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Press Release Kicking off LBN’s 2024 plans it was announced that they are deploying their full-fibre broadband network across the Black Isle. This further expansion is part of LBN’s plans to give the entirety of the Highlands access to ultrafast broadband within the next three years. LBN who have already built network and provide services across much of the Highlands from Evanton up to Helmsdale including Alness, Tain and Invergordon will commence building the network on the Black Isle in...

News Reports suggest that Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) is seeking to purchase TalkTalk’s separated consumer division This week, a report from The Telegraph suggests that VMO2 is once again in negotiations with TalkTalk related to the acquisition of the latter’s consumer business. If such a takeover were to take place VMO2 would see TalkTalk’s roughly four million UK broadband subscribers added to their books. Discussions are said to be in the early stages, with no deal yet agreed. VMO2 have long...

Broadband ISP G.Network has this morning announced that they are to recommence the building of their 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to homes and businesses in four London boroughs, which follows last year’s build pause (here) and redundancies. The operator, which originally claimed to be committing around £1bn to support an aspiration for extending their […]

Over a decade has now passed since the BBC released its iPlayer Downloads app for PC and Mac users in the UK to “make offline viewing more simple“, which is a useful tool for those who may not always be close to a working broadband connection (e.g. when travelling). But sadly, the desktop download app […]

The Shetland MSP, Beatrice Wishart, has called on the Scottish Government (SG) to “rethink” the Scottish Broadband Voucher Scheme (SBVS) after it was revealed that only around 3-4% of the c.80,000 homes and businesses eligible for support under this measure had taken it up. The voucher scheme is designed to complement the SG’s £600m Reaching […]

European benchmarking firm nPerf has just published the results from their annual 2024 crowdsourced study into UK fixed broadband ISP performance, which finds that subscribers of Virgin Media, Fibrus and Vodafone enjoyed the best internet connection performances over the past year. The nPerf study is said to be based on thousands of tests carried out […]

Broadband ISP and mobile operator Virgin Media and O2 have today announced that they’ve become the second major UK telecoms provider, after BT (EE), to adopt Hiya’s AI-based technologies, which can analyse call behaviour in real-time and determine whether to flag an incoming call as ‘suspected spam’ or block fraud. Most of the major broadband, […]

Mobile operator Three UK has today suffered a third major network outage in the space of four days, which began at around 10:30am today and seems to have been largely resolved by 12:30pm. The latest outage attracted many more complaints than the previous event and also impacted customer services (probably due to being swamped by […]

News The network was deployed at one of the country’s best universities, Tecnológico de Monterrey, in Monterrey This week, AT&T Mexico has announced the activation of what they are calling the nation’s first private 5G network. The network has been deployed at the business and technological development centre (CEDETEC) of Tecnológico de Monterrey university, one of the country’s leading universities. Equipment has been provided by Swedish vendor Ericsson, with the project further supported...

Ding, ding.. round two. News reports claim that Virgin Media (VMO2) has allegedly revived its interest in a takeover of budget broadband ISP TalkTalk. But this time they’re reportedly focusing much more specifically upon the internet provider’s consumer division. The long-established internet and phone provider – home to almost 4 million UK broadband customers (2.4m […]