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Cityfibre Completes Full Fibre Broadband Rollout in Lowestoft

20th December, 2023 (14 Comments)

CityFibre has announced that they’ve completed their £15 million project to deploy a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network across the seaside town of Lowestof in Suffolk (England), which originally began during the spring of 2020 and has now covered nearly 30,000 premises (RFS).

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Wessex Internet Start Project Gigabit Broadband Build in New Forest

19th December, 2023 (0 Comments)

Rural broadband ISP Wessex Internet has today announced that they’ve entered the roll-out phase of their £14m state aid supported Project Gigabit broadband contract for the New Forest area (Lot 27.01) of Hampshire (England), which will see them extend a full fibre (FTTP) network to “around” 10,500 hard-to-reach premises.

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Ofcom – UK Gigabit Broadband Rises to 78% as 5G Tops 85-93%

19th December, 2023 (12 Comments)

The latest Connection Nations 2023 UK digital infrastructure report has today been published by Ofcom, which finds that “gigabit-capable broadband” ISP networks now cover 78% of the UK (up from 70% in 2022), while outdoor 5G mobile cover from at least one operator is available to 85-93% of premises (up from 67-77%).

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Regulator’s Decision Means Cheaper Guernsey Broadband Prices

18th December, 2023 (4 Comments)

The Guernsey Competition & Regulatory Authority (GCRA) has posted its “final decision” on wholesale broadband charges for the English Channel Island of Guernsey, which has called for prices to be slashed by a significantly greater amount than the 11% reduction first proposed in May 2023.

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CityFibre’s FTTP Broadband Network Covers 3.37 Million UK Premises

16th December, 2023 (28 Comments)

Network operator CityFibre has informed ISPreview that their new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network has just passed 3.37 million UK premises (3m of which are ‘Ready for Service’ by an ISP), which is up from 3 million (2.6m RFS) at the end of August 2023.

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Rural UK Broadband ISP Gigaclear Secure £1.5bn Debt Facility

15th December, 2023 (22 Comments)

Abingdon-based rural broadband ISP Gigaclear, which has already extended their gigabit speed full fibre (FTTP) network to cover 500,000 premises (430k Ready for Service) across parts of 26 counties in England, has today secured a major new debt facility of up to £1.5bn to help fuel their roll-out.

Quickline Put Full Fibre Live in 4 More Lincolnshire and Yorkshire Villages

15th December, 2023 (0 Comments)

Hull-based UK broadband ISP Quickline, which is deploying a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across North and East England, has today announced that their network has gone live across two more villages in Lincolnshire and a further two in North Yorkshire.

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Cityfibre Complete Rollout of FTTP Broadband in Southend-on-Sea

15th December, 2023 (22 Comments)

Network operator CityFibre has announced that they’ve completed their £51m project to deploy a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network across the city of Southend-on-Sea (Essex), which originally began in 2019 and has now covered over 70,000 premises (RFS).

Winter 2023 BDUK Update on UK Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout

15th December, 2023 (3 Comments)

The Building Digital UK agency has released their Winter 2023 (Dec) progress update on the £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout scheme, which is so far running live contracts and procurements worth over £2bn in state aid to help extend coverage to an extra 1.1 million hard to reach premises.

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Connect Fibre Win Derbyshire UK Gigabit Broadband Rollout Contract

15th December, 2023 (1 Comment)

The UK Government’s £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout scheme has today announced that they’ve awarded the regional £33m (state aid) rollout contract for Derbyshire (LOT 3) in England to ISP Connect Fibre, which will aim to extend their full fibre network to an additional 17,000+ premises in hard to reach rural areas.

ISP TalkTalk to Acquire Shell Energy’s UK Broadband Customers

14th December, 2023 (39 Comments)

News reports claim that the Octopus Energy Group will shortly sell Shell Energy’s remaining internet and phone customers, reflecting a total base of around 480,000, to budget broadband ISP TalkTalk for an as yet undisclosed sum. The deal could be formally announced within the next few days.

BDUK Publish Evaluations of UK Gigabit Broadband Programmes

14th December, 2023 (1 Comment)

The Government’s executive Building Digital UK agency has today published a series of reports that evaluate different parts of their gigabit and full fibre broadband upgrade programmes, albeit broadly all focused on dark fibre style deployments to connect public sector sites (e.g. schools, council offices, hospitals etc.).

Connexin Appoint New Managing Director to Oversee Full Fibre Build

14th December, 2023 (0 Comments)

Broadband ISP Connexin has today announced the appointment of a new Managing Director for Connexin Fibre, Shadi Halliwell, who it’s hoped will be able to boost their ongoing work to deploy a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across parts of Hull and Yorkshire in England.

UK Gov Confirm Scotland to Get £450m for Gigabit Broadband Upgrade

14th December, 2023 (5 Comments)

The UK Government has finally revealed that Scotland’s share of the £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout scheme will be an “estimated” £450m, although market engagement work is ongoing (i.e. getting feedback from suppliers) and has yet to reach the procurement stage – this was originally supposed to happen in the autumn.

Survey – 29% of UK Businesses Not Ready for End of Old Phone Lines

14th December, 2023 (5 Comments)

A new report from business broadband ISP and communications provider Gamma and the Centre of Economics Business Research (CEBR) has claimed that 29% of UK businesses are still “completely unaware” of the upcoming move to switch-off the old copper-based Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) in December 2025.

19,000 More Brentwood Homes Get Virgin Media’s Full Fibre

13th December, 2023 (4 Comments)

Broadband ISP Virgin Media UK (VMO2) and nexfibre have today revealed that an additional 19,000 homes and businesses in the Essex (England) town of Brentwood, which is home to a population of over 55,000, have now been covered by their new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) network.

Vandals Attack Netomnia’s FTTP Broadband Network in Liverpool UPDATE

13th December, 2023 (35 Comments)

Police have been called in after vandals caused “extensive” damage to part of Netomnia’s (supported by UK ISP YouFibre) new full fibre broadband network in Liverpool, where the operator is currently investing £39 million on a large deployment project. But thankfully only a few customers have felt the impact.