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We are seeing quite a few reports of outages affecting Hyperoptic users in Southeast London including in Lewisham, Deptford, Greenwich, Woolwich, Dartford and Northfleet on the Bank Holiday Monday. It appears connectivity has returned, although the outage did seem to last some hours. There are users who report difficulties getting through to Hyperoptic support. In […]

Brighton and Hove may be the largest city in the latest batch of towns and cities where O2 has now switched on its 5G+ standalone mobile service. Other large areas include Peacehaven, Hastings, Eastbourne, Lewes, Seaford and Rye. Across East Sussex some 14 large towns or cities now have coverage of 5G+ from O2, and […]

The Welsh Government has selected suppliers for its project to fund broadband build-out in hard-to-reach Welsh premises that would not otherwise be served by commercial operators. The framework is funded by a £70m budget, which was clawed back from the original Superfast Cymru Project, where money was returned when take-up increased. The Extending High-Speed Broadband […]

CityFibre announces the launch of its 8.5Gbps product, which it is rolling out across its entire network, allowing customers across the UK access to some of the fastest FTTP products available. The company has been working to roll out 10Gbps XGS-PON technology nationwide across the CityFibre footprint, which reaches over 4.7m premises according to the […]

Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) has announced that it has signed a multi-year agreement with both Ericsson and Nokia worth hundreds of millions of pounds to upgrade its mobile network. The deal is part of VMO2’s Mobile Transformation Plan, which is seeing the company invest £700m a year in improving its mobile network. The deal announced […]

Some other news items from this week that may be of interest. Starlink offer reduces pricing in some areas to £25/month Our friends over at ISPreview have found that Starlink have cut the price of its satellite broadband service to £25/month in some areas. This is a discount of £10/month for the first six months, […]

nexfibre has announced that Brentswood Hub in Haywards Heath has been connected to free full fibre broadband. The company is working with charity UK Youth to offer youth centres access to high-speed connectivity, in partnership with Virgin Media O2. Youth centres will have access to free connectivity at 1 or 2Gbps for the next two […]