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10th Mar, 2022 (1 Comment)

Business focused UK ISP and Managed Service Provider Connectus has announced that their gigabit-capable “full fibre” broadband and Ethernet network is being extended to cover three additional business parks in the North of England, including the Waterside Business Park in St Helens, Canal Side and Chowley Oak in Chester.

Vodafone OpenRAN Mast in Rural UK Area

10th Mar, 2022 (7 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone has today named some of the first rural towns in the UK to benefit from their planned rollout of 4G and 5G OpenRAN (O-RAN) technology, which is set to reach a total of 2,500 sites by the end of 2027 (here). The named communities have “traditionally struggled to receive good quality … mobile coverage“.

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10th Mar, 2022 (0 Comments)

Mobile operator Three UK has today announced that Ukrainian refugees arriving in the UK – assuming they can get past the painfully slow UK Border Force first – will be supplied with a free 30-day Pay As You Go (PAYG) SIM card that comes preloaded with unlimited domestic calls, texts and mobile broadband data.

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10th Mar, 2022 (6 Comments)

A new survey of 2,000 UK adults has estimated that around 6.95 million households are now out of contract with their current home broadband ISP, which they claim means that all of those customers could be “overpaying” by an average of £162 when out-of-contract (collective total of around £1 billion).

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10th Mar, 2022 (1 Comment)

The Highlands and Islands Enterprise in Scotland has announced the completion of a joint £7.7m state aid funded project to build a new gigabit-capable “full fibre” broadband and Ethernet network to connect 154 public sector sites (schools, NHS, council etc.) across Inverness, Fort William, Thurso and Wick. But it’s also fostering FTTP.

Connexin 2Gbps Broadband Speed Test in Hull UK

9th Mar, 2022 (26 Comments)

Broadband ISP Connexin, which recently began work on their £80m project to build a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to unseat KCOM’s “broadband monopoly” in Hull and East Yorkshire (here and here), has today launched a new 2000Mbps (2Gbps) trial package for local homes.

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9th Mar, 2022 (24 Comments)

The Welsh Government has provided a Q4 2021 progress update on their £52.5 million Phase 2 Superfast Cymru contract with BT (Openreach), which confirms that 25,855 premises (up from 24,515 in Q3) have now gained access to the operator’s gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network.

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9th Mar, 2022 (3 Comments)

Hull-based UK ISP Pure Broadband, which currently delivers internet connectivity services to homes and businesses covered by the full fibre networks from KCOM, CityFibre and OFNL, has today added a fourth network provider in the shape of MS3. The latter is busy building across the North of England.

CityFibre ODF in Fibre Exchange

9th Mar, 2022 (12 Comments)

Network builder CityFibre has today announced the deployment of their 100th Fibre Exchange (FEX), which in theory should enable enough capacity to serve the first 4.8 million premises under their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband rollout across the UK (so far they’ve completed the build to 1 million premises).

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8th Mar, 2022 (15 Comments)

The UK Government has today announced that their controversial new Online Safety Bill (OSB) will be extended to add a new duty, which aims to bring fraudulent paid-for adverts on social media and internet search engines into scope, whether they are controlled by the platform itself or an advertising intermediary.

Gigaclear Engineer Outside FTTP Cabinet

8th Mar, 2022 (0 Comments)

The Infracapital-backed UK ISP Gigaclear has today announced that their rollout of a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband networks is being extended into rural parts of Suffolk (England), which will initially include thousands of homes and businesses across six large and medium-sized villages.

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8th Mar, 2022 (0 Comments)

Business communications provider Plan.com has today signed a new partnership deal with TalkTalk’s Wholesale Services division, which will enable them to broaden their existing product options with more choice of broadband services on their my.plan platform.

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8th Mar, 2022 (0 Comments)

Rural focused UK ISP County Broadband (CB) has today added 21 villages in Cambridgeshire (England) to their multi-million-pound rollout of a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network. All of the new villages are located within the St Neots and Huntingdon areas.

Ecom Fibre Optic Trencher

8th Mar, 2022 (0 Comments)

After a long wait, UK ISP Ecom has finally started to connect the first properties in the rural Buckinghamshire (England) village of Wingrave – home to a local population of around 1,500 – to their new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network.

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8th Mar, 2022 (2 Comments)

Hull-based UK ISP Pure Broadband, which serves consumers covered by new full fibre networks from KCOM, CityFibre and OFNL, has announced that they’ve just become the first internet provider to make services available via CityFibre’s new network in the South Yorkshire (England) city of Sheffield.

Digital Infrastructure Engineer FTTP Splicing

7th Mar, 2022 (12 Comments)

Network builder Digital Infrastructure (DI), which last year began deploying a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to cover 1 million premises in 80 UK towns and cities by 2027 (here and here), has today named the next 9 locations to benefit from their rollout.

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7th Mar, 2022 (17 Comments)

The Government has today confirmed their intention to introduce a series of changes to Permitted Development (PD) rights for mobile infrastructure, which aims to help extend 5G and 4G (mobile broadband) coverage in rural areas of England via key changes (e.g. allowing taller masts of up to 30 metres).

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