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ISPA Name Finalists for 2021 UK ISP Internet Industry Awards

30th June, 2021 (1 Comment)

The UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has today revealed the shortlist of finalists for this year’s 23rd annual industry awards, which sees a number of broadband ISPs receiving nominations across several categories (e.g. Exa Networks scored five nominations, while Hyperoptic and Glide both received four nominations each.

OneWeb UK Secures GBP360m Funding Boost from Bharti Global

29th June, 2021 (1 Comment)

OneWeb, which is partly owned by the UK Government, Bharti Global, Eutelsat and Softbank, has secured another $500m (£361m) funding boost from Bharti to ensure that they’re able to fully complete their initial deployment of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites for ultrafast low-latency broadband provision.

CityFibre’s Gigabit Broadband Goes Live in Rotherham UK

29th June, 2021 (7 Comments)

CityFibre has today announced that their £29m rollout of a new 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across the South Yorkshire town of Rotherham has finally reached the stage of connecting its first customers, which are being supported by local ISP partner Pure Broadband (more providers will follow).

Devon and Somerset UK Seek Larger Gigabit Broadband Vouchers

29th June, 2021 (6 Comments)

The Connecting Devon and Somerset (CDS) programme has today issued its response to the UK Government’s consultation on upgrading broadband for “Very Hard to Reach Premiuses” (VHTRP), which calls for larger Gigabit Broadband Vouchers to support rural builds and warns against moving away from “future proof” fibre solutions.

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Vodafone UK Launch “enterprise grade” FTTC Broadband for SMEs

29th June, 2021 (13 Comments)

ISP Vodafone UK has today partnered with Cisco to launch an “enterprise grade broadband and Wi-Fi solution” for small and medium-sized businesses (10 – 250 employees), which is said to feature “advanced security features” to ensure SMEs have everything required to stay connected, secure and in control. But it’s only FTTC.

London ISP Community Fibre Offers 3 Months Free Broadband

29th June, 2021 (0 Comments)

London broadband ISP CommunityFibre, which is busy building a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to cover a good chunk of the UK’s capital city, has launched a new promotion for small and medium-sized businesses (SME) that gives them up to 3 months of free full fibre service.

Persimmon Homes Criticised Over FTTP Broadband Monopoly Claims UPDATE2

29th June, 2021 (69 Comments)

Property developer Persimmon Homes is facing criticism from several UK MPs, which comes after residents on some of their new build home sites alleged that they’d been left them with no option but to use the Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network provided by the same group (via ISP FibreNest).

Gov Updates on UK 4G Shared Rural Network Rollout Progress

29th June, 2021 (6 Comments)

The UK Government has today published somewhat of a progress update on their £1bn Shared Rural Network (SRN) project, which reveals that Scotland, Wales and North East England will benefit most from the expansion of 4G based mobile network (mobile broadband) coverage into rural areas.

ISP Fibrus Secures Full Fibre Contract for 10 N.Ireland Councils

29th June, 2021 (0 Comments)

Broadband ISP Fibrus has this morning finally confirmed that they’ve won the Full Fibre Northern Ireland Consortium (FFNI) contract, which is valued at £23m and will see the UK operator expand a new gigabit-capable “full fibre” network to connect over 969 public-sector sites (police, GPs, council offices etc.) in “up to” 10 council areas.

234,000 Premises in Wales to Benefit from £5bn Project Gigabit

29th June, 2021 (7 Comments)

The UK Government will today reveal that “up to” 234,000 hard-to-reach rural homes and businesses in Wales have been identified as “in scope” to potentially receive a gigabit-capable broadband upgrade, which should come as part of the new £5bn Project Gigabit programme.

Air Broadband Expands CityFibre FTTP Coverage to 10 UK Cities

28th June, 2021 (4 Comments)

UK ISP Air Broadband has announced that their gigabit capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband service on CityFibre’s network has now become available to homes and businesses in a further 10 of their cities and towns, such as Solihull, Gloucester and Cheltenham among others.

Vodafone UK Signs New MNO Deal with Dixons Carphone UPDATE

28th June, 2021 (10 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone UK has today announced that they’ve signed a new multi-year Mobile Network Operator (MNO) partnership deal with Dixons Carphone, which separately runs the MVNO provider iD Mobile and will thus see new packages launch “later in the year.”

Virgin Media O2 Use Gigabit Broadband Vouchers to Cover Rural Areas

28th June, 2021 (10 Comments)

Telecoms and media giant Virgin Media (VMO2) has, for the first time, harnessed the UK Government’s Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme in order to extend their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to connect rural locations in West Sussex (England) – with residents in Steyning, Upper Beeding and Bramber being invited to participate.

VIDEO – Virtual Walk-Through of CityFibre’s UK Full Fibre Network

28th June, 2021 (15 Comments)

CityFibre has published a new video online that acts as a moderately basic, but still interesting, “virtual walk-through” of their new full fibre (FTTP) gigabit broadband ISP network, which at a cost of some £4bn (details) is currently being deployed to cover 8 million UK premises by around the end of 2025.

New UK ISP Brsk Starts FTTP Broadband Build in West Yorkshire

28th June, 2021 (8 Comments)

Bath-based UK ISP brsk has today named the first locations in West Yorkshire (England) to benefit from their new gigabit-capable “open access” Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network, which has already begun its civil engineering phase, and they’ve even managed to connect their first customer.

Cheap BT Home Essentials Social Broadband Tariff Goes Live

28th June, 2021 (12 Comments)

UK ISP BT has now made their new low cost “Home Essentials” social tariff available to those on Universal Credit and other means-tested benefits, which gives eligible customers an unlimited 36Mbps (10Mbps up) “fibre broadband” (FTTC / FTTP) service – plus 700 minutes of included phone calls – for £15 a month.

BT Sign OneWeb Deal to Tackle UK Rural Broadband Slow Spots

27th June, 2021 (21 Comments)

UK ISP BT and satellite operator OneWeb, which is partly owned by the UK government, have reached an agreement that will see the two working together to bring ultrafast low-latency broadband speeds to some of the hardest to reach rural parts of the country, where even their £5bn Project Gigabit programme would struggle to go.