Category: Broadband

Brighton and Hove may be the largest city in the latest batch of towns and cities where O2 has now switched on its 5G+ standalone mobile service. Other large areas include Peacehaven, Hastings, Eastbourne, Lewes, Seaford and Rye. Across East Sussex some 14 large towns or cities now have coverage of 5G+ from O2, and […]

The Welsh Government has selected suppliers for its project to fund broadband build-out in hard-to-reach Welsh premises that would not otherwise be served by commercial operators. The framework is funded by a £70m budget, which was clawed back from the original Superfast Cymru Project, where money was returned when take-up increased. The Extending High-Speed Broadband […]

CityFibre announces the launch of its 8.5Gbps product, which it is rolling out across its entire network, allowing customers across the UK access to some of the fastest FTTP products available. The company has been working to roll out 10Gbps XGS-PON technology nationwide across the CityFibre footprint, which reaches over 4.7m premises according to the […]

Some other news items from this week that may be of interest. Starlink offer reduces pricing in some areas to £25/month Our friends over at ISPreview have found that Starlink have cut the price of its satellite broadband service to £25/month in some areas. This is a discount of £10/month for the first six months, […]

nexfibre has announced that Brentswood Hub in Haywards Heath has been connected to free full fibre broadband. The company is working with charity UK Youth to offer youth centres access to high-speed connectivity, in partnership with Virgin Media O2. Youth centres will have access to free connectivity at 1 or 2Gbps for the next two […]

Virgin Media O2 has announced that it has reached a milestone of 1 million people connected via its Better Connections Plan, to help people experiencing digital inclusion access services online. A range of different programmes and partnerships have been provided to help people get online, access essential services, and stay in touch with family and […]

People in Devon are urged to sign up to the government’s Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme before the deadline in August is reached, with a report to the Devon County Council committee highlighting issues in the area around getting broadband rolled out. The GBVS scheme is due to end in August, and there are currently no […]

Loyalty is complicated and way overrated in many cases, at least with the largest providers. These days many of the larger operators (a few Altnets and Zen Internet aside), have price escalator clauses that kick in each April to increase your subscription costs every year. This triggers many to look at switching providers with a […]

A few pieces that may be of interest this week: Some in Orkney Islands are without internet access due to an undersea fibre break Around 500 customers in Orkney are offline due to an undersea fibre break between Evie and Westray in the Orkney Islands. The cause for the fibre break has not yet been […]

The migration from the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) over to Digital Voice has now breached the 3 million household milestone, with BT working to replace the 40-year old infrastructure with new modern systems before its switched off at the end of January 2027. “Upgrading the UK’s digital backbone is essential to make sure everyone […]