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Broadband ISP Zzoomm, which aspires to reach 1 million premises in 85 UK towns with their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network by the end of 2025, has revealed that take-up of the new service in the towns of Sandhurst and Crowthorne has already exceeded the 20% mark – only seven months after finishing the build.
Several key deployments of gigabit-capable full fibre (FTTP) broadband networks across the United Kingdom are likely to be impacted after the Makehappen Group (website offline due to a bad SSL certificate), which is a civil engineer firm, fell into administration this week and effectively put 165 staff out of a job.
Telecoms giant BT and satellite operator OneWeb have completed the deployment of their new rural broadband trial on Lundy Island, near the North Devon coast, which aims to help bring “high-speed, low-latency internet connectivity” to residents – supported by the UK Government’s (DSIT) Alpha Trials programme.
Ofcom has published its 2023 Mobile Matters report, which uses Opensignal’s crowdsourced data (collected between 1st October 2022 and 31st March 2023) to benchmark the performance of UK mobile data (mobile broadband) networks by both technology (3G, 4G and 5G) and operator choice – including Three UK, O2, Vodafone and EE.
Alternative network operator Freedom Fibre is reportedly exploring a possible acquisition of struggling provider VXFIBER, which alongside subsidiary and ISP LilaConnect has recently had to cut jobs (here) and pause its UK rollout of a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network.
The battle for which broadband ISP can offer the UK’s fastest WiFi guarantee has continued today after Virgin Media (VMO2) announced that they were boosting their own guarantee from 20Mbps to 30Mbps at no extra cost (i.e. a minimum download speed of 30Mbps via WiFi in every room, or you get £100 back).