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Community Fibre Builds Leadership Team with New CIO and CCO

9th December, 2019 (0 Comments)

London focused UK full fibre broadband ISP Community Fibre has hired Peter Rampling to be its new Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) and Dale Kirkwood as their Chief Information Officer (CIO). Both appointments are necessary in order to support the provider’s future network expansion and growth.

Study Claims 236 UK Constituencies Have Poor Broadband and Mobile

7th December, 2019 (23 Comments)

A new study from consumer magazine Which? has claimed that people living in 36% of UK constituency areas (236 of the 650 total) do not have access to “decent 4G [mobile] or broadband” services. The study was based on old data from Ofcom and found that areas in rural Scotland and Wales bore the brunt of the problem.

Scientists Create Wood Based Bio Degradable Fibre Optic Cables

5th December, 2019 (3 Comments)

Well this is an odd but interesting one. A team of VTT scientists from Finland have successfully transmitted light over a new type of wood-based optic fibre cable, which has a core that is made from cellulose and this has the added advantage of being biodegradable.

TrueSpeed to Build Gigabit Broadband for 7000 Premises in Wells

5th December, 2019 (0 Comments)

Rural full fibre UK ISP TrueSpeed, which is currently rolling out a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across parts of South West England (Somerset), has today announced that they intend to extend their network to cover 6,000 homes and 1,000 businesses in the small cathedral city of Wells.

Grain Connect Bring Full Fibre to This Land’s New Build UK Homes

4th December, 2019 (0 Comments)

Fibre optic broadband ISP Grain Connect has announced a new agreement with property developer This Land™, which will see them roll-out their 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across the developer’s future new build homes schemes in Cambridgeshire (England).

First Customers Live on ISP toob’s 1Gbps FTTH in Southampton

4th December, 2019 (20 Comments)

Portsmouth-based UK ISP toob, which was setup by a group Vodafone’s former directors and is being supported by an investment of £75m (here), has announced that the first customers have now gone live on their new symmetric 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network in Southampton (Hampshire).

ISP Vodafone UK Bundles Broadband with Apple 4K TV Service

3rd December, 2019 (4 Comments)

Mobile operator and ISP Vodafone UK has a long “will they, won’t they” history when it comes to the idea of offering a TV (IPTV) service alongside their fixed home broadband and phone plans. Nevertheless they’ve now launched a new “Extra” tier that adds an Apple 4K TV (IPTV) set-top-box and a 1 year Apple TV+ subscription.

KCOM Win 2019 European Broadband Award for Network Quality

3rd December, 2019 (4 Comments)

The incumbent broadband ISP for Hull and East Yorkshire (England), KCOM, last night scooped the 2019 European Broadband Award for “Quality and affordability of services,” which predominantly reflected their £85m effort to roll-out a new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across their patch.

Wireless ISP Rural Technologies Wales to Build FTTP Broadband

2nd December, 2019 (1 Comment)

The owner of UK fixed wireless broadband ISP Rural Technologies Wales (Hen Beudy Services Ltd) has revealed that they intend to start deploying a new Gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, which will initially begin in Wales before extending across the border into the western counties of England.

ISP Airband Angers Village by Erecting Poles for FTTP Broadband

1st December, 2019 (36 Comments)

Wireless and fibre optic UK ISP Airband, which holds a number of multi-million pound state aid fuelled contracts to deploy “superfast broadband” (30Mbps+) across rural parts of Devon, has attracted a furious response by erecting new telegraph poles in a village that previously had them removed following a campaign.

RED Warning Given to Cityfibre’s FTTH Build in Milton Keynes

1st December, 2019 (26 Comments)

The Milton Keynes Council has issued a “red warning” against Cityfibre’s £40m roll-out of a new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband network – supported by ISP partner Vodafone UK, which is due to the level of complaints being made against the provider and inspectors identifying “poor practise” in their work.

LonsdaleNET to Extend 1Gbps Broadband in Rural Cumbria UK

29th November, 2019 (4 Comments)

Fixed wireless access and fibre optic ISP LonsdaleNET (Lonsdale Network Services), which have been running since 2012, has revealed that they intend to extend their 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network into more areas within the remote rural Eden District of Cumbria.

Rural UK Full Fibre ISP Gigaclear Cuts Prices for Black Friday

29th November, 2019 (7 Comments)

Rural full fibre ISP Gigaclear, which only very recently hiked their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband prices for new customers (here), will today introduce some big discounts on two of their top packages – 100Mbps and 300Mbps – that knocks £15 off the monthly price and makes activation free (saving £300 over the contract term).

Granemore Group Scoop £39m Northampton Full Fibre Contract

28th November, 2019 (0 Comments)

Cityfibre has awarded construction firm Granemore Group the £39m contract to build their new 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband ISP network for the East Midlands (England) town of Northampton, which is being supported by UK ISP partner Vodafone.

Rural UK ISP Gigaclear Adds 100Mbps Package and Hikes Prices UPDATE

28th November, 2019 (17 Comments)

At a time when most broadband ISPs are discounting their prices for Black Friday it’s been spotted that one rural full fibre (FTTP) provider, Gigaclear, has done exactly the opposite. As well as introducing a new 100Mbps (symmetrical speed) tier and Mesh WiFi system, they’ve also hiked the monthly prices of their old plans by an extra £4.

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Ofcom UK Soften Openreach Rules for IP and FTTP Migration Trials

27th November, 2019 (8 Comments)

Ofcom are consulting on a new proposal that could remove a few key pieces of regulation from Openreach (BT), which is intended to support their analogue telephone (WLR) to digital voice (VoIP) and copper to “full fibre” (FTTP) Exchange Upgrade trials (here and here) in Mildenhall (Suffolk) and Salisbury (Wiltshire) respectively

Cityfibre Seek Flexibility from Vodafone’s Full Fibre ISP Contract

26th November, 2019 (3 Comments)

At present if you want to take a home broadband service on Cityfibre’s new Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) network then, under an exclusivity agreement, you have to get it from their UK ISP partner Vodafone (Gigafast Broadband). But if a reported contract renegotiation succeeds then more ISPs could join (TalkTalk, Sky Broadband etc.).