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Connectivity Services provider Aqua Comms has announced the completion of their work to deploy the Celtix-Connect 2 subsea fibre optic cable, which now runs between Ireland (Dublin), the Isle of Man and England (Blackpool). The move means more resilient and faster broadband for premises on the isle.
Technical UK consultancy firm FarrPoint has estimated that the cost of household connectivity services (e.g. fixed broadband, phone and mobile) could rise by more than a third over the next 5 years. As usual, the proposed solution is to try shopping around for a better deal.
Broadband ISP Virgin Media Business UK (VMO2) has today announced that their wholesale division is working to deliver network services, including diverse Dark Fibre and optical high capacity services up to 100G, to customers across Proximity’s portfolio of regional colocation data centres.
Broadband ISP Truespeed, which is deploying a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across rural parts of South West England, has today announced that they’ve so far connected 300 businesses in the region to their new ultrafast broadband network.
Network builder Netomnia – supported by UK broadband ISP partner YouFibre – has today added four new towns in England and Scotland to their national rollout of a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) network, which includes Mansfield, Purfleet, Bedford and Coatbridge.
Mobile testing firm RootMetrics, which was last year acquired by Ookla (here), has today published their biannual H1 2022 study of mobile network (4G and 5G) and broadband performance across the United Kingdom, which sees EE collecting the most awards. But rival Three UK is threatening to pull ahead in 5G.
Residents in the large Fife (Scotland, UK) village of East Wemyss have succeeded in petitioning Openreach (BT) to remove several of its recently deployed telegraph poles. The poles were built to help bring full fibre (FTTP) broadband to the area, but locals found them “obtrusive” and feared the value of their homes might suffer.