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Lincolnshire-based UK ISP Lightspeed Broadband, which recently burst on to the scene with a plan to invest £300m into a large deployment of 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) technology across the East of England, has today kicked off its build work in several towns across South Lincolnshire and West Norfolk.
Rural UK ISP Wessex Internet has today announced that they intend to extend their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband network to cover homes and businesses in the North Dorset market towns of Blandford Forum and Sturminster Newton.
Ofcom has today launched a second consultation on the future use of UK telephone numbers, which among other things proposes to remove the obligation on phone operators to provide a “local dialling” facility (this requirement is less relevant on modern internet based networks) and to prohibit “cash for calls” schemes.
City-focused UK ISP Hyperoptic, which is currently deploying 1Gbps capable “full fibre” (FTTP/B) broadband networks across large residential buildings (MDUs), office blocks and houses, has reached a new social housing agreement with Hackney Council in London that will see their network cover 30% of homes in the borough.
The combination of good weather and the further easing of COVID-19 related lockdown restrictions has, according to UK ISP TalkTalk, seen weekly broadband traffic on their network fall by 13% since the latest relaxation of rules started on 12th April 2021. In short, we’re all spending more time outside.