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Zzoomm Two Engineers in Garden

1st Jun, 2023 (1 Comment)

Network builder and UK ISP Zzoomm has today announced that they’ve started to connect the first homes in the North Yorkshire (England) market town of Tadcaster to their new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network, which follows a £1.25m investment that began last September.

shetland_to_yell_subsea_fibre

1st Jun, 2023 (12 Comments)

The Shetland Islands Council (Scotland) has given the green light for Shetland Telecom, which is the arms-length network operator that the council set up some years ago, to apply for Code Powers – ahead of a possible move to expand their full fibre broadband network to reach the remotest homes and businesses.

Vodafone Pro II UltraHub UK Router 2022

31st May, 2023 (5 Comments)

Broadband ISP and mobile operator Vodafone has announced that they’ve expanded their existing partnership with Currys, which until now was exclusively focused on Mobile, to also include the provider’s range of Home Broadband products for consumers.

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31st May, 2023 (61 Comments)

Alternative network operator Broadway Partners, which is supported by sibling UK ISP Broadway Broadband and had been aspiring to deploy their own gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across rural parts of Scotland and Wales, has called in the administrators.

Fibrus Engineers Talking

31st May, 2023 (2 Comments)

Broadband ISP Fibrus has today announced that the first homes to be reached via their £108m Project Gigabit broadband rollout contract in Cumbria (here) have just been connected, which occurs only six months after the formal announcement. A total of 60,000 hard-to-reach premises are expected to benefit by completion.

disconnected internet broadband

31st May, 2023 (0 Comments)

The telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today updated their Network and Information Systems (NIS) guidance by lowering their thresholds, which will require UK Operators of Essential Services (OES) – such as top-level domain name registries, DNS providers and internet exchanges (IXP) – to inform them of less severe outages.

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exchange fibre openreach

31st May, 2023 (34 Comments)

Openreach (BT) has today announced the next batch of 119 UK exchanges under ‘Tranche 12‘ of their project to move away from copper-based analogue phone (PSTN / WLR etc.) services and on to a new all-IP network, which will also occur once over 75% of premises in each area are able to get FTTP broadband.

micro_ducting_openreach_fttp_street_dig

31st May, 2023 (11 Comments)

Back in April 2017 the UK Government allowed broadband networks in England and Wales to claim 100% business rates relief on new fibre infrastructure for a period of 5-years, which is a change that Openreach and other FTTP builders had long sought. So it may come as a surprise to learn that BT has never claimed this benefit.

bt_sport_studio_picture

30th May, 2023 (7 Comments)

Broadband giant BT has today announced that they’re making the 2023 UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, and UEFA Europa Conference League finals available to everyone in the United Kingdom to watch for free, whether on TV, online or on mobile.

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bt_digital_voice_alexa_handset

30th May, 2023 (50 Comments)

Broadband ISP BT will this week expand the rollout of their Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) based Digital Voice product, which was only recently restarted with a smaller group of customers after a long pause (here), to include “all full fibre and a smaller group of broadband customers yet to switch to Digital Voice.”

County Broadband Van and FTTP Engineers

30th May, 2023 (2 Comments)

Colchester-based alternative network ISP County Broadband, which aims to reach 500,000 premises across the East of England with their new gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network by the end of 2027, has today announced the appointment of Chris Davies as Chief Information Officer (CIO).

Netflix logo on smartphone

30th May, 2023 (10 Comments)

Netflix’s crackdown on password sharing in the UK has finally revealed why they needed to discuss the matter with several major UK broadband ISPs (i.e. those that bundle their service with Pay TV products), including Sky Broadband, BT, Virgin Media and TalkTalk (here). The new extra member and profile transfer features won’t work on such packages.

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Quickline Van in Street from Makepositive PR on 30th May 2023

30th May, 2023 (1 Comment)

Broadband ISP Quickline has signed a £1m+ partnership with makepositive, which will help to enhance their customer support, field services and inventory management. The move will aid their plan to deploy a new full fibre (FTTP) network to 96 locations (55,000 premises) across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire in England.

Octaplus-Broadband-ISP-Logo

30th May, 2023 (29 Comments)

Broadband ISP Octaplus Networks has apologised after they left some customers on CityFibre’s UK full fibre (FTTP) network, specifically those who live in Chester and were being migrated from troubled provider ZYBRE (Air Broadband), without internet access due to an “unfortunate error” related to network availability.

Broadway-Partners-Engineering-Van-and-Tractor-in-UK-Countryside

30th May, 2023 (5 Comments)

Residents in the rural Powys (Wales) village of Llangedwyn – including neighbours in Llanfihangel (and possibly others) – have complained after their long-awaited rollout of a new full fibre (FTTP) broadband network, which was due to be built by Broadway Partners, was put on hold due to the UK’s £5bn Project Gigabit scheme.

1000 Mbps Gigabit Broadband Blue Sign

28th May, 2023 (52 Comments)

We’ve today returned to conduct our brief annual study of how much UK broadband ISPs are charging consumers for their top gigabit broadband (1Gbps+) tiers. The good news is that prices – driven by aggressive competition – broadly continue to fall, albeit not by as much as we saw between 2021 and 2022.

water valve

27th May, 2023 (0 Comments)

The UK Government’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) has today revealed their progress and learnings from the first phase of the £6.2m “Fibre in Water” trial, which aims to test the deployment of fibre optic (FTTP) broadband cables through a live water mains (used for drinking water).

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