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ISP KC Expands Fibre Optic Broadband to 45,000 Hull UK Premises by 2015

27th November, 2012 (0 Comments)

KC, the incumbent internet and phone provider for Hull and East Yorkshire (England), has successfully completed the initial roll-out of their “super-fast” 350Mbps capable and fibre optic based Lightstream broadband service to pass 15,000 local premises. It now plans to reach an extra 30,000 homes and businesses by March 2015.

UPD Botched BT Telegraph Pole Install Cuts Fibre Broadband for Lancashire

24th November, 2012 (16 Comments)

Several Lancashire based broadband ISPs, including LonsdaleNET, B4RN, TalkTalk and others, suffered a serious loss of internet connectivity that lasted for over 10 hours between Tuesday and Wednesday after BTOpenreach engineers accidentally cut through a vital GEO fibre optic cable.

Gigaclear Secure Cash to Substantially Boost Rural Fibre Broadband Roll Out

23rd November, 2012 (8 Comments)

UK ISP Gigaclear (Rutland Telecom) has successfully secured enough equity financing to “substantially accelerate” the roll-out of its ultrafast Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) based broadband networks into more rural communities.

Study Claims EU Needs 92 Years to Switch from Copper to Fibre Broadband

23rd November, 2012 (13 Comments)

The latest research from consultancy firm Ventura Team and finance group Portland Advisors has estimated that at the current “snail’s pace” it could take Europe 92 years and £211bn to completely switch from existing copper-based telephone and broadband ISP infrastructure to a fully fibre optic (FTTH) service.

MS3 Signs Compass Infrastructure UK to Help Build Fibre Network in Hull

22nd November, 2012 (2 Comments)

MS3 Communications has entered into a new partnership with another telecommunications developer, Compass Infrastructure UK (CI-UK), which will work alongside MS3 to help them build out their independent ultra-fast fibre optic broadband ISP network around Hull in Yorkshire (England).

Gigaclear Completes 1Gbps Fibre Broadband Network in Appleton and Eaton

21st November, 2012 (3 Comments)

ISP Gigaclear (Rutland Telecom), has confirmed that 400 homes in the civil parish villages of Appleton and Eaton in Oxfordshire (England, UK) can now receive a 1Gpbs (Gigabits per second) capable fibre optic broadband (FTTP) service from £37 a month. But more communities will soon follow.

B4RN Connects First Live 1Gbps FTTH Broadband Homes in Lancashire UK

20th November, 2012 (4 Comments)

The Broadband For the Rural North (B4RN) project, which aims to reach thousands of rural homes in Lancashire’s (England) Lower Lune Valley area with a 1Gbps (Gigabits per second) capable community funded and built Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband network, has now connected the first 14 premises to its service.

Evolution in Fibre Optic FTTP Broadband Deployment Could Cut Costs by 10%

16th November, 2012 (5 Comments)

Ofcom has published a new Analysys Mason report that examines the cost of various civil engineering technologies for deploying superfast fibre optic broadband ISP services in the United Kingdom. It reveals that roll-out costs could be slashed by 10% if some of the latest innovations were adopted by BT and others.

Ofcom Want UK 2Mbps Target Raised as Superfast Broadband Reaches 65%

16th November, 2012 (10 Comments)

The communications regulator has published its annual 2012 Infrastructure Report, which claims that “close to” 100% of premises in the United Kingdom can now receive a broadband service (71% take-up) and just 10% can only get sub-2Mbps speeds (down from 14% in 2011). Superfast broadband (25Mbps+) is also available to 65% of homes and businesses (7% take-up).

First Fibre Ducts Laid as Cotswold Broadband Target 9,000 Oxfordshire Premises

16th November, 2012 (1 Comment)

The Cotswold Broadband (CBB) project, which aims to roll-out an open access and 100Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to 90% of home and businesses in the Chipping Norton area of west Oxfordshire (England, UK), has released an Investment Prospectus and laid its first fibre optic ducts.

Ookla and Hull ISP KC Launch 1000Mbps Capable Broadband Speed Tester

15th November, 2012 (10 Comments)

The incumbent telecoms operator for Hull in Yorkshire (England), KC, has teamed up with Ookla to launch a new broadband speed tester that’s capable of “accurately” measuring the internet download and upload speeds of even the fastest 1Gbps (Gigabits per second) capable fibre optic FTTP connections.

VIDEO Demo of Superfast 400Mbps DSL Rings Broadband Technology

14th November, 2012 (10 Comments)

Genesis Technical Systems (GTS) has uploaded some new information and a short video demonstration of its patented DSL Rings (DSLR) technology, which could one day conceivably deliver superfast broadband speeds of up to 400Mbps (Megabits per second) into UK homes by improving BT’s existing FTTC (VDSL2) broadband ISP technology.

Wandsworth UK Moots Superfast Fibre Optic Broadband for Council Flats

13th November, 2012 (3 Comments)

Wandsworth Council has announced it is “considering options” for partnering up with an ISP that could help to make superfast fibre optic (FTTH/P) broadband services available to the borough’s council flats and possibly also local businesses. But will doing so boost broadband uptake?

BT Claim UK is Already in the Vanguard of EU Fibre Broadband Deployment

13th November, 2012 (5 Comments)

BT has said that the United Kingdom is already in the “vanguard of fibre deployment” within Europe and called upon the European Parliament’s ITRE Committee to release detailed economic modelling to support their latest proposal, which demands speeds of 100Mbps for every home in the EU by 2020.

UPD BT Demo 10Gbps Fibre Optic FTTP Broadband ISP Speeds in Cornwall

9th November, 2012 (53 Comments)

BT has used the latest XG-PON (i.e. 10G-PON or ITU-T G.987) hardware from ZTE to demonstrate its “hyper-fast” Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband service delivering speeds of up to 10Gbps (Gigabits per second) to a business in Cornwall (Arcol – based outside Truro), which equates to around 10,000Mbps (Megabits).

UK Scientists Claim to Develop 2000 Times Faster Broadband via Fibre Optic

6th November, 2012 (6 Comments)

A team of scientists working out of Bangor University in Wales has developed a commercially affordable method of using Optical Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OOFDM) over fibre optic lines, which could deliver broadband ISP speeds that are 2,000 times faster than current services.

European ITRE Committee Wants 100Mbps Broadband for All by 2020

6th November, 2012 (20 Comments)

The European Parliament’s Industry, Research and Energy Committee (ITRE) has supported calls for a “radical” boost to Europe’s Digital Agenda strategy, which could see “ultrafast” broadband ISP speeds of 100Mbps (Megabits per second) being made available to 100% of UK and EU households by 2020; with 50% able to get speeds of 1000Mbps (1Gbps).