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Cityfibre UK Begins 1Gbps FTTH Broadband Build in Leicester UPDATE

8th June, 2020 (20 Comments)

Cityfibre’s civil engineering teams appear to have begun their deployment of a new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) based broadband ISP network in the East Midlands city of Leicester (England) this month, with locals in the Belgrave and some central areas reporting lots of duct and trenching work.

Full Fibre Broadband to Help Create 1.2 Million UK Jobs by 2025

8th June, 2020 (12 Comments)

The Centre for Economics & Business Research (CEBR) has updated their research to account for the impact of the “full fibre” broadband roll-out and more people working from home post-COVID19, which now assumes that 25% of the workforce could be working from home by 2025 and this may help to create 1.2 million jobs.

Cityfibre Start £45m Derby UK 1Gbps FTTH Broadband Rollout

8th June, 2020 (26 Comments)

Cityfibre has confirmed that they’ve begun construction of their new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) based broadband ISP network in the city of Derby (Derbyshire, England), which is being conducted alongside civil engineering firm J. McCann & Co Ltd and is expected to cost £45m.

ISP Trooli Covers 26,000 UK Premises with FTTP Broadband

4th June, 2020 (3 Comments)

Fibre optic UK ISP Trooli (CallFlow), which has spent the past year quietly deploying a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband service across parts of Kent and Hampshire, have announced that their network has now built 200km of optical fibre to cover 26,000 premises (i.e. completed on target).

Report Reveals the Barriers to UK Gigabit Broadband Adoption

4th June, 2020 (26 Comments)

The Broadband Stakeholder Group, which is a think-tank that advises the UK Government, has today published a new report from WIK to help highlight some of the barriers that remain (other than coverage) to getting customers to adopt “gigabit-capable” broadband ISP connections ahead of the copper switch-off.

ISP TalkTalk UK Sees Job Losses in York After FibreNation Sale

4th June, 2020 (0 Comments)

Broadband ISP TalkTalk has confirmed that a small number of jobs will be cut in the city of York, which is where they had been building a new Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) network via the FibreNation brand until its recent sale (here) to the Goldman Sachs backed Cityfibre for around £200m cash.

Rural UK ISP Truespeed Appoint New CFO to Accelerate Growth

3rd June, 2020 (3 Comments)

Rural ISP TrueSpeed, which is backed by an investment of £75m from Aviva Investors and is deploying a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across South West England (mostly Somerset), has today appointed Paul Burridge as their new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) to help accelerate their plans and future growth.

ISP Sky Broadband UK Start Small Pilot of Ultrafast FTTP Service UPDATE

3rd June, 2020 (74 Comments)

After a long wait Sky Broadband has finally become the latest UK ISP to introduce an ultrafast and superfast broadband package based off Openreach’s Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, but sadly this will initially take the form of a small scale pilot and is currently only available to a number of FTTP eligible homes.

Lite Access Joins Cityfibre’s 1Gbps FTTH Rollout in Cambridge

1st June, 2020 (0 Comments)

Cityfibre has announced that civil engineering firm Lite Access Technologies has been signed to help complete their £20m roll-out of a new gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband ISP network to 60,000 premises in the UK city of Cambridge (Cambridgeshire), which is due to complete by the end of 2021.

Ofcom’s Former General Counsel Jumps Ship to Cityfibre UK UPDATE

1st June, 2020 (4 Comments)

Urban focused UK full fibre network builder Cityfibre has managed to snatch away one of Ofcom’s top legal professionals in the shape of Polly Weitzman, the regulator’s current General Counsel with extensive experience in the field of telecoms regulation and law.

Progress Update for Wales Full Fibre Broadband Rollout with BT

31st May, 2020 (33 Comments)

The Welsh Government (WG) has issued their first quarterly progress update on the £22.5m Phase 2 contract they have with Openreach (BT), which aims to extend gigabit-capable “full fibre” (FTTP) broadband to a further 26,000 premises by March 2021 (here and here). So far 8,283 rural premises have been completed.

Cityfibre Begins £14m FTTH Broadband Rollout in Lowestoft

29th May, 2020 (3 Comments)

Urban UK fibre optic network builder Cityfibre has announced that they’ve started construction on their £14m project to build a new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband network in the sea side Suffolk town of Lowestoft, which will be supplied by ISP partners Vodafone (and eventually TalkTalk).

Gigaclear Close to Completion of West Berkshire FTTP Rollout

29th May, 2020 (5 Comments)

Rural fibre optic UK ISP Gigaclear has confirmed that their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network in West Berkshire – built with support from public investment via the Superfast Berkshire project – is now nearly complete following massive delays. Some 14,000 local premises can already access the service.

Full Fibre UK ISP Hyperoptic Launch Optional Price Promises

28th May, 2020 (1 Comment)

City focused FTTP/B broadband ISP Hyperoptic, which covers more than 400,000 UK premises with their 1Gbps capable network (mostly large apartment blocks), has today launched a new pricing plan, where customers can choose to lock-in a no-price-rise promise, free speed upgrade and the ability to cancel anytime with no exit fee.

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Most EU Countries and UK Set to Miss Targets for Fibre Access

28th May, 2020 (12 Comments)

New research from Analysys Mason, which was commissioned by Chinese technology firm Huawei (vested interest), has today warned that the United Kingdom and most EU countries will miss the European Commission’s (EC) future broadband targets unless they tackle the remaining challenges and barriers being faced by operators.

ISP Truespeed Build Full Fibre Broadband to Saltford in Somerset

28th May, 2020 (5 Comments)

Rural full fibre UK ISP TrueSpeed, which is backed by an investment of £75m from Aviva Investors and has been deploying a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across Somerset in South West England for the past few years, appears to now be extending into the large village of Saltford.

Ecom’s FTTP Broadband Goes Live in Ledburn, Buckinghamshire

26th May, 2020 (0 Comments)

UK ISP Ecom (Electronic Communities) has confirmed that the first customer has just been connected to their new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network in the rural Buckinghamshire community of Ledburn, which was achieved with help from the Government’s gigabit voucher schemes.