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Will the Real Fibre Optic Broadband Service Please Stand Up

2nd January, 2013 (31 Comments)

When is a “fibre optic” broadband service not fibre optic? The answer might seem obvious but if so then it’s not something that the industry appears keen to respect. But just what does the term fibre optic actually mean and why are ISPs so eager to use and in some cases abuse it.

ISP Gigaclear Brings 1000Mbps Fibre Broadband to Uppingham in Rutland UK

19th December, 2012 (0 Comments)

Gigaclear has announced plans to upgrade its Rutland Telecom managed network in the rural market town of Uppingham (Leicestershire) with a new 1Gpbs (Gigabits per second) capable fibre optic broadband (FTTP) service, which will be priced from £37 per month.

Gigaclear Confirm 1Gbps Fibre Broadband for Fyfield and Tubney in 2013

6th December, 2012 (7 Comments)

UK ISP Gigaclear has today confirmed that the two Oxfordshire villages of Fyfield and Tubney (England) can expect to receive ultra-fast broadband speeds of up to 1Gpbs (Gigabits per second) via a new fibre optic (FTTP) network from early 2013.

ISP Seethelight Confirms Price Revamp for its UK FTTH Broadband Service

5th December, 2012 (3 Comments)

ISP Seethelight, which offers a 200Mbps ultrafast fibre optic broadband service (FTTH) to several parts of the UK via the Independent Fibre Networks Limited (IFNL) platform, has revealed a series of new price hikes and some reductions that will take effect from 15th January 2013.

UPD2 Government Name 12 Smaller UK Cities for Ultrafast Broadband Boost

5th December, 2012 (0 Comments)

The UK government’s Chancellor, George Osborne MP, has today announced his Autumn Statement and revealed the final list of 12 “smaller cities” that will benefit from around £50m (Urban Broadband Fund) to help expand the coverage of “ultra-fast” broadband (80-100Mbps+) and “high speed” public wifi services into neglected areas.

CityFibre Will Expand York UK Fibre Optic Network to Businesses and Homes

4th December, 2012 (2 Comments)

CityFibre, which builds fibre optic infrastructure for cities in the United Kingdom, has announced that its “open access” and city-wide Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) style ultrafast broadband network in York will be extended to serve local businesses from early next year (Q1-2013). Residential homes to follow.

ISP KC Expands Fibre Optic Broadband to 45,000 Hull UK Premises by 2015

27th November, 2012 (0 Comments)

KC, the incumbent internet and phone provider for Hull and East Yorkshire (England), has successfully completed the initial roll-out of their “super-fast” 350Mbps capable and fibre optic based Lightstream broadband service to pass 15,000 local premises. It now plans to reach an extra 30,000 homes and businesses by March 2015.

Gigaclear Secure Cash to Substantially Boost Rural Fibre Broadband Roll Out

23rd November, 2012 (8 Comments)

UK ISP Gigaclear (Rutland Telecom) has successfully secured enough equity financing to “substantially accelerate” the roll-out of its ultrafast Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) based broadband networks into more rural communities.

B4RN Connects First Live 1Gbps FTTH Broadband Homes in Lancashire UK

20th November, 2012 (4 Comments)

The Broadband For the Rural North (B4RN) project, which aims to reach thousands of rural homes in Lancashire’s (England) Lower Lune Valley area with a 1Gbps (Gigabits per second) capable community funded and built Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband network, has now connected the first 14 premises to its service.

Evolution in Fibre Optic FTTP Broadband Deployment Could Cut Costs by 10%

16th November, 2012 (5 Comments)

Ofcom has published a new Analysys Mason report that examines the cost of various civil engineering technologies for deploying superfast fibre optic broadband ISP services in the United Kingdom. It reveals that roll-out costs could be slashed by 10% if some of the latest innovations were adopted by BT and others.

Wandsworth UK Moots Superfast Fibre Optic Broadband for Council Flats

13th November, 2012 (3 Comments)

Wandsworth Council has announced it is “considering options” for partnering up with an ISP that could help to make superfast fibre optic (FTTH/P) broadband services available to the borough’s council flats and possibly also local businesses. But will doing so boost broadband uptake?

BT Claim UK is Already in the Vanguard of EU Fibre Broadband Deployment

13th November, 2012 (5 Comments)

BT has said that the United Kingdom is already in the “vanguard of fibre deployment” within Europe and called upon the European Parliament’s ITRE Committee to release detailed economic modelling to support their latest proposal, which demands speeds of 100Mbps for every home in the EU by 2020.

UK Scientists Claim to Develop 2000 Times Faster Broadband via Fibre Optic

6th November, 2012 (6 Comments)

A team of scientists working out of Bangor University in Wales has developed a commercially affordable method of using Optical Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OOFDM) over fibre optic lines, which could deliver broadband ISP speeds that are 2,000 times faster than current services.

European ITRE Committee Wants 100Mbps Broadband for All by 2020

6th November, 2012 (20 Comments)

The European Parliament’s Industry, Research and Energy Committee (ITRE) has supported calls for a “radical” boost to Europe’s Digital Agenda strategy, which could see “ultrafast” broadband ISP speeds of 100Mbps (Megabits per second) being made available to 100% of UK and EU households by 2020; with 50% able to get speeds of 1000Mbps (1Gbps).

Shetland Telecom Boss Slams UK’s Broadband Strategy as “Madness”

29th October, 2012 (12 Comments)

The project manager for Shetland Telecom, which is busy improving internet capacity on the remote Shetland Islands via a new fibre optic link with Scotland, has told ISPreview.co.uk that it’s “complete madness” for the UK government to spend millions attempting to “squeeze more life” out of BT’s existing copper broadband ISP network.

ISP Gigler Trial 1Gbps Fibre Optic Broadband for Bournemouth UK Businesses

22nd October, 2012 (2 Comments)

Gigler has today begun fresh trials of a new symmetric 1Gbps (Gigabits per second) capable business service in the English south coast town of Bournemouth, which will harness the power of CityFibre’s local Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) based fibre optic broadband ISP network.

FTTH Ultrafast Fibre Optic Broadband Connections Pass 175000 UK Homes

16th October, 2012 (45 Comments)

The FTTH Council Europe has released its latest global ranking of ultrafast Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) based fibre optic broadband ISP internet connections. Sadly the UK still doesn’t have enough true fibre connections to show in the main list but related services have now passed 175,000 homes.