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Network builder FullFibre Limited has today added 26 new communities in the East and West Midlands of England to their rollout plan for a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network, which aims to cover “at least” 500,000 UK premises by the end of 2025.
The Superfast South Yorkshire project, which represents the broadband connectivity interests of Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield in England, has given itself a pat on the back this week after reporting that a change to local planning rules has helped to ensure that 17,000 new build homes are capable of gigabit speeds.
Jisc, which provides network and IT services to the education sector, has once again chosen Neos Networks to deliver yet another of their new Dark Fibre networks, which will this time be used to serve their sites (e.g. Universities and Research Centres) in Northern Ireland with speeds of up to 100Gbps (Gigabits per second).
The Southampton City Council in Hampshire and UK ISP toob have today signed a new wayleave (legal land / property access) agreement, which will enable the provider to extend their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to cover 18,000 council residents in houses and flats.
Customers of UK ISP TalkTalk have in the last week or so started to receive notification emails that confirm the provider’s intention to hike their broadband and phone prices by 9.1% (average) from 1st April 2022, which is something that we first predicted back in January (here) due to the surging levels of inflation.
Bad news folks, SpaceX has just hiked the price of everything from rocket launches to their already expensive Starlink constellation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) based ultrafast broadband ISP satellites, the latter of which due to increase in price by 11.11% per month (20% for the hardware) in order to “keep pace with rising inflation.”