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Lord Smith – FTTP is Too Niche to Stop FTTC “Fibre Optic Broadband” Ads

1st July, 2016 (31 Comments)

Lord Smith of Finsbury (Chris Smith), who is Chairman of the United Kingdom’s Advertising Standards Agency, has put down another complaint against ISPs that promote slower hybrid-fibre FTTC (VDSL) connections as “fibre optic broadband“. Apparently it’s because pure FTTP/H lines are still too “niche,” but he acknowledges that this may change in the future.

Hyperoptic Defuse Complaint Over “full fibre optic broadband” Advert

15th June, 2016 (3 Comments)

The Advertising Standards Authority has ruled that UK ISP Hyperoptic did not break ad rules by describing their 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Building (FTTB) broadband network as “true fibre” and “full fibre optic broadband“, despite the last bit of connectivity into homes being done over Cat5e copper cable.

Hyperoptic Roll-out 1Gbps Fibre Optic Broadband into 7 Extra UK Cities

30th May, 2016 (5 Comments)

Fibre optic ISP Hyperoptic, which are already deploying their ultrafast 1Gbps (Gigabit per second) capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP/B) broadband network into 13 cities across the United Kingdom, have confirmed that they will be adding seven new “hyper-cities” to that list.

Virgin Media Business Bring 100Mbps Broadband to SMEs in Central Leeds

13th May, 2016 (0 Comments)

Cable operator Virgin Media Business has announced that nearly 1,500 businesses in 125 buildings located inside the Leeds City Centre area will gain access to their symmetric 100Mbps or faster broadband service, thanks to the operator’s on-going network expansion.

GibFibreSpeed Bring 10Gbps FTTH Broadband to 60-70 Percent of Gibraltar

20th April, 2016 (9 Comments)

Some 60-70% of Gibraltar, which is a British overseas territory that sits on the southern end of Spain’s Iberian Peninsula in the Mediterranean sea, is now within reach of an ultrafast Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH/B) broadband network thanks to local ISP GibFibreSpeed (A.J. Sheriff Electrical Ltd.).

Hyperoptic Extend 1Gbps Broadband Network to 13th UK City – Brighton

11th April, 2016 (0 Comments)

Pure fibre optic ISP Hyperoptic has this morning announced that their Gigabit (1000Mbps) capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP/B) broadband network is now being expanded to a 13th “hyper-city“, Brighton in East Sussex (England).

France Adds Law to STOP Abuse of “Fibre Optic Broadband” in ISP Adverts

2nd April, 2016 (9 Comments)

The French government has now officially introduced a new decree that makes it much more difficult for broadband ISPs to advertise their services using “fibre optic” terminology if the network doesn’t actually deliver a fibre cable to your home. If only the UK would follow suit.

Salford UK Council Deploy FTTP Ultrafast Broadband to Housing Blocks

16th March, 2016 (0 Comments)

Thousands of residents in Salford (Greater Manchester, England) look set to benefit after fibre optic ISP Hyperoptic announced that the local council had become the first in the UK to roll-out their 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across its housing portfolio.

BDUK Confirm Extra 3.62m UK Premises Can Get Superfast Broadband

18th February, 2016 (8 Comments)

The Government’s Broadband Deliver UK programme has today published its latest quarterly performance report to the end of 2015, which reveals a bit more detail about the project’s progress. Overall 3,625,369 extra premises have now benefited and can order superfast broadband, with £406,918,848 of BDUK funding spent.

UPDATE UK Still Absent on World Ultrafast FTTH Broadband Ranking

17th February, 2016 (14 Comments)

The FTTH Council Europe, which campaigns for the adoption of ultrafast Gigabit (1000Mbps+) capable Fibre-to-the-Home broadband technology, has published its latest global ranking of FTTH/P/B progress and unsurprisingly the United Kingdom still doesn’t even make it to the list.

Hyperoptic’s 1Gbps FTTP Broadband Goes LIVE in Reading, Berkshire

26th January, 2016 (1 Comment)

Ultrafast fibre optic ISP Hyperoptic has today announced that their 1000Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network is now starting to go live across several large buildings in Reading (Berkshire, England).

Copper Declines as Fibre Boosts Global Broadband Users to 738 Million

13th January, 2016 (0 Comments)

The latest statistics from Point Topic reveal that the total number of world fixed broadband subscriptions reached approximately 738 million in Q3 2015, with the vast majority of growth being driven by fibre optic (FTTH/C/P) based technologies; albeit mostly in parts of Asia, Africa and Latin America.

2016-17 UPDATE – VDSL Router Options for UK FTTC “Fibre Broadband” ISPs

11th January, 2016 (26 Comments)

Today we publish our third and probably final annual summary of home routers with integrated VDSL2 modems, which are designed to be used with superfast “fibre broadband” offering ISPs (BT, TalkTalk, PlusNet, Sky Broadband etc.) that use the FTTC / VDSL2 technology (FTTrN and FTT-Basement also use VDSL2).

Urban ISP Hyperoptic Launch FTTH Broadband January SALE

7th January, 2016 (1 Comment)

Ultrafast fibre optic ISP Hyperoptic, which is deploying a 1Gbps capable FTTH/P broadband network to selected homes and businesses around twelve of the United Kingdom’s major cities, has updated their website with a number of January Sale discounts for those lucky enough to be covered.

UK ISP Hyperoptic Launches Black Friday Sale of Ultrafast Broadband

27th November, 2015 (7 Comments)

Pure fibre optic ISP Hyperoptic, which is rolling out a 1000Mbps capable broadband network to homes and businesses in 12 of the United Kingdom’s major cities, will this morning introduce a temporary Black Friday sale of their packages that should run until Monday.

Sheffield is the Latest City to See Hyperoptic 1Gbps Broadband Go LIVE

25th November, 2015 (2 Comments)

Pure fibre optic ISP Hyperoptic has today confirmed that their 1000Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network is now live in the South Yorkshire (England) city of Sheffield, with two developments in the city centre being the first to benefit (Pearl Works and Mandale House).

BDUK and BT Push Superfast Broadband to 3.31 Million Extra UK Premises

12th November, 2015 (32 Comments)

The Government’s Broadband Delivery UK initiative, which is primarily working with BT to make fixed line superfast broadband (24Mbps+) services available to 95% of the United Kingdom by 2017/18, has ended Q3 2015 by confirming that 3,311,843 extra premises have now benefited from the effort.