Category: Internet Service Providers

East Cottingworth has seen KCOM building its FTTP network to the East Riding of Yorkshire village with the help of Gigabit vouchers.

The Starlink service at £75/m is vastly superior to previous two way satellite broadband solutions and for those without access to decent fixed line broadband has been a relief, alas the introduction of a new priority product seems to have introduced throttling on the standard product.

After a long gap we are back with monthly speed test results but to keep things simpler we are going to cover the fastest ten service providers by median download speed each month.

The Ofcom code power notifications are a good way of seeing what new companies are looking to take a FTTP roll-out seriously and Smartfibre is one of those this week.

To help those who are not sure what difference full fibre will make Connect Fibre is offering a 30 day free trial for those signing up before the end of July 2023 in Edwinstowe and Sutton.

Zzoomm who offer speeds from 150 Mbps to 2 Gbps is now available in another town in England with the build in Tadcaster started in October 2022 now going live.

Cuckoo Broadband has announced it's providing a British Sign Language (BSL) alternative for customers who prefer to to us eBSL when speaking to their customer support staff. This is based on the InterpreterLive! service available both via the website and mobile platforms.

Virgin Media today announced it is increasing upload speeds for its top tier customers at no additional cost. Customers on the M500 and Gig1 services will see increases of upload speeds to 52 and 104Mbps respectively.

Altnet Freedom Fibre has re-launched applications for its Freedom Fund, set up to provide grants between £250 and £500 for environmental projects by community non-profit groups within the Freedom Fibre coverage area.

Starlink have an offer for rural broadband customers with a reduced hardware fee of £99, instead of the usual £460. Those in non-rural areas will also benefit of a still generous discount to £300 and if you've ordered in the past 30 days, you may be able to apply for a partial refund.