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VX FIBER’s Stoke FTTP Rollout Hit with £2460 of Fines in 1 Week

16th Jun, 2022 (5 Comments)

Network developer VXFIBER (inc. subsidiary LilaConnect) has once again faced criticism over their work to build a new 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across the Staffordshire (England) city of Stoke-on-Trent, which recently saw them being hit with £2,460 of roadworks fines in just one week.

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Telford and Wrekin to Deploy Full Fibre via Virgin Media O2 Business

16th Jun, 2022 (7 Comments)

The Telford and Wrekin Council in Shropshire (England) and broadband ISP Virgin Media O2 Business have agreed a new “multimillion-pound” partnership to connect 200 public sector sites (schools, council, libraries etc.) to the operator’s “multi-gigabit … full fibre” network, which could also help to extend residential services.

H2 2021 – FTTP Broadband Covers 96% of New Build UK Homes

15th Jun, 2022 (18 Comments)

The latest H2 2021 study into the broadband coverage of new build UK homes has found that over 96% of houses constructed during the second half of last year were connected to a “full fibre” (FTTP) ISP network (up from 93% in H1 2021), which rises to 99%+ for 30Mbps+ “superfast broadband” services.

ISP Quickline Boosts Network with Proximity Data Centre Deal

15th Jun, 2022 (0 Comments)

Broadband ISP Quickline, which runs a mix of Full Fibre (FTTP) and Fixed Wireless (FWA) networks across parts of Lincolnshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire in England, has signed a deal to boost their network by taking rack space in Proximity’s Nottingham data centre (edge colocation facility).

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FullFibre Ltd Put Gigabit Broadband Network Live in Leominster

15th Jun, 2022 (2 Comments)

Network builder FullFibre Limited has announced that their new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based gigabit broadband ISP network has finally gone live in the Herefordshire (England) market town of Leominster, which is home to around 12,000 people and was one of the very first locations added to their rollout plan.

AltNets Trial Ability to Replace Openreach Copper with Fibre Lines on Poles

15th Jun, 2022 (31 Comments)

Alternative broadband providers are about to begin a new trial that will, for the first time, grant their engineers the ability to replace an existing copper dropwire on an existing Openreach pole (telegraph pole) with a new optical fibre one for gigabit-capable broadband, albeit only under certain circumstances.

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Vodafone Deploys First Live Self-Powering UK 4G Mobile Mast UPDATE

15th Jun, 2022 (17 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone UK has today switched on what they claim is the country’s first wind and solar-powered 4G mobile phone masts, which went live as part of a new trial in rural Pembrokeshire (Wales). The new technology is intended to help cover “not-spots” in the most remote and inaccessible locations.

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OneWeb In-Flight LEO Broadband Test Hits 260Mbps on Boeing B777

14th Jun, 2022 (1 Comment)

British-registered OneWeb, which is partly owned by the UK gov and building a global constellation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) based ultrafast low-latency broadband satellites, has worked with commercial aviation terminal partner Stellar Blu Solutions to successfully test in-flight connectivity aboard a Boeing B777-200LR plane.

CityFibre Prep £2m FTTP Broadband Build for Village of Yaxley

14th Jun, 2022 (4 Comments)

The village and civil parish of Yaxley in Cambridgeshire (England), which is home to a population of over 9,000, has just become one of CityFibre’s smallest builds after they confirmed their plan to invest £2m as part of their ongoing deployment of gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP technology.

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Openreach CEO Appears to Blame Brexit for Pace of Broadband Build UPDATE

14th Jun, 2022 (54 Comments)

The CEO of network access provider Openreach (BT), Clive Selley, appears to have risked a spat with the UK Government after he complained that the rollout of faster broadband services (e.g. gigabit-capable FTTP) had been slowed by the “tortuous” post-Brexit process of recruiting workers from the EU.

Openreach Give FTTP on Demand Broadband a Stay of Execution

14th Jun, 2022 (11 Comments)

A couple of months ago we revealed that Openreach had launched a review of their FTTP on Demand (FTTPoD or FoD) product for UK broadband ISPs (here), which proposed to stop selling it later this year. The conclusion of that review has just been published and FoD has been given a reprieve, at least for now.

Broadband ISP Pine Media Launch Mesh WiFi Solution for Homes

14th Jun, 2022 (2 Comments)

UK ISP Pine Media, which is rolling out its own gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network in South Yorkshire (Sheffield) and rural Derbyshire (they also sell products over Openreach’s rival network), has launched a new Mesh WiFi solution for customers via a partnership with Plume.

Alternative Full Fibre ISPs Cover 5.46 Million UK Premises in 2022

14th Jun, 2022 (4 Comments)

The Independent Networks Co-operative Association and Point Topic have published their 2022 report into the impact of alternative “full fibre” (FTTP/B) broadband networks, which reveals that such providers grew their UK cover by 111% in 2021 (up from 110% last year) to cover 5.46 million premises and could hit 11.6m this year.

Gigaclear Extend Rural FTTP Broadband to 300,000 UK Premises

13th Jun, 2022 (12 Comments)

Infracapital-backed broadband ISP Gigaclear has this afternoon claimed that their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, which tends to target rural parts of England, has now covered 300,000 premises (up from 250,000 in December 2021).

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Nokia Demo 100Gbps Full Fibre PON Prototype Outside Lab

13th Jun, 2022 (0 Comments)

Following last year’s successful lab tests, Nokia has brought their future 100G PON (Passive Optical Network) technology to be showcased at the “Fiber Connect” event in Nashville (USA). The new kit is capable of delivering full fibre 100Gbps speeds in downstream on a single PON wavelength in a real-world environment.

Government Unveil UK Digital Strategy – Talks 99% Gigabit Coverage

13th Jun, 2022 (7 Comments)

The UK Government has published their ‘Digital Strategy’, which reflects a “new plan” to grow the “digital economy” (i.e. addressing tech sector skills, investment and infrastructure). But in terms of mobile and broadband infrastructure, it’s largely another re-announcement of existing schemes (not unlike the ‘Levelling Up‘ plan).

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Openreach Hint UK FTTC Broadband Installs Starting to Shrink

13th Jun, 2022 (24 Comments)

Openreach (BT) has hinted that, for the first time, new installations of their hybrid Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC / VDSL2) broadband ISP lines may soon start to shrink, which would partly reflect the rising coverage of gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) technology.