Today we’re taking our annual look back at how the United Kingdom’s position, at least in terms of the top 50 fastest countries for both fixed broadband and mobile broadband (4G, 5G) speeds, has changed since 2020. In short, the UK jumped from 42nd to 26th for mobile, while we fell slightly from 47th to […]
Troubled UK FTTP ISP People’s Fibre Acquired by Swish Fibre
Alternative UK broadband ISP Swish Fibre, which is being backed by Fern Trading in its plan to build a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP network across 250,000 premises in the Home Counties (here), has stepped in to rescue troubled provider People’s Fibre after they recently fell into administration. As we reported last month in our […]
Full Fibre ISP CommunityFibre Drop Promise of No Mid-Contract Price Hikes
London-focused UK ISP CommunityFibre, which has so far covered 307,000 homes (and 12,000 businesses) with their 3Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network, looks set to drop their long-held promise of “NO mid-contract price hikes” today when they refresh their broadband packages and prices. Over the past few months we’ve seen a number of ISPs soften […]
Solutions for Battery Backup of Fibre Broadband and VoIP Phone
The rapid UK rise in “full fibre” (FTTP) broadband ISP networks and related VoIP style connectivity for home phones has one irritating drawback over older analogue copper phone services – if your house suffers a power cut then your services will all go down. But there are some simple solutions. Under the current plan, it’s […]
Brace for HUGE UK Broadband and Mobile Price Hikes in 2022
The surge in UK inflation is threatening to result in one of the biggest annual price hikes in broadband ISP, phone, mobile and calling charges seen in years, which could hit customers of BT, EE, Plusnet, Vodafone, O2, TalkTalk, Shell Energy, KCOM and others with rises of around 9% come March-April 2022 (double the usual […]
A Snapshot of Openreach’s UK Network Traffic – Past 13 Months
Openreach (BT) has kindly provided ISPreview.co.uk with some new network traffic data, which shows the average monthly UK data consumption of broadband users across their network for the past 13-months – from September 2020 to October 2021. Interestingly, traffic actually declined through the spring and summer. The network access provider typically supplies numerous broadband ISPs […]
2021 vs 2015 Netflix UK Video Streaming Broadband ISP Speed Index
Once again, we’ve taken our annual look back to see how video streaming speeds via different broadband ISPs have changed for UK users of Netflix’s popular internet movie and TV service. Once again, the top spot continues to be held by Virgin Media (VMO2), but this doesn’t mean what you might think. Overall, the performance […]
Smarty Plans Early 2022 Launch for 5G Mobile Service
Mobile operator Smarty has this week started to inform their UK customers that they’ll finally get around to switching-on an ultrafast 5G mobile (mobile broadband) service during the “early 2022” period, although an exact date has yet to be revealed. Smarty, which is a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) on Three UK’s platform, has made […]
Open Fibre Networks Ltd Boosting FTTP Speeds to 1Gbps in 2022
Open Fibre Networks Limited (OFNL – formerly IFNL), which deploys Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based ultrafast broadband ISP networks to UK new build home developments, finally looks likely to boost the download speeds of their top residential packages to 1Gbps (1000Mbps) during 2022. The open access fibre infrastructure that OFNL builds is usually ordered by consumers through […]
Shropshire Council in GBP1m Boost to Gigabit Broadband Vouchers
The Shropshire County Council (SCC) in England has this week allocated another £1 million (total so far of £2m) to help boost the value of the Government’s local rural gigabit broadband vouchers, which now offers grants worth up to £4,000 (homes) or £7,000 (small businesses) to cover the costs of installing such a network. The […]