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County Broadband Highway Workforce Engineers Talking 2023

22nd March, 2023 (1 Comment)

Rural UK ISP County Broadband, which aspires to cover 500,000 premises across the East of England with their new 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network by the end of 2027, has today confirmed that they’ve started to build across 9 more villages in Suffolk – supported by contractors AB Installs and Highway Workforce.

new_build_house_fttp_openreach_engineer_photo

22nd March, 2023 (45 Comments)

Network operator Openreach (BT) has officially confirmed that their £15bn rollout of gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP technology has today reached the milestone of 10 million premises passed (up from 9.57m in Dec 2022). Some 3 million customers have also been connected (up from 2.73 million).

Gigaclear-female-engineer

21st March, 2023 (0 Comments)

Rural UK broadband ISP Gigaclear has announced that, as part of their £84 million investment to deploy a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across Oxfordshire (England), the provider now expects to reach several thousand additional premises across four villages.

CityFibre-Engineer-Holding-Optical-Fibres

21st March, 2023 (43 Comments)

The sixth contract awarded under the UK Government’s £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout scheme – worth £122 million – has today been awarded to CityFibre, which will upgrade connectivity for “around” 45,000 hard-to-reach homes and businesses across rural parts of Cambridgeshire in England.

virgin media fttp docsis street cabinet nicholas humfrey

21st March, 2023 (7 Comments)

Analysts at global telecoms market intelligence firm ThinkCX have published a new report that examines the extent to which Virgin Media’s (VMO2) “Project Lightning” broadband expansion in West Yorkshire (England) “arrested a decline in its local market share and led to net growth“.

Alncom_RunFibre_Engineer

20th March, 2023 (4 Comments)

Broadband ISP RunFibre, which is deploying a Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across rural areas of South Gloucestershire (England), has announced that they’ve completed their gigabit voucher-supported build to 119 rural properties in the village of Over and its surroundings.

GoFibre-engineer-in-street

20th March, 2023 (1 Comment)

Rural network builder and UK ISP GoFibre, which is deploying a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across the North of England and Scottish Borders, has today announced their new full fibre network has started to go live in the Aberdeenshire towns of Portlethen and Newtonhill.

Cityfibre Purle Optical Fibre Cable and Engineer

20th March, 2023 (73 Comments)

A major newspaper has reported that a parent of broadband ISP and mobile giant VMO2 (Virgin Media and O2) has held “initial talks” over the possibility of mounting a £3bn takeover bid for the UK’s third-largest alternative full fibre network (AltNet), CityFibre. But such a deal could face regulatory and competition concerns.

bt smart hub 2 router front

18th March, 2023 (45 Comments)

Selected customers of UK ISP EE and BT’s Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based home broadband packages are being invited to take part in a new “Faster Broadband Speeds Trial“, which we suspect will involve the use of Openreach’s new 1.2Gbps and 1.8Gbps tiers (both offer 120Mbps upstream).

Netomnia-engineers-over-cable-drum

17th March, 2023 (29 Comments)

Network operator Netomnia – supported by UK ISP YouFibre – have today announced that their rollout of 10Gbps capable FTTP broadband has been boosted after they completed their latest fundraise of £230m in committed debt financing from a group of six bank lenders (HSBC UK, ING, NIBC, RBC, Standard Chartered, and UKIB).

Virgin Media O2 UK Hub 5 Router

17th March, 2023 (0 Comments)

UK ISP Virgin Media (VMO2) last launched a new promotion today that discounts the price of their standalone “Gig1 Fibre Broadband” package – offering average speeds of 1130Mbps down and 52Mbps up – to just £30 per month for the first 6 months of service (£50 thereafter) on a 24-month term. Plus, the setup is free.

Airband-Engineer-Walking-Up-Cobbled-Street

17th March, 2023 (17 Comments)

Rural broadband ISP Airband has announced that they’re currently tackling one of the “most challenging installations” of full fibre technology that they’ve “ever seen” in the historic North Devon (England) village of Clovelly, which sits perched on a cliff-top, complete with steep, narrow cobbled streets and 300 residents.

openreach bt fibre optic cable hands

17th March, 2023 (96 Comments)

Ofcom has this morning announced that they will need “an additional two months” to undertake further analysis of Openreach’s “Equinox 2” discount scheme, which will delay the operator’s planned 1st April 2023 launch of cheaper wholesale prices on their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP products.

VXFiber LilaConnect Engineers in Street

16th March, 2023 (2 Comments)

Network operator LilaConnect, which is a subsidiary of Swedish provider VXFIBER that is busy deploying a new “full fibre” (FTTP) broadband network across several cities and towns in England, has today launched several business packages for those in areas where they’ve been deploying.

16th March, 2023 (41 Comments)

Locals living near to the Shandon Place and Ashley Terrace bridge in Edinburgh (Scotland), which passes over a former railway line, have vented fury at CityFibre after the operator’s rollout of a new full fibre (FTTP) broadband ISP network broke the bridge during unauthorised work – leaving it closed since January.

Parliament UK Building at Dusk in London 2021

15th March, 2023 (12 Comments)

The Chancellor of the UK Government, Jeremy Hunt, has today announced the Spring 2023 Budget, which sadly made no mention of any extra support for gigabit broadband or 5G mobile deployments. But the new “full expensing” measure could help to bring down the cost of some related plant and machinery (capital expenses).

Virgin Media Business UK Hitron CHITA Router

15th March, 2023 (0 Comments)

UK ISP Virgin Media Business (VMO2) has launched a new promotion that offers 3 months of free ‘Voom Fibre‘ business broadband for small businesses eligible for contract renewal – applicable to all Solus, Bundle and Volt packages on a minimum 24-month term (existing users will need 3 months or less left on their contract).

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