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Network builder and UK ISP Connect Fibre (Fibre Assets), which aspires to cover 100,000 premises across the East of England with their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, has today launched a “revolutionary” Try Before You Buy offer, albeit only for homes in Sutton and Edwinstowe.
New data from mobile benchmarking firm Opensignal has revealed that 53.3% of UK Smartphone users achieve average mobile broadband download speeds below 30Mbps (sub-“superfast” level), while 14% suffer sub-10Mbps downloads and 4.7% of users spend over 5% of their time with no mobile signal at all.
The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today proposed to stop publishing its annual summary of fixed line home broadband ISP speeds after the next report is released later this year (due Q4 2023). Mainly because they deem that it’s no longer needed as the market has changed.
Civil engineering firm VolkerHighways‘ has announced that their UK telecoms division, which is playing a role in the nationwide deployment of full fibre broadband networks (as well as potentially some 5G network infrastructure), has rebranded to VolkerTelecoms to help “simplify and strengthen the business“.
Network builder and UK ISP Zzoomm has today announced that they’ve started to connect the first homes in the North Yorkshire (England) market town of Tadcaster to their new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network, which follows a £1.25m investment that began last September.
London-focused broadband ISP CommunityFibre, which aims to deploy a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to cover over 2.2 million UK premises by the end of 2024 (720,000 premises have already been done), has discounted the price of their 1Gbps plan to just £25 per month for 24-months (£27 thereafter).
The Shetland Islands Council (Scotland) has given the green light for Shetland Telecom, which is the arms-length network operator that the council set up some years ago, to apply for Code Powers – ahead of a possible move to expand their full fibre broadband network to reach the remotest homes and businesses.