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The Director of Fixed Infrastructure, Engineering and Delivery at broadband ISP Virgin Media UK (VMO2), Matt Tully, has revealed that their upgrade from legacy Hybrid Fibre Coax (HFC) infrastructure to 10Gbps capable XGS-PON based Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) lines will start to go live for homes “later this year“. Just to recap. Around 14.3 million out of […]

Network operator Neos Networks, which runs one of the fastest growing, high capacity business fibre networks in the UK – spanning 34,000km and 550 exchanges, has today announced that its existing CEO, Colin Sempill, is to be replaced by Lee Myall, who joins the business from Kao Data where he is the CEO. Colin Sempill […]

The FTTH Council Europe has today released their 2023 ranking of the European countries with the strongest take-up and annual growth of gigabit-capable “full fibre” (FTTP/H/B) broadband ISP networks. Once again, the United Kingdom continues to see exceptional growth (42% in homes passed) over the past year. Admittedly, it’s still a slow climb for the […]

A new study from SaaSGenius.com, which contacted ten of the UK’s “leading utility companies” to test the quality and responsiveness of their customer help desks, has perhaps surprisingly found that home energy and broadband ISP Shell Energy came top of the table with a customer support score of 80.1 out of 100. The study reportedly […]

A new study from economic consultancy firm Fideres has accused UK telecoms regulator Ofcom of “tacitly allowing” TalkTalk, Virgin Media (VMO2) and other voice-only landline providers (e.g. SSE) to overcharge consumers by up to £200 million since 2009 (£100m by TT, £50m by VMO2, and a further £50m by smaller providers). Just to recap. Ofcom’s […]

NEWS The Italian incumbent has received two new bids for its fixed assets from investment firm KKR and a consortium of Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP) and Macquarie TIM confirmed receipt of two new non-binding bids yesterday, meeting the deadline it had set for interested parties to improve their bids for the operators fixed network business and assets. Reports in Reuters indicated that the bids were from both KKR and the CDP-Macquarie consortium, both of which originally bid earlier this...

News The 2021 American Bipartisan Infrastructure Law has a stated goal of reaching 100% of US households with fast, affordable internet service. To many this means fibre for all. Now a new cost estimation model from next-generation fixed wireless access (ngFWA) provider, Tarana Wireless highlights that, based on a study of 132 previous projects, a fibre-only approach to ensuring all un- or underserved households are connected could cost around five-times the $42.45 billion allocated to the...

News The Loch Ness Monster might be pleased to see the latest upgrades from EE, but Loch Ness is just one of the locations to benefit from expansion of the company’s 4G network to 1,500 rural communicates across the UK, making the benefits to rural communities far from mythical. EE claims to be the first UK MNO to build or upgrade 1,500 remote sites under the UK government’s Shared Rural Network (SRN) programme, the £1 billion scheme aimed at delivering reliable mobile broadband to 95% of the...

Network operator and UK ISP Connexin, which is investing £80m from Whitehelm Capital (PATRIZIA) to roll out a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across parts of Hull and Yorkshire (here), has today launched a new SmartHome app for all new customers (it can be downloaded immediately after installation). The application is said to be “packed […]

Broadband and mobile operator EE (BT) has today revealed that, as part of their commitment under the industry-led £1bn Shared Rural Network (SRN) project, they’ve expanded (built or upgraded) their “fast and reliable” 4G mobile network to over 1,500 remote sites across the United Kingdom (up from 500 in Dec 2022). The SRN is an […]