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The seventh contract awarded under the UK’s £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout scheme – worth “nearly” £14 million – has today been awarded to ISP Wessex Internet, which will upgrade connectivity for “around” 10,500 hard-to-reach homes and businesses across rural parts of the New Forest in Hampshire (England). The provider already has plenty of experience […]

Earlier today the Government revealed (here) that they’d commit £8m to help deliver “high-speed broadband” (they didn’t clearly define this) via Satellite ISP solutions for up to 35,000 of the UK’s “most remote properties” (i.e. those unable to get gigabit-capable connections). We now know that this will involve OneWeb’s Low Earth Orbit (LEO) network via […]

Asterion-backed MS3, which is working to rollout a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) broadband ISP network to cover 530,000 premises across the North of England by around 2026 (here), has today announced the appointment of a new senior leadership team ahead of their rollout accelerating. At present, most of MS3’s early build has taken […]

Sky Mobile, which is an O2 (VMO2) powered mobile operator (MVNO), is adding cellular laptops to its range of available devices from just £11 a month (includes mobile broadband plan). Customers who take one of these will benefit from Sky’s data rollover feature (i.e. any unused data each month gets rolled into a Piggybank which […]

VIEWPOINT I attended Huawei’s 2022 financial results meeting in Shenzhen and it was mostly a story of “back to normal”. As CFO and now rotating Chairperson Sabrina Meng said: “In 2022, Huawei gradually pulled itself out of crisis mode. US restrictions are now our new normal, and we are back to business as usual.” The ending title for Eric Xu’s presentation was “sustainable survival and development”. Note: This is in contrast to their 2021 report which was under the title “Solid Operations,...

The UK government (DSIT) has today announced that, as part of the new Wireless Infrastructure Strategy (WIS), they have set out an ambition to “blanket the country with the fastest, most reliable wireless coverage available” – with the plan being for “all populated areas to be covered by ‘standalone’ 5G (5G-plus) by 2030“. The update […]

The excitement is palpable. You’ve just been told that a UK network operator has deployed a Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network down your road and made it live, only to then suffer the bitter pill of disappointment when you discover that your house is one of the few that can’t get it. But why? We […]

A recent update to the Companies House records for broadband ISP Trooli, which was rolling out a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across parts of England and recently became the subject of various takeover talks, has confirmed that a new company called Agnar UK Infrastructure Ltd has taken significant control (75%+) of the business. Just […]

Customers of Vodafone’s fixed line broadband ISP, which is supplied to UK consumers via both Openreach and CityFibre’s respective networks (FTTC and FTTP lines), appear to be suffering from an Easter service outage that began earlier this morning (around 8:30am ish for some people). The issue, which is currently still ongoing, has resulted in the […]

Network operator Netomnia, which is supported by UK ISP YouFibre, has confirmed to ISPreview that they’ve quietly added another 4 towns – this time in Hertfordshire (England) – to the 2023 rollout plan for their 10Gbps capable full fibre (FTTP) broadband network (currently covers 410,000 premises, up from 300k in Nov 2022). The operator, which […]