Rural UK ISP Truespeed Introduce Jacob Rees-Mogg to Full Fibre
Alternative broadband provider Truespeed, which is building a new gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across rural parts of South West England, has today welcomed a visit by the UK Government’s former Secretary of State for Business, East Somerset MP Jacob Rees-Mogg. The operator, which has so far covered 50,000 premises (including 11,500 customers connected) and […]
Ofcom Tells UK Phone Providers to Identify and Block Spoofed Calls
The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today introduced new rules that will require phone providers to crackdown on “fake phone numbers” by identifying and blocking “spoofed calls“, where feasible. The move aims to tackle a problem that, during the summer, resulted in 40.8 million people being targeted by suspicious calls and texts. Most of the […]
Northern Telecom acquires business and assets of Toople Plc & DMSL
PRESS RELEASE Leeds based telco Northern Telecom has stepped in to rescue the business and assets of Toople Plc (and subsidiaries) in a deal with administrators FRP Recovery that closed on Friday.. Toople’s customer and reseller relationships (including customers of Toople and Direct Market Services Limited (DMSL)) will transition into the wider Northern Telecom group. The transaction is the eighth for Northern Telecom in the last five years and secures provision of service for a range of...
Broadband ISP File Sanctuary Cut UK FTTP Prices for Black Friday
Internet provider File Sanctuary has this week launched a new range of Black Friday sales across their range of Openreach based Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband packages, which broadly discounts the price across all their plans by £4 per month for the entire 12-month minimum contract term. Each package includes free installation or migration, unlimited usage, UK […]
Vodafone UK Sees Fixed Broadband Surge to 1.11 Million Customers
Vodafone UK has this morning published their latest Q2 FY23 results, which reveals that their fixed broadband ISP base grew again to total 1.111 million customers (up sharply by 39k in the quarter vs 22k in Q1 FY23) and their mobile base also surged again to total 17.543 million (up by 321k vs 115k in […]
Openreach UK Trial New Broadband Availability Checker UPDATE
Openreach (BT) appears to have recently introduced an additional broadband availability checker to its website, which is designed to provide visitors with more details about the current and future coverage of their ADSL, FTTC and FTTP services. But it also gives you data on your estimated UK ISP speeds via their network. At present, if […]
Vestager: Restricting “high-risk” vendors a “matter of urgency” for EU
News The Commission has urged the European community to accelerate its implementation of EU 5G security guidelines, singling out Germany for special criticism over government inaction Back in 2019, following the US banning Huawei 5G network equipment from its domestic networks, 5G network security rapidly become a political hot potato, with the Trump administation pushing the international community to implement bans of their own. Some countries, such UK, quickly followed suit in 2020, but...
UKRI selects BT consortium for intelligent drone project
Press Release The ‘Intelligent Drones for Port and Highways Technology’ (InDePTH) project, which is part of the ‘Future Flight Challenge Phase 3’ programme, has received government backing, thanks to major new funding available via research agency UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to help achieve an ambitious vision for the UK’s future drone economy. As part of the project, BT, Associated British Ports (ABP), Kier Highways, Connected Places Catapult, RoboK and Herotech8 are all working...
IRIS cable set to link Iceland and Ireland
News The 1,700km cable system is set to connect Galway, Ireland, with Thorlakshofn, Iceland, just south of Reykjavík This week, Icelandic international carrier Farice has announced the deployment of their new IRIS cable, a system set to directly link Iceland to Ireland for the first time. Back in 2019, government-run international carrier Farice identified Galway as an attractive landing site for an Iceland–Ireland submarine cable system, noting both its suitable beaches and close proximity to...
Full Fibre UK ISP Fibrus Launch New Business Broadband Plans
Belfast-based UK ISP Fibrus, which is building a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across Northern Ireland and Northern England, has today launch a new range of packages targeted at small and medium-sized enterprises – all include a pledge NOT charge a connection fee or be subject to annual CPI price increases. The new Fibrus business […]