Category: Internet Service Providers

Not all providers are increasing their prices with Connect Fibre confirming they are keeping their prices frozen for the second year running.

The average price rise at Sky for broadband may be 6.7% but there is a wide variation e.g. a rise of £3.50/m on the £26 superfast service.

TalkTalk retail customer base will see a big boost when the current quarter ends in March as Octopus Energy has reached agreement with TalkTalk to sell them the old Shell Energy customer base.

The difference that the XGS-PON nexfibre roll-out brings to the market is at last being exploited by Virgin Media with a 2 Gbps download and 2 Gbps upload service aimed at customers who do not want their broadband to be the bottleneck.

Alt-net B4RN has announced an upgrade of its core ring network to 400Gbps.

Yeovil is turning into one of the places in the south-west with the most choice for full-fibre broadband now that multiple networks are available.

BT Group has taken on some 3,000 apprentices and graduates in the last five years and looks set to continue with a 500 people intake this September 2024.

We don't know what it is with Devon and Somerset, but yet again rather than good news it is bad news as a company looking to roll-out full-fibre is being told no vouchers as a previous fixed wireless service might one day offer a Gigabit service or at least something faster than 100 Mbps.

Northern Ireland has bourne the brunt of two bad storms in the last week, Isha and Jocelyn and the damage that has caused seems to be continuing to affect some Fibrus customers.

We had been informed Fibre 1 was vanishing, but that turns out to not be the case.