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The Welsh Government has today announced that BT (Openreach) have won LOT 1 and LOT 3 of the new Phase 2 Superfast Cymru contract, which will initially work to expand “fast broadband” (FTTP dominated) ISP network coverage to reach an additional 16,000 premises by the end of March 2021.
London focused UK fibre optic ISP Community Fibre (CF) has announced that they’ve started to roll-out ADTRAN’s new symmetrical 10Gbps broadband capable XGS-PON technology to homes and businesses. The first to benefit will be those at the Steel Yard, a music venue in the city centre.
The South Norfolk Council‘s project with InTouch Systems (i.e. fixed wireless broadband ISP ITSwisp) to improve remote rural broadband connectivity has been criticised after it approved plans for a new 21 metre high mast, which is despite objections from locals in Bunwell who want an Openreach “fibre” solution.
Vodafone has been named by crowd-sourced testing company OpenSignal as the best Mobile Network Operator in the United Kingdom for streaming video over a data (3G / 4G mobile broadband) connection, although they were very closely followed by arch rival EE (BT).
Customers of Sky Broadband’s early 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) deployment in Swandicote (Derbyshire) have this month been informed that the trial is due to end on 1st November 2018. Sadly the ISP said that they have “no plans to offer this service on a long-term basis.”
Some of TalkTalk’s broadband ISP customers in the UK appear to be suffering from a Domain Name System (DNS) or routing bug, which has been obstructing their access to web pages and images on the popular WordPress (blogs) and Imgur (picture sharing) websites since the weekend (other sites are also affected).