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CityFibre Begins £3m Full Fibre Broadband Build in Whittlesey

28th Sep, 2022 (1 Comment)

Network operator Cityfibre has announced that they’ve started to deploy their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network across the Cambridgeshire (England) market town and civil parish of Whittlesey, which is expected to cost the operator around £3m to complete.

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Community Fibre Adopt Simple £2 Policy on Out of Contract Price Rises

28th Sep, 2022 (3 Comments)

London focused UK broadband ISP CommunityFibre, which has so far covered 500,000 premises in the city with their new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, has today adopted a new policy that will “implement a £2 out of contract price increase on all its broadband packages for new customers“.

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Openreach UK Highlights Mass of Copper Cable Thefts in Rutland

28th Sep, 2022 (2 Comments)

The growing national scourge of copper telecoms cable theft has raised its ugly head again, this time in Rutland (England), after Openreach (BT) highlighted that their local broadband ISP and phone network had – over the past few months – been struck multiple times by the criminal activity. But arrests are being made.

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List of 35 Areas to Benefit from Axione UK’s FTTP Broadband Rollout

28th Sep, 2022 (7 Comments)

At the start of this year we reported (here) that Axione UK – a subsidiary of French provider Axione – had started a £300m project to build a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to 4 million premises for ISPs to sell on to homes (open-access). We now have a fuller list of their rollout areas, in Scotland.

Gigaclear Tunnels FTTP Under Railway to Connect Rural Communities

27th Sep, 2022 (1 Comment)

Rural broadband ISP Gigaclear, which has so far deployed their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to cover 300,000 premises across England, is on-track to cover 2,500 homes in the Gloucestershire town of Lydney after it deployed specialist engineering to drill under a historic railway line. But it may go further than that.

EE Offers Free Independent Debt Advice to UK Customers

27th Sep, 2022 (5 Comments)

Broadband ISP and mobile operator EE has today announced that they’ve teamed up with the Money Adviser Network to offer customers free, independent debt advice through referrals from customer service advisors. Nearly 3,000 customers are said to have so far benefitted from the service since its rollout in June 2022.

Rural Broadband ISP Voneus Appoint Ex-BT Director as its CCO

27th Sep, 2022 (0 Comments)

Macquarie Capital-backed UK ISP Voneus, which holds a “near term” plan to cover 100,000 homes in rural areas with their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network (here), has today appointed the ex-commercial director at BT Enterprise, Francesca Lee, to be their new Chief Commercial Officer (CCO).

Full Fibre UK ISP Wessex Internet Get Funding Boost from abrdn

27th Sep, 2022 (0 Comments)

Rural broadband ISP Wessex Internet, which is building a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across parts of Dorset, Wiltshire, Hampshire and Somerset in England, has today announced that they’ve secured a “major equity investment” from abrdn’s Core Infrastructure team to “accelerate” their rollout.

Sky UK Unveil Broadband Based Stream TV Box Without Satellite

27th Sep, 2022 (64 Comments)

As expected, Sky (Sky Broadband) has today announced the launch of their new standalone ‘Sky Stream‘ product, which uses your home broadband ISP and WiFi connection to stream Sky’s on-demand video content and live TV channels directly to your existing TV set without any satellite dish or installation being required.

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Grants Boost Biz Broadband in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

27th Sep, 2022 (0 Comments)

A new business grant scheme, which has injected just under £1.4 million into the local Cambridgeshire and Peterborough economy in England, has already helped local firms to create 42 new-to-the-firm products and enabled 32 businesses to access faster broadband speeds in excess of 30Mbps.

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Starlink Expand UK Coverage to Include Part of Shetland Islands

27th Sep, 2022 (13 Comments)

SpaceX’s Low Earth Orbit (LEO) based mega constellation of Starlink ultrafast broadband satellites has made a small but significant improvement to its coverage of the UK, which for the first time has now started to encompass the southern part of the remote Shetland islands in Scotland.

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Warning of Challenges Ahead for Investment in UK Gigabit Broadband

27th Sep, 2022 (0 Comments)

A new report from the UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA), which examined the appetite for investment in alternative broadband networks (AltNets) by interviewing leading investors, has warned that the market has “reached saturation point” and those looking for further rounds of investment will find new challenges.

BT and Vodafone UK Reiterate Desire to Make Netflix etc. Pay

26th Sep, 2022 (28 Comments)

The Net Neutrality debate (i.e. protecting the open internet from abuse by UK broadband ISPs and mobile operators) reared its head again today after BT and Vodafone both put their names to a new statement by the European Telecommunications Network Operators’ Association (ENTO), which was signed by 16 telcos’ CEOs.

ISP Ogi Offer 6 Months Free FTTP Broadband to New Customers

26th Sep, 2022 (1 Comment)

Broadband ISP Ogi, which is rolling out a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across South Wales, has today begun offering its services free for the first six months of service to new customers. The move is being promoted as a “bid to help ease pressures on household bills this winter“, but it’ll also help with take-up.

Survey Finds Confusion Over UK Broadband and Full Fibre Jargon

26th Sep, 2022 (29 Comments)

A new Censuswide survey of 2,001 UK adults (aged 16+) that have broadband, which was commissioned by ISP Zen Internet and conducted during May 2022, has found that 32% of respondents still aren’t confident they can define what “full fibre” is – that’s up from 28% when the same question was asked in 2021.

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Government Visa Review to Tackle Shortage of UK Fibre Engineers UPDATE

26th Sep, 2022 (31 Comments)

The British Prime Minister, Liz Truss, appears set to confirm earlier reports that she will make it easier for UK network operators and ISPs to tackle the ongoing shortage of skilled fibre broadband engineers by allowing the telecoms sector (as well as other industries) to hire more staff from abroad.

Three UK Add New ZYXEL 5G Hub for Unlimited Home Broadband

24th Sep, 2022 (36 Comments)

Customers of mobile operator Three UK, specifically those looking to adopt their 5G unlimited Home Broadband packages (£20 per month – first 6 months at £10), may like to know that they’re no longer shipping it with a ZTE based router and have instead replaced it with the Zyxel NR5103E. But getting 5G to work is another matter.