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Cuckoo-Logo-Yellow-Stacked-2023

25th Apr 2024 (4 Comments)

Internet provider Cuckoo has today announced the appointment of Sarah Howells as Managing Director (MD) of the business. The newly created role will oversee all of the ISP’s customer-facing activities across Sales, Customer Service, User Experience, Digital, Brand, Marketing and Product.

CityFibre_Trench_Team_Digging

25th Apr 2024 (4 Comments)

Network operator CityFibre has revealed that their £50m project to deploy a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across the West Midland’s city of Wolverhampton, which began all the way back in July 2020 (here), has now covered over 90,000 premises (homes and businesses).

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25th Apr 2024 (2 Comments)

The One Touch Switching Company (TOTSCo), which is responsible for implementing Ofcom’s now heavily delayed One Touch Switch (OTS) migration system for faster consumer switching between UK broadband ISPs, has today helped to clarify the tedious subject of applicability to Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) networks.

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Trooli engineer fibre splicing

25th Apr 2024 (5 Comments)

Alternative broadband operator Trooli, which was last year acquired by Agnar UK Infrastructure (here) and had been aiming to build their gigabit-capable full fibre (FTTP) network to cover 330,000 premises across England by the end of 2023, appears to now also be harnessing Axione UK‘s once separate fibre network in Scotland.

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25th Apr 2024 (15 Comments)

Alternative UK network builder and broadband ISP Grain (Grain Connect), which has been gradually deploying a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, has revealed that they’ve now passed 236,000 premises (207k Ready for Service) and confirmed they have 28,000 customers.

Virgin-Media-O2-5G-SA-Mobile-Mast-Surrounded-by-Trees-2023

24th Apr 2024 (11 Comments)

Mobile infrastructure services provider Cornerstone (CTIL), which handles the UK network sharing agreement between O2 (VMO2) and Vodafone (Vantage Towers), has outlined a new plan to Government MP Sir John Whittingdale that it hopes will help digital infrastructure deployments – particularly for 4G and 5G (mobile broadband).

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24th Apr 2024 (4 Comments)

Ofcom’s spring 2024 study of UK fixed broadband and mobile coverage has reported that “full fibre” (FTTP) now reaches 62% of the UK (up from 57% in Sept 2023), while 80% are within reach of a gigabit-capable network (up from 78%) and 85-92% of premises can get an outdoor 5G signal from at least one operator (largely unchanged).

Freedom Fibre Van and Engineer in Cherry Picker Box

24th Apr 2024 (1 Comment)

The Horsham-based Telecom Acquisitions (TAL Group), which is a holding company for several familiar UK ISP brands (Home Telecom, Fleur, No One and Eclipse Broadband etc.), has become the latest to join Freedom Fibre‘s new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network.

Internet Danger Websites with Scam Ads and Malware

24th Apr 2024 (3 Comments)

Hull-based broadband ISP and network operator KCOM, which is operates its own Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire in England, has warned customers to be on the lookout for a new phishing email that attempts to impersonate the company in order to commit fraud.

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GoFibre Angus engineers working

24th Apr 2024 (0 Comments)

Edinburgh-based rural ISP and network builder GoFibre (BorderLink), which is deploying a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to parts of North of England and the Scottish Borders, has revealed that over 10,000 premises across towns and villages in Angus can now access their network.

Vorboss Engineers Carrying Optical Fibre

24th Apr 2024 (0 Comments)

UK ISP Vorboss, which is investing £300m to deploy a 100Gbps full fibre network (Ethernet and broadband) – dedicated to business – across central London, has today begun lobbying Ofcom to introduce automatic compensation for business networks in order to help “drive competition on quality and reliability” in the market.

cityfibre wall box fttp broadband

24th Apr 2024 (28 Comments)

Shropshire-based UK ISP Aquiss has followed last week’s launch of their first packages based off CityFibre’s growing national Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, which initially only offered speeds of up to 900Mbps, by today complementing them with the addition of plans based off the 1.2Gbps and 2.5Gbps tiers.

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23rd Apr 2024 (15 Comments)

The Independent Networks Co-operative Association (INCA) and Point Topic have released their 2024 report into the impact of alternative “full fibre” (FTTP/B) gigabit broadband networks (AltNets), which reveals that their UK coverage grew by 57% in 2023 to top 12.9 million premises (up from 49% and 8.22m in 2022) and could reach 16.7m in 2024.

O2-UK-Mobile-Mast-in-a-Rural-Field-2023

23rd Apr 2024 (5 Comments)

The CEO of the Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency, Dean Creamer, has told MPs on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that officials have rejected a request from several mobile operators to delay completion of the 4G roll-out for Partial Not-Spot (PNS) areas under the £1bn Shared Rural Network (SRN) project by 18-months.

Zzoomm-Engineer-Outside-Street-Cabinet

23rd Apr 2024 (23 Comments)

Oxfordshire-based alternative broadband network and UK ISP Zzoomm, which has already extended their 2Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to cover 190,000 premises (RFS) in England, has today revealed that their customer base has now grown to 25,000 (up from 23k on 5th March 2024).

switch broadband ISP direction sign illustration

23rd Apr 2024 (13 Comments)

In an unusual move, the boss of Shropshire-based broadband ISP Aquiss, Martin Pitt, has today publicly accused rival provider Vodafone of “handling a large percentage of migrations cases completely incorrectly” by treating them as “New Installs” rather than following the correct Ofcom process for consumer switching.

Virgin Media O2 Engineers Digging Trench

23rd Apr 2024 (2 Comments)

Network operator nexfibre, which shares some of the same parents as Virgin Media UK (VMO2), has announced that they’ve expanded their 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) broadband ISP network to cover 2,000 premises in Loughborough – forming part of their plan to reach 22,000 premises in Leicestershire during 2024.

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