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ISP News Archives for August 27, 2024

62,000 Premises in Scotland Benefit from R100 Fibre Broadband Build

27th Aug 2024 (3 Comments)

The latest progress update on the Scottish Government’s state aid supported £600m Reaching 100% (R100) project with Openreach (BT), which is predominantly rolling out full fibre (FTTP) broadband, has revealed that a total of 62,000 premises in some of the hardest to reach parts of the country have now been reached (up from 57,000 last month).

London Full Fibre Broadband ISP G.Network Appoint New Chairman

27th Aug 2024 (0 Comments)

London focused UK broadband ISP G.Network, which is building a gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across parts of the city centre, has recently announced another change of Chairman as Ian Gray, who only took on the role in August 2023 after Sean Williams resigned (here), steps down to be replaced by Steve Andrews.

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New Network Operator Solas Fibre Plan UK FTTP Broadband Rollout UPDATE

27th Aug 2024 (8 Comments)

A new alternative network operator called Solas Fibre has revealed that they’re planning to deploy a 1Gbps capable full fibre broadband ISP network across mostly rural parts of Wales, the North-West and North-East of England, and Scotland. But the details are currently quite limited.

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Coastguard Linked to New UK £175m Fibre Optic and Wireless Network

27th Aug 2024 (2 Comments)

Technology services company Telent and His Majesty’s (HM) Coastguard have today announced that one of the UK’s largest private broadband networks, which connects 163 remote radio sites across 11,000 miles of coastline, is now operational and helping to ensure an effective emergency response for people passing through the country’s waters.

EE UK to Trial New Content Delivery Network Tech with TV Services

27th Aug 2024 (19 Comments)

Broadband ISP and mobile operator EE are preparing to trial delivery of their TV content via a new Content Delivery Network (CDN) technology in the “coming months“, which reflects BT’s effort to integrate their “world’s first” MAUD (Multicast-Assisted Unicast Delivery) solution into Edgio’s CDN.

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Rural Coalition Reiterates Concerns Over 4G Mobile Rollout to UK Gov

27th Aug 2024 (10 Comments)

A coalition of 46 signatories (mostly in Scotland), including various outdoor conservation organisations, community councils / trusts and landowners, have again called on the UK government to avoid “needless damage to large areas of some of the wildest places” by reconsidering the rural expansion of 4G (broadband) mobile masts under the £1bn Shared Rural Network project.

Full Fibre UK Broadband Network Community Fibre Top 300k Customers

27th Aug 2024 (4 Comments)

Alternative network operator and broadband ISP CommunityFibre, which has deployed their 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across around 1.4 million UK premises (mostly in London), has today announced that their customer base has grown to 300,000 (up from 200,000+ on 27th Nov 2023).

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Businesses Call on Ofcom to Extend Auto Compensation for UK Broadband Outages

27th Aug 2024 (5 Comments)

The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) and Institute of Directors (IoD) have this week written to the UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, in the hope of encouraging them to extend the automatic compensation scheme for consumer broadband outages to businesses. Easier said than done.

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