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We have received multiple calls on unrelated numbers from a female voice recording claiming to be calling from Vodafone, warning about suspensions: This is Vodafone. Your Service may be suspended. Please press 1 to speak to an agent Scam call pretending to be Vodafone When you press ‘1’ it puts you in a queue to […]

Earlier this year, we reported on major problems by iTalk Telecom with extended outages for segments of the customer base along with customers being told to sign new contracts to fix their issues. Following this, more users reached out to us with similar stories. Two weeks on, very little had changed with continuing outages for […]

It is official the old dormant Swish Fibre, Giganet and Jurassic Fibre footprints that became AllPoints Fibre Networks are now available for wholesale access. The launch is a bit confusing as the APFN on-net full fibre footprint has been showing as available via retailers like Olilo for a while now, the key maybe is that […]

No new applications for a Gigabit Broadband Voucher (GBVS) are being accepted now, with the scheme set to close in 18 months time on 31st March 2028. Existing projects that are underway will continue, so if your area is has a project up and running it will hopefully complete with delivering of a Gigabit capable […]

It appears that in the last few days cable thieves have struck in the SS4 Ashingdon, Rochford areas of Southend, with reports of several pavement chambers being opened, cables severed and pulled out with vehicles prior to stealing. While fibre optic cable is worthless compared to the copper, we doubt the thieves care about that […]

Scunthorpe residents on some streets now have another Gigabit broadband option to add to the existing Openreach, MS3 and Virgin Media services. Grain Connect has been spotted live in a number of streets in the Crosby area of the town, and hopefully will surface in more streets over the coming weeks and months. Pricing for […]

APFN is celebrating that its wholesale platform is selling Fibre to the Cabinet services in the form of Single Order Generic Ethernet Access (SoGEA). The combination of this with the full fibre options already on the aquila system gives them a combined part fibre and full fibre reach of 32.9 million premises. “The PSTN switch-off […]

We recently became aware that broadband provider Exascale and Squirrel Internet have ceased offering new services over Altnet Gigaclear’s network which spans quite a wide area of suburban and rural South of England. This follows reports of Gigaclear’s retail business undercutting its wholesale prices when customers look to migrate away from its direct services over […]