fire. Generally speaking the advice in the alert is somewhat common sense and there may well be some debate about whether the current...

Original article Total Telecom:Read More Press Release Over 150 4G mast upgrades are now live across the UK’s national parks, including the Yorkshire Dales and Eryri, Snowdonia, as part of the continued rollout of the Shared Rural Network. The latest upgrade provides extended 4G coverage across over 5,684 square kilometres, in areas that previously only had access to EE coverage, or none at all.  The government-funded 4G mast upgrades are delivered through existing infrastructure and bring 4G...

Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Britain’s major banks, charities, TV broadcasters, broadband and mobile providers have today united to back a new report from the Connection Project, which calls for “coordinated action to ensure everyone” can get online and take part in a modern economy. But this is not the first time we’ve seen coordinated action on the subject. The report, which is simply called ‘Connected’, starts by stating the obvious and points to how digital participation is not...