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20th June, 2018 (10 Comments)

The Somerset County Council in England has published an update on their joint £171 million Connecting Devon and Somerset (CDS) project, which reveals that around 11,300 premises in the county will remain unserved by “superfast broadband” (30Mbps+) ISP networks when the project completes in 2020.

20th June, 2018 (2 Comments)

The UK Minister of State for Digital, Margot James MP, yesterday reaffirmed the government’s commitment to a Gigabit “full fibre” (FTTP) future and also called on ISPs to “pass on [the] benefit” from Ofcom’s recent wholesale market reviews in order to improve the take-up of “superfast broadband.”

19th June, 2018 (35 Comments)

Ofcom has today formally invited UK ISPs to express their interest in becoming suppliers for the new Universal Service Obligation (USO), which from 2020 will make it possible for anybody in a slow speed area to request a minimum broadband download speed of 10Mbps+ (1Mbps upload).

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14th June, 2018 (22 Comments)

UK ISP Spectrum Internet, which tends to focus on catering for Wales and some bits of South West England, appears to have become one of the first broadband providers to launch products for home users based off Openreach’s premium 500Mbps and 1000Mbps FTTP tiers. But you’ll need deep pockets.

14th June, 2018 (14 Comments)

Some residents in the rural Gloucestershire UK village of Chalford have vented anger at Gigaclear after the ISP’s roll-out of a new 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network allegedly damaged properties, caused “intolerable vibration” in some homes and a worker had their legs struck by a digger.

14th June, 2018 (0 Comments)

The state aid supported £30m Better Broadband for Nottinghamshire project has awarded another £2.7m contract to Openreach (BT), which will see the operator extend their 330Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to an additional 2,500 premises in the UK county.

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14th June, 2018 (0 Comments)

New information suggests that around £56m from the proposed £383.4m North Wales Growth Bid could be invested (over a period of between 5 to 15 years) in order to help expand the availability of Gigabit and “ultrafast” capable “full fibre” (FTTP) style broadband networks in the country’s northern half.

13th June, 2018 (2 Comments)

Fibre optic network builder Cityfibre has appointed Allan McEwan to be the City Development Manager for Aberdeen in Scotland, which is set to benefit from a joint £40m project with UK ISP Vodafone to deploy a new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband network by around 2021.

13th June, 2018 (7 Comments)

The Mayor of London UK, Sadiq Khan, has published a new roadmap that aims to build the “smartest city in the world” and to improve its digital connectivity. The measures will grow public WiFi hotspots, support 5G Mobile networks and make “full fibre” (FTTH/P) ultrafast broadband available to all new build homes.

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12th June, 2018 (17 Comments)

The UK High Court has today granted Cityfibre permission to proceed with its Judicial Review of the Advertising Standards Authority’s decision regarding the use of “fibre” terminology in broadband ISP advertising, which the operator has often accused of being “misleading” for consumers.

12th June, 2018 (0 Comments)

The Somerset-based CableCom Networking Group, which last year acquired alternative network ISP WarwickNet, has decided to re-brand itself under the name of ‘Glide‘ and to split their company into three areas for dealing with business connectivity, residential broadband and students.

12th June, 2018 (6 Comments)

BT claims to have built the UK’s “first practical quantum-secured high-speed fibre network“, which harnesses quantum encryption and can transfer data at a speed of 500Gbps (Gigabits per second). The network runs over a distance of 120km via multiple exchanges between BT Labs in Ipswich and Cambridge University.

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11th June, 2018 (14 Comments)

Cable broadband ISP Virgin Media has taken the unusual decision to sue Durham County Council (England) in the hope that doing so will enable them to lay new fibre optic cable along grass verges and without having to pay “hefty” fees per metre. The case will test the recently revised Electronic Communications Code (ECC).

9th June, 2018 (3 Comments)

The CEO and Founder of rural fibre optic (FTTP/H) broadband ISP Gigaclear, Matthew Hare, has today been named in the annual Queen’s Birthday Honours (2018) and has thus received an ‘Officer of the Order of the British Empire’ (OBE) for his services to internet provision in the UK.

5th June, 2018 (9 Comments)

As promised the Aylesbury Vale District Council in Buckinghamshire, specifically their Audit Committee, has published the draft outcome of their inquiry into the controversial Aylesbury Vale Broadband (AVB) network that was sold to UK ISP Gigaclear after running into challenges with their rural FTTH rollout.

5th June, 2018 (11 Comments)

Alternative network provider Call Flow Solutions has today taken the wraps off their new UK ISP brand, Trooli, which has spent the past few months gathering private investment and quietly rolling out a new Gigabit capable rural Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based ultrafast broadband network in Kent (England).

4th June, 2018 (3 Comments)

Fibre optic network builder Cityfibre and the new UK ISP connectivity brand name of M12 Solutions – Giganet – have today announced a joint project to deploy a new Gigabit capable “full fibre” broadband and Ethernet network for businesses inside the south coast city of Portsmouth (Hampshire, England).

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