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ISP Velocity1 Expands 1Gbps FTTP Broadband to 475 Wembley Park Homes

6th May, 2015 (1 Comment)

London ISP Velocity1 has confirmed that their 1000Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network has recently been expanded to cover more of Wembley, specifically 475 homes inside the Wembley Park development.

Rural B4YS FTTH Broadband Rollout Reaches Yealand Village Hall

5th May, 2015 (3 Comments)

The B4RN 4 Yealand, Silverdale & Storth (B4YS) project, which is working with B4RN to deploy a new 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband network for three rural Lancashire (England) villages (Yealand, Silverdale and Storth), has achieved a significant milestone by connecting Yealand Village Hall.

Experts Fear UK Electricity and Fibre Optic Capacity Shortage to Hit Internet

3rd May, 2015 (12 Comments)

At least once every year, for the past decade or more, somebody somewhere has warned about an impending Internet “capacity crunch” or “crash” and today we have a new scare story. The crux of the problem is this, allegedly we’re going to run out of fibre optic capacity and electricity supplies might also struggle to keep pace with demand.

Hmm.. Angie Pledges 10Gbps Fibre Optic Broadband to 3 Million UK Premises

24th April, 2015 (18 Comments)

Who? A strange and unexpected press release just crossed our desk, which stems from a company in the Netherlands that we’ve not heard of before, Angie Communications. Essentially they plan to “aggressively” rollout a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to 3 million premises and make “4.5G” and 5G mobile broadband available to 95% and 90% of the UK respectively by 2021.

Fibre GarDen FTTP Broadband Rollout Begins for Garsdale and Dentdale

23rd April, 2015 (10 Comments)

After a few last minutes problems the community co-operative Digital Dales (Fibre GarDen) project has officially started the build-phase for their new 100Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network, which will serve 580 premises in the rural villages of Garsdale and Dentdale (Cumbria, England).

KC Brings Cheap 1000Mbps Fibre Optic Broadband to Hull Businesses

9th April, 2015 (20 Comments)

The incumbent telecoms operator for Hull in East Yorkshire (England), KC, has announced the launch of several new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based “Lightstream” fibre optic broadband packages for businesses, with download speed options of 250Mbps, 500Mbps, 750Mbps and 1000Mbps.

Hyperoptic Brings 1Gbps FTTB Broadband to First Liverpool UK Homes

7th April, 2015 (0 Comments)

Pure fibre optic ISP Hyperoptic has announced that the first five apartment blocks to receive their symmetric 1000Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Building (FTTB) network in the city of Liverpool have now gone live and a further 16 developments are also undergoing installation work.

Fibre Optic Cable Breaks Cause Major Broadband Woes for Multiple UK ISPs

1st April, 2015 (2 Comments)

A significant number of Internet users across various parts of the England, particularly in and around the English West Midlands and South Coast areas, have suffered a night of slow broadband performance and connectivity woes. Most of these issues appear to be caused by a string of fibre optic cable breaks.

PureBroadband Uses CityFibre Network to Fuel Wireless Broadband in Hull

31st March, 2015 (1 Comment)

Fixed wireless ISP Pure Broadband has today announced that they will be the first ISP to use CityFibre’s dark fibre optic backbone connectivity network to power their wireless mast sites throughout the city of Hull in East Yorkshire (England), which marks a significant upgrade to Pure’s existing network that has been in use since 2008.

Virgin Media, KC and BT Join Forces to Resist Opening their UK Dark Fibre

31st March, 2015 (19 Comments)

Three of the biggest UK telecoms and broadband giants, including BT, Virgin Media and KC (KCOM), have jointly written a new letter to the national communications regulator in an attempt to dissuade Ofcom from making any changes that might require them to provide access to their Dark Fibre Optic lines.

BT Extends “Fibre Broadband” Rollout Contract with Emtelle to 2019

27th March, 2015 (3 Comments)

In an unsurprising move BT has agreed to extend their contract with the Scotland-based Emtelle Group, which manufactures cable duct (plastic piping that encases underground fibre optic cables) as well as sub-duct and blown fibre products at its two plants in Hawick and Jedburgh, for another four years until 2019.

Sky, TalkTalk and CityFibre to Expand 1Gbps FTTP Broadband Rollout in York

26th March, 2015 (4 Comments)

CityFibre’s Joint Venture with Sky Broadband and TalkTalk, which is deploying an “ultra-fast” 1000Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH/P) broadband network to homes in the city of York (England), claims to have completed its first roll-out phase and confirmed plans to accelerate and increase the scale of their deployment.

Gigaclear Starts Build of 1Gbps Ultrafast Broadband in Rural Leicestershire

26th March, 2015 (0 Comments)

Pure fibre optic broadband provider Gigaclear has announced that they’ve exceeded their pre-order threshold for a group of rural villages in the Welland Valley area of Leicestershire (England), which means that they can now proceed to build their first 1000Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network in the county.

UKB Networks Ltd Moves to Gobble Fibre Optic and Wireless ISP Keycom

23rd March, 2015 (1 Comment)

Communications and Internet provider UKB Networks Ltd. (HKT), which runs a number of 4G (LTE) fixed wireless broadband networks across the United Kingdom, has made a cash offer to buy Stafford-based fibre optic and wireless provider Keycom.

CityFibre’s Fibre Optic Mobile Supply Deal Threatened by BT and EE Merger

23rd March, 2015 (3 Comments)

CityFibre has offered up a very practical example of the potentially negative impact on competition that it fears would be created by BT’s £12.5bn move to merge mobile operator EE into their business, which could directly threaten some of their Dark Fibre deals with mobile operators Three UK and EE.

Hyperoptic Expands 1Gbps FTTB Broadband Network to UK Businesses

20th March, 2015 (0 Comments)

Urban focused ISP Hyperoptic has announced that their Gigabit (1Gbps) capable Fibre-to-the-Building (FTTB) broadband network has today been expanded to cater for businesses across various parts of the 12 UK cities in which they currently have a presence.

BT Openreach Cuts FTTP Construction Costs in Cornwall to Gauge Uptake

19th March, 2015 (0 Comments)

BTOpenreach has posted a small, but potentially important, change concerning the Excess Construction Charges (ECC) for their single biggest deployment (62,000 premises passed) of ultrafast 330Mbps capable Fibre-the-the-Premises (FTTP) technology in rural parts of Cornwall (England).