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Regular Complaints Mire Cityfibre’s FTTP Rollout in Northampton

17th November, 2020 (2 Comments)

Councillors in the East Midlands (England) town of Northampton claim to be receiving “numerous complaints” from locals about the quality of Cityfibre’s street works, which reflect an investment of £40m to deploy a new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network for homes and businesses.

Cityfibre Commit £50m to Blanket North Tyneside in 1Gbps Fibre UPDATE

16th November, 2020 (11 Comments)

Fibre optic developer Cityfibre UK has today announced they will invest £50m to cover “nearly every home and business” in North Tyneside (Tyne and Wear, England) with access to their new gigabit-capable and Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network.

ISP County Broadband Extends 1Gb FTTP Network to Suffolk UK

16th November, 2020 (1 Comment)

Rural UK ISP County Broadband, which is currently building a new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network in rural parts of Norfolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire, has today announced the first town in Suffolk to benefit from their on-going deployment – Sudbury.

Vodafone UK Sees Fixed Broadband Grow to 838,000 Customers

16th November, 2020 (17 Comments)

Broadband ISP and mobile operator Vodafone UK have published their latest results to the end of September 2020 (financial Q2 FY21), which saw their fixed broadband base top 838,000 customers (up by +45k in the quarter vs +42K in the previous quarter), while their mobile base declined to 17,380,000 (down by -200k).

1Gbps VXFIBER FTTP Broadband Goes Live in Stoke-on-Trent UK UPDATE

16th November, 2020 (7 Comments)

The first 2,000 homes in the Staffordshire city of Stoke-on-Trent can now access one of the UK’s first part-publicly-owned open access Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP networks, which is being deployed under a £19.2m partnership between the city council and Swedish operator VXFIBER (inc. subsidiary LilaConnect).

London ISP Community Fibre Offers 800Mbps Broadband for £30

16th November, 2020 (1 Comment)

London-focused UK broadband ISP CommunityFibre will later this morning launch a new Black Friday offer, which combines a special discount with their on-going double speed boost in order to give new customers an 800Mbps (symmetric) speed service for the first 24 months of service at just £30 per month.

Housing Landlords Still View Cost as Main Barrier to Full Fibre

15th November, 2020 (11 Comments)

A new survey of 132 landlords who own properties in London, which was conducted by UK ISP CommunityFibre in collaboration with Inside Housing, has revealed that cost (77%) and installation complexities (55%) are still perceived to be the biggest barriers to housing owners getting “full fibre” broadband installed in their properties.

New Operator Delambre Infrastructure Planning UK FTTP Build

13th November, 2020 (10 Comments)

A new Cheshire-based alternative network provider called Delambre Infrastructure has just cropped up with a vague ambition to deploy a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to “provide ultrafast broadband to households and small and medium-sized enterprises.”

Jurassic Fibre Extend FTTP to 4 New Devon and Somerset Areas

13th November, 2020 (0 Comments)

Full fibre UK broadband ISP Jurassic Fibre has today announced that their new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, which is supported by an investment of £250m from Fern Trading Limited, is being extended again to reach Barnstaple, Wellington, West Hill and Marsh Green in Devon and Somerset (England).

Full Fibre UK ISP Hyperoptic Opens New London Headquarters

13th November, 2020 (6 Comments)

City focused broadband ISP Hyperoptic, which is currently deploying their gigabit-capable FTTP/B network to homes across parts of 43 UK towns and cities (mostly large apartment blocks), is about to open a new HQ in Kings House, Hammersmith (London) – complementing existing offices in West London, Manchester and Reading.

Carmarthenshire Council Approve £55m for Digital Infrastructure

13th November, 2020 (6 Comments)

The Carmarthenshire Council in South West Wales has approved, as part of the wider Swansea Bay City Deal, an investment of £55m to boost digital connectivity in the region, which among other things looks set to help deploy more “full fibre” broadband connectivity and support improvements to mobile networks.

Rural Wireless and FTTP ISP LonsdaleNET Acquired by Voneus

13th November, 2020 (0 Comments)

Fixed wireless and full fibre UK ISP LonsdaleNET (Lonsdale Network Services), which have recently been building a Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network into remote rural parts of Cumbria’s Eden District, has just been acquired by Voneus for an undisclosed sum.

New UK Wholesale Operator Digital Infrastructure to Rollout FTTP

12th November, 2020 (3 Comments)

A new Middlesex-based network operator called Digital Infrastructure (DI) has today cropped up with an ambition to deploy a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network for “areas currently not served by such networks“, including homes, businesses and others in selected urban and suburban areas.

ISP VISPA Plans to Build Own UK FTTP Broadband Network

12th November, 2020 (2 Comments)

Manchester-based UK ISP VISPA has revealed that they’re preparing to rollout their own gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network, which would also be supplemented by the expansion of their existing Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) network to serve locations where it is not possible to use a full fibre service.

Kent based UK ISP Trooli Build FTTP Broadband to 50k Premises

12th November, 2020 (6 Comments)

Full fibre ISP Trooli (CallFlow), which is currently building their 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband network across rural parts of Kent, Hampshire and East Sussex in England, has hit a new milestone after their deployment covered 50,000 premises (up from 26,000 in June 2020).

Rural Gigabit UK ISP Gigaclear Bundles Sky TV for First Time

12th November, 2020 (2 Comments)

Rural focused full fibre broadband ISP Gigaclear has today, for the first time, entered into a “special partnership” with Sky TV (Comcast) that will enable them to bundle their 300Mbps ultrafast internet access product with the Sky Ultimate TV (inc. Netflix) package for a discounted monthly price (saving £26 a month).

SIMWOOD Prepare Uncontended FTTP and FTTC Connections

11th November, 2020 (19 Comments)

Wholesale communications provider SIMWOOD UK, which supplies business and ISPs, appears to have developed a new set of uncontended FTTC and FTTP based products aimed at home workers and smaller businesses. Just don’t call their packages “broadband,” even though they kind of still are.. a bit.