Category: Internet Service Providers

While we are still awaiting details of what is happening around the Government mandated sale of Upp, the provider is continuing to roll-out and service existing and new customers.

Someone who received one of the leaflets 6G Internet use to promote their service filed a complaint with the ASA, and this complaint has been upheld.

The village of Aspatria in Cumbria has seen a large chunk of it go live with Fibrus full fibre offering reliable broadband that that is much faster than the existing VDSL2 services.

Digital Infrastructure is rolling out its BeFibre retail full fibre service in Brightlingsea and the first customer has gone live.

Frinton-on-Sea is a perfect roll-out opportunity for Lightspeed as the town including Kirby Cross and Walton-on-the-Naze are almost totally without access to full fibre otherwise.

A coverage update showing where the provider says its service is accessible to 50,000 properties, to date we've been able to verify 20,663 premises as live and ready for service.

ISPA have announced the finalists for their 25th annual industry awards with Giganet listed as a finalist in five categories. This year also sees a special 25th-anniversary award, with nominations due to be announced later in the year.

BT has advised that Allison Kirkby will take over as CEO for BT Group from Philip Jansen, who is retiring at the end of January 2024.

BT have passed 11m premises in their push to enable FTTP for 25m by the end of 2026. The build rate has increased slightly to 55k per week, and Openreach is reporting take-up at 32% with 3.5m FTTP connections in total.

The latest financial results for Virgin Media O2 show broadband and mobile customers are in decline compared with last year, but network building is continuing at pace