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Cityfibre Deploys Gigabit FTTP Broadband Network in Northampton UK

22nd September, 2016 (0 Comments)

Alternative network provider Cityfibre has today confirmed that the large county town of Northampton in Northamptonshire (East Midlands of England) has become its next “Gigabit City“, with their 45km long fibre optic (FTTP) network going live for local businesses today.

Cityfibre Confirms Roll-out of 30km Fibre Optic Network in Reading

14th September, 2016 (14 Comments)

The large town of Reading in Berkshire (England) has today been confirmed as the next to become a “Gigabit City” after Cityfibre announced their intention to roll-out a new 30km long ultra-fast fibre optic (FTTP) broadband network in the area.

Cityfibre Sign Onecom to Support Southend-on-Sea Fibre Optic Network

9th September, 2016 (0 Comments)

Cityfibre has today signed a new 5-year and £1.7 million deal, which commits UK business ISP Onecom to be the launch partner for their new ultrafast (1Gbps+) fibre optic broadband (FTTP) and Ethernet network in Southend-on-Sea (Essex, England).

Cityfibre Opens Hull’s Gigabit Fibre Optic Network to Businesses

25th August, 2016 (5 Comments)

Cityfibre, which operates a number of ultrafast Gigabit-capable fibre optic (FTTP) broadband networks across several cities in the United Kingdom, has today opened up their existing 62km long network in Hull (East Yorkshire) for use by local businesses.

UPDATE Cityfibre to Begin Delayed Build of Glasgow’s 1Gbps FTTP Network

22nd August, 2016 (15 Comments)

Cityfibre has announced that the roll-out of their new multi-million-pound and 40km long Gigabit fibre optic (FTTP) broadband and Ethernet network in the city of Glasgow (Scotland) will begin within the next 3-4 months, which seems to represent a delay from the original “early in 2016” plan.

Cityfibre to Finish Edinburgh’s 100km Fibre Optic FTTP Network Extension

8th August, 2016 (3 Comments)

Fibre optic developer Cityfibre has issued an update on the £5.6m deal with Edinburgh City Council in Scotland, which is extending their existing Gigabit capable Fibre-to-the-Premise (FTTP) broadband network in the city to around 150km. The work is now expected to complete by the end of next month.

Cityfibre Pick ISP Exa Networks for its Sheffield FTTP Broadband Network

3rd August, 2016 (0 Comments)

Once again Cityfibre has chosen Bradford-based Exa Networks to be its ISP partner for the launch of their new ultrafast multi-Gigabit capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband / Ethernet network in the city and metropolitan borough of Sheffield (South Yorkshire, England).

Cityfibre Sign 3702 New Customer FTTP Connections in H1 2016

25th July, 2016 (3 Comments)

Fibre optic network builder Cityfibre has today issued a brief trading update for the first six months of 2016 to 30th June, which reveals that they signed 3,702 new customer connections in the period and that’s over three times the total amount sold in all of 2015 (1,110).

TalkTalk Lose 9000 Broadband Subs as FTTH in York Covers 11000 Premises

20th July, 2016 (3 Comments)

UK ISP TalkTalk has today issued a Q2 2016 (calendar) trading update, which confirms that they lost another 9,000 broadband subscribers in the quarter (est. total 3,987,000) and their joint 940Mbps FTTH network roll-out with Sky and Cityfibre in the City of York (England) has covered 11,000 premises.

Cityfibre Taking Ofcom UK to Court Over Protection of BT’s Dark Fibre

6th July, 2016 (10 Comments)

The outcome of Ofcom’s recent Business Connectivity Review (here and here), which gave Openreach’s (BT) competitors “physical access” to its fibre optic cables (i.e. allowing them to “take direct control of the connection“), clearly hasn’t gone down well at urban fibre optic broadband builder Cityfibre.

Cityfibre Confirm New 160km Fibre Optic FTTP Network for Milton Keynes

5th July, 2016 (1 Comment)

Cityfibre has today confirmed that the large Buckinghamshire (England) town of Milton Keynes will become the latest to join their flock, with a new 160km long Gigabit capable fibre optic broadband network being made available to local businesses, schools and colleges.

CityFibre Link 220 New Public Sector Sites to Peterborough FTTP Network

4th July, 2016 (1 Comment)

CityFibre has announced that their 90km long fibre optic (FTTP) broadband network in the city of Peterborough (East England), which was completed over one year ago and originally only intended to connect 107 public sector sites, has now received an order to connect another 220.

Cityfibre and Gigaclear Sign Deal to Boost Ultrafast Rural Broadband

1st July, 2016 (0 Comments)

Urban fibre optic (FTTP/H) network builder Cityfibre has today announced a strategic partnership with rural ISP Gigaclear. The deal is designed to “dramatically accelerate” the roll-out of next generation “ultrafast” Internet access to hundreds of thousands of rural homes and businesses across the UK.

Stirling City in Scotland Approves Plan to Build High Speed Fibre Network

28th June, 2016 (0 Comments)

The city of Stirling in central Scotland, which is partly wrapped around an old fortress and medieval town, looks set to build a new fibre optic broadband network in the area after the local council approved a new Gigabit City plan.

CityFibre Signs UK Urban Fibre Optic Sharing Agreement with Level 3

23rd June, 2016 (0 Comments)

Cityfibre, which specialises in building ultrafast urban fibre optic (FTTP) broadband networks, has signed a new national Master Services Agreement (MSA) with international network provider Level 3 that will allow the latter to procure fibre and expand their service to enterprise customers across the UK.

UK ISPs Virgin Media and Cityfibre Complain of Quadrupling Fibre Tax

17th June, 2016 (12 Comments)

Broadband providers Virgin Media and Cityfibre have complained that a change to the Valuation Office Agency’s (VOA) business rates (charges) for their network assets (e.g. any fibre optic cables that they put into the ground) is hitting them with a massive Fibre Tax hike.

TalkTalk See FTTH Progress in York as Broadband Users Fall to 3.99 Million

12th May, 2016 (6 Comments)

After a rocky start TalkTalk appears to be on the path to recovering from last year’s cyber-attack, but not before reporting that they ended Q1 2016 (calendar) with a total of 3,996,000 on-net broadband subscribers (down from 4.1 million six months ago). Elsewhere mobile customers might be in for a difficult transition.