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Luminet Goes Wholesale with its 1Gbps Fibre Air Wireless Broadband

12th August, 2016 (1 Comment)

Wireless ISP Luminet has announced that their “Fibre Air” wireless network, which can offer customers ‘up to’ 1Gbps of symmetrical broadband Internet connectivity, is now being made available to wholesale by its partners (currently numbering more than 50) under a new channel programme.

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.

UPDATE Unstable Ethernet Ports Hit Virgin Media UK SuperHub 3 Routers

5th August, 2016 (13 Comments)

Some customers who use Virgin Media’s latest SuperHub 3.0 (ARRIS TG2492S/CE) broadband router have spotted that the new kit appears to suffer from an unusual problem when running in modem mode, which causes the related Ethernet port to stop working for a few seconds every 35 minutes or so.

First Customers Live on Bristol’s New 10Gbps Fibre Optic Network

24th July, 2016 (0 Comments)

The first businesses have connected to the newly re-branded Bristol Network (formerly B-Net) in Bristol City (South West England), which is a large fibre optic network that use to be owned by the local authority until two ISPs, Net Support UK and ITS Technology Group, began to commercialise it last year.

BT Openreach Start Cable Duct and Pole Access Trials with 5 UK ISPs

6th July, 2016 (5 Comments)

Openreach (BT) has begun the first trials of its new wholesale Duct and Pole Access (DPA) product, which is intended to help promote the large-scale roll-out of new “ultrafast” broadband services by opening up the operator’s huge network of telegraph poles and cable ducts for use by rivals.

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.

3.9 Million Businesses Hit by Internet Outages in 2015, Lose GBP12.3bn

10th June, 2016 (4 Comments)

A new Opinium survey of 500 businesses in the United Kingdom, which was commissioned by an ISP called Beaming, has claimed that 3.9 million enterprises (72% of businesses) suffered “up to” 8 Internet outages and 43 hours of downtime each during 2015 and they could have lost productivity worth an estimated £12.3 billion.

SSE Telecoms Adds 30 BT Exchanges to Phase 2 of its UK Fibre Network

24th May, 2016 (5 Comments)

The enterprise division of SSE Telecoms has today announced that their fibre optic network has been expanded to a further 30 of BT’s UK exchanges, which is on top of their existing 13,700km long and 232 Point of Presence (PoP) strong UK-wide fibre network.

UK Government Consults on Business Access to Superfast Broadband

13th May, 2016 (10 Comments)

As first promised in February 2016, the Government’s culture (DCMS) and business (BIS) departments have today jointly opened a new consultation, which seeks to understand “what barriers businesses are facing in accessing superfast broadband.”

Virgin Media Business Bring 100Mbps Broadband to SMEs in Central Leeds

13th May, 2016 (0 Comments)

Cable operator Virgin Media Business has announced that nearly 1,500 businesses in 125 buildings located inside the Leeds City Centre area will gain access to their symmetric 100Mbps or faster broadband service, thanks to the operator’s on-going network expansion.

BT Openreach Detail Next Batch of UK Ethernet Price Reductions

29th April, 2016 (1 Comment)

BTOpenreach has today detailed the second phase of reductions to their business and ISP focused Ethernet products, such as Ethernet Access Direct (EAD) and Ethernet Backhaul Direct (EBD), which are due to be introduced from 1st May 2016 (some others will follow on 1st August 2016).

EU Clears Ofcom Plan for BT Dark Fibre, Lower Prices and Faster Installs

28th April, 2016 (8 Comments)

As expected the European Commission has approved Ofcom’s Business Connectivity Market Review 2016 (BCMR) proposals, which among other things pledged to open up access to BT’s national Dark Fibre network, cut leased line (Ethernet) prices and deliver quicker installations. But the regulator did reject two of the EC’s proposed tweaks.

Cityfibre Confirm Gigabit Fibre Optic Network for Leeds and Bradford

25th April, 2016 (0 Comments)

As expected Cityfibre has today confirmed that the two cities of Leeds and Bradford in Yorkshire (England) have become the latest to benefit from their ultrafast Gigabit capable fibre optic (FTTP) broadband and Ethernet data network, which can connect local public sector and business sites.

Cityfibre’s Fibre Optic Network Boosted by Exa Networks and Diva Telecom

5th April, 2016 (0 Comments)

Fibre optic infrastructure developer Cityfibre has today announced a new partnership with two business ISPs, Exa Networks and Diva Telecom. Both providers have promise to add around 350 sites to the operators national UK Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) / Ethernet / Leased Line network.

FISP Calls for 1000Mbps Broadband to be Deployed Across London UK

31st March, 2016 (23 Comments)

The Foundation for Information Society Policy (FISP) think-tank has said that some 20 cities in the United Kingdom are on their way to rolling out Gigabit (1000Mbps+) class broadband services, but London isn’t one of them and they want the capital’s mayoral candidates to change that.

Ofcom Business Review Forces BT Dark Fibre, Low Prices and Fast Installs

22nd March, 2016 (5 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulator has today published the final outcome of its Business Connectivity Market Review 2016 (BCMR2016), which has proposed changes that among other things would open up access to BT’s national Dark Fibre network, cut leased line (Ethernet) prices and deliver quicker installs.

Virgin Media Bring Symmetric 100Mbps to 2,000 Birmingham Businesses

26th February, 2016 (49 Comments)

Cable operator Virgin Media Business (Liberty Global) has announced that 2,000 businesses in 250 buildings in the city of Birmingham (England) will soon be able to receive “equal upload download speeds of 100Mbps” thanks to their on-going network expansion.