Broadband ISP TalkTalk Adopt New UK Policy on Annual Price Hikes
Budget conscious broadband ISP TalkTalk has informed ISPreview that they’re preparing to follow Ofcom’s new guidance on inflation-linked annual broadband price rises. In practice, this means that new and re-contracting (upgrading) customers will be hit by a flat annual price increase of £3 (monthly) each April. As above, the new policy is designed to reflect the regulator’s recent move to BAN broadband ISPs and mobile operators from doing mid-contract price hikes that are linked to confusing...
Full Fibre UK ISP GoFibre Celebrates First Year of Community Fund
Edinburgh-based alternative network provider GoFibre (BorderLink), which has already rolled out their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to 100,000 rural premises across the North England and the Scottish Borders, has today celebrated the first anniversary of their £50,000 GoFurther charity fund by awarding more projects. Just to recap. The GoFurther Fund offers grants of up to £3,000 to help local charity projects and community organisations in the regions of Aberdeenshire, Angus,...
Ofcom takes aim at scam calls from abroad
News Following a consultation, Ofcom will now require mobile network operators to identify and block calls from abroad which falsely display a UK telephone number In February, Ofcom opened a consultation into how better to block scam calls from abroad that masquerade as originating from within the UK. Now, with the consultation complete, the regulator is formally updating its industry guidance to require the operators to identify and block these calls, with few exceptions. This measure, Ofcom...
Sitetracker and VETRO Announce Partnership to Accelerate Fiber Deployment
MONTCLAIR, N.J., July 29, 2024 – Sitetracker, the world’s leading provider of deployment operations management software, is expanding its GIS Link tool with the addition of VETRO, the market-leading cloud-native fiber management system provider. Announced at Fiber Connect 2024, the partnership provides Sitetracker’s broadband customers with geospatial design data from VETRO so they can plan and deploy fiber networks with greater speed and efficiency. With the two-way integration between...
London ISP Community Fibre Expand Availability of Free FTTP Broadband
Network operator and broadband ISP CommunityFibre, which has built a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across 1.4 million UK premises – mostly in London, has today announced an expansion of their initiative offering “free access to 100% full fibre broadband to eligible Londoners struggling to get online“. Just to recap. The initiative, which first launched in May 2024 (here) alongside support from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and Jobcentre Plus, was initially...
SKT’s AI-based veterinary solution rolled out to Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam
News The AI-based diagnosis service ‘X Caliber’ can help vets to analyse pet X-ray images in under 30 seconds SK Telecom (SKT) has this week signed a trio of agreements with veterinary companies in Southeast Asia to supply them with its AI-based diagnostic service, X Caliber. Launched domestically in South Korea by SKT back in 2022, X Caliber uses AI modelling to assess pet X-ray images and provided diagnostic insights in under 30 seconds. At launch, the solution had a disease detection rate...
US telcos could be liable for staff stealing nude images from customers
News A ‘landmark’ ruling against T-Mobile earlier this year could see carriers held responsible for their employees’ breaches of consumer privacy A lawsuit was filed against AT&T on Monday arguing that the telco is liable for the actions of an employee who stole nude photos from a customer’s mobile phone. The case explains that a female customer brought her iPhone to an AT&T store in Los Angeles as part of a routine upgrade. The indicted employee then accessed explicit photos of the...
Wildanet Pick Xantaro to Support Cornwall UK Gigabit Broadband Rollout
Rural broadband ISP Wildanet, which is building a new full fibre (FTTP) network across South West England, has chosen network solutions provider Xantaro to help support their deployments in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly with Street Cabinet and Exchange Solutions. The provider, which originally started life as a Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) broadband provider in the same area, is estimated to have already extended their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to cover around 30,000 premises...
Altnet UK ISP Grain to Expand Bolton’s FTTP Broadband Network
Alternative network provider Grain (Grain Connect), which has so far grown their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to cover 220k UK premises RFS (21st May 2024) and 30k customers, has just announced that they’re going to expand their existing deployment in the Greater Manchester town of Bolton. The operator’s full fibre network can currently be found in parts of 59 UK locations (plus over 150 new build housing developments), which includes a lot of small-to-modest...
bOnline Survey Finds UK Businesses Frustrated by Openreach FTTP Rollout
A new survey of 427 small UK business owners, which was conducted by business focused broadband ISP bOnline in the late June to mid-July 2024 period, has found that 70% of respondents either don’t know if Openreach’s (BT) gigabit-capable FTTP broadband network has reached their area or believe that it is not yet available. At present Openreach are busy investing up to £15bn to ensure that 25 million premises are reached by their new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network by December 2026 (15...