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Labour Party Pledge to Protect £5bn UK Gigabit Broadband Project

29th Nov, 2023 (57 Comments)

Chris Bryant, the UK Labour Party’s Shadow Minister for the Creative Industries & Digital, has perhaps unsurprisingly indicated that – should the party be elected at the next General Election – they would honour the Government’s existing £5bn Project Gigabit broadband roll-out programme. But some market intervention may occur.

Survey Claims 1 in Every 5 Businesses Receive Insufficient Internet Speeds

28th Nov, 2023 (8 Comments)

A new survey of business leaders and decision-makers from 160 UK companies, which was conducted by Neos Networks during June 2023, has claimed that one in every five UK businesses are receiving insufficient broadband speeds. Plus 42% regard moving to higher capacity connectivity in the next 2 years as key to growth plans.

Zzoomm Put Full Fibre Broadband Live in Middlewich, Cheshire

28th Nov, 2023 (2 Comments)

UK ISP and network builder Zzoomm has today announced their new 2Gbps speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network has just gone live in the Cheshire town of Middlewich. The build is said to have cost the operator £2.5m and covers 6,500 local homes and businesses.

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ISP TalkTalk Business Appoints Ruth Kennedy as New UK CEO

28th Nov, 2023 (0 Comments)

Broadband ISP TalkTalk Business (TTB) has this morning announced that the UK company’s existing Managing Director, Ruth Kennedy, has been officially promoted to the top job of Chief Executive Officer (CEO). The move comes as the wider TalkTalk group is going through a lot of changes, while trying to tackle its debt pile.

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London Full Fibre ISP Community Fibre to Cut Jobs and Pause Build

28th Nov, 2023 (53 Comments)

Network operator and UK broadband ISP CommunityFibre, which is deploying a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across London and some surrounding areas, has today become the latest in a growing line of alternative network providers to confirm plans for staff redundancies and build suspension.

Openreach Bring FTTP Broadband to Remote Hebridean Isle of Jura

27th Nov, 2023 (18 Comments)

The first 100 homes and businesses on the remote rural Hebridean isle of Jura in Scotland can now access Openreach’s new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network. The development was partly funded by gigabit broadband vouchers from the UK and Scottish governments, which offer subsidies worth up to £5,000 per property.

ISP Lightning Fibre UK Launch 2.5Gbps FTTP Home Broadband

27th Nov, 2023 (12 Comments)

Eastbourne-based broadband ISP Lightning Fibre, which is rolling out a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across parts of Sussex and Kent in England, appears to have responded to CityFibre’s recent move to launch faster tiers by adding a new 2.5Gbps (symmetric) product tier for residential customers on its network too.

GoFibre Completes First Phase of Rural Teesdale Full Fibre Rollout

27th Nov, 2023 (0 Comments)

Rural broadband ISP GoFibre (BorderLink), which is building a 10Gbps capable full fibre (FTTP) network across the North of England and Scottish Borders area, has announced that they’ve completed the first phase of their £6.6m state-aid supported Project Gigabit contract in rural Teesdale – putting services live across 885 covered homes.

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Oxfordshire UK’s GigaHubs Full Fibre Build Nears Completion

27th Nov, 2023 (0 Comments)

The Oxfordshire County Council (OCC) in England has issued a progress update on their ongoing £7m project to deploy a new gigabit-capable full fibre broadband network to over 175 public sector sites (schools, hospitals etc.), which reveals that 171 of the sites have been completed, while a further 22 sites are now due to be upgraded by 2024.

Site Status Update – Multi-Gigabit Broadband Packages Added

25th Nov, 2023 (0 Comments)

We’ve just completed another big update sweep of the UK ISP Listings database and have opted to add a new category for multi-gigabit broadband packages, which at present is only listing the fastest package available from each provider up to a maximum of 10Gbps and above the 1Gbps tiers.

Gigabit Broadband Contracts Awarded for Oxfordshire and Staffordshire UK UPDATE

25th Nov, 2023 (10 Comments)

The UK Government’s £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout scheme has today announced two new contracts, which sees ISP Gigaclear awarded £26.5m to cover around 10,000 rural premises in North and South Oxfordshire. At the same time, Connect Fibre has scooped a £16.5m deal to cover 6,000 premises in North East Staffordshire.

Full Fibre ISP GoFibre Awards First Projects from £50k Community Fund

24th Nov, 2023 (2 Comments)

Rural broadband ISP and network builder GoFibre (BorderLink), which is deploying a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across the North of England and Scottish Borders area, has today announced the first five charity projects to secure funding under their inaugural £50k GoFurther Fund.

Quickline’s Full Fibre Live in 4 More Rural Lincolnshire Villages

24th Nov, 2023 (2 Comments)

Hull-based UK broadband ISP Quickline, which is rolling out their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across North East England, has just completed and gone live with homes and businesses in several more villages across Lincolnshire, including Goulceby, Martin, Timberland and Belton.

Sky Reach Wholesale Broadband Deal with Virgin Media in Ireland

24th Nov, 2023 (5 Comments)

In a hint of what might happen in the UK a little further down the road. Sky Ireland and Virgin Media Ireland recently signed a significant wholesale network access agreement, which will enable Sky’s customers to harness Virgin’s full fibre broadband ISP network in the country.

New Digital UK Map of Underground Cables Looks to Expand

24th Nov, 2023 (9 Comments)

The Government’s National Underground Asset Register (NUAR), which represents a new digital UK map of underground pipes and cables (broadband, power, water etc.) – intended to help reduce accidental damage, has released a progress update that suggests the map could be expanded and possibly even made accessible to the public.

Mobile Operator iD Mobile Celebrate 1.5Million UK Subscriptions

23rd Nov, 2023 (9 Comments)

Low-cost mobile operator iD Mobile (Currys), which uses Three UK’s national 4G and 5G network via a virtual operator (MVNO) partnership, has today announced a 25% year-on-year growth in service subscriptions that has just seen them top the 1.5 million mark – a significant milestone reached ahead of its own projections.

Ofcom to Release More Shared Spectrum in 3.8-4.2GHz for UK 5G

23rd Nov, 2023 (0 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has begun to consult on an update to their spectrum sharing framework, which among other things proposes a more flexible management approach to improve local spectrum availability for 5G (mobile / wireless broadband) and the related release of more shared frequency in the busiest 3.8 – 4.2 GHz bands.