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BAI Communications UK CEO, Billy D’Arcy, spoke with Total Telecom about the work they are doing in both London and Sunderland to provide the backbone of mobile and digital connectivity. Through their 20-year partnership with Transport for London (TfL), they will deliver high-speed mobile connectivity across the capital – in what will be the most advanced and largest infrastructure project of its type in the world. Sunderland City Council and BAI have formed a world-first, 20-year strategic...

Budget broadband ISP TalkTalk has today launched a new Android TV powered ‘TV Hub‘ box for UK customers seeking to take a Pay TV product alongside their “Full Fibre” (FTTP) internet connectivity packages, which will cost from just £5 a month to add to your package (plus a £25 one-off fee). At this point some […]

Alternative network provider Quickline, which operates a mix of Full Fibre (FTTP) and Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) networks across parts of Lincolnshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire, has announced that their partnership with Cellnex UK has enabled them to reach 53,000 extra homes and businesses in the first year of operation. Quickline is currently being supported by […]

Neos Networks, which operates a 34,000km long fibre network with 676 Points of Presence across the UK, has today launched a Managed variant of its Dedicated Internet Access (Managed DIA) service. The service will provide businesses with fully managed, enterprise-grade fibre optic internet connectivity. The service has the ability to scale bandwidth as required, with […]

Network operator F&W Networks – supported by UK retail ISP Hey!Broadband – has today announced that they’ve secured “significant” new funding from Foresight Group and have now covered 185,000 premises (up from 150k in July 2022) across the South of England with their new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) infrastructure. The Altrincham-based operator, which holds an aspiration […]

New and existing customers on some of Virgin Media’s (VMO2) home broadband packages look set to see a small speed boost (both downloads and uploads) from 1st November 2022 at no extra charge. The full details have not yet been officially confirmed, but those on the operator’s M100 and M200 packages will see the main […]

Rochdale-based UK ISP Zen Internet, which is certified as a B Corporation, has officially commitment to the new Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi) with an ambition to achieve Net-Zero by 2040 (i.e. removing as many carbon emissions as they produce). At this point it’s worth noting that Zen previously set their Net Zero target for 2028 […]

News The regulator’s latest announcement brings the number of private 5G licences allocated in France to 13 Back in March, French telecoms regulator Arcep announced a number of new measures to help manufacturers and other vertical industries to improve their access to 5G, including setting aside a block of spectrum in the 3.8–4.0 GHz band to be used directly for experimental industrial 5G use cases. Since this announcement, Arcep has already allocated 10 localised spectrum licences to...

New customers of broadband ISP BT can currently get the first 3 months of service completely free across their various hybrid fibre FTTC and full fibre FTTP packages, which could save you up to £167.97 off the price of their top “Full Fibre 900Mbps” tier. Customers can expect to receive an included wireless router, a […]

Rural broadband ISP Quickline has announced that they’re creating a new 16-strong infrastructure Build Team, which will be tasked with helping the operator to accelerate their deployment of a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based “ultrafast broadband” network across North Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Lincolnshire in England. From installing track, cabling and splicing to making fibre connections […]