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Fibrus-Engineers-Talking

21st Jan, 2022 (0 Comments)

The CEO of Infracapital backed broadband ISP Fibrus, Dominic Kearns, has said he’s “horrified” at BT’s recent 9.3% price hike (here) and, unlike the incumbent, pledges that they “will not be putting our prices up.” The provider is currently building a new full fibre network across parts of Northern Ireland and Northern England.

Paying bills

21st Jan, 2022 (42 Comments)

The MP for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, Jamie Stone – with backing from 14 Liberal Democrat peers, is to meet with the UK Minister for Digital Infrastructure, Julia Lopez, in an attempt to force all broadband ISPs to offer mandatory “universal social tariffs” to help those who are struggling to pay their bills.

scotland r100 broadband lots map uk

21st Jan, 2022 (11 Comments)

The First Minister of the Scottish Government, Nicola Sturgeon, has issued a short update on the LOT 1 (North Scotland and Highlands) contract with BT (Openreach) under their £600m Reaching 100% (R100) project, which is extending “superfast broadband” (30Mbps+) coverage across rural parts of Scotland (mostly via FTTP).

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BT Tower 2021

20th Jan, 2022 (60 Comments)

The MD Consumer Customer Services at UK ISP BT (EE), Nick Lane, has today confirmed yesterday’s report (here) that they would hit customers with an annual price increase of 9.3% (up from 4.5% last year) from 31st March 2022 and said it was as a “necessary part of business … [to] keep up with the rising costs we face.”

copper_broadband_telecoms_cable

20th Jan, 2022 (29 Comments)

A string of damaging copper cable thefts in rural Cambridgeshire (England), which repeatedly knocked out broadband and phone services for hundreds of homes on Openreach’s (BT) network in the villages of Swavesey and Witchford, have resulted in the operator offering a reward of £20,000 to help catch those responsible.

Netomnia female engineer on ipad

20th Jan, 2022 (9 Comments)

Netomnia, which is busy deploying a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to cover 1 million UK premises by the end of 2023 (here), has today officially announced that they’ve added Wakefield and Pontefract in West Yorkshire to their rollout plans.

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Gigabit shiny bubble sign with shadow on white background

20th Jan, 2022 (5 Comments)

A new report produced by property consultants Cluttons and polling firm YouGov, which surveyed 103 UK MPs, 577 councillors, 101 IT decision markets and 1,996 citizens, has highlighted various problems that could obstruct the move to adopt 5G mobile and gigabit-capable (1Gbps+) broadband ISP connections.

schools_broadband

20th Jan, 2022 (0 Comments)

A specialist ISP for the UK education market, Schools Broadband (Talk Straight Ltd.), has secured a new 4-year framework contract from the Hampshire County Council (HCC) – this will see them supply Managed Internet Access Services for Schools, Academies and Educational Establishments in the county.

CityFibre Trencher machine

19th Jan, 2022 (1 Comment)

CityFibre has today announced that they’ve appointed civil engineering contractor GCU UK Ltd to lead the £42m rollout of a new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across the large North East England town of Gateshead (Tyne and Wear) and South Tyneside, which sits just over the River Tyne from Newcastle.

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speed_test

19th Jan, 2022 (10 Comments)

Mobile testing firm RootMetrics, which was recently gobbled by Ookla (here), has today published their latest H2 2021 study of mobile network (4G and 5G) and broadband performance across the United Kingdom, which once again awards the top spot to EE (BT), with Vodafone being the runner-up.

British sterling one pound coin currency by 123rf

19th Jan, 2022 (38 Comments)

The Office of National Statistics has today published the latest UK inflation figures, which sees the Consumer Price Index (CPI) hit 5.4% and the Retail Price Index (RPI) reach 7.5%! Many of the country’s biggest broadband ISPs base their annual price rises off the figure published in January, thus we now know how huge the hit will be.

Ogi FTTP Street Cabinet on Crane

19th Jan, 2022 (7 Comments)

The next three areas to benefit from Ogi’s £200m project (here), which aims to deploy a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to cover 150,000 premises in South Wales by 2025, have today been named – Dinas Powys, Milford Haven and Johnston and Monmouth.

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vodafone_uk_openran_mast

19th Jan, 2022 (8 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone, which last year announced plans to rollout OpenRAN (O-RAN) across around 2,600 sites in rural parts of Wales and South West England by 2027 (here), has today switched-on the UK and Europe’s first live – at scale – commercial 5G and 4G deployment of the new technology in the city of Bath (Somerset).

rural_landscape_england_broadband

19th Jan, 2022 (27 Comments)

The Public Accounts Committee has today issued a new report on the progress being made by the UK Government’s £5bn Project Gigabit rural broadband rollout programme, which questions whether it will meet its targets and criticises the project for “relying too heavily on commercial contractors for the progress that has been made.”

CityFibre-Wakefield

19th Jan, 2022 (5 Comments)

The city of Wakefield in West Yorkshire (England), which a couple of years ago was quietly removed from CityFibre’s UK rollout plan for a 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network, has now been re-added to their programme and the first build is just getting started.

18th Jan, 2022 (4 Comments)

The first rural homes to benefit from faster broadband under Phase 4 of the Superfast North Yorkshire (SFNY) project, which reflects a partnership between NYnet, a North Yorkshire County Council-owned broadband company, and UK ISP Quickline Communications, have just gone live in the village of Picton.

fibre optic cables gigapixel

18th Jan, 2022 (0 Comments)

Jisc, which provides network and IT services to education institutions, has chosen Neos Networks to deliver their new Dark Fibre network, which will serve their sites (e.g. Universities and Research Centres) in the North West of England with data speeds of up to 100Gbps (Gigabits per second).

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