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optical fibre future broadband cable technology

7th Mar, 2022 (6 Comments)

Some 154 rural public sector sites, as well as 650 homes and businesses, across the Angus, Perth & Kinross areas of Scotland are able to benefit from gigabit-capable broadband speeds after BT (Openreach) “completed” infrastructure work on a new “full fibre” network, which was partly funded by the UK Government.

EE Small Cells on UK Phone Booth

7th Mar, 2022 (8 Comments)

Mobile operator EE (BT) has today announced that they’ve deployed 200 units of a new type of small cell (tiny base stations) on UK street furniture and buildings in order to boost the coverage and speed of their 4G based (mobile broadband) network, which they claim allows “customers to benefit from download speeds up to 300Mbps.”

reams of fibre optic cables on surface uk gigapixel

7th Mar, 2022 (14 Comments)

The rapid rollout of gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP networks across the UK – occurring via a mass of different networks (Summary) – is wonderful to see, but we would caution consumers not to bank their future choice of provider until AFTER such networks have been deployed and gone live.

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2019 openreach telegraph pole

5th Mar, 2022 (27 Comments)

Last month was unusual for a number of reasons, not least of which was the fact that – in the space of just six days (16th to 21st of February) – the UK experienced three named storms (Dudley, Eunice and Franklin). As a result, over 650 of Openreach’s broadband and phone carrying poles were “badly damaged and need replacing“.

Gigaclear UK ISP Logo

4th Mar, 2022 (0 Comments)

UK ISP Gigaclear, which is busy extending their 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across rural parts of England, has today announced that they’re “freezing … prices for 18 months at the lowest ever rate” in order to help tackle the ongoing cost of living crisis. But there’s a catch, a big hike is coming in 2023.

YouView IPTV Remote Control Picture

4th Mar, 2022 (17 Comments)

Broadband ISPs BT and TalkTalk look set to keep their respective YouView based TV services running until March 2024 after they reached a new Shareholder Agreement with the platform’s other Joint Venture partners in the broadcasting sector, including ITV, the BBC, Channel 4 and Channel 5.

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wightfibre trenching to homes fttp

3rd Mar, 2022 (4 Comments)

Infracapital-backed broadband ISP WightFibre, which is already investing £85m to deploy a 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across the Isle of Wight (South Coast of Hampshire), has received a £9m boost from the Government’s Building Digital UK programme in order to help extend local rural coverage.

fibre optic cable uk coloured spectrum gigapixel

3rd Mar, 2022 (1 Comment)

The Blackburn with Darwen Council has confirmed that they plan to commit £5.5 million from a new £90m development programme to help the Lancashire (England) town of Darwen upgrade thousands of premises to “ultrafast broadband” and deploy a new WiFi network across the town centre.

fibre engineers at work for openreach-2021

3rd Mar, 2022 (7 Comments)

The UK state aid supported Superfast West Yorkshire and York (SFWYY) programme and Openreach (BT) have announced the completion of their Phase 2 deployment contract, which has spent the past few years working to extend the local availability of “superfast broadband” (30Mbps+) services (including a fair bit of full fibre).

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3rd Mar, 2022 (15 Comments)

CityFibre UK has today confirmed that they will invest £45 million to deploy their new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to be put “within reach of every home and business” in the two Bedfordshire (England) towns of Luton and Dunstable.

Truespeed fttp engineer on pole

3rd Mar, 2022 (5 Comments)

Bath-based UK ISP Truespeed, which is focused on deploying a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across rural parts of Somerset (England), has today begun the next phase of their expansion by adding the North Somerset seaside towns of Portishead and Clevedon to their rollout plan.

Stratospheric Platforms Picture Above the Earth

3rd Mar, 2022 (6 Comments)

Cambridge-based company Stratospheric Platforms has announced the “world’s first” 5G (mobile broadband) transmission from Earth’s stratosphere, which at 45,000ft managed to maintain the signal for 5 hours and achieve a broadband download speed of 90Mbps to a retail Smartphone on the ground.

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Lit Fibre ONT

2nd Mar, 2022 (1 Comment)

UK ISP Lit Fibre, which is deploying a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to reach 500,000 homes by 2026, has today started to go live with its first residents in the town of Sudbury, Suffolk. The move comes just over three months after the operator started building.

fttp_outer_hebrides_openreach_bt

2nd Mar, 2022 (9 Comments)

Openreach’s (BT) Fibre Community Partnership (FCP) scheme, which works with disadvantaged UK areas to help co-fund the deployment of new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP networks, has been put on hold for new applications in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) due to “soaring demand“.

BT-TV-Box-Pro

2nd Mar, 2022 (10 Comments)

Owners of UK ISP BT’s latest set-top-box hardware for their broadband-based Pay TV (IPTV) service – TV Box Pro – have recently begun complaining about a series of new bugs related to problems with recordings (e.g. scheduled recordings failing to record) and some apps not working. But there’s a partial fix.

Fibrus Telegraph Pole Engineer

2nd Mar, 2022 (2 Comments)

The Department for the Economy (DfE) in Northern Ireland has issued a brief progress update on their £197m state aid supported Project Stratum scheme, which is working with UK ISP Fibrus to spread a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across 85,000 premises in rural areas by March 2025.

Hyperoptic Total WiFi Mesh Minihub

2nd Mar, 2022 (5 Comments)

City-focused full fibre (FTTB/P) broadband ISP Hyperoptic, which is present in parts of 57 UK towns and cities, has today launched a new mesh WiFi service called ‘Total Wi-Fi’, which aims to give new and existing customers the “ultimate [Wi-Fi] speed, reliability, and coverage – in every room.” But it will cost extra.

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