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City-focused broadband ISP Hyperoptic, which aims to cover 2 million UK premises with their full fibre (FTTP / FTTB) network by the end of 2023 (they’ve almost done half of that), has just discounted their top 1Gbps (symmetric speed) package to just £25 per month on their 24-month terms (£60 thereafter). The new Black Friday […]

The UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has unveiled the winners of their 24th annual 2022 internet industry and broadband awards, which among other things saw B4RN take home the award for “Best Rural ISP” (second year running), while Brsk was named as the best infrastructure provider with under 100,000 premises. The award categories have […]

Network builder and rural ISP County Broadband has today announced 9 new villages, this time in Essex (England), where local homes and businesses will now be able to access their gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, which is also being deployed across parts of Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Suffolk. The areas being announced today have already started […]

The Consumer Pricing Bill (CPB), which seeks to “prohibit the practice of offering preferential pricing to new customers compared to existing customers“, will today get its second reading in the House of Commons. The Private Members Bill (PMB) could, if passed, effectively prevent first term discounts on broadband ISP and mobile packages. At present new […]

New customers thinking of taking out one of EE’s fibre-based home broadband packages (FTTC and FTTP) may like to know that the ISP has just introduced a series of new Black Friday discounts (e.g. 900Mbps at £42 per month with free setup for 24-months), which will be available to take until 8th December 2022. All […]

News The investment will expand their existing LD7 and LD8 sites in London, as well as establishing a new MA5 datacentre in Manchester This week, Equinix has announced the investment of a further £179 million into its UK-based data centres, aiming to meet the country’s rapidly growing data demand. More specifically, these funds will be used to expand the company’s existing LD7 and LD8 data centres, located in Slough and London Docklands, respectively, and opening a new datacentre, MA5, in...

News KT and LG Uplus will have their licences cancelled, while SK Telecom will have their licence term shortened by six months South Korea is rightly looked to as a world leader in many fields of technology and, for the most part, 5G is no exception. However, when it comes to mmWave 5G, results in the country have been so disappointing that the government is now moving to remove some of the telcos’ licences altogether. A recent audit by the Ministry of Science and IT (MSIT) found that all...

Sky (Sky Broadband, Sky TV) has today announced that their Sky Mobile service, which is an O2 (VMO2) powered Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO), has reached the major milestone of 3 million customers and is now the “fastest growing mobile provider in the UK“. On the surface, Sky Mobile’s plans might not seem as attractive […]

The ITU and United Nations (UN) Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development has recently issued their annual progress update on getting the world connected to affordable broadband ISP connectivity, which among other things finds that 2.7 billion people have yet to even access the internet. The commission has long set a series of targets to assist […]

VIEWPOINT 5G is emerging as the fastest generation ever deployed, with more than 200 5G networks and three million base stations worldwide, several of them in China, South Korea and the US. Several industry leaders discussed the growing 5G ecosystem at a recent panel discussion organized by Euronews. Laurent Leboucher, the Chief Technical Officer of French Telecom’s giant Orange, Dr. Philip Song, the Chief Marketing Officer at Huawei Carrier Business Group, and Alex Sinclair, the Chief...