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Vodafone and the Trussell Trust have reported a significant increase in requests for digital connectivity due to the cost-of-living crisis. The partnership between Vodafone and the Trussell Trust, which launched a year ago, provides free connectivity to people who are receiving support from food banks in the Trussell Trust network. Emma Revie, Chief Executive of the Trussell Trust, said: “It’s simply not right that more and more people in the UK are being left with no option than to use a food...

The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on the Rural Powerhouse has today published a new report that warns “Rural Britain is not a museum” and is being “held back” by, among many other things, “slow” broadband connectivity and the need to urgently improve 4G and 5G mobile infrastructure. According to Ofcom’s data (here), 30Mbps+ capable fixed […]

Last September, SFR’s parent company, Altice France, announced that it had struck a deal to acquire Coriolis Telecom for €415 million.  Coriolis Telecom, a MVNO created in 1999, targets small… read more on TotalTele.com »

Vodafone and the Trussell Trust have reported a significant increase in requests for digital connectivity due to the cost-of-living crisis. The partnership between Vodafone and the Trussell Trust, which launched a year ago, provides free connectivity to people who are receiving support from food banks in the Trussell Trust network. Emma Revie, Chief Executive of the Trussell Trust, said: “It’s simply not right that more and more people in the UK are being left with no option than to use a food...

Today, BT has announced that it is furthering its partnership with Toshiba, launching the first commercial trail of a network using quantum security in the form of quantum key distribution (QKD). The test, which is being carried out over BT’s (Openreach’s) fibre network, will be performed by professional services group EY, with Toshiba providing the QKD equipment and key management software. The test will see EY use the network to communicate between two of its sites in London, one at London...

Telecoms giant BT (EE) has today announced another shake-up of its branding, which in simple terms will see EE – over time – become the “flagship brand for our consumer customers” (i.e. converged broadband and mobile plans etc.) and BT become the flagship brand for their Enterprise and Global units. The announcements (here and here) […]

Netomnia – supported by UK broadband ISP YouFibre – has confirmed that they’ve begun to build their new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network in the Cambridgeshire town of St Neots (England) and the Stirlingshire town of Falkirk (Scotland). Services have also started to go live in Bridgend, Hamilton and Lancaster. The operator, which has so […]

Ofcom’s latest Q4 2021 (calendar) study of UK consumer complaints has named Shell Energy as attracting the most gripes for fixed broadband services, while TalkTalk did the same for landline phone and Virgin Mobile took flak for Pay Monthly mobile services. Finally, Virgin Media (VMO2) were on the naughty step for Pay TV. As usual, […]

UK ISP Cuckoo has today launched a new “world-first” service called “24-Hour Eggspress Wi-Fi“, which claims it can beat the “industry’s standard 14-day wait time” when switching broadband providers by getting customers online “anywhere” in the United Kingdom within 24 hours. But there’s a little more to it than that. Firstly, we should point out […]

Uswitch.com has attempted to identify the top 104 UK locations for hybrid workers, which sees the city of York come top thanks to its broadband speeds (159Mbps), good schools, low crime, and closeness to Leeds. By comparison, Hastings was the least desirable due to sluggish broadband, a lack of GPs and poor air quality. The […]