Virgin Media UK and Nexfibre Extend Full Fibre to 13,000 Homes in Sheffield | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Broadband ISP Virgin Media (O2) and network operator partner nexfibre, which share some of the same parentage, have today announced that they’ve once again expanded the reach of their symmetric 2Gbps speed full fibre (FTTP) network to more than 13,000 additional homes in the South Yorkshire (England) city of Sheffield. The roll-out follows an earlier expansion phase in the city that completed in 2023 and added 20,000 homes to their coverage (here),...
Opensignal Examine Performance Gap Between Fixed Line and Wireless Broadband | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network benchmarking firm Opensignal, which gathers crowdsourced data from consumer speedtests via its App, has today published a new report that attempts to identify how far behind fixed wireless broadband (FWA) networks are in terms of performance and quality vs modern fixed line networks between 11 different countries. The gap is biggest in countries like the UK. In order to conduct this study, Opensignal appears to have looked at the gap in their...
BDUK Switch Gigabit Broadband Contract for Mid West Shropshire to Openreach | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has just announced that their Project Gigabit broadband roll-out contract for Mid West Shropshire (Lot 25.01), which was originally held by Voneus until they “mutually agreed to terminate” it at the end of 2024 (here), has now been merged into Openreach’s (BT) existing call-off 3 deployment contract. Just to recap. The Lot 25.01 contract for Mid West Shropshire (England) was originally valued at £12m...
New CityFibre CEO talks growth and altnet consolidation at Connected Britain | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Interview “Our customers want us to be bigger. We want to get bigger,” incoming CEO Simon Holden told Total Telecom at the event Having onboarded Sky and raised a significant amount of capital this year, CityFibre’s new CEO Simon Holden told Total Telecom the company was primed for further growth through altnet consolidation. “Across the industry, about 17–18 million homes and premises have been made available by the altnets and challengers in...
Orange Business plugs OneWeb into its crisis comms solution | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News The plug-in-and-play SafetyCase emergency connectivity solution is designed to be deployed rapidly when terrestrial connectivity is unavailable This week, Orange Business has announced it is incorporating Eutelsat’s OneWeb satellite services into its SafetyCase solution. SafetyCase is a rapidly deployable emergency connectivity solution that creates a temporary bubble of Wi-Fi through the ‘intelligent hybridisation’ of available networks – i.e.,...
Ofcom UK Reject Competition Concerns over Openreach’s FTTP Upgrades Offer | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More At the start of this week ISPreview revealed that a number of rival broadband networks had raised competition concerns with the UK telecoms regulator after Openreach introduced a new discount on upgrades to full fibre lines (here). Ofcom has now responded to these concerns via a new open letter, which largely rejects them but remains “alive” to the concerns. The issue concerns proactive migrations, which arise where an internet provider (ISP) proposes to...
O2 UK Mobile Customers Can Now Pick TNT Sports as an Extra and Save £6 PM | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Mobile operator O2 has today announced that millions of their UK customers can now enjoy the TNT Sports TV content on the discovery+ streaming app at a discounted price via O2 Extras on a 30-day rolling contract (i.e. £26.99 per month instead of the usual £30.99), while at the same time saving an additional £2 per month off their Airtime bill. David Bouchier, Chief TV and Entertainment Officer at VMO2, said: “Sport has a special way of bringing people...
Broadband ISP Virgin Media UK Launch Single Visit FTTP Install Programme | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Broadband, phone and TV provider Virgin Media (O2) has this morning announced the launch of its new Single Visit Install (SVI) programme, which aims to provide customers with a faster and more reliable approach to installations. But it’s currently only live across their nexfibre built full fibre (FTTP) connections. The programme, which is due to be “rolled out more widely over the coming months” (hopefully into non-nexfibre areas), essentially ensures...
Tees Valley Authority Publish Performance Map of Local Mobile Signals | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Tees Valley Combined Authority (TVCA) in North East England, which covers Darlington, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland and Stockton-on-Tees, has today published a map of mobile signal quality and mobile broadband performance – the result of their prior work with Inakalum to harness local bin lorries to help test 4G and 5G coverage. The idea of harnessing refuse collection trucks, equipped with special kit on top, to help map mobile...
Gigaclear Start East Gloucestershire UK Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Rural broadband provider Gigaclear, which has already deployed their full fibre (FTTP) network to cover 612,000 UK premises, has this morning finally announced the start of their roll-out under Project Gigabit’s East Gloucestershire (Lot 18) contract. The £10.81m deployment is currently expected to help upgrade 3,547 premises in hard to reach areas. The original contract was first awarded all the way back in February 2024 (here) and was initially valued...