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ISP News Archives for December 18, 2019

Cityfibre and Vodafone 1Gbps FTTH Broadband is Live in Leeds

18th Dec 2019 (23 Comments)

The first customers have now gone live on Cityfibre’s new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband network in the UK City of Leeds, which will cost £120m to roll-out over the next few years and is being sold by local ISP partner Vodafone via their Gigafast Broadband packages.

Virgin Media UK Extends FTTP Broadband to New Edlington

18th Dec 2019 (3 Comments)

Cable and fibre optic ISP Virgin Media (Liberty Global) has continued their stream of piecemeal roll-out announcements today by revealing that 2,600 premises in New Edlington (Doncaster, Yorkshire) have now been reached by their new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband and TV network.

ISP Community Fibre Extends 1Gbps Full Fibre into Sutton

18th Dec 2019 (0 Comments)

London-focused UK ISP Community Fibre has signed a new wayleave agreement with Sutton Council and the related Sutton Housing Partnership (SHP), which will enable their Gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to reach local residents in thousands of council-owned and private homes.

ISP Airband Connects 1000th Customer in Dartmoor and Exmoor

18th Dec 2019 (1 Comment)

Fixed wireless and fibre ISP Airband, which holds several multi-million pound state aid fuelled contracts to deploy “superfast broadband” (30Mbps+) networks across remote UK rural areas, has announced that they’ve just connected their 1000th customer in the Dartmoor and Exmoor National Parks.

Company Behind BT InLinkUK WiFi Kiosks Enters Administration UPDATE

18th Dec 2019 (6 Comments)

The company created to deploy and manage InLinkUK’s WiFi kiosks alongside BT, Intersection and advertising firm Primesight – InLink Limited – has called in the administrators. The situation casts doubt over the fate of both their existing kiosks and a plan to replace 1,000+ payphones across major UK cities.

EE’s Ultrafast 5G Mobile Network Goes Live in 6 New UK Cities

18th Dec 2019 (5 Comments)

Mobile operator EE (BT) has today announced that their new 5G ultrafast mobile broadband network, which began its rollout across the United Kingdom in May 2019 (here), has today switched-on a further six cities including Hull, Leeds, Newcastle, Nottingham, Sheffield and Sunderland.

Highlands to Switch-off ConCom Wireless Broadband Network

18th Dec 2019 (0 Comments)

The Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) has announced that the publicly funded Connected Communities (ConCom) wireless network, which since 2005 has been bringing slow broadband speeds of up to 4Mbps to the remote rural Outer Hebrides of Scotland, is set to close in March 2020.

Post Office UK Discounts 38Mbps FTTC Broadband to £20.90

18th Dec 2019 (0 Comments)

The Post Office UK ISP has introduced a further discount on their 38Mbps (average speed) capable “Unlimited Fibre Broadband” (FTTC / VDSL2) and phone package, which drops its monthly price to just £20.90 for the first 12 month contract term (rising to £37 thereafter).

New Build Homes Site in Whitchurch Shuns Free FTTP Broadband UPDATE2

18th Dec 2019 (25 Comments)

Alternative network ISP Ecom, which is deploying a new 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network in rural Buckinghamshire (England), has hit a snag after the developer of a new build homes site in Whitchurch appeared to shun their offer of a free “full fibre” build. Instead future owners may suffer slow ADSL.

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