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British-registered OneWeb, which is partly owned by the UK gov and building a global constellation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) based ultrafast low-latency broadband satellites, has worked with commercial aviation terminal partner Stellar Blu Solutions to successfully test in-flight connectivity aboard a Boeing B777-200LR plane.
The village and civil parish of Yaxley in Cambridgeshire (England), which is home to a population of over 9,000, has just become one of CityFibre’s smallest builds after they confirmed their plan to invest £2m as part of their ongoing deployment of gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP technology.
The CEO of network access provider Openreach (BT), Clive Selley, appears to have risked a spat with the UK Government after he complained that the rollout of faster broadband services (e.g. gigabit-capable FTTP) had been slowed by the “tortuous” post-Brexit process of recruiting workers from the EU.
A couple of months ago we revealed that Openreach had launched a review of their FTTP on Demand (FTTPoD or FoD) product for UK broadband ISPs (here), which proposed to stop selling it later this year. The conclusion of that review has just been published and FoD has been given a reprieve, at least for now.
UK ISP Pine Media, which is rolling out its own gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network in South Yorkshire (Sheffield) and rural Derbyshire (they also sell products over Openreach’s rival network), has launched a new Mesh WiFi solution for customers via a partnership with Plume.
The Independent Networks Co-operative Association and Point Topic have published their 2022 report into the impact of alternative “full fibre” (FTTP/B) broadband networks, which reveals that such providers grew their UK cover by 111% in 2021 (up from 110% last year) to cover 5.46 million premises and could hit 11.6m this year.