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With the demise of DSIT which is now part of the Department for Business, Innovation Science and Trade it was not clear what was going to happen to the Digital Infrastructure and BDUK parts of the old DSIT. Two days later we have a better idea, the Department for Culture Media and Sport is to […]

The new Prime Minister has been in office for just a few hours and announcements and changes are coming thick and fast. After rumours of DSIT been scrapped in the last couple of days emerged, it has now happened and the Department for Science, Technology and Innovation has been closed and will be merged with […]

Runnymede Borough Council is reporting problems with its phone lines and online services. Actual details are sparse but with the Addlestone control centre handling something like 20,000 Careline calls a year if the problems become protracted some vulnerable locals may not receive prompt care. A council account has posted on Facebook saying ‘BT have cut […]

Virgin Media O2 has signed a ten year agreement with Egg Power to take power from the a new solar farm project in Suffolk that is expected to go online in 2027. Following on from previous agreements with The Renewables Infrastructure Group this means around 20% of the power the company uses with come from […]

Technology consulting company Accenture has announced it has agreed to acquire Ookla from Ziff Davis group. The company is known for its Speedtest.net web-based speed test service but it has commercial arms that spread across network analytics, benchmarking and user experience monitoring. It also includes the Downdetector website. Accenture’s driver is that networks are no […]

Ofcom research has arrived at ten suggestions for how people can save on their broadband, in addition to the measures the regulator introduced such as end of contract alerts, simpler contract summaries and easier broadband switching. The ten ideas are with a few additional words from ourselves: The headline of prices failing will no doubt […]

Registration for the 28th ISPA Awards is now open and runs until Friday 17th April 2028. Registration is open at https://ispa.thinkbroadband.com which also includes details of the 16 different categories. This year’s line-up recognizes excellence in service, technical innovation, and social responsibility: The Internet Hero category is not open right now, calls for nominations for […]

The Gigabit Infrastructure Subsidy Scheme in Scotland has opened up the tender for Lot 4 once more, with an estimated contract value of £28 million with the aim to deliver Gigabit (full fibre) broadband to around 17,830 premises. The tender is for a contract that will run for 11 years, with 4 years in the […]

While no doubt the absolute vast majority of people don’t abuse Openreach staff who can be working on their own at all hours of the day there has been a rise in the level of abuse, both verbal and physical. In the last year there have been 700 recorded incidents of physical or verbal assaults […]

Based on the results of from over 145,000 speed tests the comparison site Broadband Genie has published two lists of UK streets, those where the slowest results where seen and those with the fastest speed test results. As always with these observations they highlight that building networks and even making them Ready for Service is […]