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Fern Trading-backed broadband provider Giganet (Cuckoo) has revealed that they intend to open up their new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network, which is being rolled out across the South of England, to wholesale during 2023, so that other UK ISPs can sell services over it.
As expected, the Communications Workers Union (CWU) – representing up to 38,000 of BT and Openreach’s employees – has voted to accept last month’s pay offer (here) from the UK telecoms giant, which will avert any further risk of strike action over Christmas. But the fireworks may begin again next September 2023.
Broadband ISP Gigaclear has announced that their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network is being extended to serve around 2,200 homes and businesses in the rural Warwickshire (England) village of Harbury. In total, the provider is putting up to £7 million worth of commercial investment into the county.
Contract-free UK mobile operator VOXI, a sub-brand of Vodafone, has today launched a new “Winter Sale“, which doubles the 4G and 5G data (mobile broadband) allowances across all of their mobile plans and reduces the monthly price of their top unlimited data package.
Broadband ISP TalkTalk Business (TTB) has announced that they’ve formed a “strategic partnership” with alternative network provider Freedom Fibre, which is currently rolling out a new wholesale Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) and Ethernet network across parts of Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Shropshire and North Wales.
As expected, telecoms giant BT has today confirmed the next phase of their huge re-branding exercise, which in this case will see them combining their Global and Enterprise (inc. Wholesale) units into a single business-to-business unit, called BT Business – led by Bas Burger, the current CEO of BT’s Global unit.