ISP WeFibre Pulls Out of Some Rural FTTP Broadband Builds
Several years have now passed since UK ISP WeFibre (Telcom Group) announced its plan to “aggressively” deploy a gigabit-capable full fibre broadband network across rural parts of Northumberland, Cumbria, North West England, and Central and North Wales (here). But some projects in Wales have now been told that the work will not proceed. The original […]
Mobile Operator Three UK Suffers Network Outage
Some of Three UK’s mobile customers are reporting a large network outage, which appears to be hitting sporadically across various different parts of the country. The issue is also known to be impacting users of the company’s Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) partners, such as Smarty etc. The disruption appears to have started at around […]
EE to invest £6 million in retail stores
News EE has announced that it will invest £6 million in its UK store portfolio over the next year The news comes as the company unveils its new Experience store in Gateshead today, which will be the first of “more than ten” EE Experience stores that will open over the next year. The new type of retail store was announced last year at the launch of the White City Westfield London store. It is the UK’s largest telco retail space, which aims to reinvent the role of retail in the telco...
Bell Canada announces plans to cut almost 5,000 jobs
News The move is the company’s largest restructuring in thirty years Bell Canada Enterprises (BCE), the owner of Canadian telco Bell Canada, has announced this week that it will cut 4,800 job to cut costs, with the company reporting “declining legacy phone and news business”. The job cuts will see roughly 9% of the company’s 44,610 employees laid off at all levels. The announcement was made in conjunction with its fourth quarter and 2023 full year financial results. Alongside its...
Ofcom probes Virgin Media over landline migration
News The regulator says it wants to ensure that vulnerable customers are being treated fairly and that access to emergency services is not being jeopardised during the switch Across the UK – and, indeed, across many parts of the world – steps are being taken to migrate customers away from traditional analogue landlines to IP-based digital landline services. While for the vast majority of customers this process will cause little disruption, for a number of vulnerable customers who rely more...
Mexican president calls for dissolution of telecoms regulator
News A reform package proposed by Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador would see a number of regulatory organisations shut down, including the telecoms regulator the Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones (IFT) This week, the Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador has proposed a raft of constitutional changes that includes weakening or dissolving entirely various autonomous bodies, including the IFT. According to López Obrador’s proposal, this would allow public spending to be...
End of the Line for TV White Space Broadband Tech in the UK?
The chances of any ISPs deploying long-range TV White Space (TVWS) based wireless broadband networks to serve remote rural UK premises has just significantly declined. Ofcom has given notice that their related device (WSD) authorisation framework is no longer available. Just to recap. The TVWS technology harnessed the gaps that exist between radio spectrum in […]
Broadband ISP BT UK Discounts 500Mbps Full Fibre to £34.99
New customers looking to take one of BT’s ultrafast broadband packages may like to know that the ISP has just discounted their 150Mbps and 500Mbps full fibre (FTTP) plans to £29.99 and £34.99 per month respectively, at least when taken without a phone service and on a 24-month contract (rising to £34.99 and £39.99 post-contract). […]
Virgin Media UK Has No Plans to Expand Stream’s Availability
Broadband ISP and TV provider Virgin Media (VMO2) has reiterated to ISPreview that it currently has “no plans” to make its relatively new Stream TV service available to consumers on other internet providers, which is despite Sky opting to make their equivalent Sky Stream product available to users on other ISPs since launch. The Virgin […]
Three UK Tops Ookla H2 2023 Study of 5G Mobile Broadband Speeds
Internet connection testing firm Ookla, which collects its data via the popular Speedtest.net service, recently published their latest Q3-Q4 2023 (H2) study into the performance of 5G based mobile broadband networks in the United Kingdom and found that Three UK continues to deliver the fastest speeds. But performance has declined. Mobile data performance remains a […]