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18th Jul, 2021 (2 Comments)

Full fibre UK ISP Grain Connect, which is supported by £10m from Albion Capital, has started to extend their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to existing homes in North East Lincolnshire (England). The first location to benefit is the large coastal town of Grimsby.

virgin media o2 trench engineers

17th Jul, 2021 (7 Comments)

Some 4,200 extra homes in the Woodburn area of Dalkeith have just become the latest in Scotland to benefit from the ongoing UK expansion of Virgin Media’s (VMO2) new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based gigabit broadband and TV network, which can offer top download speeds of up to 1130Mbps to local residents.

16th Jul, 2021 (18 Comments)

Scientists in Japan have just shattered last year’s world record for the fastest fibre optic internet data transfer speed by using a four core fibre cable to transmit data at 319Tbps (Terabits per second) over a whopping distance of 3001km, which compares with the previous record (here) of 178Tbps over 40km in London UK.

virgin_mobile_sim_swap

16th Jul, 2021 (34 Comments)

Customers of Virgin Mobile’s (Virgin Media) Pay As You Go (PAYG) plans have been informed that the service is “ending” and it will be gradually phased out between October 2021 and January 2022. During this period, customers will find that their SIM “will stop working … if you don’t take any action.” Talk about harsh.

10Mbps UK Broadband USO

16th Jul, 2021 (32 Comments)

Ofcom’s investigation into BT’s compliance with their obligations under the new Universal Service Obligation (USO) for broadband has concluded that “some customers have been asked to pay materially higher amounts than they should have been.” As a result, they’ve asked the ISP to make a few improvements.

voxi

16th Jul, 2021 (12 Comments)

Contract-free mobile operator VOXI, which is an MVNO (virtual operator) sibling of Vodafone UK, has today announced that all new and existing customers will be offered the next generation of “superfast” 5G mobile (mobile broadband) technology as standard and “at no extra cost.”

Swish-Fibre-UK-ISP-Fake-Fibre-Broadband-Advert-Example

16th Jul, 2021 (22 Comments)

UK ISP Swish Fibre, which is deploying a 10Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to cover 250,000 premises in England (Home Counties), has launched an entertaining new advertising campaign that aims to highlight the differences between “speed-sapping” copper-mix “Fake Fibre” services and Full Fibre ones.

16th Jul, 2021 (2 Comments)

The UK Government has just launched another Public Review, this time for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly in South West England, which aims to identify any existing or planned commercial coverage of gigabit broadband ISP networks. The review will help to establish the areas where public investment may be needed to deploy the service.

16th Jul, 2021 (20 Comments)

Network access provider Openreach (BT) has this morning announced that they’ve conducted the UK’s “first ever” tests of Nokia’s new next generation 25G PON technology, which has the ability to push download speeds of 25Gbps (Gigabits per second) over a single optical fibre and could one day result in faster FTTP speeds from ISPs.

CityFibre-MDU-distribution-box

15th Jul, 2021 (0 Comments)

Some 4,600 homes belonging to Gloucester City Homes, which is an independently registered housing association in the city of Gloucester (Gloucestershire), are set to gain access to a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network as part of CityFibre’s ongoing £31m rollout in the area.

15th Jul, 2021 (9 Comments)

The London Grid for Learning (LGfL), which currently works alongside Virgin Media Business (VMO2) to supply ultrafast broadband to c.3,000 schools in London (over 1.2 million children), reports that one of VMO2’s fibre optic cables has been “seriously damaged” and is disrupting connectivity to various schools and businesses.

15th Jul, 2021 (0 Comments)

Infrastructure firm M Group Services, which serves the United Kingdom and Ireland via its various broadband and mobile focused civil engineering brands (e.g. Avonline Networks, magdalene, Morrison etc.), has today announced that they’ve gobbled up Waldon Telecom, a wireless telecom infrastructure service provider.

mobile_network_signal_tower_uk_illustration

15th Jul, 2021 (7 Comments)

O2 (VMO2) has just become the first UK mobile operator to make live calls from its network using a new Neutral Host In-Building (NHIB) mobile specification, which makes it possible for multiple operators to serve indoor mobile (4G and 5G) coverage to businesses and public venues – somewhat of a complementary approach to OpenRAN.

ZYBRE-Cloud-Gaming-UK-Broadband-ISP

15th Jul, 2021 (2 Comments)

A new cloud gaming friendly UK ISP called ZYBRE has today announced that their services are being made available to homes covered by KCOM’s gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network in East Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire, thanks to a new wholesale agreement.

fibre optic cables and computer keyboard 2020

15th Jul, 2021 (0 Comments)

At the start of this year ITS Technology, supported by the North Lincolnshire Council (NLC), began building a new 10Gbps capable “full fibre” Ethernet and broadband network to serve local businesses in the industrial town of Scunthorpe (Lincolnshire). The good news today is that this network has now gone live.

FACTCO-Rural-FTTP-Build-Picture

14th Jul, 2021 (4 Comments)

UK ISP FACTCO (Ecodial) has today announced that they’re working with the York City Council in Yorkshire (England) to extend the reach of their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to rural areas within York City region, starting with the communities of Wheldrake and Elvington.

hand with fiber network cables connected to servers in a datacenter

14th Jul, 2021 (3 Comments)

Last year Neos Networks scooped the £10.5m Local Full Fibre Networks (LFFN) contract to deploy a new gigabit-capable Dark Fibre network to connect 190 public sector sites (hospitals, council buildings etc.) in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. A total of 93 sites have now been completed, supported by 153km of new underground fibre cable.

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