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Broadband ISP Brillband Secures £475,000 Investment Boost

1st Mar, 2023 (2 Comments)

Glasgow-based ISP Brillband, which at its launch last year (here) chose to quirkily describe itself as the “world’s first … app-based broadband provider“, has secured an additional £475k investment from “digital infrastructure banking experts based in Australia and Norway-based angel investors” to help expand across the UK.

Openreach Extend UK Pilot of 1.2Gbps and 1.8Gbps FTTP Broadband

1st Mar, 2023 (85 Comments)

Network access provider Openreach (BT) has announced that their ongoing broadband ISP pilot of faster Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) download speeds – 1.2Gbps and 1.8Gbps (both offer 120Mbps upstream) – has been extended to run for several more months and is also being expanded into more exchanges.

F&W Networks Extends Full Fibre to Cover 250,000 UK Premises

28th Feb, 2023 (12 Comments)

Hammersmith-based F&W Networks, which aims to cover 1 million UK premises with their new gigabit-capable full fibre (FTTP) broadband network by 2025, has now expanded their coverage to 250,000 premises (up from 185k in October 2022) and they’ve also added another ISP in the shape of Octaplus (Octaplus Supercharged).

Deutsche Telekom Ponders Future of its 12.5 Percent BT Stake

28th Feb, 2023 (27 Comments)

The boss of German telecoms giant Deutsche Telekom (DT), Tim Höttges, has said that taking out a £5.6bn stake in UK broadband and telecoms giant BT Group in 2015 has turned out to be the “biggest mistake” he ever made, after its value fell by almost £4bn. But DT hasn’t given up on the possibility of doing a deal for BT.

Truespeed Add Bleadon to Somerset UK Gigabit Broadband Build

28th Feb, 2023 (7 Comments)

Bath-based alternative network ISP Truespeed appears to have added the rural Somerset (England) village and civil parish of Bleadon, which is home to around 1,100 people, to their rollout plan for a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network.

BT Estimates it Boosted UK Economy by £24bn GVA in 2021-22

28th Feb, 2023 (0 Comments)

Broadband ISP and telecoms giant BT and consultancy firm Hatch have today published their annual economic impact report for 2021/22, which among other things found that the operator provided an estimated boost of £24bn (Gross Value Added) to the UK economy last year and supported a total of 284,00 jobs.

Winter 2023 Update on Project Gigabit UK Broadband Rollout

27th Feb, 2023 (13 Comments)

The Building Digital UK team has today published their latest quarterly Winter 2023 update on the Government’s £5bn rural Project Gigabit broadband rollout scheme, which has so far awarded six contracts – worth £164.8m – and launched 14 further procurements with a combined estimated value of £906.7m.

Full Fibre Operator Freedom Fibre Awards Money from Community Fund

27th Feb, 2023 (3 Comments)

Network builder Freedom Fibre, which aims to cover over 2 million UK premises with their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network and is being supported by ISP TalkTalk, has awarded thousands of pounds worth of grants to 13 local community schemes in some of the areas where their new infrastructure is being built.

Netomnia FTTP Broadband Rollout Targets Apartment Blocks

27th Feb, 2023 (19 Comments)

Network operator Netomnia – supported by UK ISP YouFibre – appears to have started to put more focus on extending their 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) broadband lines into large residential buildings (Multi-Dwelling Units), with MDUs in Liverpool expected to see quite a bit of work.

Starlink V2 Mini Satellites in SpaceX Packed Form

SpaceX Set to Launch First V2 Mini Starlink Broadband Satellites

27th Feb, 2023 (14 Comments)

Elon Musk’s SpaceX will today attempt to launch the first batch of its second generation “V2 Mini” (Bus F9-2) ultrafast broadband satellites into Low Earth Orbit (LEO), which add a bunch of new features that should help to improve the service for both consumers and businesses alike.

The Case of a 6 Year Wait for an Unfinished Openreach FTTP Build

25th Feb, 2023 (57 Comments)

In most cases, the UK roll-out and activation of a Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network into a new area is a process that can take anything from a few months and up to 1-2 years. But spare a thought for those who get stuck with part-complete builds, such as in one Lancashire community, where it may take 6 years to finish.

UK ISP Vfast Pledges NO Mid-Contract Broadband Prices Hikes, EVER

24th Feb, 2023 (11 Comments)

Kent-based independent UK ISP Vfast (Orbital Net), which sells packages to homes via a mix of wireless (FWA) and full fibre (CityFibre and OFNL) broadband networks, has today committed to tackle the cost-of-living crisis by “[locking] in prices for all contracts, indefinitely” (i.e. no mid-contract inflation-linked increases, ever).

Boss of Liberty Global Slams Openreach’s “Desperate” FTTP Price Cuts

24th Feb, 2023 (63 Comments)

The CEO and Vice Chairman of Liberty Global (VMO2), Mike Fries, has told an investor meeting that Openreach’s recently announced FTTP broadband price cuts for UK ISPs (Equinox 2) are a “desperate and premature” move by BT, which he sees as an “overreaction to the market more broadly.”

INeedBroadband Expand FTTP Network in Nottinghamshire UK

24th Feb, 2023 (0 Comments)

The quirkily named ISP I Need Broadband (INB), which began building their own gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network around early 2021 (called “I-Fibre“), has ended a long period of silence by confirming that their new infrastructure has been expanded to cover several new areas in Nottinghamshire.

Broadband ISP KCOM Targets Net Zero Carbon Emissions by 2040

23rd Feb, 2023 (12 Comments)

Hull-based full fibre network builder and ISP KCOM, which serves much of East Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire in England, has today announced plans to reach Net Zero carbon emissions by 2040 – some ten years ahead of the UK Government’s official target.

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New Partnership Brings Full Fibre Network to Greenwich in London

23rd Feb, 2023 (2 Comments)

A new £2m Joint Venture involving broadband operator ITS Technology Group and DG Cities, an innovation company owned by the Royal Borough of Greenwich Council, has been established today to help commercialise a 21km long gigabit-capable full fibre network around the London borough of Greenwich – serving homes and businesses.

CityFibre Deal Extends FTTP Broadband to 5,000 Extra Bracknell Homes

23rd Feb, 2023 (0 Comments)

Network operator CityFibre has announced that they’ve signed a key wayleave agreement (land / property access) with Silva homes, which will see them add another 5,000 homes to their full fibre (FTTP) network coverage in the Berkshire (England) town of Bracknell (they’re already investing £20m on a larger deployment there).