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Virgin Media, Fibrus and Vodafone Top nPerf UK Broadband Speed Survey

12th February, 2024 (8 Comments)

European benchmarking firm nPerf has just published the results from their annual 2024 crowdsourced study into UK fixed broadband ISP performance, which finds that subscribers of Virgin Media, Fibrus and Vodafone enjoyed the best internet connection performances over the past year.

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Full Fibre UK ISP Fibrus Launch Cheap Social Broadband Tariff UPDATE2

7th February, 2024 (8 Comments)

Infracapital-backed internet provider Fibrus, which is rolling out a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across Northern Ireland and parts of North England (Cumbria), has today become the latest UK ISP to introduce a cheaper social tariff for those on state benefits (“Full Fibre Essential“).

3,000 Fibrus Broadband Users Cut-off by Storms Isha and Jocelyn

25th January, 2024 (10 Comments)

Over 3,000 of Fibrus’ full fibre broadband ISP customers, mostly across rural parts of Northern Ireland, have been left disconnected from the internet after two named storms – Isha and Jocelyn – hit across the UK in quick succession. Some of those affected have been told to wait as long as a week for service restoration.

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Job Losses as UK Full Fibre ISP Fibrus Start Redundancy Process UPDATE

19th January, 2024 (21 Comments)

In a perhaps unsurprising development, given recent news, Infracapital-backed broadband ISP Fibrus, which is building a new full fibre (FTTP) network across Northern Ireland and parts of North England, have begun a redundancy consultation that is expected to result in an unspecified number of job losses among their civil engineers.

Fibrus Grow FTTP Broadband Cover in Cumbria to 36K Premises

11th January, 2024 (6 Comments)

Infracapital-backed broadband ISP Fibrus, which is building a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across Northern Ireland and parts of North England, has revealed that their deployment in Cumbria has now reached 36,000 premises (including nearly 12,000 across the town of Workington).

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Fibrus Pulls Out of North East Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout UPDATE

12th December, 2023 (22 Comments)

Infracapital-backed UK broadband ISP Fibrus, which is building a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across Northern Ireland and North England, has confirmed to ISPreview that they’ve had to pull out of the state aid supported Project Gigabit contract for the North East of England. But existing builds will continue.

Full Fibre UK ISP Fibrus and eero Router Partnership Adds Echo Dots

30th October, 2023 (7 Comments)

Infracapital-backed broadband ISP Fibrus, which is building a 10Gbps capable full fibre (FTTP) network across Northern Ireland and North England, has today expanded their collaboration with Amazon’s eero mesh WiFi devices by “[offering] customers eero Built-in capable routers” at no extra cost and a FREE echo dot (5th gen).

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BDUK Analysis Shows Benefits of UK Phase 3 Superfast Broadband Project

4th September, 2023 (6 Comments)

The Government has posted an updated State Aid evaluation of the previous ‘Superfast Broadband Programme’ (UK National Broadband Scheme), which specifically examines the final Phase 3 of the project to extend “superfast” (30Mbps+) coverage – run between 2016 and 2022. Suffice to say, it finds various economic and coverage benefits.

First Trainee Fibre Engineers Under Project Gigabit’s Cumbria Contract Get Started

4th September, 2023 (6 Comments)

The first cohort of at least 90 apprentice full fibre (FTTP) engineers have just begun their training for future telecoms jobs, which forms part of the UK Government’s £108m investment under their Project Gigabit broadband rollout contract with ISP Fibrus – alongside network build partner Viberoptix – in rural Cumbria.

Fibrus Covers 300,000 UK Premises with Full Fibre and Tops 50k Customers

30th August, 2023 (6 Comments)

Infracapital-backed ISP Fibrus, which is rolling out a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across Northern Ireland and the North of England, has today revealed that their network now covers 300,000 premises (up from 250k in March) and is home to 50,000 customers (up from 36,000).

37 Percent of Full Fibre ISP Fibrus’ UK Fleet Converted to EVs

8th August, 2023 (0 Comments)

Belfast-based network operator and broadband ISP Fibrus, which is building a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) network across parts of Northern Ireland and England, has revealed that 44 out of their 110+ strong fleet of vehicles (37%) are now powered by electricity (up from 14 in Dec 2022).

MP Tim Farron Calls on Gov to Probe U-Turn on B4RN’s Cumbria FTTP Build

20th June, 2023 (11 Comments)

The Liberal Democrat MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale, Tim Farron, has once again gone to bat for UK broadband ISP B4RN after the Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency unexpectedly pulled the rug out from under one of their rural gigabit voucher based full fibre builds in Cumbria (i.e. the project for Warcop, Sandford, Coupland Beck, Bleatarn and Ormside).

BDUK Change Stalls One of B4RN’s Rural FTTP Builds in Cumbria UPDATE

14th June, 2023 (13 Comments)

Residents in the Eden Valley (Cumbria) villages of Warcop, Sandford, Coupland Beck, Bleatarn and Ormside have been left angry after the Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency, which had been due to supply gigabit vouchers to help them get a new full fibre (FTTP) network installed, put their project into limbo.

Fibrus Put First Homes Live on Project Gigabit Build in Cumbria UK

31st May, 2023 (2 Comments)

Broadband ISP Fibrus has today announced that the first homes to be reached via their £108m Project Gigabit broadband rollout contract in Cumbria (here) have just been connected, which occurs only six months after the formal announcement. A total of 60,000 hard-to-reach premises are expected to benefit by completion.

Fibrus Plan Full Fibre Rollout for 40 Places in North East England

9th May, 2023 (5 Comments)

Belfast-based UK broadband ISP Fibrus, which is currently deploying a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across parts of Northern Ireland and England, has today revealed that they’ve begun the next phase of their rollout in the North of England – targeting 125,000 premises across 40 locations.

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ThinkCX Reveal Subscriber Take-Up Rates for UK FTTP AltNet Providers

18th April, 2023 (16 Comments)

Telecoms analysts at global market intelligence firm ThinkCX have published a new Altnet Investment Scorecard, which attempts to identify the “winners and losers” in the UK’s rollout of full fibre broadband ISP networks by identifying the accomplishments of alternative networks in signing up actual new customers.

Fibrus Bring Rural UK FTTP Broadband Network to 250,000 Premises

29th March, 2023 (13 Comments)

Infracapital-backed broadband ISP Fibrus, which is rolling out a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across both Northern Ireland and the North of England (Scotland will follow), has issued a progress update that reveals they’ve now covered around 250,000 premises and have 36,000 customers (take-up of c.15%).