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GoFibre Completes First Phase of Rural Teesdale Full Fibre Rollout

27th November, 2023 (0 Comments)

Rural broadband ISP GoFibre (BorderLink), which is building a 10Gbps capable full fibre (FTTP) network across the North of England and Scottish Borders area, has announced that they’ve completed the first phase of their £6.6m state-aid supported Project Gigabit contract in rural Teesdale – putting services live across 885 covered homes.

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Virgin Media O2 Linked Nexfibre Publish UK Full Fibre Rollout Plan

7th November, 2023 (40 Comments)

Network operator nexfibre, which holds a wholesale partnership with Virgin Media (VMO2) to deploy a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across up to 7 million UK premises, has today published its first “nationwide rollout plan” for 2024 – listing the first large batch of planned locations.

ISP Alncom Expands FTTP Broadband Coverage in Rural Alnwick

31st October, 2023 (2 Comments)

Broadband ISP Alncom has announced that they’ve begun the next phase of expanding their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across their home town of Alnwick, which is now working to cover the Barresdale, Windsor Gardens, Cedar Grove and Fairfields areas (parts of these are already live).

Full Fibre UK ISP Fibrus and eero Router Partnership Adds Echo Dots

30th October, 2023 (7 Comments)

Infracapital-backed broadband ISP Fibrus, which is building a 10Gbps capable full fibre (FTTP) network across Northern Ireland and North England, has today expanded their collaboration with Amazon’s eero mesh WiFi devices by “[offering] customers eero Built-in capable routers” at no extra cost and a FREE echo dot (5th gen).

Fibrus Covers 300,000 UK Premises with Full Fibre and Tops 50k Customers

30th August, 2023 (6 Comments)

Infracapital-backed ISP Fibrus, which is rolling out a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across Northern Ireland and the North of England, has today revealed that their network now covers 300,000 premises (up from 250k in March) and is home to 50,000 customers (up from 36,000).

37 Percent of Full Fibre ISP Fibrus’ UK Fleet Converted to EVs

8th August, 2023 (0 Comments)

Belfast-based network operator and broadband ISP Fibrus, which is building a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) network across parts of Northern Ireland and England, has revealed that 44 out of their 110+ strong fleet of vehicles (37%) are now powered by electricity (up from 14 in Dec 2022).

Fibrus Plan Full Fibre Rollout for 40 Places in North East England

9th May, 2023 (5 Comments)

Belfast-based UK broadband ISP Fibrus, which is currently deploying a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across parts of Northern Ireland and England, has today revealed that they’ve begun the next phase of their rollout in the North of England – targeting 125,000 premises across 40 locations.

ISP GoFibre Start Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout in Rural Teesdale

12th April, 2023 (3 Comments)

Rural broadband ISP GoFibre (BorderLink) has announced that they’ve entered the building phase of their Government state-aid supported £6.6 million Project Gigabit contract, which was awarded in September 2022 (here), to upgrade more than 4,000 hard-to-reach Teesdale premises in Northern England with 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) technology (Lot 4.01).

ISP Voneus Trial Gigabit Wireless Broadband in Rural Durham UK UPDATE

11th February, 2023 (3 Comments)

Internet provider Voneus has just completed their first trial deployment of a new Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) broadband technology in a rural Hartlepool village – Dalton Piercy (County Durham, England), which they claim can offer gigabit broadband speeds to local homes and businesses.

Rural UK ISP Alncom to Cover 50,000 Premises with FTTP Broadband

1st November, 2022 (0 Comments)

Alnwick-based broadband ISP Alncom has announced that they’ve secured enough funding to be able to expand the coverage of their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across 50,000 premises in the North East of England (up from 25,000), with a focus on Northumberland, County Durham and the Scottish Borders.

Netomnia Based ISP YouFibre Joins CityFibre’s UK Full Fibre Network

12th October, 2022 (9 Comments)

Gigabit broadband ISP YouFibre, which until now has been closely wedded to Netomnia’s ongoing project to build a Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to cover 1 million UK premises by the end of 2023, has today announced the unexpected extension of their service to include CityFibre’s network in Middlesbrough (North Yorkshire).

Scottish ISP GoFibre Restructures its Executive Leadership Team

3rd October, 2022 (2 Comments)

Independent rural broadband ISP GoFibre (BorderLink), which in January secured funding of £164m from Gresham House (BSIF) to help build their new full fibre network to 500,000 premises in the North of England and Scottish Borders by around the end of 2025 (here), has today significantly restructured its top leadership team.

GoFibre Win Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout Contract for Teesdale

29th September, 2022 (3 Comments)

The second Local Supplier contract under the UK Government’s new £5bn Project Gigabit broadband scheme – worth £6.6m – has today been awarded to rural ISP GoFibre (BorderLink), which will upgrade broadband for more than 4,000 hard-to-reach Teesdale premises in Northern England.

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CityFibre Finally Begins £21m Full Fibre Rollout for Hartlepool

8th September, 2022 (0 Comments)

CityFibre has announced that they’ve finally started the £21m rollout of their new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across the large port town of Hartlepool in County Durham, which was originally due to get underway in “early 2022” (here), but that seems to have been delayed a bit – until now.

Rural UK ISP Alncom Target 25000 Premises for FTTP Broadband

6th June, 2022 (5 Comments)

Alnwick-based ISP Alncom has today announced that they plan to extend the deployment of their new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to cover a further 25,000 rural premises across parts of Northumberland, County Durham and the Scottish Borders.

CityFibre to Start GBP28m 1Gbps Broadband Build in Stockton

27th May, 2022 (11 Comments)

Network developer CityFibre has announced that they’ve committed £28m to help rollout their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across “almost every home and business” within the market town of Stockton-on-Tees, which is in County Durham (England).

Vodafone UK Name 7 New Rural Towns for OpenRAN 4G Network

10th March, 2022 (7 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone has today named some of the first rural towns in the UK to benefit from their planned rollout of 4G and 5G OpenRAN (O-RAN) technology, which is set to reach a total of 2,500 sites by the end of 2027 (here). The named communities have “traditionally struggled to receive good quality … mobile coverage“.