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CityFibre Officially Launch 2.5Gbps FTTP Home Broadband Tier

12th July, 2023 (67 Comments)

As expect, CityFibre has today announced that they’ve officially made a new 2.5Gbps (symmetric) speed consumer UK broadband tier available at wholesale for their retail ISPs to sell on to customers, which harnesses the operator’s new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) network.

CityFibre Start £42m FTTP Broadband Build in South Tyneside

12th July, 2023 (11 Comments)

Network operator CityFibre has today announced that they’ve finally entered the construction phase of their £42 million project to deploy a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) broadband network across South Tyneside (Tyne and Wear) in North East England. The operator is already working in neighbouring Gateshead.

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Numis Report Warns BT Underplaying the Risk from UK AltNets

3rd July, 2023 (47 Comments)

A new report from investment bank Numis, which was authored by analyst John Karidis, has today reiterated its sell recommendation on BT (inc. Openreach) and warned that the national broadband giant “keeps underplaying the risk” from rival alternative networks to its consumer and business units.

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CityFibre Win Three Major UK Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout Contracts

1st July, 2023 (48 Comments)

The UK Government’s £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout scheme has announced that CityFibre have secured three major build contracts for Hampshire, Norfolk and Suffolk in England. The combined award is worth £488m (£318m state aid and £170m private) and will see the operator extend 10Gbps capable FTTP to 218,000 premises (500k inc. commercial build).

Toob Expand FTTP via CityFibre into Worthing, Brighton and Hove

29th June, 2023 (9 Comments)

Network builder and UK broadband ISP toob has today announced that their coverage via CityFibre’s existing Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network has been expanded again. This time they’ve moved toward East Sussex and are now becoming available to homes in Worthing, Brighton and Hove.

First CityFibre UK ISP Launches Cheap 2.5Gbps Broadband Plan UPDATE

27th June, 2023 (31 Comments)

Broadband provider Yayzi appears to have quietly become the first ISP on CityFibre’s national Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to launch a symmetric speed 2.5Gbps package for UK consumers, which will set you back just £45 per month on an 18-month term (inc. free wireless router). Now that’s cheap.

CityFibre Secure Wayleaves to Build FTTP to 1 Million UK Social Homes

22nd June, 2023 (4 Comments)

Network operator CityFibre has today announced that they’ve secured enough legal UK land and property access agreements (wayleaves) to connect over 1 million homes owned by local authorities and housing associations to their new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network.

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VolkerHighways Rebrands UK Telecoms Division to VolkerTelecoms

1st June, 2023 (0 Comments)

Civil engineering firm VolkerHighways‘ has announced that their UK telecoms division, which is playing a role in the nationwide deployment of full fibre broadband networks (as well as potentially some 5G network infrastructure), has rebranded to VolkerTelecoms to help “simplify and strengthen the business“.

Octaplus Mistake Cuts Off Some Former ZYBRE CityFibre Broadband Customers UPDATE2

30th May, 2023 (29 Comments)

Broadband ISP Octaplus Networks has apologised after they left some customers on CityFibre’s UK full fibre (FTTP) network, specifically those who live in Chester and were being migrated from troubled provider ZYBRE (Air Broadband), without internet access due to an “unfortunate error” related to network availability.

Ofcom APPROVE Openreach’s Equinox 2 UK FTTP Broadband Price Cuts UPDATE4

24th May, 2023 (65 Comments)

Ofcom has this morning announced that it will NOT block Openreach’s proposed “Equinox 2” discount scheme for their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP products from being introduced, which came after rival networks raised competition concerns over the plans.

TalkTalk’s Wrongful FTTP Network Closure Warning Causes Confusion UPDATE

20th May, 2023 (6 Comments)

Low-cost UK broadband ISP TalkTalk has apologised after customers in two rural villages outside Warrington, which are being served by their older UltraFibreOptic (UFO) based gigabit FTTP network on CityFibre’s platform, were mistakenly told that their service was due to be disconnected.

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After Long Delay – CityFibre Starts FTTP Build in Great Yarmouth

18th May, 2023 (13 Comments)

CityFibre has announced that they’ve finally started the construction phase of their £15m project to rollout a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to reach across “nearly every” home and business in the Norfolk seaside town of Great Yarmouth, which was originally due to begin last winter.

UK ISP TalkTalk and CityFibre Sign New Strategic Biz Partnership

18th May, 2023 (0 Comments)

The wholesale division of broadband ISP TalkTalk – TT Wholesale Services – has today agreed to a new strategic business-to-business (B2B) partnership with full fibre network builder CityFibre, which will see the internet provider’s wholesale customers (often including rival ISPs) being offered more choice.

Vodafone Top 1.22m UK Broadband Customers and Cuts 11,000 Jobs

16th May, 2023 (13 Comments)

Vodafone UK has released their latest Q4 FY23 results, which reveals that their fixed line broadband ISP base grew strongly to total 1.223 million customers (up by 65k in the quarter vs 47k in Q3 FY23), while their mobile base also now totals 17.92 million (up by 118k vs 259k in the previous quarter). But job cuts galore.

CityFibre Start 10Gb XGS-PON Upgrade of UK Broadband Network

12th May, 2023 (43 Comments)

CityFibre has confirmed that they’ve started the national UK rollout programme for the XGS-PON technology upgrade to their existing GPON based full fibre (FTTP) broadband ISP network, which among other things will enable them to support symmetric broadband speeds of up to 10Gbps (9.953Gbps to be exact).

Vodafone UK CEO Pushes Ofcom to Clear Openreach FTTP Prices Cuts

11th May, 2023 (23 Comments)

The CEO of mobile and broadband ISP Vodafone UK, Ahmed Essam, has joined other retail internet providers in publicly calling on Ofcom to approve Openreach’s proposed “Equinox 2” discount scheme for their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based products, which is being challenged by alternative networks (AltNets).

Customers of Giganet Broadband Suffer Mass UK Service Outage UPDATE

10th May, 2023 (9 Comments)

Fern Trading-backed UK ISP Giganet (Cuckoo) appears to have been suffering from a “mass service outage” over the past 12-24 hours which, judging by feedback from customers across the UK, has resulted in a variety of sporadic connectivity problems since around 3pm yesterday afternoon.