Category: Internet Service Providers

There have been widespread reports this morning of outages on the Vodafone fixed broadband network from about 08:15 affecting both Openreach and Cityfibre-based services, although our broadband quality monitor does confirm it was quite limited as most of our sensors have not suggested any significant packet loss.

It appears the alt-net Trooli has been acquired by a French investment bank, although news not the acquisition appears non-existent.

Chelmsford looks to be the latest area of England where Lit Fibre is rolling out its FTTP service.

Overnight, there have been reports of wide scale outages on Virgin Media's broadband platform with several incidents lasting many hours.

Usually, our additions to our checkers and maps are fairly contained and limited to a town or several villages but Friday saw a big update for Fibrus.

Wivenhoe is becoming greedy for FTTP with the number of networks appearing in the small town on the shore of the River Colne.

After a long period where upload speeds were limited to 50 Mbps on the Virgin Media cable consumer services we are starting to see Gig1 customers with 100 Mbps upload speeds.

So the rumour mill is in over drive with apparently head hunters building short lists for a replacement for Philip Jansen the CEO of BT Group.

The roll-out of Virgin Media RFOG has been on-going for what seems a long term and the operators is saying it has covered over 6,400 homes in the town.

We've not been able to confirm this, but after some weeks of chatter about a sale it is thought someone has bought Trooli, exactly who remains at mystery at this time.