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The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) unit has agreed a contract modification for alternative network ISP Connect Fibre’s (Fibre Assets) Project Gigabit broadband roll-out contract for North East Staffordshire (Lot 19.01) in England, which means it will now reach an additional 739 premises in hard-to-reach rural areas (total of 6,702). (more…)
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Broadband provider Exascale, which has built their own full fibre (FTTP) network to a few thousand premises in parts of Shropshire (Telford and Wrekin) and also sells packages via other networks (e.g. CityFibre), this week unveiled Exascale Atlas – a new fibre infrastructure management platform – and advanced its Nexus wholesale platform, while also investing in AI-driven network operations. (more…)
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Network operator and UK ISP Briant Broadband, which has deployed their own Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network in the seaside town of Worthing (West Sussex, England), have announced the launch of their own eSIM and physical SIM based mobile service via a selection of flexible 5G mobile plans on a simple 30-day rolling contract. (more…)
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The North Norfolk MP, Steff Aquarone, has this week called on local residents and businesses to report problems with their mobile reception and broadband, as he prepares to take the constituency’s “connectivity crisis” directly to the UK Government next week. But anecdotal consumer surveys may not be the most effective way of identifying such problems. (more…)
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Infracapital-backed alternative network and UK ISP Fibrus, which has built their own full fibre broadband infrastructure across rural parts of Cumbria (England) and Northern Ireland, has responded to TalkTalk’s recent difficulties by offering the provider’s customers a special deal to switch (i.e. those within their network patch). (more…)
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Network benchmarking firm Opensignal, which examines mobile network performance by gathering crowdsourced data from users of their testing App, has published a new study that attempts to examine conversational AI readiness across text, voice and video interactions. Overall the UK has a good readiness score, but not without some weak points. (more…)
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The new Bentry Infrastructure Group (BIG) has today revealed to ISPreview that, after having recently acquired alternative network provider RunFibre from FibreNova, they’re investing in a “major commercial expansion” of full fibre broadband to reach locations across the North West, Midlands and London in England – building at a rate of 3,000 premises per month. (more…)
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Internet provider Opus Broadband, which had been working alongside Alchemy Partners on a since failed c.£100m bid for TalkTalk’s debt-ridden consumer business – before BT stepped in to avoid a sudden collapse, has today published an Open Letter that they just sent to the Secretary of State for Culture (DCMS), Lisa Nandy MP, which highlights their objections to the BT deal. (more…)
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Openreach (BT) has today published the next batch of 112 exchanges (Tranche 26) under their “FTTP Priority Exchange” stop sell scheme – reflecting a further 619,724 premises. This reflects areas where over 75% of premises are able to get full fibre lines and will thus stop selling copper based legacy phone and broadband products (i.e. FTTP becomes the only product option, where available). (more…)
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Mobile operator Vodafone UK (VodafoneThree) has today issued an update to confirm that, after taking full control of Three UK and making progress on their network merger, they’ve been able to upgrade their outlook and now expect to make cost savings of £0.8bn by fiscal 2030 (up by c.£100m) and then £1bn by 2032. (more…)