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Pine Media Suffer Targeted Attack on Sheffield Full Fibre Network

23rd Jan, 2024 (17 Comments)

Network builder and UK ISP Pine Media, which has been steadily deploying their own gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband infrastructure across parts of South Yorkshire, Kent and rural Derbyshire, has informed ISPreview that part of their network in Sheffield was recently hit by what appears to be a targeted attack.

BT Chief Takes Swipe at UK Mobile Rivals Over Rural 4G Delays

22nd Jan, 2024 (45 Comments)

BT’s Chief Security and Networks Officer, Howard Watson, has written a new blog post that contrasts their delivery progress on the £1bn industry-led Shared Rural Network (SRN) project (i.e. extending 4G mobile coverage to 95% of the UK by the end of 2025) with the slower pace at Vodafone, Three UK and O2 (VMO2).

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Vodafone Test Advanced 5G – Boosts Upload Speed up to 273Mb

22nd Jan, 2024 (20 Comments)

British mobile operator Vodafone claims to have conducted the “first European test” of “advanced 5G uplink technology” by harnessing the latest Qualcomm processors and Xiaomi smartphone via their 5G Standalone (5GSA) network, which enabled them to achieve faster mobile broadband upload speeds of “up to” 273Mbps.

Welsh Broadband ISP Ogi Enhances its Customer Support

22nd Jan, 2024 (7 Comments)

Welsh broadband ISP Ogi, which is busy building a multi-Gigabit capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network for homes and businesses across parts of South Wales, has today revealed that they’ve made a number of improvements to their customer care provision (e.g. more support staff and longer opening times).

Shell Energy UK Confirms UK Broadband and Phone Price Hikes

22nd Jan, 2024 (1 Comment)

UK ISP Shell Energy, which is in the process of being acquired from the Octopus Energy Group by TalkTalk (here), will today announce annual price increases across their broadband and phone plans (including add-ons and call charges). The changes will impact both new customers and existing customers who are agreeing to a new contract.

Global Broadband Lines Top 1.42 Billion as UK FTTP Take-up Stalls

20th Jan, 2024 (32 Comments)

The latest research from Point Topic has revealed that world fixed broadband lines grew by 1.6% (22.39 million) in Q3 2023 to total 1.42 billion connections, which compares with 1.87% (24.59m) in the same quarter last year. But the subscriber growth rate of “full fibre” (FTTP/B) networks in the UK almost stalled in the latest quarter.

AltNet Broadband ISP Voneus Boosted by Extra £25m Investment

19th Jan, 2024 (5 Comments)

Rural focused network builder and ISP Voneus, which currently aims to cover 350,000 UK premises via both their gigabit fixed wireless access (FWA) and Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband networks, has today secured a further £25m investment boost from Global Connectivity PLC (G-CON).

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Airband Restructuring Puts Pressure on Jobs and UK Fibre Build

19th Jan, 2024 (20 Comments)

Broadband ISP and network builder Airband, which originally aimed to cover 600,000 UK premises in rural areas via a mix of their wireless (FWA) and full fibre (FTTP) networks by the end of 2025, has revealed that it’s going through a “period of restructuring” after claims of redundancies and build pauses surfaced.

Lightning Fibre Extend FTTP Network into Southern Housing Homes

19th Jan, 2024 (0 Comments)

Eastbourne-based UK ISP and network builder Lightning Fibre, which is deploying a Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across parts of Sussex and Kent in England, has signed a new deal that will see their multi-gigabit speed full fibre service being expanded to cover homes managed by Southern Housing in East Sussex.

Clarifying Scotland’s R100 Broadband Rollout Progress UPDATE

19th Jan, 2024 (8 Comments)

Yesterday the First Minister of the Scottish Government, Humza Yousaf, revealed that the £600m Reaching 100% (R100) broadband upgrade project with Openreach (BT) “remains on track to complete build … by 2028” and had so far covered “more than 36,100 premises“. But in October 2023 the figure was stated as 42,000, so which is correct?

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Job Losses as UK Full Fibre ISP Fibrus Start Redundancy Process UPDATE

19th Jan, 2024 (21 Comments)

In a perhaps unsurprising development, given recent news, Infracapital-backed broadband ISP Fibrus, which is building a new full fibre (FTTP) network across Northern Ireland and parts of North England, have begun a redundancy consultation that is expected to result in an unspecified number of job losses among their civil engineers.

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Nokia and Zayo Push Data Speeds of 1Tbps Over 1004km UPDATE

18th Jan, 2024 (5 Comments)

Finnish network firm Nokia and the Zayo Group, which runs a large global metro and long-haul fibre optic network, today claims to have set a new North American distance record for fibre optic data transmission on a live network by using a single wavelength to reach speeds of 1 Terabits per second (1Tbps) over a distance of 1004km.

CityFibre Based UK ISP Yayzi Broadband Launch 2.5Gbps Plan

18th Jan, 2024 (29 Comments)

Following last year’s trial, Yayzi Broadband, which mainly sells packages via Cityfibre’s national Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, has today officially launched their new “highly affordable” 2.5Gbps symmetrical speed broadband service to consumers across the country. A new 1.2Gbps tier has also launched.

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Openreach List Next 46 UK Areas for Copper to FTTP Switch – Tranche 15

18th Jan, 2024 (28 Comments)

Openreach (BT) has published the next round of 46 exchanges under Tranche 15 of their “FTTP Priority Exchange Stop Sell” programme, which reflects locations where over 75% of premises are able to get full fibre and can thus stop selling copper based phone and broadband products (i.e. FTTP is left as the only available product).

Virgin Media UK Update on Plan to Withdraw Upp’s Full Fibre

18th Jan, 2024 (42 Comments)

Customers of alternative UK full fibre broadband ISP Upp, which was last year acquired from investment firm LetterOne by network builder nexfibre (Virgin Media) for an undisclosed sum (here), have this week been notified that their service will be withdrawn “sometime” in 2024, when they’ll be switched to Virgin. But questions remain.

Telcom Bring 10Gbps Speeds to Major St Michael’s Manchester Development

18th Jan, 2024 (0 Comments)

Alternative network operator Telcom (ClearFibre, WeFibre, HyperCity etc.), which via its UK brands is building various 10Gbps capable “full fibre” broadband and Ethernet networks across the Midlands and North West of England, has won a deal to deploy their network to cover businesses at the future £400m St Michael’s site in Manchester.

Lyca Mobile UK Appoints New Senior Leaders to Aid Growth

17th Jan, 2024 (21 Comments)

Mobile operator Lyca Mobile, which is a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) on EE’s platform in the UK, has today bolstered its senior leadership team by appointing Lawrence Corbett as Group Chief Operating Officer, and James McQuillan as the new UK and Ireland (IRE) Country Manager.