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ISP News Archives for March 13, 2025

Alncom Prep £1.4m FTTP Broadband Build in Rothbury, Northumberland

13th Mar 2025 (2 Comments)

Rural gigabit broadband ISP Alncom has today announced that they’re working on a £1.4m project to extend their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to cover over 200 of the hardest to reach premises in and around the remote town of Rothbury in Northumberland (England), which aims to tackle areas that are still “unable to access ultrafast broadband“.

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Gloucestershire UK Celebrate Over 98 Percent Superfast Broadband Cover

13th Mar 2025 (4 Comments)

The Gloucestershire County Council (GCC) in England has today celebrated how their Fastershire programme, which was jointly conducted alongside Herefordshire Council, has now helped to enable 98.5% of properties in the county to access a “superfast broadband” (30Mbps+) connection, up from only 39% in 2012 and 36% in 2011.

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BDUK Release UPRN Level Data for UK Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout

13th Mar 2025 (12 Comments)

The Government’s executive Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has today published fresh data that reveals the current levels of broadband connectivity, future commercial plans for gigabit broadband, and any premises included in BDUK’s publicly funded interventions (e.g gigabit vouchers and Project Gigabit contracts) down to the individual premises (UPRN) level.

Broadband ISP Sky Business Launch UK Cloud Voice Service

13th Mar 2025 (0 Comments)

Broadband ISP Sky Business (Sky UK) has today announced the launch of their new Cloud Voice solution, which is partly intended to help businesses migrate away from the traditional Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) system before it’s switched-off at the end of this year (vulnerable consumers have longer, until 31st January 2027).

DrayTek Reveal Multiple New Security Vulnerabilities in their Routers

13th Mar 2025 (15 Comments)

Customers of DrayTek‘s popular broadband routers, which are a familiar name in the UK ISP world, have this week been notified about two recently published security vulnerabilities in several of their products – both of which have a Common Vulnerability Score (CVSS) of 9.8 out of 10. But don’t worry, new firmware already exists to patch them.

Full Fibre Broadband ISP Hyperoptic Appoint Openreach Vet as COO

13th Mar 2025 (4 Comments)

City-focused broadband ISP Hyperoptic, which since 2011 claims to have built an alternative full fibre (FTTP/B) network to reach “more than” 1.73 million UK homes in parts of 64 towns and cities (inc. 340,000 customers), has today announced that they’ve appointed former Openreach (BT) veteran Mark Barlett to be their new Chief Operating Officer (COO).

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YouFibre Become First UK ISP to Take 400G Port at LINX Manchester

13th Mar 2025 (12 Comments)

Alternative UK broadband provider YouFibre, which is one of the retail outlets for Netomnia’s (Brsk) growing 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, today claims to have become the first ISP to take a 400G (Gbps) port at the London Internet Exchange’s (LINX) regional interconnection hub in the North – LINX Manchester.

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