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News The cuts are the first since the telecoms company was created in 2021  Following the publication of their Q2 results today, Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) has announced that it will cut nearly 11% of its total workforce by the end of the year.  Around 2,000 jobs will be cut in total, confirming rumours that were reported earlier this year.  The losses come just over two years after VMO2 was formed in a £31 billion merger, which has left the newly formed company over £20 billion in debt.  “As we...

The Digital Poverty Alliance (DPA), high street retailer Currys and Computer Recyclers have today teamed-up to launch the ‘Get Online @ Home‘ scheme, which offers special deals on broadband and discounted refurbished devices to the 11 million people across the UK who they claim are experiencing digital exclusion. A quick look at the scheme’s website […]

A couple of years ago Vodafone launched what it called an “evolution in mobile phone plans” with their new 4G and 5G supporting EVO packages, which gave customers more flexibility over payments, contract lengths and smartphone upgrades etc. Today they’ve extended that to include other device bundles, such as laptops and tablets. The EVO plans […]

News Andrei Lipov, head of the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications (Roskomnadzor), met with Iranian telecoms minister Issa Zarepour to discuss internet regulation and telecoms collaboration Over the weekend, the head of the Russian telecoms regulator Roskomnadzor reportedly met with the Iranian telecoms minister to discuss “issues related to the internet”. The primary focus of the meeting was to discuss ‘the protection of children online’, according to a statement from the...

The Connecting Cambridgeshire project in England, which is being led by the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority, has today highlighted the progress they’re making in helping to accelerate the roll-out of gigabit-capable broadband across the county, with 21km of new fibre ducting already installed or soon to be deployed. The programme’s “Dig Once” policy was […]

Internet provider Giganet are today reporting that they’re investigating a problem across their national UK network, which may be causing some leased line (Ethernet) and full fibre (FTTP) broadband customers to experience degraded service quality. According to the customer complaints we’ve seen, most of the gripes started in the small hours of this morning. The […]

Network builder and UK broadband ISP CommunityFibre, which is rolling out a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across London, has today reached the coverage milestone of 1 million homes passed (up from 720,000 in December 2022). The operator has expanded its network footprint by 75% in the last 12 months alone. Breaking news.. more to […]

Broadband ISP and mobile giant Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2) have published their Q2 2023 results, which saw their fixed broadband base fall by -15,300 in the quarter to total 5,667,300 (vs 28.8k added in Q1) and the operator confirm earlier reports (here) of 2,000 job cuts. But they also accelerated their nextfibre FTTP reach […]

Network builder and UK broadband ISP Lightning Fibre, which is deploying a multi-gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across parts of Sussex and Kent (England), has today announced the appointment of an interim CEO, Stefan Stanislawsk, to replace the company’s outgoing boss and founder, Ben Ferriman. The operator, which is backed by private equity firm Foresight […]

Mobile benchmarking firm RootMetrics (Ookla) has published their latest biannual H1 2023 study of UK mobile network (4G and 5G) and mobile broadband performance, which sees EE (BT) continue to pick up awards across all of the categories. But in terms of 5G data speeds, Three UK remains the operator to beat. The latest study […]