With the UK government reporting rapid progress in improving gigabit broadband coverage to 70 per cent of the country, up from 7 per cent in just three years, research from comparison site BroadbandDeals suggests that only a small minority are taking full advantage. Those in Northern Ireland reported the highest uptake at 16 per cent, […]

LEO satellite broadband company OneWeb has teamed up with the 5G Innovation Centre at the University of Surrey (5GIC) and CGI, one of the largest IT and business services firms in the world, to test the integration of satellite communications and mobile 5G networks. In a post-COVID world, the demand for better connectivity, as well […]

Broadband customers are set to add more than £1.4 billion (€1.61bn) to the coffers of the UK’s major broadband providers as a result of price rises coming in the new year, in the midst of the cost-of-living crisis, according to full fibre broadband provider Hyperoptic. With broadband providers increasing their prices by inflation plus up […]

Full fibre connectivity provider Giganet is to acquire Cuckoo – twice voted the UK’s best broadband provider for customer service – continuing its growth in the UK as part of the Fern fibre family, which also includes Jurassic, Swish, Allpoints Fibre and Vorboss Since launching its fibre broadband service to households just over 12 months […]

UK-based full fibre broadband provider Truespeed has enhanced its network infrastructure to utilise XGS-PON technology as it continues the rapid expansion of its ultrafast network. Improving its already state-of-the-art full fibre infrastructure, Truespeed is now deploying 10Gbps XGS-PON network technology as it continues to ramp up its South West rollout. Deployment of the new infrastructure […]

Virgin Media O2 is donating £2 million to digital inclusion charity, Good Things Foundation, to help disadvantaged people across the UK get online and gain vital digital skills, as part of a new three-year partnership. Virgin Media O2 has become a strategic partner of Good Things Foundation and will work closely with the charity to […]

ICASA, South Africa’s communications regulator, has started the process to make more spectrum available for the nation’s broadband demands. Specifically, ICASA has published an “information memorandum” in the Government’s official gazette setting out its plans to initiate a “second phase” of spectrum licensing in the so-called “low and mid radio frequency bands”. These radio bands, […]

Broadband bills could be cut for millions of low-income households under UK Government plans to encourage ‘social tariffs’. A new service, which will be run by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), will allow Internet service providers to verify – with customers’ permission – whether they are in receipt of a relevant benefit and […]

Findings from Leichtman Research Group suggest that the largest cable and wireline phone providers and fixed wireless services in the US – representing about 96 per cent of the market – acquired about 670,000 net additional broadband Internet subscribers in Q2 2022, compared to a pro forma gain of about 1,000,000 subscribers in Q2 2021. […]

For two decades, the wave of consumer broadband adoption has been a boon for companies throughout the home video value chain. But a report from Aluma, aprovider of consumer media insights, notes that even the strongest waves eventually churns out. Between 2012 and 2021, broadband penetration grew from 72 per cent to 85 per cent, […]