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30th May, 2024 (8 Comments)
A new company called IOEMA Fibre has announced plans to build a new 1,371km long repeatered subsea fibre optic cable between the United Kingdom and several neighbouring countries in Europe, including the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark and Norway. The total “minimum” capacity of this will reach a blistering 1.3 Petabits per second!
25th May, 2024 (6 Comments)
In a new interview the CEO of London-focused business ISP Vorboss, Timothy Creswick, has spoken to ISPreview about the progress they’ve made with their 100Gbps full fibre network roll-out, as well as their future plans, market consolidation, gigabit broadband vouchers for urban areas and Ofcom’s market regulation.
22nd May, 2024 (4 Comments)
The wholesale division of Virgin Media O2 Business (VMO2), which supplies UK broadband ISPs and network operators with connectivity services, has today launched new diverse fibre routes and high bandwidth services into the Equinix flagship datacentre site, Manchester MA5.
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22nd May, 2024 (1 Comment)
Internet provider Vorboss, which is investing £300m via Fern Trading to deploy a 100Gbps full fibre network (Ethernet and broadband) – dedicated to business – across central London, has been recognized for the third year in a row by the City of London Corporation (CoLC) as part of the Considerate Contractor Streetworks Scheme, for delivering “exemplary” work.
20th May, 2024 (3 Comments)
The North Wales Economic Ambition Board (NWEAB) has approved the business case for their new 4G+ project, which is more widely investing £8.9m from the North Wales Growth Deal in order to improve the availability of mobile voice and data services, as well as full fibre broadband, to key commercial sites and transport networks.
14th May, 2024 (0 Comments)
Eurasian focused network operator RETN, which proclaims itself to be the UK’s number one IP transit provider, has today announced that they’ve expanded their fibre connectivity to Manchester, which they say will bring “lightning-fast, secure, and high-availability internet to ISPs and enterprises in the city“.
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10th May, 2024 (0 Comments)
Network operator and UK ISP Vorboss, which is investing £300m to deploy a 100Gbps point-to-point full fibre network (Ethernet and broadband) – dedicated to business – across central London, has announced that they intend to create 60 new roles within the company to help meet a rapid growth in demand.
9th May, 2024 (0 Comments)
The Cardiff Council (Gyngor Caerdydd) in South Wales has once again chosen UK broadband operator Telcom Group (WeFibre, HyperCity etc.) to supply residents and businesses in poorly served parts of the city with “hyperfast gigabit connectivity“, which forms Phase 2 of an earlier Phase 1 roll-out.
9th May, 2024 (25 Comments)
New data from telecoms analyst firm Point Topic has revealed that, at the end of Q1 2024, nearly 7 million UK premises had access to two or more full fibre (FTTP) broadband ISP networks, falling to just 0.8m for three or more networks. Some 64.7% of UK premises (20.7m) are now covered by such a network, while Altnets are still seeing good growth.
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8th May, 2024 (6 Comments)
The shortlist for the third annual UK Fibre Awards event, which is due to take place next month (6th June 2024) in London, has today been released. The event usually sees various broadband ISPs and full fibre network builders across several categories pick up awards for their achievements.
8th May, 2024 (0 Comments)
The Complete Technology Group (CTG), which is a landlord advisory service that also runs sister company Complete Fibre (i.e. they install full fibre broadband infrastructure into large apartment blocks), has today become the first company in the telecoms sector to complete Stage 2 of the new Building a Safer Future (BSF) Champion Assessment.
7th May, 2024 (0 Comments)
The Zayo Group, which operates a large global high-capacity metro and long-haul fibre optic network, has today begun the process of carving out two independent entities from their business. One will consist of Zayo’s European business, while the other will encompass its business that manages customers’ global network needs (outside of their core North American and European networks).
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7th May, 2024 (0 Comments)
Fibre optic broadband supplier Emtelle UK, which is a global manufacturer of blown fibre, cabling and ducted solutions for network operators, has launched a “revolutionary” new 3-in-one drop cable (REVOLink3) for last mile connectivity that could speed up the installation process for full fibre (FTTP) broadband services.
1st May, 2024 (37 Comments)
Telecoms giant BT, specifically their awkwardly named UK digital incubation team, Etc., has today “powered up” their first Electric Vehicle (EV) charger under a 2-year pilot, which is one of potentially tens of thousands that could be established by repurposing Openreach’s old fixed broadband street cabinets.
1st May, 2024 (1 Comment)
Welsh internet provider Ogi, which is deploying a gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to homes and businesses across South Wales, has developed a new bespoke and in-house 8-week fibre engineer training programme and the first recruits have just completed the course.
24th April, 2024 (0 Comments)
UK ISP Vorboss, which is investing £300m to deploy a 100Gbps full fibre network (Ethernet and broadband) – dedicated to business – across central London, has today begun lobbying Ofcom to introduce automatic compensation for business networks in order to help “drive competition on quality and reliability” in the market.
19th April, 2024 (0 Comments)
The Zayo Group, which runs a large high-capacity metro and long-haul fibre optic network with global reach, has today announced that they’ve appointed industry veteran Colman Deegan to be the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Zayo Europe.
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