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Better Broadband for Suffolk UK Connects 14,000 Premises to FTTC

22nd February, 2014 (1 Comment)

The drip feeding of roll-out information from the £40m Better Broadband for Suffolk project reveals that more than 2,100 homes and businesses in Southwold and Reydon can now access BT’s “high speed fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network after 7 local street cabinets (serving 174 postcodes) were upgraded.

First Fibre Broadband Rollout Areas in East Riding of Yorkshire Confirmed

21st February, 2014 (0 Comments)

The £14m Broadband East Riding Project, which aims to make BT’s superfast broadband (24Mbps+) services available to a further 42,734 local premises by December 2015, has announced its first roll-out locations for late April 2014 onwards.

First BT Superfast Broadband Cabinet in Rural Scotland Project Goes LIVE

18th February, 2014 (7 Comments)

The Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) has announced that the first “high-speed fibre broadband” street cabinet (FTTC) has gone live in Buckie today, which also represents the first official deployment in the highlands under Scotland’s public and privately funded Digital Scotland project.

BT Fibre Broadband Coverage in Cornwall Hits 85% Milestone

18th February, 2014 (12 Comments)

The finish line is now in sight after the £132m Superfast Cornwall project in England revealed that BT’s “high-speed fibre optic broadband” (FTTC/P) network had now “reached” 85% of Cornish homes and businesses, which means that they’re on-track to achieve the 95% coverage goal by the end of 2014.

Fixed Access Review Delay Triggers BT Openreach UK Line Rental Hike

15th February, 2014 (51 Comments)

BTOpenreach, which maintains BT’s national UK phone and broadband network, has said that it anticipates a “three month … delay” in the publication of Ofcom’s final statement of the Fixed Access Market Review(s) and the associated LLU and WLR charge control review. As a result they’ve decided to put some of their line rental prices up.

BT Could Replace UK Ethernet Excess Construction Charges with Setup Fee

14th February, 2014 (5 Comments)

Ofcom has preliminarily agreed to a proposal by BTOpenreach that could result in the operator replacing its sliding scale Excess Construction Charges (ECC), at least some of them, on their point-to-point Ethernet Access Direct products with a single setup fee of around £550 +vat.

Better Broadband for Oxfordshire Project Names Next BT Fibre Upgrades

11th February, 2014 (1 Comment)

The £25m Better Broadband for Oxfordshire project, which aims to extend BT’s superfast broadband access (25Mbps+) to 90% of Oxfordshire in England by the end of 2015, has revealed the next batch of locations to benefit from the upgrade.

BT Denies Underspend on its GBP2.5bn UK GEA Fibre Broadband Rollout

11th February, 2014 (11 Comments)

BT has denied that its commercial investment of £2.5 billion, which is being used to make their superfast broadband (FTTC/P) network available to around 66% of the United Kingdom by Spring 2014 (19 million premises), will complete with significant underspend worth hundreds of millions.

Durham’s Phase 1 BDUK and BT Superfast Broadband Rollout Begins

11th February, 2014 (4 Comments)

The £24m Digital Durham project, which is working with BT to make superfast broadband speeds (FTTC/P) available to “around” 94% of local premises by the end of 2016, has finally begun the first phase of its deployment.

BT Openreach MD – Sorry for 6 Week Binfield Heath Broadband Outage

10th February, 2014 (0 Comments)

Don’t blame the hybrid fibre upgrade. The Managing Director (Service Management) of BTOpenreach, Warren Buckley, has apologise to residents of Binfield Heath in Oxfordshire, which last year raised £60k to help roll-out a superfast broadband (FTTC) service in the area (here), following an up to 6 week long broadband and phone outage.

25 More Areas to Get Superfast Broadband Under Connecting Shropshire

10th February, 2014 (1 Comment)

The £24.6m Connecting Shropshire project in England has revealed a new list of 25 telephone exchange areas that will benefit from an upgrade to BT’s “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network, which should be expanded to reach 93% of local premises by the end of Spring 2016 (excluding the separate Telford & Wrekin).

North Lincolnshire UK Begins BDUK and BT Superfast Broadband Rollout

10th February, 2014 (0 Comments)

The state aid supported £9.6m Northernlincs Broadband project has named the first communities to benefit from the roll-out of BT’s “high-speed fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network, which aims to cover 92% of North and North East Lincolnshire in East England by spring 2015.

2 Months Long BT Internet and Phone Outage Continues in Fife Village

5th February, 2014 (4 Comments)

Brief Internet and phone outages can be annoying but spare a thought for ten homes in a rural Fife (Scotland) village, near St Michaels Inn, where a BT cable fault has left locals without a working broadband and phone service since 22nd November last year.

Dorset Council Reveals First Areas for BDUK and BT Fibre Broadband

5th February, 2014 (1 Comment)

The state aid supported £31.75m Superfast Dorset project in southern England has today announced the first areas that can expect to benefit from an upgrade to BT’s fibre optic based (FTTC/P) broadband network, which aims to cover 97% of the county by late 2016 (note: 95% will get superfast speeds of 25Mbps+).

UK Businesses At Risk as BT Set to Disconnect 20CN Broadband Services

5th February, 2014 (7 Comments)

The national telecoms operator has rebuffed claims made by business Internet provider Timico, which earlier this week estimated that 10% of companies in the United Kingdom could face the “worst case scenario” of being completely “cut off” from their broadband services as BT withdraws its old 20CN platform.

BT Postcode Data and the First Fibre Broadband Rollout in Warwickshire UK

3rd February, 2014 (0 Comments)

The £15.47m CSW Broadband project, which aims to roll-out BT’s “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network to 92% of Coventry, 96% of Solihull and 91% of Warwickshire in England (overall 91% will get speeds of 24Mbps+) by spring 2016, has today revealed which communities will be the first to benefit. Postcode level coverage data is also expected to follow.

Northamptonshire Begins Upgrading First Areas to Superfast Broadband

3rd February, 2014 (1 Comment)

The £16.26m Superfast Northamptonshire project in England, which aims to deliver “full countywide coverage by 2017 at next generation access speeds (30 mbps and above)“, has today begun its local roll-out of BT’s related “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network.