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We covered the news on 12 months notice being given to another 94 areas where Openreach is planning to stop selling part-fibre and copper based services the other day. Alas some outlets are leading with headlines that make it sound like existing services will suddenly stop working in 12 months and worse this will happen […]

Slight weekend tangent which may be of interest. In this weekend’s LBC Legal Hour with Barrister Daniel Barnett took a call from an employee who used to work for a ‘fairly large fibre optic company’ which was interesting, but also a bit surprising. The company isn’t identified, but the former employee expressed concern after they […]

The Internet Services Providers’ Association (ISPA UK) has today announced the finalists for the Digital Inclusion Champion for Charities & Communities and the Digital Inclusion Champion for Industry categories. The winners will be announced at the award ceremony on 13 November 2025. In partnership with its charity partner, Good Things Foundation, ISPA continues its focus on tackling digital exclusion, shining […]

The 2025 ISPA Awards are just over 2 months away now with the awards ceremony set to take place at City Central at the HAC on Thursday 13th November 2025. Each year the public is asked to nominate an individual or an organisation to recognise as the UK Internet Hero. The criteria being that the […]

Here’s a brief summary of the news this week which didn’t make it into a dedicated article: Ofcom pursuing 4chan over lack of information Ofcom has issued 4chan with a ‘provisional notice of contravention’ under Section 130 of the Online Safety Act 2023 following concerns about breaches of duties under s102(8) of the Act which […]

Openreach is intending to convert the majority of its EV fleet as part of its plans to be carbon neutral by March 2031. Just over a year ago they celebrated the 4,000 EV milestone and now another 1,000 vehicles in the fleet have been replaced by electric vehicles. The Openreach vehicle fleet is around 23,000 […]

We have looked at the performance of in-flight wi-fi before which has over the past decade been rather variable to be mild. One of the main problems has been the patchy coverage which has made many ‘interactive’ applications difficult if not impossible to use with variable latency affecting service as well. Ookla have published results […]

The government is announcing a ‘Reuse for Good’ charter today to recycle used equipment from companies, but rather than breaking them into parts they want to use them as is. Companies like VodafoneThree and Deloitte have already signed up along with the Good Things Foundation, to promote using ‘pre-loved’ tech to the digitally excluded. Corporations […]

BT had this morning published the results of a study with Be the Business showing that 39% of SMEs have not arranged cyber security training, noting that 42% of small businesses have experienced a cyber attack in the past year, and over two thirds of medium-sized companies. These statistics are from the Be the Business […]

Last week, we reported that the review on national security was going to include government spending on rural broadband as ‘defence’ spending to bring the UK up to the 5% of GDP target on defence spending. This originally was based on a report in The Telegraph. Resilient ubiquitous telecommunications infrastructure can play a key role […]