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Project Gigabit Begins National Rolling UK Open Market Review

3rd May, 2022 (9 Comments)

Back in January the Government’s Building Digital UK team “soft launched” a new National Rolling Open Market Review (NROMR) process for their £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout with a limited number of suppliers (here). Today they’ve launched another NROMR and are opening it up to more suppliers.

Jurassic Fibre Cuts Price and Extends Full Fibre in South West UK

3rd May, 2022 (24 Comments)

Exeter-based broadband ISP Jurassic Fibre, which is constructing a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across rural parts of South West England (Devon, Somerset and Dorset), has announced that their network has now started to go live in the towns of Crediton and Dorchester.

ISP Lightning Fibre Extends FTTP Broadband Rollout to Bexhill

3rd May, 2022 (3 Comments)

UK ISP Lightning Fibre, which is busy building a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to cover over 100,000 premises across parts of East Sussex in England, has today announced that they’ve begun to extend their deployment into the seaside town of Bexhill (Bexhill-on-Sea).

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CommunityFibre Bring London FTTP Broadband to 500000 Homes

3rd May, 2022 (17 Comments)

London-focused UK ISP CommunityFibre (CF), which aims to cover 2.2 million homes in the city with their 3Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network by the end of 2024, has today announced that they’ve increased their coverage to 500,000 homes and 116,000 businesses. Another £100m was also secured.

Giganet Extend CityFibre FTTP Broadband Availability Nationwide

3rd May, 2022 (17 Comments)

UK ISP Giganet has today announced that their gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband service on CityFibre’s network will soon become available nationwide. At present you can only sign-up to CF’s full fibre network via Giganet’s consumer packages in 27 of the operator’s deployed cities and towns, but that will soon change.

Virgin Media O2 UK to Offer Services via OFNL’s Full Fibre Ducts

3rd May, 2022 (6 Comments)

A new partnership was recently signed that will enable ISP Virgin Media (VMO2), via a dual lay network (i.e. separate fibre cables laid in a single duct), to deliver its ultrafast broadband, TV, and phone services to new build homes on sites developed through the Open Fibre Networks Limited (OFNL / GTC / BUUK) duct infrastructure.

XtndNet Reveal Price of Hybrid Satellite Broadband for UK Rural Areas UPDATE

3rd May, 2022 (10 Comments)

Hybrid satellite broadband ISP XtndNet, which back in March 2022 claimed (here) it could help to reach remote rural parts of the UK with download speeds of 25Mbps by combining satellite technology with mobile broadband or fixed lines (ADSL), has shared the first pricing details and responded to other questions.

Russia Sanctions Add Shock Internet Censorship Twist for UK ISPs UPDATE2

30th Apr, 2022 (41 Comments)

Broadband and mobile providers were on Friday subjected to a shock twist after the Government – without consultation – amended the Russian sanctions legislation to require that – “a person who provides an internet access service must take reasonable steps to prevent a user of the service in the [UK] from accessing … an internet service provided by a designated person.”

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Top 30 Full Fibre Operators by Share of UK New Build Homes

30th Apr, 2022 (34 Comments)

New data has given us our first indication of which network operators hold the greatest share of the new build homes market, at least with respect to those catering for such sites by deploying Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP technology. But it’s perhaps no surprise to find that Openreach (BT) tops the table.

Rural ISP B4RN Raise 1Gbps Broadband Prices for First Time

29th Apr, 2022 (26 Comments)

Network builder and UK ISP B4RN (Broadband for the Rural North), which has spent the past decade deploying a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across rural parts of England, has for the first time ever announced a price increase to their monthly rental. But they’ve also added a social tariff and cut setup fees.

Ofcom Probes Shell Energy Over Missing End-of-Contract Letters

29th Apr, 2022 (8 Comments)

Energy provider and UK home broadband ISP Shell Energy is facing a new investigation by the UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, after the provider indicated that it might not have sent the required end-of-contract and annual best tariff notifications to customers.

CoD Pushes TalkTalk Broadband Traffic to New 8.71 Tbps Record UPDATE

28th Apr, 2022 (17 Comments)

Internet traffic across UK broadband ISPs surged last night as people tuned in to stream the Champions League semi-final and to download the latest 40GB (GigaByte) ‘Season 3’ update for the popular ‘Call of Duty Warzone’ video game. As a result, TalkTalk set a new peak traffic record of 8.715Tbps (Terabits per second).

ISP Zen Internet Move to Tackle FTTP Broadband Speed Issues

28th Apr, 2022 (25 Comments)

Over the past few weeks a small number of Zen Internet’s UK broadband customers – primarily those on their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) packages – have reported a drop in speed, which in some cases has been significant. The issue seems to relate to a platform migration, but thankfully the ISP has now resolved “most” of it.

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CityFibre to Start GBP17m FTTP Broadband Rollout in Kettering

28th Apr, 2022 (1 Comment)

CityFibre has today confirmed that they will invest £17 million to rollout a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across the North Northamptonshire (England) town of Kettering, which is set to begin sometime in “early May” 2022.

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Study Tests the Theoretical Limits of Copper Line Broadband

28th Apr, 2022 (34 Comments)

New research from the University of Cambridge – supported by BT and Huawei – has attempted to identify the theoretical limits of Openreach’s standard UK copper broadband lines (unshielded twisted copper pairs), while harnessing up to 12GHz of spectrum. The result is faster speeds are possible, but full fibre is still the future.

All-Party Report Finds Poor Broadband Holding Back UK Rural Areas UPDATE

27th Apr, 2022 (14 Comments)

The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on the Rural Powerhouse has today published a new report that warns “Rural Britain is not a museum” and is being “held back” by, among many other things, “slow” broadband connectivity and the need to urgently improve 4G and 5G mobile infrastructure.

BT Group Turning EE into its Flagship Brand for UK Consumers

27th Apr, 2022 (40 Comments)

Telecoms giant BT (EE) has today announced another shake-up of its branding, which in simple terms will see EE – over time – become the “flagship brand for our consumer customers” (i.e. converged broadband and mobile plans etc.) and BT become the flagship brand for their Enterprise and Global units.