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Community Fibre’s Path to 10Gbps Broadband for 1 Million Premises

17th September, 2018 (5 Comments)

Jeremy Chelot, CEO of London-based Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) ISP Community Fibre, has told ISPreview.co.uk as part of our new interview that he wants to see a “full fibre” USO and is working toward an aspiration of covering more than 1 million UK premises with 10Gbps capable broadband by 2025.

Cityfibre Appoint FTTH Development Boss for Edinburgh and Stirling

12th September, 2018 (0 Comments)

Fibre optic network builder Cityfibre has appointed Elaine Doherty to be the City Development Manager for Edinburgh and Stirling in Scotland, which is due to benefit from a joint £110m project with UK ISP Vodafone to deploy a new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband network.

Vodafone Reveal UK Prices for 1Gbps FTTH Home Broadband UPDATE

12th September, 2018 (55 Comments)

ISP Vodafone has today revealed how much UK consumers will need to pay in order to access their new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) based “Gigafast Broadband” network, which is initially being rolled out to cover 1 million homes in up to 12 of Cityfibre’s existing cities by the end of 2021.

B4RN Set to Hit 5000 Rural UK FTTH Broadband Connections Target

11th September, 2018 (14 Comments)

Plucky rural ISP B4RN (Broadband for the Rural North), which has spent the past 6 years deploying a 1Gbps capable community built and funded “full fibre” (FTTH) broadband network to remote homes in several counties across England, looks set to hit their 5,000 connections target by around the end of this month.

VIDEO Documentary Looks at Balquhidder Community FTTH Build in Scotland

7th September, 2018 (5 Comments)

A team of documentary makers from the EU have published a lovely video that examines the excellent work being done by the Balquhidder Community Broadband project (CIC), which is currently rolling out a new 1Gbps FTTP broadband ISP network to serve all 197 premises in the remote rural Balquhidder area.

Gigaclear and Hyperoptic Ranked in Sunday Times Tech Track 100 UPDATE

7th September, 2018 (0 Comments)

ISP Gigaclear, which is aiming to cover 350,000 rural UK premises with their Gigabit capable FTTP broadband network by the end of 2021 (currently 65,000 premises passed), has been ranked 23rd in the Tech Track’s 2018 league table of Britain’s 100 private tech companies with the fastest-growing sales over their latest 3 years.

Cityfibre Hints at 10Gbps for UK Homes After Calix AXOS Upgrade

6th September, 2018 (25 Comments)

Cityfibre, which is rolling out a Dark Fibre and FTTP broadband ISP network across urban parts of the UK, has announced a new deal with Calix to deploy the “world’s only” Software Defined Access (SDA) operating system across its network. They claim it could help deliver 10Gbps to “every home,” maybe even 100Gbps.

Cityfibre Suggest UK Broadband Worse than Internet on the Beach Abroad

5th September, 2018 (9 Comments)

Fibre optic network builder Cityfibre has suggested via a new survey that people are likely to get “faster internet on the beach in your favourite holiday resort” than when you are trying to connect in the UK, although the survey doesn’t actually confirm that and the results are a mix of questionable interpretations.

Gigabit UK Broadband ISP Hyperoptic Appoints Chief Strategy Officer

4th September, 2018 (1 Comment)

City focused full fibre ISP Hyperoptic has today followed last month’s news of a major £250m funding boost (here), which will help them to reach 2 million UK premises with 1Gbps capable FTTP / FTTB broadband in time for the end of 2022, by appointing Boris Dragovic as their new Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer.

Broadband Builder VXFIBRE Publish FTTP Master Plan for UK Councils

30th August, 2018 (6 Comments)

Swedish fibre optic builder VXFIBER, which is currently working to deploy a new 1Gbps open access FTTP broadband ISP network across Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire (here), has today published a new ‘Digital Masterplan‘ to assist other UK Local Authorities in their plans for rolling out similar infrastructure.

New Process as UK Gov Opens £95m to Local Full Fibre Network Bids

29th August, 2018 (2 Comments)

The UK Government has today opened the final (Wave 3) round of bidding for £95 million in funding to local authorities as part of their £190m Local Full Fibre Network (LFFN) challenge fund, which aims to stimulate commercial investment in “gigabit capable” broadband networks (rural and urban).

Cider Helps TrueSpeed Extend 1Gbps FTTP Broadband in Somerset

28th August, 2018 (11 Comments)

Residents in the rural Somerset (England) communities of Sandford and Churchill will soon access ultrafast broadband speeds after UK ISP Truespeed Communications completed the build a new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, which was needed in order to connect the local Thatchers Cider business.

Gigaclear CEO Mike Surrey on Building Full Fibre Beyond England

25th August, 2018 (42 Comments)

The recently appointed Interim CEO of Oxfordshire-based UK ISP Gigaclear, Mike Surrey, has told ISPreview that they’re ready to grow their Gigabit capable “full fibre” (FTTP/H) rural broadband network beyond England and believe that “market forces driven by competition” will deliver the best outcome.

Virgin Media and Durham Council Settle Fibre Rollout Legal Fight

23rd August, 2018 (8 Comments)

Cable TV and broadband ISP Virgin Media UK has announced that they’ve settled their legal challenge against Durham County Council (England), which began after the operator objected to the “hefty” fees per metre that the authority wanted to charge for laying new fibre optic cable along grass verges.

British Fibre Networks Deploy 1Gbps FTTH to UK New Build Homes UPDATE

16th August, 2018 (5 Comments)

British Fibre Networks, which launched earlier this year (here) with an aspiration to build a new open access 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband ISP network to serve over 35% of UK new build homes by 2020, has now begun its first deployment on an apartment block in North Wales, for LW Group.

ISP Pembs WiFi Builds Own 1Gbps FTTH Broadband in Rural Wales

16th August, 2018 (16 Comments)

A little known fixed wireless ISP called Pembs WiFi has quietly begun to branch out by building their own 1000Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) “hyperfast broadband” network to cater for several rural villages in north Pembrokeshire (Wales, UK), which has its own layer2 capacity back to data centres in London.

CALA Agrees FTTP Partnership with Hyperoptic in West Scotland

14th August, 2018 (6 Comments)

Property developer CALA Homes has today signed a new partnership agreement with “full fibre” (FTTP/B) UK ISP Hyperoptic, which will result in residents of CALA’s new build home developments in West Scotland being offered “day one access to gigabit broadband speeds“.