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More than two-thirds of UK businesses face an unnecessarily high risk of having their data, including commercially sensitive and personal information, intercepted by hackers because they are not following best practices for securing data on their networks, according to a report from Beaming, an internet service provider for businesses. Beaming’s report, Network Transformation – A Guide for IT Directors, draws on a survey of UK businesses conducted by research consultancy Censuswide. It shows...

Neterra has significantly improved its connectivity service monitoring system by expanding its global network of monitoring points. The company has implemented a new monitoring system that provides clearer visibility into off-net services and enables more effective diagnostics and maintenance. “In some regions, we provide connectivity services like ‘Dedicated Internet’ through various third-party providers, which we cannot manage directly. This creates challenges in identifying...

News Content giants like Meta and Google are increasingly building their own submarine cable infrastructure, forgoing traditional partnerships with telcos Hyperscalers like Google and Meta have long played a key role in the submarine cable industry, typically serving as major partners in cable consortiums alongside telcos and other infrastructure players. In recent years, however, their modus operandi has changed. Today, instead of partnering with traditional carriers for cable projects, these...

Broadband ISP WightFibre, which is deploying a gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across the Isle of Wight – just off the South Coast of Hampshire (England), recently published their latest annual results to 30th September 2024 and revealed that their full fibre network now covered 88% of island premises (up from 80% in June 2024). The operator currently expects to have invested around £110m by 2030 as part of their ongoing “Gigabit Island” project, which is presently aiming to...

Customers of broadband ISP CommunityFibre appear to be coming back online after the operator suffered a sizeable network outage in London today, which has been disrupting internet connectivity for thousands of users over the past few hours (since just after 11:30am this morning). The cause of the problem is not yet known, although it seemed to be linked to the provider’s Domain Name System (DNS) as a number of customers were able to resolve the outage by switching to third-party DNS servers,...

Alternative network operator Grain (Grain Connect) has announced that they’re going to expand the coverage of their existing gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based UK broadband network in the West Yorkshire (England) city of Bradford, although the details of their expansion remain unclear. Grain’s network currently covers over 220,000 UK premises and connects 30,000 customers. The deployment they have in Bradford is currently limited to three large areas across the western side of...

Broadband, phone and Ethernet services in the Cambridgeshire (England) town of St Neots have been disrupted after criminals ripped up and stole around 500 metres worth of Openreach’s (BT) copper telecoms cable, which has impacted four of their fibre street cabinets in the area – serving premises with around 380 customers. The incident, which occurred on a bridge to the south of the town (A428), appears to have happened at around 3am on Friday (14th Feb) morning. Openreach’s engineers have been...

Abingdon-based rural ISP Gigaclear has today announced that they’ve kicked off the construction phase of their £25.4m (state aid) Project Gigabit contracts for South Oxfordshire (Lot 13.01 – c.5,500 premises) and North Oxfordshire (Lot 13.02 – c.4,200 premises), which will extend their full fibre (FTTP) broadband network to around 9,500 premises in hard-to-reach areas. The contracts were first awarded back in November 2023 (here) and at that point it was stated by the Government’s Building...

A new study from comparison site Go.Compare, which used data gathered from YouGov (survey of 2,000 UK residents) and the ONS, has claimed that more than 3.9 million UK households were owed compensation for broadband issues in the last year. But take that figure with a big pinch of salt. According to the findings, some 17% of respondents with ISPs that have signed-up to Ofcom’s existing Automatic Compensation scheme for broadband faults reported that they had “experienced a delay or missed...

Rural broadband operator and UK ISP Voneus, which has spent the past few years rolling out a gigabit-capable fixed wireless access (FWA) and full fibre (FTTP) network across poorly served areas, has today informed staff about a fresh round of redundancies after “market conditions” meant it was “no longer possible” to continue their previous pace of deployment. The development follows shortly after the provider dropped out of the Government’s £12m (state aid) Project Gigabit contract for Mid...