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Bus and Cycleways in Cambridgeshire UK Help Spread Full Fibre

3rd November, 2023 (3 Comments)

The Connecting Cambridgeshire programme in England, which is led by the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority, has today highlighted another example of how their “Dig Once” policy is helping to accelerate the roll-out of gigabit broadband – by ensuring new bus and cycleways are pre-built with fibre ducting.

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Job Cut Fears Strike Rural England Full Fibre Builder County Broadband

26th September, 2023 (13 Comments)

Rural network builder and UK ISP County Broadband (CB), which holds an aspiration to cover 500,000 premises across the East of England with their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network by the end of 2027, appears as if it may soon become the latest network operator to make redundancies.

CityFibre Update on Project Gigabit FTTP Build Progress in England

21st September, 2023 (15 Comments)

CityFibre has announced that they’ve awarded their “first round of contracts” to civil engineering firms under their state-aid supported Project Gigabit broadband rollout contracts in Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Hampshire and Suffolk. The deployments will bring full fibre (FTTP) lines to a total of 715,000 extra rural properties.

Rural Full Fibre UK ISP County Broadband Launch Grant-Funding Charity

9th August, 2023 (1 Comment)

Alternative network provider County Broadband, which is working to deploy a new gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to 500,000 rural premises across the East of England by the end of 2027, has today launched the ‘Hypercharged Foundation‘ – offering grants to support community-centric causes in their build areas.

Cambridgeshire UK Highlights Progress of Dig Once Fibre Build

25th July, 2023 (0 Comments)

The Connecting Cambridgeshire project in England, which is being led by the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority, has today highlighted the progress they’re making in helping to accelerate the roll-out of gigabit-capable broadband across the county, with 21km of new fibre ducting already installed or soon to be deployed.

Kompass Kapital Acquires UK Full Fibre AltNet LightSpeed Broadband

7th July, 2023 (28 Comments)

Alternative network provider and UK ISP LightSpeed Broadband, which recently announced job cuts and a slowdown of their plan to reach over 1 million premises across the East of England with a gigabit-capable full fibre (FTTP) network by 2026 (here), has been acquired by Kompass Kapital for an unspecific sum.

Cable Thieves Continue to Attack Openreach’s Cambridgeshire Network

28th June, 2023 (21 Comments)

The Cambridgeshire Constabulary has appealed for information after they revealed that Openreach’s UK broadband and phone network in the county had been attacked eight times since May 2023 by criminal gangs, which typically target the theft of underground copper cables and often cause significant service outages.

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County Broadband See Success with Connecting Remote UK Homes

27th June, 2023 (1 Comment)

Alternative network provider County Broadband, which aspires to cover 500,000 premises across the East of England with their gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network by the end of 2027, has revealed that the specialist team they created to help reach the most remote homes has now completed 200 connections.

Connect Fibre Launch Try Before You Buy on FTTP Broadband

1st June, 2023 (8 Comments)

Network builder and UK ISP Connect Fibre (Fibre Assets), which aspires to cover 100,000 premises across the East of England with their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, has today launched a “revolutionary” Try Before You Buy offer, albeit only for homes in Sutton and Edwinstowe.

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Next Cambridgeshire UK Towns Named for Free WiFi Rollout

17th May, 2023 (3 Comments)

The Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority (CPCA), which is working alongside the Connecting Cambridgeshire broadband rollout project, has today announced the next set of three locations to benefit from their ongoing rollout of free public access WiFi (“CambWifi“).

Job Losses Strike UK Full Fibre ISP Lightspeed Broadband as Build Slows

27th April, 2023 (48 Comments)

Alternative network builder and UK ISP LightSpeed Broadband, which aspires to deploy a gigabit-capable full fibre (FTTP) network to cover 1 million premises across the East of England by 2026, has confirmed to ISPreview that some of their staff have been notified of redundancies in the future.

CityFibre Complete FTTP Broadband Build for Village of Yaxley

3rd April, 2023 (8 Comments)

Network operator CityFibre has finished their £2m deployment of a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to cover 3,600 homes in the village of Yaxley in Cambridgeshire (England), which is an extension of their existing network in nearby Peterborough that covers over 68,000 premises.

Broadband ISP Gigaclear Add Buckden and Kimbolton to Cambridgeshire Rollout

27th March, 2023 (0 Comments)

Rural UK ISP Gigaclear has confirmed that the villages of Buckden and Kimbolton have just been added to their ongoing £39m effort to deploy a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across Cambridgeshire in England, which adds to the recent additions of Warboys, Sawtry, Ramsey and Stilton (here).

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CityFibre Win Rural Cambridgeshire Gigabit Broadband Rollout Contract UPDATE

21st March, 2023 (43 Comments)

The sixth contract awarded under the UK Government’s £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout scheme – worth £122 million – has today been awarded to CityFibre, which will upgrade connectivity for “around” 45,000 hard-to-reach homes and businesses across rural parts of Cambridgeshire in England.

CityFibre UK Finish Primary FTTP Broadband Build in Town of March

9th March, 2023 (1 Comment)

CityFibre has today announced the completion of their £5m “primary build” in the Cambridgeshire (England) town of March, which has extended their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to cover 8,500 premises (around 80% of the town’s residential properties), including most businesses.

Gigaclear Detail Full Fibre Build for 10,000 Cambridgeshire UK Premises

16th February, 2023 (7 Comments)

Rural UK broadband ISP Gigaclear has announced that, as part of their ongoing £39 million project to deploy a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across Cambridgeshire in England, the provider intends to cover another 10,000 premises across four neighbouring villages.

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County Broadband Add 5 South Cambridgeshire Villages to FTTP Network

30th January, 2023 (0 Comments)

Rural ISP County Broadband, which is working to cover 500,000 premises across the East of England with their new 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network by the end of 2027, has today added another 5 villages in South Cambridgeshire to their ongoing network expansion (bringing the total in the county to 18 villages).