Vodafone UK Send Mixed Messages Over Static IP Availability for Broadband
Mobile operator and UK ISP Vodafone has today confirmed to ISPreview that customers of their fixed line consumer broadband packages, which are supplied over Openreach and CityFibre’s national networks (FTTC and FTTP), should still be able to request a Static IP (Internet Protocol) address. But this is despite some support staff telling users the opposite. Most home broadband users will either have a changeable (Dynamic) or shared (CGNAT etc.) IP address, while a ‘Static’ (or ‘Fixed’) IP...
Vodafone and Three UK Confirm New Leadership Team for Merger
Mobile network operators Vodafone and Three UK (CK Hutchison) have this afternoon announced their newly formed General Management Team for the future merged company. The new appointments followed a selection process and were approved by the MergeCo Governance Board, with representatives of both operators as shareholders of the new entity. Just to recap. The merger, which was approved by the CMA in December 2024 (here) and is said to be worth £15bn+, will see Vodafone retain a 51% slice of the...
CityFibre turns a full-year profit for the first time
News UK altnet CityFibre has announced its 2024 annual results, reporting its first full year of profitability, with a 34% revenue increase to £134 million The company’s consumer revenue rose by 73%, while it added 181,000 net new customers, bringing the total number of live customers to 518,000. CityFibre’s fibre network now covers 4.3 million premises, with 4.1 million Ready for Service (RFS). CityFibre’s involvement in the Project Gigabit initiative also delivered £865 million in...
New Gov Action Plan Supports Vulnerable Users in UK Digital Phone Switchover
The UK government has published its revised Telecare National Action Plan (TNAP), which will require major UK broadband and phone providers (e.g. BT, Virgin Media, Vodafone and Sky Broadband) to go further with protecting vulnerable telecare users when upgrading legacy phone lines to new digital (IP based) networks. Just to recap. The industry-led shift to digital landlines is partly being driven by the looming retirement of copper telecoms lines in favour of full fibre (FTTP) broadband, as...
French energy giant EDF offers up land for data centre projects
News Four sites have been identified by the utility company, with two more targeted by 2026 France’s state-owned utility company Electricite de France (EDF) says it has identified four locations on its land that could be ideal for data centre deployment. The energy giant says each site could host a data centre campus with 2GW of capacity, with the benefit of already being connected to the electricity grid. “For digital companies who wish to do so, EDF will also offer personalized support for...
Mobile Operator Spusu Launch New 5GB SIM Only UK Plan for £4.90
Mobile provider spusu, which holds a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) agreement via BTWholesale to harness EE’s national 4G and 5G network, today claims to have launched its “most affordable plan yet” at just £4.90 per month. As above, the spusu 5 plan costs £4.90 per month on a rolling monthly term and for that customers will get 5GB of data (mobile broadband), as well as unlimited calls and texts, 500 free international minutes and free EU roaming (roaming data is capped to just 3GB)....
Connected America 2025 is now less than one month away
News Connected America 2025, scheduled for March 11-12 at the Irving Convention Center in Texas, is officially one month away By: Brad Randall, Broadband Communities Tickets remain available for Connected America 2025, an event next month that will bring together communications service providers, the public sector, enterprise verticals, and suppliers. The event, now in its third year, kicks off March 11 at the Irving Convention Center in Irving, Texas, just outside of Dallas. Also featured...
Digital Catapult is One of the First Sites to join UK 6G Research Platform
The self-proclaimed “deep tech innovation organisation“, Digital Catapult, has today become one of the first sites to connect to the University of Bristol (UB) led JOINER project (Joint Open Infrastructure for Networks Research), which is working to research and help accelerate the commercial deployment of future 6G based mobile broadband technologies across the UK. The 6G standard is currently still in the early R&D phase, and the first commercial builds aren’t due until around 2028-30...
Court Rejects Appeal Over Dismissal of BT UK Landline Overcharging Case
The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has rejected an appeal against its earlier dismissal of a £1.3bn class action claim against BT by the Collective Action on Land Lines (CALL) campaign, which had accused the national broadband ISP and phone provider of overcharging 2.3 million of its landline-only phone customers between 2015 and 2018. The campaign was first raised at the start of 2021 through UK law firm Mishcon de Reya, which was acting on behalf of a former Ofcom telecoms consultant,...
Youfibre Preps First Own Brand Router for 7Gbps UK Broadband Plan
Broadband ISP Youfibre, which is one of the retail outlets for Netomnia’s (Brsk) 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, has begun to distribute a new router to customers of their top 2Gbps and 7Gbps (average speed) packages. But unlike the Asus AXE16000 router they shipped before, the new kit is their first own-brand device and more will follow. Just for some context. Netomnia’s full fibre network currently covers over 2.08 million premises across parts of more than 90 UK cities...