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Fibrus Goes Live with Full Fibre Broadband in Longtown, Cumbria UK

3rd July, 2024 (3 Comments)

Alternative broadband ISP Fibrus has today put out a second announcement, which reveals that they’ve just put their new multi-gigabit speed capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network live for 1,100 premises in the Cumbria (England) town of Longtown. The deployment follows similar builds in towns like Workington, Wigton and Ambleside.

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Broadband ISP Fibrus Pays Out £60k to N.Ireland Community Projects

3rd July, 2024 (1 Comment)

Belfast-based alternative UK network builder and broadband ISP Fibrus, which is backed by investment from Infracapital, has today announced that they’ll be issuing grants worth a total of £60,000 to 30 community groups across Northern Ireland, which are being supported as part of their 2024 Community Fund.

Fibrus UK Extend FTTP Broadband into Cumbria Town of Silloth

13th June, 2024 (5 Comments)

Infracapital-backed UK broadband ISP Fibrus has today announced that they’ve extended their multi-gigabit speed capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to reach 1,000 premises in the Cumbria (England) port town of Silloth, which follows similar deployments in locations such as Workington, Parton and Wigton.

Fibrus Extend FTTP Broadband into N.Ireland Town of Millisle

28th May, 2024 (0 Comments)

Belfast-based UK network builder and broadband ISP Fibrus has just extended their multi-gigabit capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network into the coastal town of Millisle in County Down (Northern Ireland), which is home to around 2,300 people. The new service is currently said to be serving 1,268 premises.

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Broadband ISP Fibrus Launch 2024 Rural Community Fund with £120k

23rd April, 2024 (0 Comments)

Belfast-based UK network builder and full fibre broadband ISP Fibrus has launched a new 2024 Community Fund, which is worth a total of £120,000 and will be distributed to a variety of rural community groups across the operator’s network patches in Northern Ireland and Cumbria (England).

Fibrus Bring UK Full Fibre Broadband Network to 354,000 Premises

22nd April, 2024 (0 Comments)

Cabling solutions provider ACOME Group today caused a bit of confusion after they seemed to announce that network builder and ISP Fibrus, which is one of their UK partners, had extended their 2Gbps FTTP broadband network to cover 400,000 premises across England and Northern Ireland. But the actual figure is 354,000 (337k RFS).

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Project Stratum’s N.Ireland Full Fibre Build on Target for 81,000 Premises

19th April, 2024 (0 Comments)

Infracapital-backed UK ISP Fibrus this week revealed that the £197m Project Stratum scheme in Northern Ireland, which is working spread a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network into rural areas, is currently “on target” to cover 81,000 premises by June 2025, “on time and within budget.”

Full Fibre UK ISP Fibrus to Launch Openreach Broadband Plans

27th February, 2024 (6 Comments)

Infracapital-backed network builder and UK ISP 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 revealed that they plan to expand their off-net retail provision and coverage by launching Openreach-based packages.

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.

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).

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.