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Budget focused broadband ISP TalkTalk has “suspended all door-to-door sales activity” in the Newcastle area after residents complained about cold calling occurring in parts of the city designated as a No Cold Calling Zone (NCCZ), which should be fairly self-explanatory to everybody, if not so much the sellers themselves, apparently. Almost nobody likes door-to-door sales, […]

Customers of UK broadband ISP BT and EE, specifically those taking their pay TV platform, may be unhappy to learn that the provider will be removing the premium AMC channel, and all catch up content, from all BT TV platforms from 28th September 2023 next month. The TV and video-on-demand channel itself is best known […]

The latest independent data from Thinkbroadband‘s database has revealed that alternative full fibre (FTTP) broadband ISP networks (AltNets) now cover over a quarter (25.14%) of the UK, which is up from 23.64% at the end of June 2023. In terms of the top 10 locations where such networks dominate, Peterborough (84%) comes first. Just to […]

Mobile network operator Lyca Mobile, which is a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) that runs off EE’s (BT) national platform, has today launched a new range of mobile “Fan Plans” that are specially tailored toward supporters of West Ham United Football Club. The West Ham United Fan Plan is the first bespoke commercial initiative launched […]

News  The deal, announced in February this year, had a deadline of 15th August  Intel has mutually agreed to terminate its $5.4 billion deal to acquire Israeli chipmaker Tower Semiconductor after being unable to get timely regulatory approval, the companies said today.  Reports suggest that the termination of the deal has come after failure to get regulatory approval from the Chinese authorities (namely The State Administration for Market Regulation).   Due to the size and significance of this...

News  The company say move will create up to 300 ‘high quality, good paying jobs’, which will be added to the firm’s current workforce of 1,400 people  This week, US Adtran announced the expansion of its telecommunications equipment manufacturing plant in Huntsville, Alabama, aimed at supporting the domestic production of fibre equipment.   The company will invest up to $5 million in the project, which will include the scaling up of its production of optical line termination equipment and...

Contributed Article by Winncom Technologies Playing with Lego building blocks is a lot of fun. You fit each piece into the other and develop a shape that resembles your imagination. Cambium Networks makes it easy to plan, deploy and manage wired or wireless broadband networks, with our solutions, network operators of all types can select the best technology for every point in the network while making sure that all the pieces fit well together. Elements are onboarded and managed through one...

Hull-based network builder MS3, which is working to roll out a 10Gbps capable full fibre (FTTP) broadband ISP network to cover 500,000 premises across the North of England by the end of 2025 (here), has today announced a partnership with Carbon Neutral Britain (CNB) to help them “offset their carbon footprints“. In order to establish […]

Sad news today as another alternative builder of full fibre broadband, Truespeed, has confirmed to ISPreview that a good chunk of its workforce are now facing redundancy (possibly c. 150) and the rollout of their 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to homes in the South West of England is due to slow. At present Truespeed’s […]

News  The firm claim that they are the first home internet provider to offer a product designed to maintain connectivity during a storm-related power outages, with the device offering a four-hour battery life  In the newest addition to its home internet devices suite, Comcast has launched its ‘Xfinity Storm-Ready WiFi’, which, as the name implies, is designed to be used as a backup for weather associated power outages.  During a power outage, the device switches automatically from the...