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Business and residential ISP Glide Group, which is busy expanding their full fibre broadband network across more of the UK (leased lines and FTTP etc.), has reported a surge in network demand with its data revealing a 25% increase in network volume compared to the same period last year.
Broadband ISP and network builder Wessex Internet has today announced that the first customers have gone live as part of their first £6m Project Gigabit contract with the UK government, which is deploying a new full fibre (FTTP) network to 7,100 uncommercial premises in rural parts of North Dorset (England).
The Cardiff Council (Gyngor Caerdydd) in South Wales has chosen network operator and broadband ISP Telcom (ClearFibre, WeFibre, HyperCity etc.) to supply residents and businesses across the city with “hyperfast gigabit connectivity“, focusing on the patchwork of remaining areas that are still deemed to be poorly served.
The UK communications and media regulator, Ofcom, has today formally referred the public cloud infrastructure services market, which is dominated by Amazon (AWS) and Microsoft (Azure), to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for further investigation after uncovering “features that could limit competition“.
The Government has this morning announced that the UK is to join the Global Coalition on Telecommunications (GCOT) and commit £70m to the Future Telecoms UKRI Technology Missions Fund (TMF) Programme. Both of which are intended to help research and develop the next generation of telecoms, broadband and 6G networks etc.
Infracapital-backed UK broadband ISP Ogi has announced that their rollout of a new multi-Gigabit capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network in South Wales is being extended to cover around 5,000 premises in one of Pembrokeshire’s most iconic seaside towns, Tenby.
Broadband ISP Hyperoptic, which is currently deploying their gigabit-capable full fibre (FTTP/B) network across parts of 64 UK towns and cities, has today announced that their network now covers “more than” 1.4 million homes (up from 1.15m in Feb 2023) and has a total base of 300,000 customers (up from 275,000).