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A new report claims that troubled UK network operator Broadway Partners, which had been building fixed wireless and full fibre (FTTP) broadband ISP networks across rural parts of Scotland and Wales – until they fell into administration, has attracted interest from a consortium involving Tiger Infrastructure Partners and Macquarie. Broadway (aka – Broadway Broadband) – […]

Insight  25 years ago, Kapil Singhal worked as a field engineer at Ericsson to deploy some of the first ever mobile networks in India. His involvement with Telcos across the region in building Mobile Switch Centers and Radio Network Services meant he very quickly learnt and understood, first-hand, the key problems field workers faced in network infrastructure and deployment projects.   From arduous paper forms and lengthy inspections that wasted key resources, to inefficiencies in data capture...

Mobile operator O2 (VMO2) has today announced that, following last night’s launch of the new Apple iPhone 15 – all featuring USB-C instead of Lightning ports, they’re now offering everyone the option to recycle their old lightning cables (or other charging cables) at O2 stores nationwide, where they will be sustainably disposed of. According to […]

London-focused network builder and broadband ISP CommunityFibre, which is deploying a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across the city (currently covering 1.2m premises), has boosted the speed of their cheap £12.50 per month social tariff for a second time – from 20Mbps to 35Mbps (symmetric). The Essential 35 Mbps package, which originally started life as […]

SpaceX’s global network of Starlink ultrafast broadband satellites, which form part of a mega constellation in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), appeared to suffer a major service outage at just after midnight (UK time) last night that lasted almost two hours before the situation returned to normal. Starlink currently has around 4,700 LEO satellites in orbit […]

Broadband ISP FibreNest, which is the Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) operator for Persimmon Homes‘ new build UK housing sites, appears to have become the latest alternative network provider to suffer some redundancies. But in this case the reason isn’t quite the same as we’ve seen elsewhere, and the scale is smaller. The network, which was started five […]

The Independent Networks Co-operative Association (INCA), which represents UK alternative networks, will today publish a new report that accuses broadband ISP BT of charging customers up to 29% more per month for the same broadband product in areas without infrastructure competition. At the time of writing we haven’t yet had a chance to fully read […]

Network builder FullFibre Limited (Fibre Heroes), which is rolling out a new gigabit Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network that aims to cover “at least” 500,000 premises by 2025, appears to have become one of the first UK operators to adopt ACOME’s new ultra lightweight (ULW) fibre cable. Admittedly, talking about new variants of optical […]

At present most 5G networks are data-only (mobile broadband) services, but EE (BT) has revealed that it recently carried out the UK’s first call over 5G in the network using Voice over New Radio (VoNR or Vo5G) technology. But it’s unclear precisely how long we’ll have to wait before this becomes common place. The technology […]

The latest data from Ookla, which operates the popular Speedtest.net internet connection benchmarking service, has revealed that the United Kingdom now places near the bottom of the table of 5G capable countries for mobile broadband speeds and availability. The latest benchmark, which examined 5G mobile performance between 1st May and 29th July 2023, reveals that […]