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Housing Provider Sanctuary to Deploy SCCI’s Shared UK Full Fibre Network

11th Sep, 2024 (5 Comments)

SCCI Alphatrack (SCCI Group), which is a specialist in the design, supply, installation and maintenance of Fibre, Media and Fire Life safety systems, has today announced that they’ve secured a wayleave agreement with housing and care provider Sanctuary to deploy their neutral, shared full-fibre network across large residential buildings (MDUs) – serving “thousands of residents“.

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UK ISP Ogi Reveal Plan to Trial Nokia’s 50Gbps Broadband Technology

11th Sep, 2024 (19 Comments)

Not content with becoming the first broadband ISP and network builder to deploy Nokia’s 25G PON technology commercially in the UK in 2023 (here), Ogi has now revealed that they’re planning to be “one of the first trialists” to harness the company’s 50G PON technology in 2025 too.

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70 Percent of the UK is Now Covered by Full Fibre Broadband

11th Sep, 2024 (19 Comments)

The latest independent data on national broadband coverage has revealed that 70% of premises across the United Kingdom have now been put within reach of a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, which is up strongly from 60.54% at the end of last year and 67.68% in July 2024 (these premises are all classed as ‘Ready for Service’).

Ofcom’s 2024 Report on Openreach’s Independence Finds Only Minor Breaches

11th Sep, 2024 (2 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulator has published their annual 2024 monitoring report into Openreach’s independence from BT, which found only a few minor breaches and noted that they’d seen “evidence of efforts by BT Group to renew and refresh its engagement with the framework” since the appointment of new Group CEO, Allison Kirkby.

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Nexfibre to Cover 1,000 UK Youth Centres with 2Gbps Fibre Broadband

11th Sep, 2024 (2 Comments)

Network operator nexfibre, which shares some of their parentage with retail ISP partner Virgin Media (VMO2) and has so far extended their FTTP broadband network to over 1.3 million premises, has today announced a new partnership with charity, UK Youth, to connect “as many as 1,000 youth centres across the UK” to its new network “free of charge“.

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Spring Fibre’s Principal Investor Steps Away from UK Full Fibre Build UPDATE

11th Sep, 2024 (6 Comments)

Alternative broadband operator Spring Fibre, which has been in the early stages of rolling out a new 10Gbps capable wholesale full fibre (FTTP) broadband ISP network since 2021 – starting in Lincolnshire (here), are on the hunt for new funding after their principal investor said they “will not continue to fund its network construction plan“.

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Alternative UK Broadband ISP Kloud9 Tasks Aprecomm to Improve Customer Service

11th Sep, 2024 (1 Comment)

Alternative network operator and ISP Kloud9, which has built a number of full fibre (FTTP) broadband networks for specific urban and rural communities (example), have signed a new partnership with Aprecomm that it hopes will “build better-connected experiences for its subscribers, increase customer satisfaction and reduce support costs.”

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Wessex Internet Start Project Gigabit Broadband Build in South Wiltshire UK

11th Sep, 2024 (0 Comments)

Rural broadband ISP Wessex Internet has just started the construction phase of their £18.8m state-aid supported Project Gigabit ‘Lot 30’ contract in South Wiltshire (England), which will see the provider extending their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to cover “around” 14,500 hard-to-reach homes and businesses in the area.

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Quickline Bring FTTP Broadband to 3 Rural Lincolnshire UK Villages

11th Sep, 2024 (5 Comments)

Alternative network operator and ISP Quickline, which is deploying gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) and 5G powered fixed wireless access (FWA) broadband network across rural and semi-rural parts of England (Yorkshire and Lincolnshire), has just named three new villages in Lincolnshire that have been reached by their fibre optic cables.

Full Fibre UK Broadband ISP BeFibre to Launch Wi-Fi 7 Router in 2025

10th Sep, 2024 (6 Comments)

Merseyside-based broadband ISP BeFibre, which sells packages to consumers and businesses via FullFibre Limited’s gigabit speed UK Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, has revealed that they’re aiming to introduce new multi-gigabit speed Wi-Fi 7 routers and extenders by Q2 2025 as part of a new deal with Switzerland-based Heights Telecom (Heights Telecom UK Ltd).

Quickline Deploy ADTRAN Solution to Boost Rural Full Fibre Rollout

10th Sep, 2024 (0 Comments)

Alternative UK network builder and broadband ISP Quickline, which is rolling out a gigabit full fibre (FTTP) and 5G powered fixed wireless access (FWA) networks across rural and semi-rural parts of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, has adopted ADTRAN’s Mosaic CP and software-defined access hardware to boost their deployment.

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Gov Asks UK Broadband ISPs to Offer 8 Hours of Battery Backup

10th Sep, 2024 (35 Comments)

The UK Government’s Minister for Telecoms, Sir Chris Bryant, has written a new letter to the bosses of major broadband ISPs that calls on them to help protect vulnerable users during the switchover from analogue (PSTN) to digital (IP) phone solutions by refraining from re-starting non-voluntary migrations and offering battery backup that can last “up to” 8 hours.

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Study Claims London SMEs Missing Out on £28bn in Revenue Due to Poor Broadband

10th Sep, 2024 (5 Comments)

A new survey of 250 business leaders from London’s smaller and medium-sized firms, which was conducted by Censuswide and Development Economics for UK broadband ISP G.Network, has claimed that SMEs are missing out on an estimated £28bn in annual revenue due to “slow and unreliable workplace broadband“.

Want a New Mobile Phone Every Year? Vodafone UK Says Xchange It

10th Sep, 2024 (15 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone UK are launching a new service called ‘Xchange‘, which they say will let customers exchange their phone for a new one every year on a 24-month Phone Plan (or a year early on longer plan lengths), with no early upgrade fees and nothing left to pay on their old Phone Plan. Just remember to send your previous phone back in “good condition“.

Three UK Launch Outdoor Hub Router for 5G Home Broadband

9th Sep, 2024 (37 Comments)

Mobile operator Three UK has today done something a bit different by introducing a 5G Outdoor Hub option for their Three Home Broadband service, which as the name indicates is a mobile router that you “self-install” on the outside of your home in order, we presume, to hopefully get a better 5G mobile signal and thus performance.

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INCA Seeks to Standardise Wholesale Full Fibre Among UK Altnets

9th Sep, 2024 (5 Comments)

The Independent Networks Co-operative Association (INCA), which represents many of the UK’s alternative gigabit broadband builders, has today launched a new initiative that aims to “standardise wholesale fibre” networks and thus make it easier for retail and business ISPs to purchase services from operators.

ISP Sky Business Gets Access to ITS’ UK Full Fibre Network

9th Sep, 2024 (2 Comments)

Broadband ISP Sky Business (Sky UK) has today announced that they’ve signed a new long-term agreement that will enable them to sell packages to businesses over the new full fibre network being built by the ITS Technology Group, which operates wholesale full fibre broadband and Ethernet networks (“Faster Britain“) across urban parts of the UK.