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Hackney Council and Hyperoptic Agree Deal to Deploy Full Fibre

23rd April, 2021 (3 Comments)

City-focused UK ISP Hyperoptic, which is currently deploying 1Gbps capable “full fibre” (FTTP/B) broadband networks across large residential buildings (MDUs), office blocks and houses, has reached a new social housing agreement with Hackney Council in London that will see their network cover 30% of homes in the borough.

Virgin Media Grows N.Ireland Full Fibre Cover by 13,300 Homes

22nd April, 2021 (1 Comment)

Broadband ISP and Pay TV provider Virgin Media UK has today announced that a further 13,300 homes in parts of Northern Ireland, specifically Newry, Markethill, Camlough and Bessbrook, have just benefitted from the ongoing expansion of their gigabit speed capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network.

Talk Straight and ADTRAN Prep 60GHz Wireless for UK Rural Areas UPDATE

22nd April, 2021 (1 Comment)

ISP Talk Straight has teamed up with ADTRAN to deploy a new 60GHz based gigabit fixed wireless broadband network across rural parts of the UK. The decision follows a recent Proof of Concept (PoC) trial, which found that the MetNet 60G solution could be a quick and cost-effective way of extending coverage beyond full fibre.

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Three Alternative Broadband ISPs Prep New UK FTTP Builds

22nd April, 2021 (16 Comments)

Three alternative network (altnet) providers – Briant Broadband, Spring Fibre and Stix Internet – have today revealed their intention to deploy gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) networks to homes and or businesses across different parts of the United Kingdom.

ITS Extend Gigabit Full Fibre Network in Nottingham UK to 62km

22nd April, 2021 (0 Comments)

The ITS Technology Group (its.) has today announced the second expansion phase of their existing gigabit speed “full fibre” network (Ethernet and broadband) in the Nottinghamshire city of Nottingham, which will more than triple their digital infrastructure in the area and thus cover many more local businesses.

Triangle Networks ISP Fibrehop Expands CityFibre FTTP Reach

22nd April, 2021 (0 Comments)

The consumer broadband division of UK ISP Triangle Networks, known as Fibrehop, has today confirmed that they’ll soon become available to homes across CityFibre’s 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network in Cheltenham, Gloucester, Weston-Super-Mare, Bath, Swindon, Leicester and Plymouth.

ISP TalkTalk UK Extend 506Mbps FTTP Broadband to Ipswich

21st April, 2021 (6 Comments)

Budget UK ISP TalkTalk has today announced that their new CityFibre and Openreach based ‘Future Fibre‘ packages, which offer average top speeds of up to 506Mbps via Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) technology, have now become available to homes in the Suffolk (England) town of Ipswich.

Rural UK ISP Gigaclear Remove 30Mbps Plan and Adds 400Mbps UPDATE

21st April, 2021 (13 Comments)

Rural broadband ISP Gigaclear, which has so far built a gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across 155,000 premises in England, appears to have launched a new 400Mbps package to replace their old 300Mbps one and has also removed their slowest 30Mbps package. At the same time a new Spring Sale has begun.

Survey Claims Brits Will Pay GBP1514 Extra for Full Fibre Houses

21st April, 2021 (7 Comments)

A new survey of 2,026 UK adults, which was conducted by Censuswide for UK broadband ISP Zen Internet, has found that 75% of respondents would not buy a home if they knew the local internet connectivity was poor. The survey added that people would be willing to pay £1,514 extra for a house that has FTTP broadband.

Trenches Law Aids toob’s FTTP Broadband Rollout in Surrey UK

20th April, 2021 (2 Comments)

UK ISP toob has appointed Trenches Law to be its telecoms law partner to help boost their latest £8m project in the Surrey (England) towns of Camberley and Frimley (here), which is expected to extend their 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to over 20,000 premises by the end of 2022.

ISP Giganet Hails 100th Customer on Portsmouth FTTP Network

20th April, 2021 (0 Comments)

UK ISP Giganet has just connected their 100th customer to CityFibre’s new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network in the south coast city of Portsmouth (Hampshire, UK). This might not sound like much, but for a smaller provider it comes only two months after the service first started to go live.

Neos Networks UK Launch Ethernet over FTTx Service

20th April, 2021 (4 Comments)

Neos Networks (formerly SSE Enterprise Telecoms), which operates a 20,000km long fibre network across the UK and over 350 Points of Presense (PoPs), has today launched its new Ethernet over FTTx (EoFTTx) service for businesses and operators that need more affordable sub-1Gbps connections for their sites.

New Virgin Media UK Trial Hits 2.2Gbps Broadband Speed AGAIN

20th April, 2021 (52 Comments)

Broadband ISP Virgin Media (Liberty Global) appears to have expanded last year’s DOCSIS 3.1 based trial, which took place in the Berkshire town of Thatcham (here) and pushed their network to “hyperfast” download speeds of up to 2.2Gbps (214Mbps upload), to include parts of Southampton (Hampshire) and Manchester.

CityFibre and Telent Start Blackpool’s Gigabit Broadband Rollout

19th April, 2021 (12 Comments)

CityFibre and their civil engineering partner Telent have today broken ground on a new £60m project in the Lancashire seaside town of Blackpool, which aims to deploy a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network to cover nearly all local homes and businesses.

System Error and Costs Stop Openreach FTTP Build in Shifnal

18th April, 2021 (47 Comments)

Residents on a relatively new build homes development in the rural Shropshire (England) market town of Shifnal have been left confused after Openreach, which had been deploying a 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network in the area, suddenly abandoned the build due to a “system error” and cost issues.

Openreach Update on Solutions for UK FTTP Pole Capacity Issues

17th April, 2021 (40 Comments)

Earlier this year we reported on an increasingly common example of how network capacity problems on Openreach’s UK telegraph poles can prevent people from ordering a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband service via their ISP (here). Today we share a little more detail on the operator’s plan for tackling this.

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Openreach Adopt 1 Month Terms for UK FTTP Broadband Lines

16th April, 2021 (15 Comments)

Openreach (BT) has confirmed a small but important change to their wholesale Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband product, which reduces the product’s minimum contract term from 12 months to just 1. But whether or not UK ISPs choose to pass this on to consumers is another matter entirely.