IN BRIEF.

Braintree in Essex has become the first UK town to offer residents a choice of five fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) networks. Over 400 premises can sign up to providers such as Openreach, Gigaclear, Lightspeed Broadband, Nexfibre, and Swish Fibre. Co-op Broadband customers have until November 26 to move their email addresses to a new service, which will cost £24 a year for one mailbox and 5GB of storage. Microsoft has added scenery from Nordic regions to Flight Simulator, including landmarks, cities, and airports. Virgin Media has added Apple TV+ to its Virgin TV 360 and Stream boxes, while NASA has launched a new online TV channel called NASA+ for live coverage of missions and documentaries. BT is inviting customers in Greater London to switch to Digital Voice phones, and Google has removed the option to receive Covid-19 exposure notifications on Android devices. [Extracted from the article]

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