Gloucestershire UK Celebrate Over 98 Percent Superfast Broadband Cover | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Gloucestershire County Council (GCC) in England has today celebrated how their Fastershire programme, which was jointly conducted alongside Herefordshire Council, has now helped to enable 98.5% of properties in the county to access a “superfast broadband” (30Mbps+) connection, up from only 39% in 2012 and 36% in 2011. The Fastershire project, which was backed by millions in state aid and delivered various different deployment contracts with Openreach...
DrayTek Reveal Multiple New Security Vulnerabilities in their Routers | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Customers of DrayTek‘s popular broadband routers, which are a familiar name in the UK ISP world, have this week been notified about two recently published security vulnerabilities in several of their products – both of which have a Common Vulnerability Score (CVSS) of 9.8 out of 10. But don’t worry, new firmware already exists to patch them. In security terms, the past few months have been rather bumpy for DrayTek, which took a hit late last year after...
Broadband ISP Sky Business Launch UK Cloud Voice Service | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Broadband ISP Sky Business (Sky UK) has today announced the launch of their new Cloud Voice solution, which is partly intended to help businesses migrate away from the traditional Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) system before it’s switched-off at the end of this year (vulnerable consumers have longer, until 31st January 2027). The service claims to offer a “flexible, cost-effective, and future-ready cloud communication solution that enables...
Full Fibre Broadband ISP Hyperoptic Appoint Openreach Vet as COO | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More City-focused broadband ISP Hyperoptic, which since 2011 claims to have built an alternative full fibre (FTTP/B) network to reach “more than” 1.73 million UK homes in parts of 64 towns and cities (inc. 340,000 customers), has today announced that they’ve appointed former Openreach (BT) veteran Mark Barlett to be their new Chief Operating Officer (COO). The operator, which recently suffered another round of redundancies and spoke about having their “target...
YouFibre Become First UK ISP to Take 400G Port at LINX Manchester | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Alternative UK broadband provider YouFibre, which is one of the retail outlets for Netomnia’s (Brsk) growing 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, today claims to have become the first ISP to take a 400G (Gbps) port at the London Internet Exchange’s (LINX) regional interconnection hub in the North – LINX Manchester. Just for some context. Netomnia’s full fibre network currently covers over 2.08 million premises across parts of more than 90...
CityFibre’s UK Full Fibre Broadband Network Suffering Disruption UPDATE2 | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Customers from a number of broadband ISPs on CityFibre’s national Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network – covering 4.3 million UK premises (4.1m RFS) – appear to be experiencing sporadic service issues this morning, which range from disconnection events to problems with high network packet loss and latency. The problems appear to have started at around 2:40am this morning and have gradually become more noticeable as people wake up, although the issue...
Mayor of London Releases Interactive Map of City Broadband Speeds | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan has this week published a new interactive map that shows how broadband speed availability varies across the city by postcode and where improvements may be needed. The map itself, which at the time of writing didn’t appear to bring up any results when we tried to input some example postcodes, is largely based on Ofcom’s most recent Connected Nations data from July 2024. The release appears to have been timed to coincide...
Streetwave to Map 4G and 5G Mobile Cover Across Liverpool City Region | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More As hinted last week (here), network analyst firm Streetwave has confirmed that they’ve won yet another contract to map 4G and 5G based mobile broadband coverage using bin lorries, which will this time focus on the Liverpool City Region in Merseyside (England) and some 7,000km of the UK’s road network. Streetwave has spent the past couple of years harnessing waste (bin / refuse) collection trucks to map mobile network coverage and speeds across various...
Vodafone and Ericsson cut 5G energy bill by a third in latest ‘sleep mode’ trials | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News The trial focussed on powering down 5G sites when not in use, dramatically reducing their energy consumption This week, Vodafone UK and Ericsson have announced the successful completion of a new trial in London that puts 5G and 4G sites ‘to sleep’ when not in use. The trial focused on making better use of network downtime, introducing features that power down equipment when demand is low and reactivate it when needed. It aims to lower energy...
Shock U-turn as Jio and Airtel both sign up for Starlink | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News The Indian operators are the latest in a growing list of telcos to lean on SpaceX to cover hard-to-reach customers This week, India’s two largest mobile operators, Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel, have announced partnerships with SpaceX to use its low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation Starlink. The deals will see the operators leverage Starlink’s roughly 7,000 satellites to deliver satellite internet services across India, potentially...