Home » UK ISP News Archive » Article Tag: FTTH (1382 Posts)

Articles for Category Tag - FTTH

Cityfibre Adds Cubis to its List of UK Full Fibre Network Suppliers

4th September, 2019 (8 Comments)

Fibre optic network builder Cityfibre has today signed a new strategic supplier agreement with Cubis (CRH Group), which will see them supply the UK operator with access chambers, covers and cable management systems to aid their FTTP broadband deployments until December 2020.

CityFibre Appoints UK City Manager for Northampton Full Fibre Build

3rd September, 2019 (2 Comments)

Fibre optic network builder Cityfibre has appointed local man James Cushing to overseen their £40m investment in Northampton, which over the next couple of years aims to cover almost the entire town with a 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network.

Vodafone UK Home Broadband ISP Speeds Slow to a Crawl.. Again UPDATE2

2nd September, 2019 (35 Comments)

Last week Vodafone blamed a significant bank holiday weekend fall in peak time fixed broadband speeds (here) on “human error when carrying out some routine maintenance work.” Unfortunately a similarly dramatic drop in speeds occurred on Sunday evening and the complaints soon piled up.

iCon and Macquarie Ponder Investment in TalkTalk’s FibreNation FTTH

2nd September, 2019 (0 Comments)

Budget UK ISP TalkTalk appears to be having some success in courting interest from investors in their sibling wholesale FibreNation company, which proposes to build a 1000Mbps “full fibre” (FTTP) broadband network to cover 3 million UK premises. The latest to enter the ring are investment firms iCon Infrastructure and Macquarie.

Sky Broadband Consider FTTP Partnership with Virgin Media Sibling

2nd September, 2019 (13 Comments)

UK ISP Sky Broadband (Comcast) is reportedly in talks with Liberty Global (Virgin Media) about investing in their new Joint Venture company Liberty Fibre Limited, which looks set to compete with Openreach (BT) in rural areas by building its own open access Gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network.

F&W Networks Plan 10Gbps FTTP Broadband for 1 Million UK Premises

30th August, 2019 (12 Comments)

Pure fibre optic broadband ISPs appear to be cropping up every month and today is no exception as we welcome F&W Networks into the club, which has an aspiration to deploy a new 100Mbps to 10Gbps symmetric speed capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to over 1 million UK homes and businesses by 2024.

Goldman Sachs and Cityfibre Sniffing Acquisition of TalkTalk’s FibreNation

28th August, 2019 (3 Comments)

A new report claims that the Goldman Sachs backed Cityfibre project, which is in the process of investing £2.5bn in order to rollout a 1Gbps FTTH broadband ISP network to 5 million UK premises by the end of 2025 (here), could be looking to hoover up TalkTalk’s sibling wholesale FibreNation company.

WightFibre FTTH Broadband Rollout Progressing on UK Isle of Wight

28th August, 2019 (0 Comments)

Cable broadband ISP WightFibre appears to be ramping-up their £35m project to rollout a new Gigabit (1Gbps) capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband network on the Isle of Wight (South Coast of Hampshire), which aims to cover around 53,000 of the islands 61,000 homes by the end of 2021 (65,000 premises including businesses).

TalkTalk’s FibreNation Start FTTH Broadband Rollout in Dewsbury UK UPDATE

27th August, 2019 (6 Comments)

The FibreNation project, which was established by UK ISP TalkTalk and aspires to deploy a 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband network to cover 3 million premises, has today confirmed that the West Yorkshire town of Dewsbury (population of 65,000) has been added to their initial rollout plan.

Slow Peak Time Broadband Speeds Strike Vodafone UK ISP Customers UPDATE2

27th August, 2019 (52 Comments)

Not for the first time, customers of Vodafone’s fixed line broadband service (seemingly both FTTC and FTTH) seem to complaining about a significant drop in service speeds and a rise in packet loss during peak times over the past few days. The reports appear to echo the network congestion issues that plagued the ISP last year.

TalkTalk’s UK ISP FibreNation FTTH Rollout Partners Makehappen

22nd August, 2019 (0 Comments)

The FibreNation project, which was setup last year by budget ISP TalkTalk and aspires to rollout a 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband network to 3 million UK premises, has today signed a “multi-million pound” partnership with civil engineering firm Makehappen Group to help support its “UK-wide” deployment.

ISP Hyperoptic Boosts Entry-Level UK Full Fibre Package to 50Mbps

18th August, 2019 (8 Comments)

Anybody lucky enough to be within reach of Hyperoptic’s Gigabit capable FTTP / FTTB broadband network, which at present covers about 500,000 UK premises across 39 UK “Hyper Cities“, will be pleased to know that they’re boosting both the download and upload speeds of their entry-level package.

Cityfibre’s FTTH Broadband Rollout Grows to 70,748 UK Premises

12th August, 2019 (7 Comments)

The latest independent data has estimated that Cityfibre’s £2.5bn project to rollout a 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband network to cover 5 million premises across 37 UK cities and towns by the end of 2025 (here) – supported by ISP partner Vodafone – has so now reached 70,748 premises (August 2019).

Autumn National Infrastructure Strategy to Boost UK Full Fibre Funding

10th August, 2019 (26 Comments)

The Government’s seemingly unachievable new goal of blanketing the UK in Gigabit capable “full fibre” (FTTP) broadband connectivity by the end of 2025 is expected to get a boost in the autumn, which is thanks to the long-awaited publication of its National Infrastructure Strategy (NIS) that is widely said to include a major funding boost.

New UK ISP Swish Fibre Plan FTTP Broadband Rollout in South England

9th August, 2019 (6 Comments)

The increasingly crowded market for “full fibre” focused UK alternative network (altnet) ISPs has grown again today as a new start-up called Swish Fibre enters the fray. The provider intends to rollout an “ultrafast broadband” Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to underserved homes and businesses from 2020.

London FTTH ISP Community Fibre Add Kentik’s Traffic Monitoring

7th August, 2019 (0 Comments)

Gigabit broadband ISP Community Fibre, which is rolling out FTTH services to over 500,000 premises across London by 2022, looks set to add real-time network performance, availability and security insights by adopting Kentik‘s SaaS analytics platform.

Ecom Make Progress Deploying FTTP Broadband to Rural Buckinghamshire

7th August, 2019 (11 Comments)

Alternative network ISP Ecom (Electronic Communities) appears to be making good progress on their rollout of a new 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network in rural Buckinghamshire (England), which is now in the process of moving on toward Ledburn and aspires to cover 1,000 premises by the end of 2019.