First Trial Users Live on Virgin Media’s UK XGS-PON Fibre Network
UK ISP Virgin Media (VMO2) has confirmed that the first trial customers on their new XGS-PON powered Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network were connected this month, which in the future will make even faster latency and symmetric speeds of up to 10Gbps possible across their entire network. At present around 14.3 million of Virgin Media’s premises […]
Netomnia Detail FTTP Rollout for Stafford, Wednesbury and Walsall
Alternative network provider Netomnia – supported by UK ISP YouFibre – has today revealed new details on their plan to rollout a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) broadband network to homes and businesses across the West Midlands towns of Stafford, Wednesbury and Walsall. The operator, which has already covered 300,000 UK premises (up from 265k […]
Openreach Prep Return of UK Fibre Community Partnerships in Early 2023
Openreach (BT) has informed ISPreview that its Fibre Community Partnership (FCP) scheme, which works with disadvantaged parts of England, Wales and Scotland to help co-fund the deployment of new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP networks, will become available again for new applicants “early” in 2023. Projects under the FCP programme, which tend to be co-funded […]
UK ISP Zen Internet Resolves Network Performance Issue
Broadband ISP Zen Internet has today resolved a problem, which appears to have been occurring for almost two weeks, that caused some of their wholesale partners and related fibre (FTTC and FTTP) customers to suffer from performance problems (e.g. slower than expected speeds, poor latency and high packet loss). Feedback suggests that Zen didn’t initially […]
Putting the art into AI
STARTUP STORIES Essen based startup, Your Easy AI, thinks it has a solution to the skills shortages preventing so many from capitalising on artificial intelligence with software enabling development of artificial intelligence within minutes, without programming or AI knowledge. Their Startup Story is the latest in our regular series. Tell us about your start up The lack of artificial intelligence experts prevents many companies from realizing the potential of their data. Our software enables...
Rakuten Mobile obtains preliminary licenses for testing of AST SpaceMobile’s LEO satellite
Press release Rakuten Mobile, Inc. obtained preliminary experimental test station licenses on November 10, 2022, to conduct mobile communication tests and preliminary verification in Japan using AST SpaceMobile’s low earth orbit satellite, BlueWalker 3. AST SpaceMobile is building the first and only space-based cellular broadband network accessible directly by standard unmodified mobile phones. In the future, Rakuten Mobile aims to offer mobile communication services using AST SpaceMobile’s...
UK broadband networks may be wrongly valued by up to 20%
PRESS RELEASE UK broadband providers may be inaccurately valuing their businesses by up to 20 percent because they don’t have the right oversight of their networks, leaders of the UK’s alt net sector have been told today. The industry’s typical approach to the designing, building and operating of a fibre network can result in poorer quality of data being gathered, this is because of the multiple systems that are used across the network lifecycle. The lack of an integrated network information...
Nearly 90% of federal agencies are planning 5G adoption
PRESS RELEASE Nearly 90% of federal agencies are planning to adopt 5G, according to a new study released by General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), a business unit of General Dynamics. But agencies also face several challenges, including budget and cybersecurity concerns. The research study, Enterprise to the Edge: Agency Guide to 5G, surveyed 500 officials from civilian, defense and intelligence agencies to analyze the progress the federal government is making to deploy 5G...
Bless this highly nutritious broadband and the people who sold it
NEWS Kevin would be so pleased – apologies for the obscure reference to Home Alone! The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) have ruled that broadband providers should display simple point of sale labels s to help consumers to compare broadband services. The labels which will resemble nutrition signage on food with prices, speeds, fees, data allowances and other important information. Broadband facts labels resemble food labels “Broadband is an essential service, for everyone, everywhere....
Rural UK ISP Gigaclear Cuts 100Mbps Broadband to Just £15
Rural broadband ISP Gigaclear, which covers 300,000 premises in remote parts of England with their 1Gbps full fibre (FTTP) network, will this morning introduce their “lowest ever priced deal” that discounts the 100Mbps (symmetric) package to just £15 a month for the first 18-months of service (£35 thereafter). The package, which is limited to the […]