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EU Sets Out New Proposals to Cut the Cost of Deploying Fibre Broadband

26th March, 2013 (9 Comments)

The European Commission (EC) has today proposed a new Draft Regulation that could cut the cost of broadband related civil engineering tasks (e.g. digging up roads to lay new fibre optic cable) by 30% and thus save telecoms operators between £34 – £51 billion (€40 to €60 billion).

UPD Hyperoptic Brings 1Gbps FTTB Broadband to 20k London UK Homes

25th March, 2013 (34 Comments)

Urban ISP Hyperoptic, which currently offers “hyper-sonic” fibre optic (FTTH/B) broadband internet speeds of 1000Mbps (Megabits) to high-rise buildings and apartment blocks around London (England), has achieved its second major target after the service became available to 20,000 homes.

DEFRA Open GBP20m UK Rural Community Broadband Fund for Final Bids

22nd March, 2013 (1 Comment)

The government’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has today opened the third and possibly final round of bidding for their £20 million Rural Community Broadband Fund (RCBF), which is designed to help rural farmers, homes and businesses benefit from improved internet connectivity.

Shetland Islands Suffer Vital Undersea SHEFA2 Fibre Optic Cable Break

22nd March, 2013 (0 Comments)

Some parts of the remote Shetland Islands (North of Scotland, UK) could be left without good broadband internet and phone connectivity for well over a week after a vital fibre optic link to the undersea SHEFA-2 (Faroese Telecom) cable, which links the Faroe Islands with mainland Scotland, was cut.

Fibre Optic ISP Hyperoptic UK Recruits Former BT Vision and PlusNet TV Head

20th March, 2013 (5 Comments)

Urban focused ISP Hyperoptic, which supplies ultrafast 1000Mbps (Megabits) capable fibre optic broadband (FTTB) services to thousands of homes around London (England), has recruited BTVision’s (IPTV) former Head of Propositions, Darren Shenkin, to potentially help develop its own TV products.

Point Topic Claim Residential Demand for 1Gbps Fibre Broadband is Low

13th March, 2013 (14 Comments)

A new study from telecoms analyst Point Topic UK has suggested that there is a ceiling to the broadband speeds that residential consumers are prepared to pay for, with hybrid-fibre (e.g. FTTC, FTTN) solutions tending to dominate the “superfast” market and demand for “bandwidths of a gigabit” being “relatively low“.

UPD Why Fibre Based Broadband Internet Access is Not Always Superfast

13th March, 2013 (21 Comments)

Just because your local authority has promised to cover 98% of homes and businesses with “fibre-based broadband” does not mean that you’re going to get a superfast broadband (25Mbps+) speed and, according to at least one council, you might only get downloads from upwards of 2Mbps.

Hull ISP KC Reveals Next Locations for its Fibre Optic Broadband Service

9th March, 2013 (1 Comment)

The incumbent telecoms provider for Hull in East Yorkshire (England), KC, has revealed the next batch of locations that will gain access to its superfast fibre optic (FTTH and FTTC) based Lightstream broadband service during the first half of 2013, which is perhaps incorrectly described as the “UK’s fastest fibre service“.

BT Recruits 1000 New UK Engineers to Support Superfast Fibre Broadband

7th March, 2013 (8 Comments)

BTOpenreach, which takes care of BT’s national telecoms network in the United Kingdom, has today announced the recruitment of a further 1,000 new engineers to help with the on-going roll-out of superfast broadband (FTTC, FTTP) and phone services into customers’ homes.

BT Spend GBP3.7m to Divert Unused Fibre Optic Cable to the Isles of Scilly

6th March, 2013 (24 Comments)

BT has confirmed that £3.7m from the £132m Superfast Cornwall scheme will be used to divert an undersea fibre optic cable, which has rested “unused … for about three years” on the seabed, to help bring faster broadband ISP connectivity to the Isles of Scilly and surrounding islands.

Timico CTO Hit by Slow FTTC Broadband Speeds After Copper Corrosion

5th March, 2013 (15 Comments)

The CTO and Co-Founder of business ISP Timico UK, Trefor Davies, has called for a “total network rollout” of true fibre optic broadband (FTTP) services after highlighting how corrosion on his copper BT telecoms line had caused a recently installed FTTC service to drop from an average speed of 53Mbps to just 6Mbps (Megabits).

Railway Dispute Hampers 1Gbps Fibre Broadband Rollout in Lancashire UK

4th March, 2013 (22 Comments)

A debate over costs between B4RN (Broadband 4 Rural North), which wants to run its “hyperfast” 1000Mbps (Megabits) capable fibre optic broadband (FTTH) cable over a railway bridge (viaduct) that crosses the River Lune in North Lancashire (England), and the state-owned Network Rail is threatening to delay the project.

Gigaclear Deploy 1000Mbps Fibre Broadband to Frilford in Oxfordshire UK

27th February, 2013 (0 Comments)

ISP Gigaclear has begun work to install its new 1000Mbps (1Gbps) capable fibre optic broadband (FTTP) network around the small rural civil parish hamlet of Frilford and Frilford Heath (eventually including Cothill) in Oxfordshire (England), which will be priced from £37 per month.

UPD Ofcom Advises EU of Intent to Slash BT Leased Line Prices in the UK

25th February, 2013 (0 Comments)

The communications regulator, Ofcom, has today issued a Draft Statement that formally notifies the European Commission (EC) of their proposal to cut the price that ISPs, mobile operators and businesses pay to BT for wholesale Leased Line services at speeds of above 1Gbps in all parts of the UK except London and Hull.

1 Euro Price Drop in Fibre Optic Broadband Can Fuel ISP Subscriber Boom

22nd February, 2013 (3 Comments)

The latest Q4-2012 internet tariff analysis from Quantum-Web has claimed that an 86p (1 Euro) decline in the price of fibre optic based superfast broadband ISP tariffs can be equated to an increase of over 400,000 new subscribers in Europe between Q4-2009 and the end of last year.

UPD B4RN Connect 157 Homes to FTTH Broadband in Lancashire UK

21st February, 2013 (17 Comments)

The Broadband For the Rural North (B4RN) project has told this week’s FTTH Conference 2013 in London that they’ve now managed to connect 157 homes in Lancashire’s (England) Lower Lune Valley to its 1000Mbps capable community built and funded Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) network.

Fibre Overtakes Cable to Become Worlds 2nd Biggest Broadband ISP Tech

20th February, 2013 (0 Comments)

The latest Point Topic and Broadband Forum study for Q3-2012 has revealed that the world is now home to a total of 635.9 million broadband subscribers. But most interesting of all is how fibre optic (FTTx) based ISP technologies have overtaken cable (e.g. Virgin Media) to become the second largest method of internet connectivity after DSL (ADSL etc.).