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Freedom Fibre Plan FTTP Broadband for 100,000 UK Premises UPDATE

2nd May, 2021 (18 Comments)

Alternative network ISP Freedom Fibre, which suddenly emerged earlier this year after we spotted TalkTalk harnessing their 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network (here), appears to have set itself the aim of reaching 100,000 subscribers in the North West (e.g. Cheshire, Manchester).

Altnet Fibre Broadband ISP Glide Hails Net Promoter Score

30th April, 2021 (4 Comments)

Business and residential UK ISP Glide Group, which claims to have a national “full fibre” broadband network that reaches over 100,000 premises, has today hailed the fact that they’ve managed to record an extremely strong Net Promoter Score (NPS) level of +91.84 since September 2020 and +80 for service delivery in 2021.

ISP KCOM Confirm Next 1Gb FTTP Broadband UK Rollout Areas

30th April, 2021 (7 Comments)

Hull-based UK ISP KCOM has recently announced the another set of locations in East Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire that will soon benefit from the £100m expansion of their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network, which is expected to cover “tens of thousands more homes and businesses.“

BT Ponders Sale of TV Sport Broadcasting to Aid UK Broadband UPDATE

29th April, 2021 (28 Comments)

Telecoms giant BT, which is currently doing everything it can to fund Openreach’s planned £12bn rollout of “full fibre” (FTTP) broadband services to 20 million UK premises by the mid to late 2020s, has reportedly appointed investment bank Lazard and held tentative early talks with a view to selling their BTSport broadcasting biz.

Wessex Internet Bringing Full Fibre to 60 Dorset Community Sites

28th April, 2021 (0 Comments)

The Dorset Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), supported by funding from the UK Government’s £900m Getting Building Fund (GBF), has handed local ISP Wessex Internet the contract to extend their “full fibre” broadband network to connect 60 community sites from Blandford to Sherborne in Dorset.

Business ISP Luminet Signs Wholesale Full Fibre Deal with ITS

28th April, 2021 (0 Comments)

London-based UK ISP Luminet, which operates a mix of microwave fixed wireless and fibre networks in London (covering 400sqkm), has today signed a wholesale agreement to harness the ITS Technology Group’s new “full fibre” broadband and optical Ethernet network in order to “complement its own gigabit capable wireless services.”

Openreach Campaign Raises Awareness of Analogue UK Phone Retirement

28th April, 2021 (27 Comments)

Network access provider Openreach (BT) has today launched a new national “Call Waiting List” campaign, which aims to raise awareness among UK businesses of their plans to withdraw old copper-based analogue phone (PSTN / WLR etc.) services by December 2025 and replace them with digital (IP / VoIP) alternatives.

Hyperoptic Build Full Fibre to Notting Hill Genesis Homes in London

28th April, 2021 (2 Comments)

City-focused UK ISP Hyperoptic, which is building a gigabit-capable “full fibre” (FTTP/B) broadband network across large residential buildings (MDUs), office blocks and houses, has signed an agreement to extend their network across houses managed by Notting Hill Genesis in London and the South East.

Full Fibre Could Bring 1 Million UK People Back into Workforce

28th April, 2021 (3 Comments)

The Centre for Economics & Business Research and Ofcom have today released separate, albeit complementary, reports that take a post-COVID19 look at the UK’s digital divide. The CEBR in particular estimates that 1 million people could return to the workforce with FTTP broadband available across the UK (up from the previous estimate of 500k).

Broadway Win Phase3 Full Fibre Contracts in Rural Pembrokeshire

27th April, 2021 (0 Comments)

Alternative UK network developer Broadway Partners (ISP Broadway Broadband) has today secured several contracts to deploy Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband networks to cover the rural Pembrokeshire communities of Angle, Tiers Cross and Lawrenny and Marletwy in Wales.

CityFibre UK Expands 1Gbps Broadband Rollout in Coventry

27th April, 2021 (2 Comments)

CityFibre has today committed an additional £12.5 million to help boost their ongoing deployment of a new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network in the West Midlands city of Coventry, which will see them reach “tens of thousands more homes and businesses” across the location.

London UK ISP G.Network to Train 255 New Full Fibre Engineers

27th April, 2021 (10 Comments)

UK ISP G.Network, which is building a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network for homes and businesses across London, has launched a new recruitment and training programme that it hopes will tackle the shortage of qualified telecoms engineers by training up an extra workforce of 255 people this year.

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Rival Broadband ISPs May Scoop 4 Million UK Customers by 2025

27th April, 2021 (5 Comments)

A new Point Topic study, commissioned by TV and WiFi Mesh provider Netgem, has predicted that Alternative Networks (AltNet) and “Challenger ISPs” could gain up to 1 million additional UK customers by 2025, which would increase their market share to 14.5% (3.74 million customers) from 12.5% in 2021.

Broadband ISP Plusnet UK Predicted to Launch FTTP in H2 2021

27th April, 2021 (46 Comments)

After an excruciatingly long wait, budget conscious UK ISP Plusnet finally looks set to move into the ultrafast broadband era by launching their first Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband packages later this year. The product also seems likely to be accompanied by a new router (possibly a re-brand of BT’s Smart Hub 2).

Global Fixed Broadband Users Hit 1.18bn as UK FTTP Surges in Q4 2020

26th April, 2021 (17 Comments)

The latest research from Point Topic has found that world fixed broadband subscribers grew by 1.6% (18.59 million) in Q4 2020, which is down slightly from 2.07% in the previous quarter but still pushes the overall total to 1.18 billion. Meanwhile, the UK reported the strongest quarterly “full fibre” (FTTP) growth of any country on 28.6%.

Broadband and Mobile Policy by Political Party in Wales and Scotland

26th April, 2021 (3 Comments)

Anybody living in Wales or Scotland will be aware that both are currently preparing for their 2021 Parliamentary Elections, which are due to take place on 6th May 2021. As such we thought it might be useful to take a quick look at what each of the main parties are promising in terms of broadband and mobile policy.

Broadband and 5G Boost as Network Rail Plan GBP1bn Cable Auction

26th April, 2021 (9 Comments)

Network Rail, which is responsible for running Britain’s railways, has revealed they will auction off 10,000 miles worth of their old trackside cable network (much of this still runs off legacy copper lines and is in need of an upgrade). The £1bn auction could help to support the UK rollout of gigabit broadband and 5G mobile.