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Virgin Media O2 Business UK Launch Faster Broadband Plans UPDATE

9th Jun, 2022 (11 Comments)

Broadband ISP Virgin Media Business (VMO2) has today replaced their old “Voom” packages for small business customers with a new range of service speeds, which includes the long-awaited introduction of a new 1Gbps (Voom Fibre) tier at the top of their line-up.

ISPs Suffer Major Hampshire Broadband Outage After Fibre Break UPDATE4

9th Jun, 2022 (27 Comments)

Customers of UK ISP Giganet in Hampshire, particularly those connecting through their Point of Presence (PoP) in the Winchester Exchange, are among those suffering from a major outage after “significant damage” was caused to one of Openreach’s main fibre spine cables by a “large excavation team” in Basingstoke.

Netomnia Add 3 New Towns and Villages to UK Full Fibre Rollout

8th Jun, 2022 (12 Comments)

Network builder Netomnia, which is being supported by UK broadband ISP partner YouFibre, has today confirmed that their 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) network is being extended to cover homes and businesses in the three towns and villages of Oldham, Dalton in Furness and Doddington.

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Ofcom Moves to Protect Essential UK BT and KCOM Phone Boxes

8th Jun, 2022 (12 Comments)

Ofcom has today introduced new rules to protect public UK phone boxes (payphones) – specifically those built by BT and KCOM – when they exist in areas with “poor mobile signals or high accident rates“. In addition, payphones will now require battery backup so that they can keep working after going digital (all-IP).

ASA Ban Sky Mobile UK Ads for Misleading Perfect Network Claim

7th Jun, 2022 (6 Comments)

A complaint raised by broadband ISP and mobile giant BT looks set to result in the UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) banning a TV and poster advert for Sky Mobile (Sky Broadband), which was found to have “misleadingly” claimed to have offered “the perfect network“.

Three UK in Huge Hike to Standard Charges on PAYG Mobile Plans

7th Jun, 2022 (42 Comments)

Customers of mobile network operator Three UK, specifically those who still take their Pay As You Go (PAYG) plans, have begun to receive a new notification that informs them of another significant price hike to their standard rates for calls, text messages (SMS) and data usage (mobile broadband).

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CityFibre Start Halifax FTTP Broadband Build with New Contractor

7th Jun, 2022 (9 Comments)

After a long delay due to the failure of their previous local contractor, CityFibre has today announced the start (or restart) of their £23m project to deploy a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across the large West Yorkshire (England) town of Halifax.

Full Fibre ISP G.Network Appoint Former Openreach MD as CEO

7th Jun, 2022 (3 Comments)

London-focused gigabit-broadband builder and UK ISP G.Network, which unexpectedly saw its founder and former CEO – Sasho Veselinski – exit last month due to “personal reasons” (here), has managed to grab the former Managing Director of Openreach’s Fibre and Network Delivery team, Kevin Murphy, to be its new CEO.

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New Record Fibre Optic Speed of 1.02Pbps Hit Over 51.7km

7th Jun, 2022 (10 Comments)

A team of network researchers from the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) in Japan has done it again after they achieved the “world’s first” successful data transmission of 1.02 Petabits per second (Pbs) in a standard cladding diameter (0.125 mm) multi-core fibre cable over a distance of 51.7km.

Ogi Issue Progress Update on FTTP Broadband Rollout in Wales

7th Jun, 2022 (7 Comments)

Broadband ISP Ogi has just issued a brief progress update to celebrate the first year of their £200m effort to deploy a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across South Wales (here and here), which initially aims to cover 150,000 premises by the end of 2025 (they’ve almost completed 23,000).

Rural UK ISP Alncom Target 25000 Premises for FTTP Broadband

6th Jun, 2022 (5 Comments)

Alnwick-based ISP Alncom has today announced that they plan to extend the deployment of their new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to cover a further 25,000 rural premises across parts of Northumberland, County Durham and the Scottish Borders.

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Birmingham Scientists Create New 5G Beam Steering Antenna

6th Jun, 2022 (8 Comments)

A team from the University of Birmingham‘s School of Engineering in England has developed a new beam-steering antenna for future 5G and 6G mobile (mobile broadband) networks, which claims to have achieved “vast improvements in data transmission efficiency” via a range of frequencies that are “inaccessible” to existing technologies.

New Brsk FTTP Broadband Network Live in Portwood, Stockport

6th Jun, 2022 (0 Comments)

Fibre optic builder and UK ISP Brsk has today announced that their new gigabit-capable and “open access” Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network has just started to go live in the Portwood (Stockport) area of Greater Manchester, which follows a similar development in Accrington last month.

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Openreach and the Case of a Tricky FTTP Transition Problem

4th Jun, 2022 (64 Comments)

Imagine if your FTTC (VDSL2) broadband line was cancelled and couldn’t be re-provisioned by your ISP because “full fibre” FTTP was now the only option available. Fine. But now imagine if you tried to order FTTP and found that UK ISPs were quoting you up to £12k for installation. This could become more common.

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CityFibre Sign GBP4.9bn Debt Raise to Boost UK Full Fibre Rollout

3rd Jun, 2022 (14 Comments)

CityFibre has announced “one of Europe’s largest ever Full Fibre financings” by completing a debt raise worth a staggering £4.9bn. The deal enables them to complete their plan to cover 8 million UK premises with gigaibt-capable FTTP broadband and to bid on contract’s under the Government’s £5bn Project Gigabit scheme for rural areas.

How Long to Replace a Faulty ONT on FTTP Broadband ISP Lines

3rd Jun, 2022 (48 Comments)

The ever-increasing coverage of Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP networks across the United Kingdom has also started to highlight that, while the infrastructure is fundamentally more reliable, providers will face a rising problem from faulty optical modems or ONT / ONUs (Optical Network Terminal / Units).

B4RN Volunteer Gets Queen’s Birthday Honours for Rural FTTP Build

2nd Jun, 2022 (5 Comments)

The annual Queen’s Birthday Honours (2022) have today been published, and they include the odd figure from the United Kingdom’s broadband and telecoms sector. For example, Val Winchester from the village of Chapel-le-Dale secured a ‘British Empire Medal‘ for helping to dig B4RN’s full fibre (FTTP) broadband ISP networks.