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Funding Runs Dry for Hampshire’s Gigabit Broadband Top-Up Scheme

13th Sep, 2022 (1 Comment)

The Hampshire County Council in England has notified suppliers that their Top-Up funding for the UK Government’s Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme (GBVS) has run out. The vouchers help hard-to-reach rural homes and businesses get a gigabit-capable internet connection installed.

ISP Brsk Secure £178m Funding Boost for UK Full Fibre Rollout

13th Sep, 2022 (5 Comments)

Network builder and UK ISP Brsk has today secured a huge funding boost of “up to” £178m to help fuel the ongoing rollout of their new open access and gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network, which has so far focused upon parts of Greater Manchester, Lancashire, West Yorkshire and the West Midlands.

ZYBRE to Help Zoopla Show UK Broadband Details on Property Listings

13th Sep, 2022 (4 Comments)

Cloud gaming ISP ZYBRE has signed a deal with popular online real estate website Zoopla, which will enable them to add more details of home broadband availability to all of their property listings across the United Kingdom. Some of Zoopla’s rivals (e.g. RightMove) already have similar features.

Lit Fibre UK Name 5 New Towns for Full Fibre Broadband Build

12th Sep, 2022 (22 Comments)

Broadband ISP and UK network builder Lit Fibre, which is working to deploy a new gigabit-speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to cover 500,000 homes by 2026, has today added 5 new towns across parts of the West Midlands, Essex and Hertfordshire in England to their ongoing rollout plan.

TalkTalk Create New Wholesale Divisions for Business and Consumer

12th Sep, 2022 (2 Comments)

The wholesale division of UK broadband ISP TalkTalk (TalkTalk Business) has today announced that it has created two new wholesale divisions to support both its business-to-business (‘Business Wholesale Services‘) and consumer wholesale (‘Consumer Wholesale Services‘) segments.

EXFO to Help UK ISP Gigaclear Test and Monitor FTTP Network

12th Sep, 2022 (0 Comments)

Rural broadband ISP Gigaclear, which is investing £700m to reach 500,000 rural UK premises with their full fibre network by the end of 2023 (they’ve so far completed 300,000), has appointed test and monitoring firm EXFO to help reduce the time and cost associated with fault-finding, repairs and truck rolls during operation.

ISP 1310 Cuts UK Broadband Prices and Updates on FTTP Build

12th Sep, 2022 (5 Comments)

UK ISP 1310 (“thirteen-ten“), which offers gigabit broadband services via Openreach’s national network and is also building their own full fibre (FTTP) across parts of Hampshire in England, has recently reduced the standard pricing across their packages and issued a progress update on their fibre rollout.

Open Fibre Networks Ltd ISP Boosts UK FTTP Plans to 900Mbps

10th Sep, 2022 (38 Comments)

A little-known internet provider called Ashford Fibre has just become the first ISP on Open Fibre Networks Limited‘s (OFNL) open access UK full fibre broadband network to launch a gigabit-class 900Mbps package for residential customers. Most OFNL providers previously only offered up to 360Mbps for homes.

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Broadcom and Intel Push Real-World WiFi 7 Speed Test to 5Gbps

9th Sep, 2022 (19 Comments)

Chip and technology giants Intel and Broadcom have achieved an important milestone this week after they demonstrated the first cross-vendor Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) network link using prototypes of their next generation Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) hardware, which achieved data speeds of over 5Gbps (Gigabits per second).

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ISP Community Fibre Expand London FTTP Rollout to Harrow

9th Sep, 2022 (11 Comments)

ISP CommunityFibre, which has already covered 500,000 premises in London with their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network, have this week continued their expansion with the aim of adding “thousands” of residents, businesses and local communities across Harrow.

KCOM UK Unveil Major 10Gb Broadband Expansion and Retires Copper

8th Sep, 2022 (4 Comments)

Hull-based network builder and broadband ISP KCOM has today announced a second major expansion of their existing gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, which will see them invest a further £100m to cover an additional 50,000 premises across East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire (14 new locations).

Truespeed’s FTTP Broadband Covers 50,000 Premises in South West

8th Sep, 2022 (3 Comments)

Broadband ISP Truespeed, which is building a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across rural parts of South West England, has today issued a progress update and confirmed that their infrastructure now covers 50,000 premises (with 11,500 live customers).

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CityFibre Finally Begins £21m Full Fibre Rollout for Hartlepool

8th Sep, 2022 (0 Comments)

CityFibre has announced that they’ve finally started the £21m rollout of their new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across the large port town of Hartlepool in County Durham, which was originally due to get underway in “early 2022” (here), but that seems to have been delayed a bit – until now.

Lightning Fibre Extend UK FTTP Rollout to Kent and West Sussex

8th Sep, 2022 (4 Comments)

Alternative network ISP Lightning Fibre, which initially aimed to cover 100,000 premises across parts of East Sussex with their gigabit-capable full fibre (FTTP) broadband infrastructure, has today announced a multi-million pound expansion of their network into West Sussex and Kent in England.

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Eutelsat Successfully Launch 500Gbps VHTS Broadband Satellite

8th Sep, 2022 (0 Comments)

European satellite operator Eutelsat, which is also the parent of UK ISP Konnect (We Konnect), are celebrating this morning after confirming the successful launch of their next gen ‘Very High Throughput Satellite’ (VHTS) into Geostationary Transfer Orbit by Arianespace using an Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana.

British Satellite Firm OneWeb to Test 5G Mobile from Space

8th Sep, 2022 (4 Comments)

British-registered satellite broadband operator OneWeb has joined with the 5G Innovation Centre at the University of Surrey (5GIC) and CGI to launch a new 5G-Pilot Test project, which will trial the ability to harness the firm’s Low Earth Orbit (LEO) network to communicate with terrestrial 5G mobile devices (phones etc.).

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Vorboss Unveil New London-wide Fibre Network for Businesses

8th Sep, 2022 (2 Comments)

Network builder and UK ISP Vorboss, which is part of the Fern Trading Group, has today hailed the progress they’ve made on their £250m project to build “London’s only full-coverage fibre network dedicated to business“, which has installed over 500km of fibre optic cable in the UK’s capital city since 2020.