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FreedomFibre Invest £9m to Build FTTP Broadband in Urmston

7th Nov, 2022 (1 Comment)

The Greater Manchester town of Urmston, which is home to a population of around 42,000, has been announced as being the next UK location to benefit from Freedom Fibre‘s rollout of a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network.

Virgin Media O2 UK to Create 125 New Engineers in Big Cities

7th Nov, 2022 (3 Comments)

Mobile operator and broadband ISP Virgin Media (VMO2) has opened applications for 125 field engineer apprenticeship positions to help rollout their full fibre (FTTP) and 5g mobile networks across the UK. Most of the positions will be filled in London, Manchester, Bristol, Birmingham, Glasgow and Leicester.

Numis Report on Cityfibre Reveals New Details of UK FTTP Broadband Build

6th Nov, 2022 (29 Comments)

A new research report from investment bank Numis, which was pieced together by analyst John Karidis, has revealed some useful information about Cityfibre’s £5bn project to deploy a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across the UK and their perspective on overbuild and prices vs Openreach (BT) etc.

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Starlink Broadband Introduce 1000GB Fair Usage Policy in Some Markets

5th Nov, 2022 (31 Comments)

Customers of global ISP Starlink (SpaceX), which operates a mega constellation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) based ultrafast broadband satellites, have been informed that they will become subject to a 1000GB (1 TeraByte) data cap from December via a new Fair Usage Policy (FUP). But it hasn’t been confirmed for the UK.. yet.

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UK ISPs Set to Miss Ofcom’s Broadband Switching Deadline

5th Nov, 2022 (19 Comments)

A growing number of UK broadband providers, particularly those that are building alternative Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) networks, are growing concerned that they won’t be able to meet Ofcom’s April 2023 deadline for the introduction of the new One Touch Switch (OTS) ISP migration system. Delays look inevitable.

BT and CWU Reopen Negotiations Over Pay Dispute After UK Strikes

4th Nov, 2022 (56 Comments)

BT has re-entered negotiations with the Communications Workers Union (CWU) to hopefully settle the ongoing pay dispute with up to 38,000 employees, which has so far resulted in 8 days worth of national UK strikes. The move comes only a day after the operator’s CEO, Philip Jansen, described the matter as “closed” and seemed to reject further talks.

Grain Add 4 More UK Locations to their FTTP Broadband Rollout

4th Nov, 2022 (17 Comments)

Broadband ISP and network builder Grain (Grain Connect) has today added four new locations to their ongoing UK rollout of a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, which will see them expand across parts of Whitley Bay and Thornaby in the North East, Blackpool in the North West and Tonypandy in Wales.

H1 2022 – Gigabit Broadband Covers 99% of New Build UK Homes

4th Nov, 2022 (0 Comments)

The latest H1 2022 report into the broadband coverage of new build UK homes reveals that 99.03% of houses constructed during the first half of 2022 were connected to a gigabit-capable network (using full fibre FTTP and Hybrid Fibre Coax), which falls slightly to 98.03% when only looking at FTTP.

South Western Railways Deploy 5G to Fuel Superfast Onboard WiFi

4th Nov, 2022 (13 Comments)

The South Western Railway and telecoms firm Evo-rail (FirstGroup) recently announced the people travelling on a 70km long stretch of their Main Line into London – between Basingstoke and Earlsfield – would be the first to benefit from the rollout of new rail-side 5G poles (masts) that will be used to deliver “superfast” onboard WiFi.

Multi-Network UK ISP ZYBRE Acquires Rival Air Broadband

4th Nov, 2022 (17 Comments)

Broadband and Cloud Gaming ISP ZYBRE, which offers services to UK homes over a number of Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) networks (Openreach, MS3, FullFibre etc.), has this morning announced the acquisition of rival provider Air Broadband that adopts a similar approach to network aggregation.

ISP Lothian Broadband Adds Pay TV and VoIP Home Phone

4th Nov, 2022 (8 Comments)

Scottish ISP Lothian Broadband, which is building a gigabit-capable full fibre (FTTP) network to cover 70,000 premises across rural parts of the Highlands and East to Mid Lothian, has become the latest provider to introduce a Netgem powered Pay TV service and they’ve also launched a VoIP based home phone solution from Netsapiens.

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Zzoomm Adds Upton in West Yorkshire to their Full Fibre Rollout

3rd Nov, 2022 (10 Comments)

Alternative broadband ISP Zzoomm has announced that their UK rollout of a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network is being expanded to include nearly 3,000 properties in the small West Yorkshire town of Upton, which is anticipated to cost the operator £1.7 million to complete.

Quickline’s UK Fibre and Wireless Covers 2,000 Rural Communities

3rd Nov, 2022 (4 Comments)

Alternative broadband ISP Quickline, which has deployed a mix of Full Fibre (FTTP) and Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) based networks across parts of Lincolnshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire in England, has today announced that they’ve covered 2,000 rural communities in just the past 12-months.

ISP Onestream Sign Vodafone Deal to Launch UK FTTP Broadband UPDATE

3rd Nov, 2022 (10 Comments)

Hampshire-based home and business broadband ISP Onestream has signed a new “strategic agreement” with Vodafone – said to be worth £40m over 2-years – that will enable them to extend beyond superfast broadband (FTTC) packages to launch a new range of SOGEA and gigabit Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based plans.

BT Results See FTTP Broadband Cover 8.8 Million UK Premises

3rd Nov, 2022 (37 Comments)

The latest Q2 FY23 results to September 2022 have today been released by the BT Group, which saw the coverage of Openreach’s Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network reach 8.76 million premises (up by 805k in the quarter vs 763k last quarter). Meanwhile, EE’s 5G customers topped 8.157 million (up from 7.74m).

FullFibre Ltd’s Network in Derbyshire Gets 100G Capacity Boost

2nd Nov, 2022 (3 Comments)

Business ISP Commsworld has provided UK alternative network provider FullFibre Limited with a capacity boost for their FTTP broadband rollout in Derbyshire by deploying a 100Gbps connection between the Derby Exchange and Telehouse North Two (data centre) in London.

BT Wholesale Brings EE’s UK Mobile Connectivity to Wholesale

2nd Nov, 2022 (11 Comments)

The wholesale division of ISP BT (BT Wholesale), which sells broadband and other services to a large number of UK providers, has announced that they’re going to make EE’s connectivity available to enterprises and resellers on a direct, wholesale basis for the first time, through their mobile SIMs.