Category: Internet Service Providers

The expansion announcements continue with news of another 7,000 premises this time in Swindon, that should take Virgin Media coverage of the council area to around 83%.

After the talking now comes the announcement of the first areas to benefit from the reinvigorated FTTP roll-out by Openreach, with SME heavy areas targeted first.

The excuses for new build premises not having decent broadband are rapidly diminishing, as following on from announcements earlier in 2016, Virgin Media has now announced a partnership to ensure more new builds have their network installed.

The future is ultrafast and the change at the top of Openreach is bringing a greater focus on ultrafast capable technologies.

Another corner of England has gained access to Fibre to the Home via a CIC this time, working in conjunction with various other bodies.

Two areas are set to benefit from large roll-outs of FTTH, 24,000 premises in Wrexham and 45,000 in Chester and their surrounding area.

The controversial 4G LTE roll-out in Swindon with BDUK funding has finally launched and pricing and packages are available for all to see at last.

EE used to do nice 100GB of data offers but they appear history but a new 5GB instead of 2GB offer may still appeal for those finding they use more mobile data.

TalkTalk has put up its standard broadband pricing for new customers, but this is usually mitigated by the various introductory offers.

Another operator is about to try and enter the broadband market this time with a Wi-Fi on steroids service starting at £18 per month in South East London.