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KCOM’s Lightstream overbuild has relieved a backhaul choke at Bridlington telephone exchange, letting east-coast holiday lets and GP surgeries on its expansion network hit advertised gigabit sync without peak-hour collapse into Hull core routes.
BT Group’s EE unit has published network slicing rules that reserve voice-over-5G lanes for mountain rescue and NHS emergency hubs across the Cairngorms, tying VoNR rollout to Shared Rural Network masts mountain teams already depend on.
Okta’s UK unit will turn on phishing-resistant MFA by default for mid-market accounting tenants after ICAEW-linked practices reported credential stuffing tied to Xero breach-notification emails.
Merged Vodafone Three field teams started refarming mid-band 5G spectrum inside Birmingham telephone exchange pods this weekend, a first live cut that will decide how quickly dual-brand customers see capacity gains without dropped voice calls.
Openreach is running 10G PON trials from three Manchester exchange cabinets, testing whether symmetric multi-gigabit lanes can ride existing fibre splices before a wider XGS-PON rollout reaches urban landlords.
Virgin Media O2 is shipping mesh WiFi pods to rural cable customers after Ofcom upheld complaints that indoor dead zones made advertised download speeds meaningless at the property boundary.
