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Cityfibre has today issued an update on their project to upgrade their entire UK G-PON based Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to harness 10Gbps capable XGS-PON technology (here), which reveals that they’ve successfully completed a trial of 2Gbps home broadband speeds in York with ISP partner Vodafone. At present the network operator aims to cover up […]

The latest independent biannual summary of UK broadband coverage for H2 2022 has estimated that “full fibre” (FTTP) ISP network rollouts have surged to reach 45.13% of premises (up from 37.61% in H1 2022) and 72.66% are within reach of “gigabit” speeds (up from 69.24%). Read on for details of England, Wales, Scotland and N.Ireland. […]

Press Release China Mobile and Ericsson jointly launched energy-efficient 5G sites to accelerate its energy conservation and carbon emission reduction efforts. Ericsson and China Mobile Jiangsu have launched a 5G smart site on 700MHz band that does not produce carbon dioxide. Ericsson has also partnered with China Mobile Guangdong to launch an energy-efficient site on the 2.6GHz band. For this collaboration, China Mobile has implemented Ericsson’s power system, which enables hybrid energy...

News The new company will target 1.5 million locations beyond the scope of AT&T’s existing fibre network It was certainly a happy New Year for AT&T this year, having announced the creation of a new fibre joint venture (JV) with US-based investment firm BlackRock. The JV, to be named Gigapower LLC, will offer wholesale access to ISPs and other business customers. In total, the company aims to deploy multi-gigabit fibre to 1.5 million customer locations currently outside of AT&T’s...

News The Competition Tribunal dismissed concerns from the Competition Commissioner that the deal would see customers face higher prices Back in March 2021, Rogers Communications agreed to buy rival Shaw Communications for around C$21 billion, saying the tie-up would allow for increased investment in 5G rollout and create around 3,000 jobs. However, as was to be expected from a merger of this nature, which would reduce the Canadian mobile market to just three national players, the deal quickly...

Sources have informed ISPreview that UK broadband ISP BT will trigger the next phase of their plan to turn EE into their “flagship brand for consumer customers” around the February to April 2023 period, which among other things may see their new Smart Hub 3 (SH3) router launch first as an EE (not BT) product. […]

The UK Government is in the process of publishing the King’s New Year Honours List for 2023, which sees Brendan Dick, the former Director of BT in Scotland (2006-18) and former Chair of Openreach’s Scotland Board (2018-21), picking up an OBE for services to telecommunications in Scotland. But he’s not alone. The King’s New Year […]

Network operator Northern Fibre, which is a sub-brand of UK wireless broadband ISP Stix Internet, have continued to expand the rollout of their new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across rural parts of Yorkshire and has now gone live in several more villages. Back in May 2022 we reported that the operator had been quietly building […]

New customers signing up to broadband ISPs TalkTalk or EE may like to know that both have separately launched some early January Sale style promotions on their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) packages, which add another discount to some monthly rentals and throws in the odd bonus. In terms of TalkTalk, the big change seems to be on […]

A growing number of UK consumers are planning to move their home phone service away from their fixed line broadband provider and on to a dedicated Voice-over-IP (VoIP) provider, which may save money and give you one less thing to worry about when switching ISP. We take a quick look at the options and challenges […]