Confusion as Trooli switch off FTTC broadband network in Kent UK village | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Confusion appears to have gripped residents in the rural Kent (England) village of Hunton after Trooli, an alternative network operator and broadband ISP, informed local customers that they had been unable to extend their new full fibre (FTTP) network into the area, and now planned to switch-off their existing copper line infrastructure too. The original article on this situation, which has been covered by the BBC News, is lacking some necessary context...
Amazon Leo speed test reaches 400Mbps+ on Pro satellite broadband dish | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Amazon Leo service, which busy deploying thousands of ultrafast broadband satellites into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) for the UK and globally to compete with Starlink, has successfully tested their Leo Pro dish (terminal) to slightly beyond its top rated download speed of 400Mbps (Megabits per second) in a beta test of the service. The service, which has already launched 392 Kuiper satellites into orbit and is presently in its commercial beta phase (they...
Ciena upgrades Space Norway’s Arctic Cables | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News The deal is expected to boost the lifespan of the company’s aging submarine cables around Svalbard Space Norway has announced a new deal with Ciena to modernise the Svalbard Undersea Cable System and its upcoming Arctic Way cable system with the latest optical technolgy. The deal will see Space Norway’s existing infrastructure upgraded with Ciena’s latest optical technology, including the Ciena 6500 Optical Platform, WaveLogic 6 Extreme, Spectrum...
Sky UK’s NOW TV introduces new membership options for Sky Sports | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Sky has today announced that their sibling NOW (NOW TV) video streaming platform and broadband service has introduced a new membership structure for customers seeking to add Sky Sports content – adding two new Sky Sports plans. Fans can also continue to get the full line-up via NOW’s existing All Sky Sports plan if they want (from £27.99 a month). In terms of the two new plan options for Sky Sports content. The new Multi-Sport Membership, starting at...
Travel eSIM providers Holafly and Roamless launch new unlimited data plans | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More A couple of interesting developments have occurred this week after two global travel eSIM providers, Holafly and Roamless, both separately launched new 4G and 5G capable “unlimited data” mobile (mobile broadband) plans with some very different features and also caveats. Firstly, Holafly. Regular readers will already know from our own summary of travel eSIMs that Holfafly has long offered the option of an unlimited plan for data across their various...
Gigaclear UK completes North Oxfordshire Project Gigabit broadband contract | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The UK Government has today announced that Abingdon-based broadband ISP Gigaclear has completed their £8.2m (public subsidy) Project Gigabit broadband roll-out contract for 3,880 premises in hard-to-reach parts of North Oxfordshire (Lot 13.02), which is said to have been achieved “four months ahead of schedule“. Just to recap. The original Project Gigabit contract for Lot 13.02 was announced all the way back in November 2023 (here), which occurred...
Opensignal map shows where UK Mobiles connect to Starlink’s D2D satellites | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Market analyst and network benchmarking firm Opensignal, which examines mobile networks by gathering crowdsourced data from users of their App, has published what they’re calling the “world’s first interactive map of satellite-to-smartphone D2D connections” (Direct-to-Device) – currently showing where people are connecting via Starlink’s satellite mobile network. At present O2 is the only UK mobile operator selling a consumer Direct-to-Device (D2D) based...
LINX launches Cloud Connect service at Manchester internet exchange | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The member‑owned and not-for-profit London Internet Exchange (LINX), which manages a large chunk of UK and global data traffic through their switches via 900 members (broadband ISPs, mobile operators, CDNs etc.), has today has launched its Cloud Connect service at their Manchester exchange to increase resilience and improve control over cloud connectivity. Cloud Connect essentially works by providing direct access via members’ existing LINX ports to...
Study compares UK 5G fixed wireless broadband performance to Starlink | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More A new study from Opensignal has compared the performance of 5G and 4G powered Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) broadband to that of Starlink’s LEO satellite network across 14 European markets, including the United Kingdom. In the UK, Starlink comes out top for rural broadband, but it’s a much more mixed picture in urban areas, where Three UK is strongest for 5G FWA. The study, which is based on crowdsourced data collected via users of Opensignal’s App,...
EXA Infrastructure extends high-capacity London-to-Balkans fibre route | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More London-registered network operator EXA Infrastructure has today launched two new high-capacity terrestrial European fibre network routes – running between Milan and Zurich, extending the Frankfurt-Zurich-Milan-Genoa corridor, and between Paris and Vienna, extending the London-Balkans corridor. Both of the new routes are intended to expand EXA’s existing owned fibre optic network to meet increasing AI, cloud, and content capacity demands, while also...