ISP BT Bundles Netflix into Entertainment and VIP TV Packages

UK broadband ISP BT has announced that their “flexible” Pay TV packages – specifically Entertainment, Big Entertainment, and VIP TV – will now include the popular Netflix internet video streaming servuce for one monthly payment and on one bill. In addition, the aforementioned TV packages will all be half price for 3 months. The plans […]

Ofcom Fine Met Technologies and Guaranteed Telecom for SLAMMING

Ofcom has today fined two little-known UK broadband ISPs – Met Technologies (Met Plus Telecom and Millenium Talk) and Guaranteed Telecom (Zoom Telecom) – a total of £35,000 after they were found to have switched 110 consumers to their service without permission (SLAMMING). The practice of SLAMMING is a mis-selling tactic that can occur when […]

Starlink Launch New Dish for LEO Satellite Broadband Service

SpaceX’s Starlink ISP, which delivers ultrafast low latency broadband across the world and the UK via a mega constellation of compact satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), has introduced a new rectangular dish and router that aims to put right some of the problems with their older equipment. But it’s not all good news. At […]

Telefonica cost cutting continues with 4,000 voluntary redundancies

Earlier this month Telefonica Group reported its latest quarterly results, posting a net profit of €706 million, compared to a €160 million loss at the same time last year.
These latest results are in fact just a fraction of the profitable year that Telefonica is having, declaring a record €9.34 billion in net profit over the last nine months…

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Vodafone becomes UK’s largest full fibre ISP with nationwide CityFibre deal

Today, Vodafone has announced that it has expanded its existing partnership with CityFibre to encapsulate the fibre operator’s entire UK network. 
According to the operator, the expansion of this partnership will make Vodafone the UK’s largest full fibre broadband provider, able to offer services to over eight million homes by spring 2022, making use of both Openreach and CityFibre’s growing networks.
“Consumers need competition in the broadband space…

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Vodafone becomes UK’s largest fibre ISP with nationwide CityFibre deal

Today, Vodafone has announced that it has expanded its existing partnership with CityFibre to encapsulate the fibre operator’s entire UK network. 
According to the operator, the expansion of this partnership will make Vodafone the UK’s largest full fibre broadband provider, able to offer services to over eight million homes by spring 2022, making use of both Openreach and CityFibre’s growing networks.
“Consumers need competition in the broadband space…

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Orange talks European tech sovereignty at Open RAN lab launch

Europe’s major operators’ growing interest in Open RAN technology has been clear for quite some time now. 
 
At the start of the year, TIM, Orange, Vodafone, Telefonica, and Vodafone signed a Memorandum of Understanding, vowing to collaborate to develop the new technology, from creating unified standards to testing solutions. Since then, various operators, have launched their own Open RAN-focussed laboratories across the continent, offering vendor partners the opportunity to test the interoperability of their RAN technology.
 
Now, Orange has done the same, launching their Open RAN Integration Center in Paris, France, hoping to provide the perfect testing ground for the wider European vendor ecosystem.
 
The launch itself, which saw reporters invited to take a peek inside the new facility…

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Ofcom and BT Adopt Changes to Help 10Mbps Broadband USO

Ofcom has today finalised the changes that were first confirmed in July to improve how BT handles delivery of the UK’s Universal Service Obligation (USO), which aims to bring faster broadband ISP speeds to those who can’t yet receive a 10Mbps+ capable download speed and aren’t planned to do so in the near future. We’ve […]

ISP Ogi’s FTTP Broadband Rollout in Wales Passes 4,565 Homes

A few months ago Ogi started their £200 million project (here) – backed by Infracapital – to deploy a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to cover 150,000 premises in South Wales by 2025. The good news is that their build has already passed 4,565 households. The programme, which is still in its earliest ramping-up […]

Update on Hereforshire Broadband Rollout and Gigaclear Delays

The Herefordshire County Council (HCC) in England has issued a new proposal for how they intend to tackle the problems caused by UK ISP Gigaclear last month (here), which warned that 2,324 of the planned premises for their state aid fuelled rollout of a new gigabit broadband (FTTP) network would be too expensive to reach. […]