Category: Internet Service Providers

The village of Clovelly which has a very steep cobbled main street running down to the sea now has full-fibre after Airband lifted and reseated some 12,000 cobbles.

Shell Energy has been slapped with a £1.4 million fine after breaking Ofcom rules around end of contract notifications and errors in some letters sent to customers.

With EE offering 1.6 Gbps download services the crown of the fastest major broadband provider has slipped away from Virgin Media, so talk around a 2 Gbps download and 200 Mbps upload is back.

Anger may have got the better of some people in a dispute around a full-fibre provider using poles to build there FTTP network, as apparently a gang has cut down poles in part of Hull.

brsk launched services in West Yorkshire back in 2021 in Cottingley and has announced two more towns that will see their full-fibre service rolled out.

For some years BT has shown the public the expected speed range, but with a styling revamp it looks like this has changed, and their full-fibre footprint has shrunk to 8%.

38% of people in a survey rated switching broadband as inconvenient, second only to changing mortgage provider at 40%. Also 22% have never switched broadband provider.

nexfibre is building very quickly, possibly outpacing CityFibre but still some way behind the Openreach FTTP build rate.

Those with a BT phone line in Greater London can expect to get letters about the move to Digital Voice in November or December 2023.

Another part of the UK now has multiple full-fibre options as nexfibre has rolled out its XGS-PON service currently sold by Virgin Media O2 to a number of places in Northern Ireland.