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BDUK Publish Next Batch of Gigabit Broadband Coverage Reviews

29th March, 2022 (6 Comments)

The Building Digital UK team has today published another batch of Public Reviews (PR) for Surrey, Lancashire, Wiltshire and South Gloucestershire (inc. Swindon), Derbyshire, East Sussex and Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire and Milton Keynes under the Government’s £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout.

ISP Gigabit Networks Goes Live for Homes in Derby on CityFibre

6th December, 2021 (12 Comments)

Leicester-based UK ISP Gigabit Networks, which previously only seemed to focus on business connectivity across the Midlands, has now launched into the residential market by hopping on to CityFibre’s new £45m gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network in the city of Derby (Derbyshire, England).

FullFibre Ltd Begin North Midlands FTTP Broadband Rollout UPDATE

13th November, 2021 (1 Comment)

Network builder FullFibre Limited has announced that their new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network has started to be deployed across the first areas of the North Midlands, with construction starting in the Staffordshire town of Leek. The neighbouring town of Cheadle will follow next week.

ISP Derbyshire Broadband Settles 4 Year Long Planning Dispute

1st November, 2021 (6 Comments)

Fixed wireless access (FWA) ISP Derbyshire Broadband, which built a network to serve rural parts of Derbyshire, Cheshire and Lancashire in England (mostly around the Peak District), has finally settled a 4-year-long planning dispute over a 3.5-metre tall antenna (pole) that had stalled their ability to invest and add new customers.

Project Gigabit Expands Open Market Review for Phase 2 Areas

20th October, 2021 (7 Comments)

The Broadband Delivery UK team have today launched a second batch of Open Market Reviews (OMR) for additional parts of England covered by Phase 2 of the Government’s new £5bn Project Gigabit broadband roll-out. This aims to identify any existing or planned commercial coverage by gigabit ISP networks.

Derby Mayor Hates BT’s Plan to Build Ultrafast WiFi Street Hubs

6th September, 2021 (25 Comments)

The Mayor of Derby City, Councillor Robin Wood, has criticised a planning application by BT to deploy the next generation of their smart UK Street Hub WiFi kiosks (formerly InLinkUK). According to the Mayor, the only people using phone boxes today were “either drug dealers or prostitutes,” although kiosks aren’t quite the same thing.

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Full Fibre Ltd Reveal Next 13 UK Towns for FTTP Broadband

2nd September, 2021 (27 Comments)

Full Fibre Limited, which aims to deploy a new 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to cover “at least” 500,000 UK premises by 2025, has today named the next batch of 13 rural and semi-urban “forgotten towns” across Derbyshire, Staffordshire, West Yorkshire, and Nottinghamshire to benefit from their rollout.

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CityFibre Experiences Contractor Woes in Derby and Eastbourne

24th July, 2021 (20 Comments)

CityFibre’s UK rollout of a new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network in the city of Derby (Derbyshire) and the coastal East Sussex town of Eastbourne appear to both be suffering from a few separate problems with contractors, with some sub-contractors allegedly threatening to “rip-up tarmac” that has been laid.

Cityfibre’s 1Gbps Derby UK FTTP Broadband Network Goes Live

20th July, 2021 (4 Comments)

More than a year has passed since CityFibre, supported by civil engineering firm J. McCann & Co Ltd, began the £45m rollout (here) of a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network in the city of Derby (Derbyshire, England). The good news is that the first customers are finally going live.

ISP Gigabit Networks Joins CityFibre’s FTTP Broadband in Derby

14th July, 2021 (1 Comment)

CityFibre has today announced that the imaginatively titled UK ISP Gigabit Networks has just become the latest provider to hop on to their new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network, albeit initially only for homes and businesses reached by their £45m deployment across Derby (Derbyshire, England).

ISP I Need Broadband Start Build of Own UK Full Fibre Network

9th July, 2021 (8 Comments)

The unusually named UK ISP I Need Broadband (INB) has just become the latest provider to start building their own gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, with their first projects reaching hundreds of homes and businesses across parts of North Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire (England).

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13,200 Homes in Chesterfield Added to Virgin Media’s Full Fibre

9th April, 2021 (17 Comments)

Some 13,200 homes in the large Derbyshire (England) market town of Chesterfield have just become the latest to benefit from the expansion of Virgin Media’s new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband and TV network, which by the end of 2021 will be able to deliver gigabit speeds to locals.

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6,900 Homes in Dronfield Covered by Virgin Media UK’s FTTP

26th October, 2020 (17 Comments)

Some 6,900 homes in the North East Derbyshire town of Dronfield have just become the latest to benefit from the expansion of Virgin Media’s new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network, although initially locals will only be able to access a top speed of 516Mbps (average) until the future DOCSIS 3.1 upgrade completes.

New UK FTTP Gigabit Broadband ISP Simply Fibre Surfaces

13th October, 2020 (1 Comment)

Once again we start the day with an announcement about yet another new entrant into the growing market of alternative UK networks, Simply Fibre, which appears to have been partially set up by a familiar name. The operator plans to deploy its own Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) service to homes and businesses.

Virgin Media UK Bring FTTP to 3,600 Old Whittington Homes

17th August, 2020 (3 Comments)

Broadband ISP and TV provider Virgin Media UK (Liberty Global) has completed another network extension, which this time sees 3,600 homes in the large Derbyshire village of Old Whittington – population of around 4,200 – gaining access to their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) service.

Pine Media Extend FTTP Broadband into Rural Derbyshire UK

14th August, 2020 (0 Comments)

UK ISP Pine Media, which recently revealed that the roll-out of their 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network will be extended to cover 50,000 premises in the city of Sheffield (here), has revealed that they’re now going to extend this into rural parts of South Yorkshire and neighbouring Derbyshire.

Pine Media’s Sheffield FTTP Broadband Build to Hit 50K Premises

6th August, 2020 (7 Comments)

UK ISP Pine Media have announced that they plan to include an additional 20,000 premises into their roll-out of gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband technology in the South Yorkshire city of Sheffield, which will see their total coverage reach 50,000.