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UK ISP Zzoomm has today secured a significant £100m investment (debt facility) boost from an international banking consortium, which will help the operator toward their target of deploying a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to reach 1 million UK premises in 85 towns by the end of 2025.
Bristol-based UK ISP RunFibre have just signed a new fibre optic supply deal with Cherry & White to help support their rollout of a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across rural parts of South Gloucestershire. On top of that they’ve agreed a new 3-year framework contract with supplier Altnets.
Full fibre UK ISP Hyperoptic has today agreed a blanket-wide wayleave agreement with the Hounslow Council in West London, which will enable their gigabit-capable broadband (FTTP/B) network to cover 4,300 of the council’s social housing residents, including 20 free connections to supply local community centres.
A weekend report has claimed that several UK ISPs, including Sky Broadband, TalkTalk and Vodafone, are still in discussions to join Virgin Media’s (VMO2) long-awaited plans to launch a wholesale product, which could act as a direct competitor to Openreach’s (BT) national network.
Poole-based UK ISP Juice Broadband, which already offers a mix of “full fibre” (via Openreach) and fixed wireless services to local premises around South Dorset, has become the latest internet provider to join CityFibre’s Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network. Juice has also just begun connecting their first customers in Bournemouth.
Energy provider and UK ISP Shell Energy has updated the prices of their broadband packages (ADSL, FTTC and G.fast) and also dropped their previous promise for “no end-of-contract price rises.” In addition, Shell has adopted BT’s approach to annual price hikes, which will see prices rise each year by CPI (inflation) + up to 3%.