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Ullapool Communities in Scotland Raise £85K to Build Broadband Network

12th Oct 2016 (3 Comments)

Last month we reported that several rural communities around Ullapool, Lochbroom, Little Lochbroom, Gruinard Bay, Elphin and Coigach in the Scottish Highlands were aiming to build their own 50Mbps wireless broadband network (here). Happily the project has now begun its build phase after raising £85,000.

BT Openreach Enhance 18Mbps FTTC Broadband Trial for Slow ADSL Lines

12th Oct 2016 (7 Comments)

Openreach (BT) has announced some enhancements and an extension of their new 18Mbps (2Mbps upload) Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC) based product trial, which began in July 2016 (here) and is designed to help people stuck on slow ADSL based pure copper broadband lines.

KCOM Confirm Next FTTP Fibre Broadband Roll-out Areas in Hull UK

12th Oct 2016 (0 Comments)

KCOM has today announced the next roll-out phase for their “ultrafast” Lightstream fibre optic (FTTP/C) broadband network in Hull (East Yorkshire), which reflects the next 6 months of deployment from now until March 2017; this will add an additional 25,000 premises passed to the total.

Business Broadband ISP Metronet UK Gobbles Rival M247 for £47.5m

12th Oct 2016 (0 Comments)

Alternative business ISP Metronet UK, which has built its own hybrid fibre optic and wireless broadband networks’ in several urban areas around the United Kingdom, has today acquired rival provider M247 for £47.5 million.

Cityfibre Confirms Town of Bracknell to Become its Next UK “Gigabit City”

12th Oct 2016 (0 Comments)

Cityfibre has today announced that the Berkshire town and civil parish of Bracknell will become their next “Gigabit City“, which means that an existing fibre optic network in the area is being re-purposed in order to supply local businesses with 1Gbps capable / FTTP style broadband.

BT Says – We’ll Do the 10Mbps Broadband USO Without Public Funding

12th Oct 2016 (9 Comments)

BT has said that the Government can avoid imposing a tricky industry levy on ISPs or using public funding to help pay for the proposed 10Mbps broadband Universal Service Obligation (USO) because they’ll take the full responsibility, as well as pushing superfast broadband (24Mbps+) to 97-98% of the UK.

BT Adverts Banned for Misleading “fastest fibre speeds as standard” Claim

12th Oct 2016 (5 Comments)

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned a series of adverts for BT’s Infinity “fibre broadband” (FTTC) services, including a major TV campaign featuring actor Ryan Reynolds, after Virgin Media complained that it had made “misleading” claims about service speed.

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