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Back in January the Government’s Building Digital UK team “soft launched” a new National Rolling Open Market Review (NROMR) process for their £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout with a limited number of suppliers (here). Today they’ve launched another NROMR and are opening it up to more suppliers.
Exeter-based broadband ISP Jurassic Fibre, which is constructing a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across rural parts of South West England (Devon, Somerset and Dorset), has announced that their network has now started to go live in the towns of Crediton and Dorchester.
UK ISP Lightning Fibre, which is busy building a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to cover over 100,000 premises across parts of East Sussex in England, has today announced that they’ve begun to extend their deployment into the seaside town of Bexhill (Bexhill-on-Sea).
London-focused UK ISP CommunityFibre (CF), which aims to cover 2.2 million homes in the city with their 3Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network by the end of 2024, has today announced that they’ve increased their coverage to 500,000 homes and 116,000 businesses. Another £100m was also secured.
UK ISP Giganet has today announced that their gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband service on CityFibre’s network will soon become available nationwide. At present you can only sign-up to CF’s full fibre network via Giganet’s consumer packages in 27 of the operator’s deployed cities and towns, but that will soon change.
A new partnership was recently signed that will enable ISP Virgin Media (VMO2), via a dual lay network (i.e. separate fibre cables laid in a single duct), to deliver its ultrafast broadband, TV, and phone services to new build homes on sites developed through the Open Fibre Networks Limited (OFNL / GTC / BUUK) duct infrastructure.
Hybrid satellite broadband ISP XtndNet, which back in March 2022 claimed (here) it could help to reach remote rural parts of the UK with download speeds of 25Mbps by combining satellite technology with mobile broadband or fixed lines (ADSL), has shared the first pricing details and responded to other questions.