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Cellnex and Quickline UK Partnership Team

Quickline and UK Cellnex Masts Extend Rural Broadband to 53,000 Premises

17th October, 2022 (1 Comment)

Alternative network provider Quickline, which operates a mix of Full Fibre (FTTP) and Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) networks across parts of Lincolnshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire, has announced that their partnership with Cellnex UK has enabled them to reach 53,000 extra homes and businesses in the first year of operation.

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Neos Networks Launch Managed Dedicated Internet Access

17th October, 2022 (4 Comments)

Neos Networks, which operates a 34,000km long fibre network with 676 Points of Presence across the UK, has today launched a Managed variant of its Dedicated Internet Access (Managed DIA) service. The service will provide businesses with fully managed, enterprise-grade fibre optic internet connectivity.

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Neos Networks Complete £10.5m Aberdeenshire Full Fibre Network

13th October, 2022 (2 Comments)

Neos Networks has today announced the completion of their £10.5m state aid funded Local Full Fibre Networks (LFFN) contract to rollout a new 275km long gigabit-capable Dark Fibre broadband network to connect 192 public sector sites (hospitals, council buildings etc.) in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

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ITS Technology Puts Full Fibre Network Live Across Manchester

13th October, 2022 (3 Comments)

The ITS Technology Group, which operates 36 wholesale full fibre broadband and Ethernet networks (aka – “Faster Britain“) across urban parts of the UK for businesses and ISPs, has today announced that their new network across Manchester is now live and able to serve 10,500 businesses with access to gigabit-capable connectivity.

ITS Technology’s Full Fibre Network Goes Live in Sheffield

22nd September, 2022 (0 Comments)

The ITS Technology Group, which via their “Faster Britain” platform runs 36 wholesale full fibre broadband and Ethernet networks across urban parts of the UK for businesses and ISPs, has today announced that more than 13,500 businesses in the South Yorkshire city of Sheffield can now access their new network.

Full Fibre UK Operator ITS Technology Acquires Nextgenaccess

20th September, 2022 (1 Comment)

The ITS Technology Group, which manages 36 wholesale full fibre broadband and Ethernet networks across urban parts of the UK for businesses and ISPs (aka – “Faster Britain“), has today announced that they’ve completed the acquisition of dark fibre specialist NextGenAccess Ltd. for an undisclosed sum.

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ITS Technology Pick ADTRAN for Full Fibre Faster Britain Network

14th September, 2022 (0 Comments)

The ITS Technology Group (its.), which currently manages 36 wholesale full fibre broadband and Ethernet networks across urban parts of the United Kingdom for businesses and ISPs – under the “Faster Britain” branding, has adopted ADTRAN’s open and disaggregated 10Gbps fibre access platform to power its network.

TalkTalk Create New Wholesale Divisions for Business and Consumer

12th September, 2022 (2 Comments)

The wholesale division of UK broadband ISP TalkTalk (TalkTalk Business) has today announced that it has created two new wholesale divisions to support both its business-to-business (‘Business Wholesale Services‘) and consumer wholesale (‘Consumer Wholesale Services‘) segments.

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Vorboss Unveil New London-wide Fibre Network for Businesses

8th September, 2022 (2 Comments)

Network builder and UK ISP Vorboss, which is part of the Fern Trading Group, has today hailed the progress they’ve made on their £250m project to build “London’s only full-coverage fibre network dedicated to business“, which has installed over 500km of fibre optic cable in the UK’s capital city since 2020.

Business Broadband ISP and MSP Connectus Extends UK Network

31st August, 2022 (0 Comments)

Business ISP and Managed Service Provider (MSP) Connectus has extended their gigabit-capable fibre optic network footprint to include two new Cheshire (England) business hubs in Canalside and Northwhich, as well as in the Southside area of Birmingham and at Woodside on the Wirral.

ISP Giganet Get Full Fibre Capacity Boost from Neos Networks UK

23rd August, 2022 (13 Comments)

ISP Giganet, which offers gigabit broadband connectivity to homes and businesses via several platforms (Openreach, CityFibre and its own FTTP network), has signed a new agreement with Dark Fibre operator Neos Networks to secure backhaul and data centre connectivity for their full fibre rollout in the South of England.

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Gloucester Full Fibre Network from ITS Goes Live for 2,100 Businesses

17th August, 2022 (0 Comments)

The ITS Technology Group (its.), which now operates 36 wholesale full fibre broadband and Ethernet networks across urban parts of the UK, has today announced that their latest “Faster Britain” deployment has just gone live across part of Gloucester – giving more than 2,100 businesses access to a new 10Gbps capable network.

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BT Wholesale Launch New 100Gbps Product for UK ISPs and Data Centres

4th August, 2022 (14 Comments)

BT Wholesale has launched a new 100Gb Data Centre Connect (DCC) product, which enables network operators to benefit from a single 100Gbps data centre port, which marks a nice improvement on the current approach (i.e. achieving such speeds would normally require the aggregation and management of multiple 10Gbps circuits).

17 Public Sites in Greater Manchester Get Free Fibre Broadband Until 2025

3rd August, 2022 (0 Comments)

The £23.8m deployment by Virgin Media Business (VMO2) of a new 2,700km long “full fibre” network in Greater Manchester, which is designed to connect over 1,500 public sector sites, has also resulted in 17 public sites – including homeless shelters, charities and community centres – benefiting from free fibre broadband until 2025.

Global Shortage of Fibre Optic Cables Hits UK Broadband Firms UPDATE

28th July, 2022 (14 Comments)

Network builders and broadband ISPs in the UK have confirmed that they’re also being affected by a shortage in optical fibre cables, which has caused significant delays to lead times on deliveries and pushed up prices of such cables by as much as 70% since March 2021. But contrary to some reports, the cable cost is not the main issue.

New Subsea Fibre Cable Links Ireland to the Isle of Man and UK

27th July, 2022 (2 Comments)

Connectivity Services provider Aqua Comms has announced the completion of their work to deploy the Celtix-Connect 2 subsea fibre optic cable, which now runs between Ireland (Dublin), the Isle of Man and England (Blackpool). The move means more resilient and faster broadband for premises on the isle.

Virgin Media O2 Bring Dark Fibre to All Proximity Edge Data Centres

27th July, 2022 (3 Comments)

Broadband ISP Virgin Media Business UK (VMO2) has today announced that their wholesale division is working to deliver network services, including diverse Dark Fibre and optical high capacity services up to 100G, to customers across Proximity’s portfolio of regional colocation data centres.