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Dorset and Wiltshire ISP Wessex Internet Boosts Fibre Optic Capacity

3rd November, 2014 (8 Comments)

Rural ISP Wessex Internet, which offers superfast wireless broadband (30Mbps+) and some ultrafast (100Mbps) fibre optic services to homes and businesses in parts of North Dorset and South West Wiltshire (Southern England), is about to commission a new Internet backhaul link that will more than double their capacity and support the on-going “influx” of new customers.

Gigaclear Bring 1Gbps FTTP Broadband to 750 Premises in Otmoor, Oxfordshire

28th October, 2014 (0 Comments)

Some 750 homes and businesses across six villages in rural Otmoor (Oxfordshire, England) have now become the latest to benefit from access to Gigaclear’s new 1000Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network.

First of 8000 Chapelton Homes Nearly Ready for 330Mbps FTTP Broadband

28th October, 2014 (21 Comments)

Scotland’s largest new town, Chapelton, which resides five miles south of Aberdeen and will eventually be home to 4,045 new houses located in four neighbourhoods (this could be expanded to 8,000 in the future), will shortly see its first residents move in and they can all expect to benefit from broadband speeds of over 300Mbps (Megabits per second).

Dutch Scientists Build Fibre Optic Cable with Record Speeds of 255Tbps

27th October, 2014 (3 Comments)

A team of Dutch scientists working at the Eindhoven University of Technology have built a new type of fibre optic cable with seven cores (traditional cables often have only a single core for laser light to travel down), which has enabled them to push an astonishing data speed of 255Tbps (Terabits per second) over a single 1km long link.

BT Wholesale Enhances UK Connectivity via New Data Centre PoPs

25th October, 2014 (11 Comments)

BTWholesale’s plan to boost its fibre optic based Ethernet footprint and big business connectivity, which started earlier this year, has now seen several new data centre PoP (Point of Presence) sites go live at TelecityGroup in Joule House (Manchester), Equinix [LDN5] in Slough and a further one in Leeds. More are set to follow.

Subtopia Planning to Rollout Fibre Optic Broadband in Birmingham

24th October, 2014 (3 Comments)

The telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today proposed to grant Code Powers to a fairly new company called Subtopia Ltd., which intends to roll-out “high-speed fibre optic and copper broadband services” for certain cities in the United Kingdom, starting with their home base of Birmingham (England).

O2 and Zayo Sign Big UK Fibre Optic Deal to Boost 4G Mobile Data Capacity

23rd October, 2014 (5 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 has today signed a huge 18-year agreement with the Zayo Group, which will see the mobile giant replace their old SDH and Ethernet-based managed services infrastructure with a new “fully resilient core” fibre optic network across the United Kingdom.

Gigaclear Set Contractor Woes Aside as Sevenoaks Gets 1Gbps Broadband

21st October, 2014 (0 Comments)

The Sevenoaks Prep School in Kent (England) has become one of the first customers to benefit from Gigaclear’s new Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH/P) broadband network, which as part of the local and slightly delayed Underriver Project can now deliver speeds of up to 1000Mbps (Megabits per second) to local homes and businesses.

ITS Technology Talks Fair Fibre Optic Marketing and Broadband Rollouts

20th October, 2014 (1 Comment)

The Chief Executive Officer of IT services provider and fibre optic builder ITS Technology, Roy Shelton (MBA), has told ISPreview.co.uk as part our exclusive interview that broadband development in the United Kingdom “cannot only rely on the public sector for investment” and more must be done to foster the smaller and more agile operators.

Gigaclear Target 5000 Premises for FTTP Broadband in Rural Northamptonshire

16th October, 2014 (5 Comments)

Fibre optic broadband ISP Gigaclear has announced that their 1000Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP/H) network is set to reach 5,000 homes and businesses in several rural Northamptonshire villages (East Midlands of England) by the end of 2017.

17 BT Fibre Broadband FTTC Cabinets Go LIVE on the Shetland Islands

15th October, 2014 (16 Comments)

Residents of the remote Shetland Islands community will be pleased to learn that the first 17 street cabinets (serving 4,000 premises) equipped with BT’s up to 80Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC) broadband technology have gone live today. The work forms part of the wider £410m Digital Scotland partnership.

BT Delivers 3Tbps via Existing 359km Commercial Grade Fibre Optic Link

8th October, 2014 (9 Comments)

BT and Huawei have successfully harnessed a “record spectral efficiency” of 5.97bit/s/Hz in order to deliver super channel speeds of 3Tbps (Terabits per second) over an existing 359km long fibre optic link using commercial grade hardware and software in a real world environment.

UPDATE2 Big Fibre Optic Cable Break Hits Broadband ISPs in Hull and Leeds

8th October, 2014 (4 Comments)

A number of broadband ISPs in Hull and Leeds (England) have suffered almost 24 hours of service disruption following a break in one of the area’s major fibre optic supply cables, which appears to have been damaged as a result of a JCB digger accidentally cutting through several cables during local street works.

Hyperoptic Bring 1000Mbps FTTH Broadband to 75,000 Urban Premises

6th October, 2014 (10 Comments)

The “hyper-sonic” 1000Mbps (Megabits per second) capable broadband ISP Hyperoptic has announced that their Fibre-To-The-Building/Home (FTTB/H) network has almost reached 75,000 premises in the UK cities of Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Cardiff (Wales), Bristol, Reading and London. In addition, the network has just expanded to include Newcastle, Sheffield, Birmingham and Nottingham.

B4RN Connects 600 Homes to 1Gbps FTTH Broadband in Lancashire UK

6th October, 2014 (5 Comments)

The B4RN (Broadband for the Rural North) project has managed to connect 600 premises in rural Lancashire (England) to its new 1000Mbps (1 Gigabit per second) capable community built and funded Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH/P) network, with customers typically paying £30 per month for the service. But Cumbria and Yorkshire could soon see some B4RN action too.

UPDATE2 CISAS Advises Virgin Media to Apologise for Fibre Optic Claim

6th October, 2014 (22 Comments)

The Managing Director of UK comms provider AAISP (Andrews and Arnold), Adrian Kennard, appears to have won at least part of his complaint against Virgin Media, which challenged whether the cable (DOCSIS) operator was right to say that their broadband service used a “fibre optic cable to install the services at the customers property“.

Tata Comms Finds Brits Most Desire to Download at “Light Speed”

30th September, 2014 (3 Comments)

A new study of 1,770 Internet users in the United Kingdom, which was conducted by Tata Communications, has revealed that a desire for “light speed connectivity” came top of the list when respondents were asked for their thoughts on the most inspirational opportunity that the Internet will facilitate in the next 3-5 years.