Industry News

Telecom Acquisitions has achieved a record trading quarter with 22,000 new residential broadband customers signed up since last autumn.

INCA has formed a Special Interest Group to encourage infrastructure sharing between altnets and third parties.

Openreach will launch two new speed tiers across the entirety of its full fibre network, available to its network of communication providers from April 1st.

Virgin Media O2 has launched a residential 2Gbps broadband service, Gig2, and introduced symmetrical download and upload speeds across its speed tiers as an optional add-on.

Full fibre is now available to over 6 in 10 UK households according to the third annual State of Broadband Report by thinkbroadband.

The rollout of gigabit broadband remains the top priority for local authority digital leaders for the second year running, finds FarrPoint’s annual survey.

Neos Networks has upgraded its Managed Dedicated Internet Access service to provide capacities up to 10Gbps as standard for UK organisations. This was previously available up to 1Gbps.

Broadband use across the UK increased by 9 per cent last year to 94,722 Petabytes of data, according to Openreach.

Chairman and founder of the Abthorpe Broadband Association, Eric Malcomson, has been awarded an MBE in the 2024 Kings honours.

Tristia Harrison, Group CEO of TalkTalk Group, has received a Damehood for services to telecommunications in the New Year’s Honours List.