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1st Jul, 2021 (3 Comments)
UK ISP Lightspeed Broadband, which is deploying a Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across the East of England region as part of a £300m investment (here and here), has today confirmed that they’ve chosen to go with Nokia’s 10Gbps (symmetric) capable XGS-PON technology and whole-home Wi-Fi 6 kit to power their service.
1st Jul, 2021 (1 Comment)
Manchester-based UK ISP Telcom (ClearFibre, WeFibre etc.), which is busy deploying a gigabit-capable “full fibre” broadband and Ethernet network across the North West of England and Midlands, has managed to secure a significant investment of £63m from Gresham House, a specialist alternative asset manager.
1st Jul, 2021 (50 Comments)
Openreach (BT) has today unveiled a “major” change to the pricing of their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband products, which aims to give UK ISPs not only cheaper services but also “long-term price certainty” through a series of new commitments. But in return, providers must push FTTP wherever they can.
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30th Jun, 2021 (5 Comments)
The Pembrokeshire County Council’s (PCC) wider Digital Connectivity Programme (DCP) in Wales, which is working with several UK ISPs to rollout gigabit-capable full fibre broadband networks into several remote rural communities, has just seen their first customers go live.
30th Jun, 2021 (34 Comments)
A new Censuswide survey of 2,014 UK adults that have broadband, which was commissioned by ISP Zen Internet, has found that 75% of people are unaware that using Microwave Ovens could be “causing havoc” for their home WiFi signal and 8% wrongly believe “hitting their router” will improve connectivity.
30th Jun, 2021 (1 Comment)
The UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has today revealed the shortlist of finalists for this year’s 23rd annual industry awards, which sees a number of broadband ISPs receiving nominations across several categories (e.g. Exa Networks scored five nominations, while Hyperoptic and Glide both received four nominations each.
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29th Jun, 2021 (1 Comment)
OneWeb, which is partly owned by the UK Government, Bharti Global, Eutelsat and Softbank, has secured another $500m (£361m) funding boost from Bharti to ensure that they’re able to fully complete their initial deployment of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites for ultrafast low-latency broadband provision.
29th Jun, 2021 (7 Comments)
CityFibre has today announced that their £29m rollout of a new 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across the South Yorkshire town of Rotherham has finally reached the stage of connecting its first customers, which are being supported by local ISP partner Pure Broadband (more providers will follow).
29th Jun, 2021 (6 Comments)
The Connecting Devon and Somerset (CDS) programme has today issued its response to the UK Government’s consultation on upgrading broadband for “Very Hard to Reach Premiuses” (VHTRP), which calls for larger Gigabit Broadband Vouchers to support rural builds and warns against moving away from “future proof” fibre solutions.
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29th Jun, 2021 (13 Comments)
ISP Vodafone UK has today partnered with Cisco to launch an “enterprise grade broadband and Wi-Fi solution” for small and medium-sized businesses (10 – 250 employees), which is said to feature “advanced security features” to ensure SMEs have everything required to stay connected, secure and in control. But it’s only FTTC.
29th Jun, 2021 (69 Comments)
Property developer Persimmon Homes is facing criticism from several UK MPs, which comes after residents on some of their new build home sites alleged that they’d been left them with no option but to use the Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network provided by the same group (via ISP FibreNest).
29th Jun, 2021 (6 Comments)
The UK Government has today published somewhat of a progress update on their £1bn Shared Rural Network (SRN) project, which reveals that Scotland, Wales and North East England will benefit most from the expansion of 4G based mobile network (mobile broadband) coverage into rural areas.
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29th Jun, 2021 (0 Comments)
Broadband ISP Fibrus has this morning finally confirmed that they’ve won the Full Fibre Northern Ireland Consortium (FFNI) contract, which is valued at £23m and will see the UK operator expand a new gigabit-capable “full fibre” network to connect over 969 public-sector sites (police, GPs, council offices etc.) in “up to” 10 council areas.
29th Jun, 2021 (7 Comments)
The UK Government will today reveal that “up to” 234,000 hard-to-reach rural homes and businesses in Wales have been identified as “in scope” to potentially receive a gigabit-capable broadband upgrade, which should come as part of the new £5bn Project Gigabit programme.
28th Jun, 2021 (4 Comments)
UK ISP Air Broadband has announced that their gigabit capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband service on CityFibre’s network has now become available to homes and businesses in a further 10 of their cities and towns, such as Solihull, Gloucester and Cheltenham among others.
28th Jun, 2021 (10 Comments)
28th Jun, 2021 (10 Comments)
Telecoms and media giant Virgin Media (VMO2) has, for the first time, harnessed the UK Government’s Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme in order to extend their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to connect rural locations in West Sussex (England) – with residents in Steyning, Upper Beeding and Bramber being invited to participate.
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