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ISP News Archives for June 2020

ISP Vodafone UK Offers 6 Months Free Business Broadband

2nd Jun 2020 (3 Comments)

Mobile operator and ISP Vodafone UK has launched a new promotion to help small businesses get through the COVID-19 crisis, which essentially offers them free broadband with unlimited usage and free access to Microsoft 365 Business Standard’s full suite of flexible business tools for a whole 6 months.

Juice Broadband Boosts Dorset Connectivity with Datacentre Deal

2nd Jun 2020 (2 Comments)

Poole-based UK ISP Juice Broadband, which offers a mix of “full fibre” (FTTP) and fixed wireless internet access services to local premises around southern Dorset (England), has teamed-up with local firm Datacenta to agree a new network peering arrangement that will help to keep data traffic between their customers within the county.

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Openreach Tweak FTTP on Demand Pricing and Adds New Speeds

2nd Jun 2020 (31 Comments)

Openreach (BT) has announced the expected addition of several new speeds tiers, including the more consumer orientated 550Mbps (75Mbps upload) and 1Gbps (115Mbps upload) options, to their business focused FTTP on Demand (FTTPoD / FoD) UK broadband ISP product. On top of that they’ve also tweaked some of its prices.

Lite Access Joins Cityfibre’s 1Gbps FTTH Rollout in Cambridge

1st Jun 2020 (0 Comments)

Cityfibre has announced that civil engineering firm Lite Access Technologies has been signed to help complete their £20m roll-out of a new gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband ISP network to 60,000 premises in the UK city of Cambridge (Cambridgeshire), which is due to complete by the end of 2021.

Guernsey ISP Sure to Replace 10G with 100G Core Network

1st Jun 2020 (5 Comments)

The incumbent broadband ISP and mobile network operator for the English Channel Island of Guernsey, Sure, has today chosen UK technology and network services company telent to help upgrade their existing 10G (10Gbps) network with a 100G Juniper Networks core.

Ofcom’s Former General Counsel Jumps Ship to Cityfibre UK UPDATE

1st Jun 2020 (4 Comments)

Urban focused UK full fibre network builder Cityfibre has managed to snatch away one of Ofcom’s top legal professionals in the shape of Polly Weitzman, the regulator’s current General Counsel with extensive experience in the field of telecoms regulation and law.

North Yorkshire UK Prep Phase 4 Superfast Broadband Rollout

1st Jun 2020 (0 Comments)

The Superfast Broadband North Yorkshire (SFNY) project, which has been working with Openreach (BT) to extend “superfast broadband” (24Mbps+) via FTTC and FTTP to reach 94% of premises in the county by June 2021 (currently 91%), has begun the process to find a supplier for their £12.5m Phase 4 roll-out contract.

Ultrafast Broadband UK ISP Glide Set for £200m Sale to Alinda

1st Jun 2020 (0 Comments)

Business and residential ISP Glide Group (formerly CableCom), which has an ambition to cover 200,000 premises by the end of 2020 (mostly via fibre optic broadband solutions), is reportedly gearing up to announce their sale to American infrastructure investment firm Alinda Capital Partners (ACP) for around £200m.

BT Strategy Targets “Green” Recovery from COVID-19 Crisis

1st Jun 2020 (10 Comments)

Broadband and UK mobile giant BT Group has today launched two new UK initiatives, the ‘Green Tech Innovation Platform’ and the ‘UK Electric Fleets Alliance’, which they say will help to form the foundation for a climate friendly recovery from the COVID-19 crisis and help to drive the country’s “Net Zero carbon emissions.”