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ISP News Archives for February 2024

CityFibre Start Project Gigabit Broadband Build in Cambridgeshire UK

19th Feb 2024 (34 Comments)

CityFibre has announced that their £69m state aid supported Project Gigabit broadband rollout contract for Cambridgeshire and adjacent areas (Lot 5), which was awarded in March 2023 (here), has finally entered the build phase. A total of “around” 45,000 hard-to-reach homes and businesses in the county are expected to benefit.

Fusion Fibre Group Joins MS3’s Full Fibre Broadband ISP Network

19th Feb 2024 (8 Comments)

The Fusion Fibre Group, which until this month’s rebrand was previously known as rural UK ISP and network operator FACTCO, has today announced that they’ve become the latest internet provider to join MS3’s new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network in the North of England.

UK ISP Commsworld Secures Full Fibre Contract for 42 Dundee Schools

19th Feb 2024 (9 Comments)

Edinburgh-based business broadband ISP Commsworld has announced that they’ve secured a 10-year contract – worth £2.6m – from Dundee City Council (DCC) to help plan, design, migrate and manage a “completely new fibre network service” for 42 schools in and around the city.

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Nexfibre Confirm £1bn in 2024 for UK FTTP Broadband Rollout

16th Feb 2024 (27 Comments)

Nexfibre, which shares the same parentage as Virgin Media (VMO2), has this afternoon confirmed that they will invest £1bn next year to expand their 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) broadband ISP network to an additional 1 million UK premises (on top of their existing coverage).

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Virgin Media O2 Takes UK Fibre Broadband Network Wholesale

16th Feb 2024 (88 Comments)

Broadband ISP Virgin Media (VMO2) and its shareholders (Liberty Global and Telefónica) have this afternoon finally announced plans to “create the biggest direct network challenger to BT Openreach in UK history“, which for the first time will open their existing fixed line broadband network up to wholesale by other internet service providers.

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Ofcom UK Scrap International Broadband Scorecard Comparison

16th Feb 2024 (8 Comments)

The telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has quietly scrapped another fixed broadband related performance report – this time it’s their annual international comparison, which pits the United Kingdom’s broadband and mobile connectivity against the EU’s major economies (France, Germany, Spain and Italy etc.) and some other large countries.

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Southport Residents Block Street to Stop Openreach Pole Build

16th Feb 2024 (99 Comments)

Angry residents living on Griffiths Drive in Southport (England) have used their cars to block access to the street in an effort to prevent Openreach from deploying poles. The new infrastructure is necessary in order for the operator to deploy their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based gigabit broadband ISP network.

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Virgin Media O2 and Nexfibre Build FTTP to 300,000 Extra UK Premises UPDATE

16th Feb 2024 (15 Comments)

Broadband ISP and mobile giant VMO2 (Virgin Media and O2) has today published their Q4 2023 results, which suggests that their full fibre (FTTP) coverage via nexfibre has grown to add another c.299,000 premises (up from 251k in Q3) and Virgin’s fixed broadband base slowed its growth to 5,717,600 (up by 9.5k in Q4 vs 40.8k in Q3).

nPerf Names Three UK Fastest Mobile Network in 2024 Benchmark

15th Feb 2024 (24 Comments)

Benchmarking firm nPerf has today published the results from their annual 2024 crowdsourced study into UK mobile broadband (4G, 5G) performance, which once again sees Three UK being named as the country’s best and fastest operator for mobile internet performance. The runner-up was once again EE (BT), followed by Vodafone and then O2 (VMO2)

£62k from Worcestershire Council Helps Bring FTTP Broadband to Charlton

15th Feb 2024 (9 Comments)

Some 235 premises in the village of Charlton can finally access gigabit broadband speeds after the Worcestershire County Council (WCC) in England committed £62k towards Openreach’s (BT) project to build a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network in the area, which helped to “top up” with funding provided via the UK’s previous gigabit voucher scheme (RGC).

Full Fibre UK ISP GoFibre Expands £50k Community Fund

15th Feb 2024 (5 Comments)

Rural broadband ISP and network builder GoFibre (BorderLink), which is deploying a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network around parts of the North of England and Scottish Borders, has expanded the availability of their existing £50k GoFurther charity fund to Aberdeenshire and Angus.

2Gbps Virgin Media UK Broadband Plan Now Available to Order

14th Feb 2024 (79 Comments)

New and existing customers of residential broadband ISP Virgin Media (VMO2), at least those covered by their new nexfibre based Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network expansion, can finally start to place an order for their new 2Gbps (200Mbps upload) package via the provider’s website.

Nexfibre Pledge to Build More UK Full Fibre in 2024 Than Any AltNet

14th Feb 2024 (54 Comments)

The CEO of nexfibre, Rajiv Datta, has revealed in a new interview with the CEO of ISP Zen Internet, Richard Tang, that they intend to roll-out their full fibre (FTTP) broadband network to “more homes in 2024 than any [other] altnet” and will shortly pass 1 million homes. But Virgin Media (VMO2) remains their only ISP, for now.

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Broadband AltNets Setup New UK Infrastructure Sharing Group

14th Feb 2024 (10 Comments)

The Independent Networks Co-operative Association (INCA), which represents some of the UK’s alternative broadband networks, has helped to setup a new Infrastructure Sharing Group (ISG) to ensure that the rollout of full fibre (FTTP) is “not held back by inconsistencies in the availability of Openreach physical infrastructure“.

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Cityfibre UK Complete Northampton FTTP Broadband Build

14th Feb 2024 (6 Comments)

CityFibre has announced that they’ve completed the “primary build” of their new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network in the East Midlands (England) town of Northampton. The network is now Ready for Service at over 87,700 premises – reflecting c.82% of local homes and businesses.

F&W Networks Grows UK Full Fibre Cover to 410,000 Premises

14th Feb 2024 (4 Comments)

Altrincham-based alternative network provider F&W Networks, which is rolling out their new gigabit-capable full fibre (FTTP) broadband ISP network to various parts of England, has today announced that they’ve almost doubled their coverage over the past year to 410,000 premises (up from 250k in Feb 2023).

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Starlink Lose 100 LEO Broadband Satellites Due to Design Flaw

14th Feb 2024 (6 Comments)

SpaceX has announced that they will have to de-orbit (scrap) around a hundred of their older “early-version 1” Starlink ultrafast low-latency broadband satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) because of a design flaw, which might otherwise cause the space platforms to fail in orbit and become non-manoeuvrable.