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Newcastle City to Connect Public Sector Sites via 100Gbps Fibre

25th February, 2021 (0 Comments)

The Newcastle City Council (NCC) has announced that they’ve appointed Aspire Technology Solutions – working in partnership with Virgin Media Business (Wholesale) – to extend a 100Gbps capable “full fibre” network to serve “hundreds of public sector sites across the region.”

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ITS Technology’s Full Fibre Network Set to Go Live in Preston

18th February, 2021 (4 Comments)

The ITS Technology Group has today announced that, as part of the operator’s wider ‘Faster Britain‘ digital infrastructure project, their new gigabit-speed and business focused “full fibre” broadband network is set to start going live in the Lancashire (Northern England) city of Preston from the end of April 2021.

ISP Connectus Brings Gigabit Fibre to Winsford Industrial Estate

16th February, 2021 (4 Comments)

Business focused UK ISP Connectus has announced that more than 100 companies operating out of the large Winsford Industrial Estate in Cheshire (England) can now access gigabit-capable broadband speeds after the provider designed, funded and deployed a new network to the area.

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North Yorkshire UK Prep Fibre Broadband and Rural WiFi Boost

15th February, 2021 (7 Comments)

The North Yorkshire County Council is reportedly preparing to start a new scheme worth £3m, which among other things will rollout a free public WiFi network across 16 of the county’s “rural” market towns – stretching from Scarborough to Skipton. Ultrafast full fibre broadband will also be deployed to 6 rural business parks.

Full Fibre UK ISP Vorboss Acquired by Fern Trading Limited

13th February, 2021 (1 Comment)

Network builder and ISP Vorboss, which some time ago spoke of plans to deploy their own business “full fibre” broadband network to 250,000 premises in large UK urban areas by the end of 2022 (here), has been acquired by Fern Trading Limited (Fern Fibre Limited) for an as yet undisclosed sum.

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MLL Telecom Supplies Broadband to The Kemnal Academies Trust

8th February, 2021 (1 Comment)

Some 45 schools are set to benefit after business ISP MLL Telecom secured a 7-year contract to supply The Kemnal Academies Trust (TKAT) in the South East of England with “high speed broadband” (gigabit fibre optic connectivity), as well as a centrally managed firewall and content filtering.

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ITS Build of New Full Fibre Network Begins in Scunthorpe UK

29th January, 2021 (0 Comments)

The North Lincolnshire Council (NLC) has announced that UK network operator ITS Technology have begun construction work on a new gigabit-capable “full fibre” broadband network in the industrial town of Scunthorpe, which will be used to meet the demand for fast internet connections by the local business community.

New Record as Speed of 1Pbps Hit in Multi-Mode Optical Fibre

11th January, 2021 (7 Comments)

An international team of researchers from Japan, the USA and France has managed to achieve a world record data transmission speed of 1 Petabit per second (or 1,000,000 Gigabits) in a single-core multi-mode optical fibre cable, which is 2.5 times faster than the previous record of 0.4Pbps.

Openreach Test Duct Overlay to Help Physical Infrastructure Access

5th January, 2021 (10 Comments)

Openreach has announced a new ‘Proof of Concept‘ (PoC) to test a change to the current Network Adjustment process in their Physical Infrastructure Access (PIA) product, which could help alternative UK network ISPs to more efficiently rollout new FTTP broadband networks via Duct Overlay.

euNetworks Acquires Manchester’s 180km Full Fibre Network

4th January, 2021 (2 Comments)

Bandwidth infrastructure company euNetworks has acquired 100% of the shares of The Loop from UK ISP Gamma, which is a 180km long Dark Fibre network that rings its way around central Manchester, Salford and Trafford. The network is used to serve major data centre operators, enterprises and public sector organisations.

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Why Buying Gigabit Broadband Doesn’t Always Deliver 1Gbps UPDATED

27th December, 2020 (47 Comments)

As the level of “gigabit capable” UK broadband ISP network coverage continues to rapidly expand then more and more people are now finding out what those working within telecoms and computer networking have known for a long time – being able to get or harness the full 1000Mbps (1Gbps) isn’t always possible.. yet.

MLL Lights Up Adur and Worthing Council’s Full Fibre Network

16th December, 2020 (2 Comments)

The Adur & Worthing Councils have just handed UK business ISP MLL Telecom a 5-year contract to provide them with a managed network service, which will make use of a new Dark Fibre network to support public WiFi, CCTV, Community Safety CCTV for Sussex Police, as well as LPWAN and IoT sensors.

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North Wales Hails Progress of £8m Full Fibre Rollout Contract

15th December, 2020 (1 Comment)

The North Wales Economic Ambition Board (NWEAB) has said that they’re making “major progress” on the £8m project to deploy a new gigabit speed Dark Fibre network in North Wales, which aims to connect 350 public sector sites across Denbighshire, Anglesey, Conwy, Gwynedd, Flintshire and Wrexham.

SSE Connect First Sites in £10.5m Aberdeenshire Full Fibre Rollout

14th December, 2020 (3 Comments)

SSE Enterprise Telecoms (SSEET) has just connected the first 22 of 190 public sector sites (hospitals, council buildings, education sites etc.) in Aberdeenshire (Scotland) to their new gigabit-capable Dark Fibre network, which is being funded by £10.5 million from the UK Local Full Fibre Networks (LFFN) programme.

Fibre Engineering Firm Lite Access UK Calls in the Administrators UPDATE

12th December, 2020 (6 Comments)

The UK division of civil engineering firm Lite Access Technologies, which specialises in deploying fibre optic (e.g. FTTP) broadband infrastructure (they’ve won contracts with Cityfibre, Gigaclear etc.), has filed a notice of intent to appoint an administrator after they suffered “challenges” related to their “ongoing builds” and COVID-19.

Ofcom Hits BT with £6.3m Fine for Rule Breaking in N.Ireland UPDATE

11th December, 2020 (14 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today fined BT (Openreach) £6.3m after they were found to have “failed to meet regulatory obligations” during a tender for the recent £50m Northern Ireland Public Sector Shared Network contract in 2017/18. The decision follows a complaint made by rival company Eir.

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Perth and Kinross Council Award £2m Local Full Fibre Contract

10th December, 2020 (6 Comments)

The Perth & Kinross Council in Scotland has awarded SSE Enterprise Telecoms (SSEET) the £2m contract to deploy a new 19km long gigabit-capable “full fibre” network in the area, which will help to “boost economic activity” and connect 31 locations (public sector sites) across the city region.