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Fibrus Digging Rural Road

31st March, 2022 (0 Comments)

Alternative network and UK ISP Fibrus has today secured a further investment boost of £220m from a consortium of banks, including the UK Infrastructure Bank, which will be used to extend their existing rollout of a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network in Northern Ireland to 330,000 premises.

Money Pounds Savings for UK Homes

31st March, 2022 (2 Comments)

The Australian-based financial services firm Macquarie Group and UK Government have jointly announced a new £12bn private investment in “sustainable infrastructure“, which among other things includes a plan to help spread “super-fast wireless broadband and ultra-fast fibre” (FTTP) across more parts of rural England.

BT Staff and Recruits UK

30th March, 2022 (30 Comments)

The Communications Workers Union (CWU), which represents around 40,000 staff at the UK telecoms and broadband ISP giant BT (inc. Openreach and EE), has rejected a new pay offer from the operator – described as a flat rate of £1,200 – as “insulting” given the “rising inflation and squeeze on household incomes.”

Censorship Blocked Website Message by UK ISP

30th March, 2022 (14 Comments)

A new Ofcom report has found that 61% of parents are aware of the existing network-level internet filtering (Parental Control) tools provided by big UK broadband ISPs, yet only 27% have actually chosen to use them. Meanwhile, 6% of children have circumvented parental controls and 5% used a proxy server to avoid them.

wifi wireless signal

28th March, 2022 (0 Comments)

The North Yorkshire County Council (NYCC), in partnership with NYnet, has today announced the completion of their £3.6 million project to deploy a “free public” Wi-Fi (wireless) internet access network across a total of 20 market towns in the county (up from the originally planned list of 16).

home working

25th March, 2022 (0 Comments)

The Department for Communities in Northern Ireland has launched a new fund, which among other things has been designed to help support the provision of “free broadband” to help “those facing digital exclusion as a barrier to work.”

Female Engineer at Fibre Exchange

25th March, 2022 (26 Comments)

The Independent Networks Co-operative Association (INCA), which represents UK alternative full fibre and fixed wireless broadband ISP networks, has warned that Openreach’s (BT) plan to close 4,600 exchanges creates a huge and costly problem for many of their rivals in the alternative network space.

house building uk broadband

24th March, 2022 (2 Comments)

The Superfast South Yorkshire project, which represents the broadband connectivity interests of Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield in England, has given itself a pat on the back this week after reporting that a change to local planning rules has helped to ensure that 17,000 new build homes are capable of gigabit speeds.

fibre optic blue light abstract 2017-gigapixel

23rd March, 2022 (17 Comments)

The Government’s Education Secretary, Nadhim Zahawi MP, has today made a new commitment for “every school across the country” to be able to access “high speed internet” by 2025, which is said to complement the wider £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout programme. Funding will also be provided for related WiFi upgrades.

hyperoptic_fttp_fttb_broadband_isp_logo

22nd March, 2022 (0 Comments)

Broadband ISP Hyperoptic has today joined the Broadband Stakeholder Group (BSG), which is a think-tank that advises the UK Government on various related areas of policy. The operator is currently working to extend their “full fibre” (FTTP/B) network to 2 million UK premises by the end of 2023 (currently at 750,000).

big ben uk parliament

22nd March, 2022 (8 Comments)

The Government has today announced the proposed launch of a new body called the ‘UK Telecoms Innovation Network‘ (UKTIN), which will help to guide mobile network operators and broadband ISPs that seek funding for key telecoms related research and development projects (e.g. OpenRAN technologies).

cityfibre_fence_sign_photo

20th March, 2022 (9 Comments)

CityFibre has announced another big £300m investment boost to help support the expansion of their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network. The new funding has come from the Abu Dhabi government’s Mubadala investment fund, which has already put £500m into the operator.

scotland_rural_5g_mast_Scottish_government

20th March, 2022 (0 Comments)

The Scottish Government’s £28.75m 4G Infill Programme (S4GI), which via WHP Telecoms aims to improve rural mobile voice and broadband coverage by building new masts (mostly tackling notspots across the Highlands and Islands), has given a progress update to confirm that 27 out of the 55 planned masts have gone live.

wales uk future

19th March, 2022 (12 Comments)

The Welsh Government (WG) has confirmed to ISPreview.co.uk that they recently extended their multi-million pound Public Sector Broadband Aggregation (PSBA) network contract with BT’s Enterprise division, which has been operational since 2007 and was awarded to the incumbent in 2014 (here).

Fibrus Digger Trenching Soft Verge

18th March, 2022 (3 Comments)

Alternative network ISP Fibrus, which is busy deploying a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across Northern Ireland and Northern England, has today revealed the next batch of “commercially funded” towns and villages to benefit from the rollout of their new “hyperfast full fibre” network in 2022.

Audit Scotland Map R100 Contract LOTs

17th March, 2022 (15 Comments)

A new report from Audit Scotland has provided somewhat of a summary and progress update on the Scottish Government’s £600m Reaching 100% (R100) project with BT (Openreach), which is busy extending fixed “superfast broadband” (30Mbps+) coverage across rural parts of the country (mostly via FTTP).

Censorship image of hands bound by rope

16th March, 2022 (29 Comments)

The UK Government’s controversial Online Safety Bill, which will task Ofcom with clamping down on “harmful” online content (hate speech, bullying, terrorism, conspiracy theories etc.) by threatening such providers with web-blocks, fines and possibly even jail – if they don’t enforce the rules, has today been introduced to parliament.

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