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Broadband Outage in St Neots After Thieves Steal Openreach Cable

18th Feb, 2025 (12 Comments)

Broadband, phone and Ethernet services in the Cambridgeshire (England) town of St Neots have been disrupted after criminals ripped up and stole around 500 metres worth of Openreach’s (BT) copper telecoms cable, which has impacted four of their fibre street cabinets in the area – serving premises with around 380 customers.

Broadband ISP Grain to Expand its Bradford Full Fibre Network

18th Feb, 2025 (1 Comment)

Alternative network operator Grain (Grain Connect) has announced that they’re going to expand the coverage of their existing gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based UK broadband network in the West Yorkshire (England) city of Bradford, although the details of their expansion remain unclear.

London Broadband ISP Community Fibre Back Online After Outage

17th Feb, 2025 (7 Comments)

Customers of broadband ISP CommunityFibre appear to be coming back online after the operator suffered a sizeable network outage in London today, which has been disrupting internet connectivity for thousands of users over the past few hours (since just after 11:30am this morning).

ISP WightFibre Extend FTTP Broadband to 88 Percent of Isle of Wight

17th Feb, 2025 (1 Comment)

Broadband ISP WightFibre, which is deploying a gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across the Isle of Wight – just off the South Coast of Hampshire (England), recently published their latest annual results to 30th September 2024 and revealed that their full fibre network now covered 88% of island premises (up from 80% in June 2024).

Zen Internet Starts Selling Broadband via Trooli’s UK FTTP Network

17th Feb, 2025 (8 Comments)

Rochdale-base broadband ISP Zen Internet has revealed that Trooli’s alternative full fibre network, which at the last update (July 2024) covered 370,000 homes and businesses across parts of England and Scotland, is “now available to buy” via their service after being almost fully integrated as part of last year’s wholesale agreement.

Truespeed Suffers Broadband Outage in North Somerset and Bristol UPDATE

17th Feb, 2025 (0 Comments)

Customers of rural broadband ISP Truespeed, which has deployed their own full fibre (FTTP) network across parts of Devon, Wiltshire and Somerset in England, are reporting that the provider appears to be suffering from a service outage that seems to be primarily impacting premises in the Bristol and North Somerset areas.

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HS2 Signs £99.6m Passenger Telecoms Deal for New UK Rail Network UPDATE

17th Feb, 2025 (8 Comments)

High Speed 2 Ltd, which is a non-departmental public body that is wholly funded by the UK Government’s Department for Transport (DfT) and oversees the HS2 rail project, has signed a £99.6m deal (£80.5m in public funding) with Hitachi and Telent to design and deploy telecommunications services across the new rail network, including passenger voice and broadband connectivity.

Brsk to Extend UK Full Fibre Broadband Network into Barnsley

17th Feb, 2025 (14 Comments)

Alternative fibre optic ISP Brsk, which is currently in the final stages of being merged into Netomnia’s network (here), has reportedly confirmed that approximately 50,000 homes and businesses across the South Yorkshire (England) market town of Barnsley will be the next to benefit from their roll-out of Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband.

Gigaclear Advisors to Hunt Fresh Funding for Rural UK Broadband Build UPDATE

14th Feb, 2025 (5 Comments)

Abingdon-based broadband ISP Gigaclear, which has already extended their full fibre (FTTP) network to cover 580,000 premises (RFS) in rural parts of England (inc. over 130,000 customers), is reportedly hiring advisors to help it find new funding in order to continue their network deployments across the UK.

Full Fibre UK Broadband ISP Youfibre Launch New Loyalty Promise

14th Feb, 2025 (16 Comments)

Broadband ISP Youfibre, which is available to those covered by Netomnia’s (Brsk) 10Gbps capable FTTP network, has today launched a new “Loyalty Promise” for its renewing customers. The move is part of an effort to help set them apart from the market’s largest ISPs, which often hit existing customers with price hikes at the end of their term.

LightSpeed Broadband Finally Puts FTTP Live in Cromer and Sheringham

14th Feb, 2025 (9 Comments)

Alternative network provider and UK ISP LightSpeed Broadband, which has so far built their gigabit-capable full fibre (FTTP) network to cover 250,000 premises across the East of England and West Midlands, has finally started to put their new network live in the neighbouring coastal Norfolk towns of Cromer and Sheringham.

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ISP KCOM Upgrades Customers to Symmetric FTTP Broadband Speeds

13th Feb, 2025 (12 Comments)

Hull-based broadband ISP KCOM, which has spent the past few years building a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across parts of East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire in England, has begun upgrading their packages to support symmetric speeds. But only up to a maximum upload speed of 500Mbps.

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Broadband Altnet Freedom Fibre Appoints New UK COO

13th Feb, 2025 (0 Comments)

Alternative network operator Freedom Fibre, which has built a Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network that it wholesales out to UK ISPs across the North West and West Midlands of England, have today appointed Lindsey Sutherland to be their new Chief Operations Officer (COO). This will become effective from 4th March 2025.

Ofcom Propose to Share Upper 6GHz Band for UK Mobile and WiFi

13th Feb, 2025 (11 Comments)

After conducting more research, the UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today formally begun to consult on a proposal that will allow low power indoor WiFi and mobile broadband (4G, 5G etc.) networks to “share” access to the upper 6GHz radio spectrum band (6425 to 7125MHz). But full implementation could take years.

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Freshwave Claims Better Indoor Mobile Signals Can Grow UK Economy by £70bn

13th Feb, 2025 (11 Comments)

Wireless infrastructure provider Freshwave, which is backed by investment firm DigitalBridge and naturally has its own vested interests in this field, have published a new study that claims a focus on improving indoor mobile (4G, 5G etc.) signals and “eliminating mobile dead zones” could help to grow the UK economy by £70bn a year.

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Ofcom Shames TalkTalk and O2 for UK Telecoms Complaints – Q3 2024

13th Feb, 2025 (7 Comments)

Ofcom have today published their Q3 2024 study of UK consumer telecoms complaints, which names and shames TalkTalk for attracting the most complaints about broadband, while O2 took the most flak mobile and Virgin Media was put on the naughty step for Pay TV.

LINX Surpasses 725Gbps of Traffic at Manchester UK Internet Exchange

13th Feb, 2025 (1 Comment)

The not-for-profit London Internet Exchange (LINX), which handles a large chunk of UK and global data traffic through their switches via around 900 members (broadband ISPs, mobile operators etc.), has today announced that their regional internet exchange in Manchester has hit a new “record maximum traffic peak” of 725Gbps (Gigabits per second).