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A new Opinium survey of 2,003 UK adults, which was commissioned by Uswitch.com, has found that average monthly bills for broadband ISP bundles and mobile phones have increased by £18.50 and £9.50 (per month) respectively this year. Despite that, 27% of broadband and 22% of mobile users still do not know when their contracts end. […]

ISP Connect Fibre (Fibre Assets), which aims to cover 100,000 premises across the East of England with their new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network, has continued their steady rollout and now looks set to go live in the large village of Killamarsh (Derbyshire) and the town of Thorne (South Yorkshire). The operator, which is being […]

Mobile operator Vodafone and TV broadcaster ITN have today announced that the Coronation of King Charles III will be the first UK broadcast to be enabled by a public 5G Standalone (SA) network, which will harness a specific “network slice” on the operator’s trial network. Existing 5G deployments in the United Kingdom tend to harness […]

Sky’s (Sky Broadband) sibling ISP for small business broadband customers, Sky Connect, has today joined with Sky Business TV to both relaunch under the singular Sky Business brand – providing both business connectivity and entertainment products. The integration is said to be “bringing together teams that are experts in their field, who thrive on new […]

Mobile network operator EE (BT) has today launched a new console (video gaming) trade-in service that offers cashback for old gaming hardware. On top of that, they’ve also launched a new range of PC gaming packages featuring premium laptops, which are designed to complement their 4G and 5G (mobile broadband) plans. Firstly, the new trade-in […]

Rural broadband ISP Airband, which is deploying a mix of Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) and gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) networks across various parts of the UK, has announced the appointment of Ian Fishwick as both their new Chairman of the Board and a Non-Executive Director. The operator, which is being backed by Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) […]

News The South Korean electronics giant said staff would be restricted from using AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Google Bard following misuse by staff This week, Samsung has become the latest in a string of major firms to raise a red flag over staff use of ChapGPT and similar AI solutions. The company said that it had informed its staff in April that there had been cases of misuse of large language model (LLM) AI – a type of generative AI trained on massive data sets and capable of providing...

Press release As part of the 2Africa subsea cable consortium, center3 and Meta have announced the landing of the longest subsea cable project in the world at two of the planned four landing locations in Saudi Arabia: Jeddah, and Yanbu. The 2Africa subsea cable, with over 45,000 km of length, will be the longest ever deployed worldwide. The record-breaking cable system will connect 33 countries by the completion of the project in 2024, delivering reliable connectivity and internet services...

Broadband and mobile giant Virgin Media O2 has today announced that, as part of their efforts to reorganise and focus the company on a “customer-first, digital-first and converged mentality and mission that lays the ground for future growth“, they’ve appointed a new Chief Operating Officer (COO) and MD for Fixed Network Expansion. Firstly, VMO2’s current […]

Sources within Sky UK (Comcast) have reportedly told a major newspaper that sales of their Sky Glass product, which launched in late 2021 and is essentially a Sky branded TV that also streams content over your home broadband ISP connection (inc. WiFi) instead of via a Satellite dish, have “underwhelmed“. The product itself, which was […]