Broadband ISP YouFibre Deploy First UK 400Gbps vCGNAT Servers
Broadband ISP YouFibre, which is one of the retail outlets for Netomnia’s (inc. Brsk) 8Gbps capable full fibre (FTTP) network, has worked with NFWare to deploy the “industry’s first” 400Gbps virtual Carrier Grade Network Address Translation (vCGNAT) servers to its customers. The move should help them to keep up with their rapid subscriber growth. Netomnia’s full fibre network currently covers over 1.8 million premises, but they’re aiming to reach 2 million UK premises (homes and businesses)...
Rural UK ISP Wessex Internet Builds Gigabit Broadband to 30,000 Premises
Broadband ISP Wessex Internet, which is building a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across rural parts of Southern England, has today – for the first time – announced that they’ve just connected their 10,000th customer and their gigabit network has covered 30,000 properties (Ready for Service). The provider now says that they’re on track for 60% customer growth this year, which isn’t all that surprising when you consider how many major Project Gigabit build contracts they’ve secured...
iD Mobile Doubles Data on UK Mobile Plans for Black Friday
Low-cost mobile network operator iD Mobile (Currys), which harnesses Three UK’s national 4G and 5G platform under a virtual operator (MVNO) partnership, has launched a range of Black Friday promotions for new customers that doubles the included data (mobile broadband) allowances across all of their 1, 12 and 24-month SIM Only mobile plans. The change means that iD Mobile’s SIM Only plans now start at £6 per month for 8GB on a 1-month term (up from 4GB) or 15GB on a 24-month term (up from 6GB),...
Ofcom UK Widen Scope of Probe into Gigaclear’s Emergency Calls Failure
The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today confirmed that they’ve widened the scope of their recently launched investigation into rural broadband ISP Gigaclear, which was probing their possible failure to “provide accurate and reliable caller location information to emergency organisations“ (i.e. making it more difficult for police, fire and ambulances to find callers). Just to recap. The regulator’s rules (General Conditions A3.5 (GC A3.5) and A3.6(a) (GC A3.6(a))) require that, when someone...
Bouygues Telecom completes acquisition of La Poste Telecom after shareholder squabble
News La Poste Telecom is France’s largest mobile virtual network operator (MVNO), providing services to customers using SFR’s mobile network French mobile operator Bouygues Telecom has announced the completion of its 100% acquisition of La Poste Telecom for an undisclosed sum. La Poste Telecom is France’s largest MVNO, with roughly 2.4 million subscribers. The company was previously majority owned by La Poste Group (51%), while SFR – Bouygues’ rival network operator, over whose mobile network...
London Full Fibre Broadband ISP G.Network Cuts Jobs and Shifts Strategy
London focused UK broadband ISP G.Network, which has spent the past few years deploying a gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across parts of the city centre, has today announced a “strategic update” that will see some redundancies as the operator shifts their strategy and moves to “drive further commercialisation” (growing take-up). In case anybody has forgotten, G.Network only resumed their fibre roll-out in the city during February 2024, which occurred after a long build...
Pulse Fibre Offers 12 Months Free Broadband to Wain Homes
London-based broadband ISP Pulse Fibre, which over the next few years aspires to complete over 250,000 unique “full fibre” (FTTP) connections into new build homes and MDUs (here), has announced a collaboration with property developer Wain Homes to offer associated homeowners “free broadband for 12 months“. The promotion will initially be rolled out to three developments in the South West of England, reaching over 200 homeowners. Each resident will receive day one activation, a free WiFi 6...
From the new FCC chair to BEAD updates: The top 5 stories from Broadband Communities
News The picture of how a second term for President-elect Donald Trump will impact telecommunications is becoming clearer. With the nomination of Brendan Carr as chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), a change of course at the FCC has been signaled. Plus, don’t miss the latest merger and acquisition updates from North America, including Charter’s deal to acquire Liberty Broadband. Trump picks Carr to serve as next FCC chair President-elect Donald Trump has picked Brendan Carr to...
O2 UK Boost 4G and 5G Network Capacity for 850 Wolverhampton Postcodes
Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has today announced that they’ve completed a project to improve their 4G and 5G based mobile (mobile broadband) network in the West Midlands city of Wolverhampton, which since the start of 2024 has seen network capacity upgraded in 850 postcodes across the area. The capacity boost should ensure that local residents, visitors and business can all benefit from having access to faster and more reliable mobile services when connected via O2’s mobile network in the...
Survey Warns Some UK ISPs Continue to Mislead by Advertising Copper Broadband as Fibre
A new YouGov survey conducted by network operator AllPoints Fibre, which is the UK wholesale division of Fern Trading’s recently consolidate alternative FTTP broadband ISP networks (Giganet, Jurassic Fibre, and Swish Fibre), claims to have found that the “vast majority of people” (72%) think it’s “misleading” to advertise part-copper broadband (e.g. FTTC) as ‘fibre’. In the past it was common for ISPs to use “fibre” terminology to describe a wide range of internet connection technologies,...