Category: Internet Service Providers

Virgin Media has published its latest financial results which also reveal that they plan to increase the top consumer speed from 300 Mbps to 350 Mbps from Spring 2018.

The crown of being able to say the fastest broadband service in the United Kingdom is one that a number of operators try to claim and with the latest trial of 10 Gbps connectivity by Hyperoptic the bragging rights have been shifted to the next level.

The first transmitter out of the 28 that will be delivered as part of the contract Airband has with Connecting Shropshire is now live.

KCOM is moving towards its goal of almost 100% full fibre coverage in the Hull area, and more important in some ways than passing the 75% mark is that people are buying and using the service.

EE has had its 4GEE service available for a while now but by merging its fixed and mobile broadband checkers and also launching its own external antenna using the 4G service in a fixed wireless situation is a bit easier.

With another few million of full fibre premises on the table this time from TalkTalk the growth industry to be in looks set to the civils contracting serving the UK telecoms industry in a wave of building programmes only previously seen with the cable franchise roll-outs.

Openreach may be just one of the many divisions in BT Group but for consumer broadband the size of Openreach means the news that take-up of the GEA fibre products (FTTC, FTTP, G.fast) increased to 9.2 million premises is good news.

The ambition from Openreach to reach ten million premises with full fibre by 2025 is a step closer and existing roll-out plans are to be upgraded from 2 million to 3 million premises by 2020.

The prediction of the end of satellite broadcasting has taken a big leap today as Sky is set to launch Sky Q services in two of markets that will require no satellite dish.

One of the smaller broadband providers is now on board the full fibre future as they launch a business service in places such as Huddersfield and Coventry to name just two locations.