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UK Government Told to Spend £5.5bn from HS2 on Ultrafast Broadband

18th June, 2013 - 3:09 pm (31 Comments)

The New Economics Foundation, an independent think tank that aims to inspire “real economic well-being“, has advised the government to scrap its £33bn High Speed Two (HS2) railway link and instead invest £5.5 billion from the effort into rolling out “ultra fast to-the-door” broadband coverage across the United Kingdom.

CityFibre to Boost UK Fibre Optic Broadband Capacity via Level 3 Deal

13th June, 2013 - 3:40 pm (2 Comments)

CityFibre, which builds ultra-fast 100Mbps+ fibre optic (FTTH) broadband networks for big towns and cities around the United Kingdom (e.g. York and Bournemouth), has today announced a new capacity deal with Level 3 Communications that could enable it to launch 1Gbps services “throughout the United Kingdom“.

MetroNet UK Brings Hybrid Fibre and Wireless Broadband to Chester

3rd June, 2013 - 9:52 am (0 Comments)

As expected ISP Metronet UK has expanded the coverage of its “ultrafast” hybrid fibre optic (Dark Fibre) and carrier grade wireless broadband network to reach businesses in the city of Chester (North West England).

Arthur D. Little Says UK Could Adopt Ultrafast FTTH Broadband in 5 Years

31st May, 2013 - 8:53 am (9 Comments)

Management consultancy giant Arthur D. Little has published a new paper that examines the importance of investing in better telecoms infrastructure. It also predicts that the UK might need to adopt ultrafast (100Mbps+) fibre optic FTTH broadband “over the next five years“, unless G.Fast is realised to expand the life of FTTC.

Bell Labs Boost Fibre Optic Speeds to 400Gbps Using Phase Conjugation

30th May, 2013 - 2:31 pm (0 Comments)

Bell Labs, the New Jersey (USA) based research and development subsidiary of telecoms giant Alcatel-Lucent, has found a way of boosting data speeds down fibre optic cables by using two light beams in opposing phases to cancel out interference that would ordinarily slow the transfer.

BT and Ciena Trial 800Gbps Fibre Optic Super Channel in the UK

28th May, 2013 - 4:18 pm (4 Comments)

Network specialist Ciena and BT claim to have conducted the “world’s first” successful trials of 800G Super-Channel technology using the operators optical core network infrastructure in the United Kingdom, which delivered “Terabit-rate speeds” over a 410km link between their Adastral Park facility in Ipswich and the BTTower in London.

Virgin Media Business Detail UK £49m Fibre Capacity Deal with Sky Broadband

23rd May, 2013 - 9:56 am (12 Comments)

Cable operator Virgin Media Business has detailed its new £49 million backhaul network capacity deal with BSkyB (Sky Broadband). Under the agreement Virgin will connect around a third of Sky’s unbundled (LLU) local UK telephone exchanges with Sky’s own wholly owned nationwide broadband network.

UPD Hyperoptic Secure £50m to Expand UK 1Gbps Fibre Broadband Coverage

23rd May, 2013 - 7:37 am (5 Comments)

Urban ISP Hyperoptic, which offers “hyper-sonic” FTTH/B based broadband speeds of up to 1000Mbps (Megabits) to 20,000 homes in London (i.e. high-rise buildings and apartment blocks), has secured a new investment of £50m to help expand into 10 new UK cities by the end of 2013 (80,000 homes).

MetroNet UK Expands Fibre and Wireless Broadband Network to Liverpool

21st May, 2013 - 1:07 pm (0 Comments)

Business ISP Metronet UK has expanded the coverage of its hybrid superfast fibre optic (Dark Fibre) and carrier grade wireless network to reach areas of Widnes, Runcorn and Speke in Liverpool (Merseyside, England).

METRO2C Alliance Consolidates UK Fibre Optic Providers Under a Single SLA

20th May, 2013 - 10:53 am (0 Comments)

Sea Fibre Networks has today launched the carrier-neutral METRO2C Alliance, which aims to bring the UK and Europe’s top fibre optic connectivity providers (i.e. those with a “dense fibre footprint and wide product choice“), data centre operators and Internet exchanges under a single Service Level Agreement (SLA).

UPD Deadline for Final £20m UK Rural Community Broadband Fund Extended

20th May, 2013 - 9:31 am (0 Comments)

The deadline for a final round of bidding on the government’s £20 million Rural Community Broadband Fund (RCBF), which aims to help rural farmers, homes and businesses benefit from faster internet connectivity, has been extended for another three weeks.

Gigaclear Boost Customer Support and UK FTTP Rollout with NETadmin Deal

20th May, 2013 - 8:53 am (1 Comment)

ISP Gigaclear has signed a new deal with NETadmin Systems that should improve its customer support services and possibly even help to “speed up delivery” of their new 1Gbps (Gigabits per second) capable fibre optic broadband (FTTP) network to rural parts of England.

Survey Work Starts on New Isles of Scilly Fibre Optic Broadband Cable

7th May, 2013 - 2:40 pm (3 Comments)

BTOpenreach has this week dispatched one of its survey teams to begin preliminary work on their previously announced £3.7m project to divert two unused submarine fibre optic cables to the Isles of Scilly (here), which will support the rollout of superfast broadband (FTTC and FTTP) ISP products on the islands.

Lottery Funding Helps Remote Shetland Islands Village Get Fast Broadband

1st May, 2013 - 8:44 am (3 Comments)

The tiny community of West Burrafirth on the remote Shetland Islands (North of Scotland) will soon see their broadband ISP speeds lifted from just 0.16Mbps (Megabits per second) to around 25Mbps thanks to a new wireless and fibre optic link, support from a local ISP and national lottery funding.