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B4RN Help Expand 1Gbps FTTH Broadband to Rural Cheshire UK

6th March, 2018 (7 Comments)

A small group of volunteers from Puddington, Burton and Capenhurst in West Cheshire (England) have joined forces with the team from B4RN in order to launch B4RN Cheshire, which will further extend the operator’s 1Gbps community built and funded fibre optic (FTTP/H) broadband network.

Cityfibre Take Ads Watchdog to Court Over Fibre Broadband Promos

5th March, 2018 (64 Comments)

Fibre optic network builder Cityfibre has filed for a Judicial Review of last year’s decision by the UK Advertising Standards Authority, which ruled that it was “not materially misleading” for ISPs to describe slower hybrid fibre services (e.g. FTTC / HFC DOCSIS) as “fibre broadband.”

Norfolk May Borrow £11m to Take Superfast Broadband Beyond 95%

27th February, 2018 (5 Comments)

The Norfolk County Council in England will next Tuesday take a decision on how to fund a future phase of their Better Broadband for Norfolk (BBfN) project, which could see them choosing to borrow £11m in order to help extend “superfast broadband” to 100% of premises “as soon as we can.”

Ofcom Changes to Boost UK Full Fibre Broadband and Cut FTTC Prices

23rd February, 2018 (66 Comments)

The telecoms regulator has today completed several wholesale market reviews, which among other things will force Openreach (BT) to adopt stiffer Quality of Service standards (installations and repairs), open up their cable ducts to rival ISPs and introduce a big price cut on 40Mbps FTTC broadband lines.

Cityfibre Calls on Ofcom to Rethink its Approach for Full Fibre

23rd February, 2018 (42 Comments)

The Head of Regulatory Affairs at Cityfibre, Alex Blowers, has criticised Ofcom’s focus on regulating wholesale access to Openreach’s (BT) legacy UK copper network down to cost and called on them to rethink their strategy in order to better support the new generation of “full fibre” (FTTH/P) ultrafast broadband.

Q4 2017 BDUK Build Superfast Broadband to 4.77 Million Premises

22nd February, 2018 (16 Comments)

The Government’s £1.6bn+ publicly funded Broadband Delivery UK project has published its latest progress update to the end of 2017, which reveals that it has so far helped 4,772,207 extra premises across the United Kingdom to be reached by a fixed “superfast broadband” (24Mbps+) network.

Cityfibre and Vodafone Target Aberdeen for 1Gbps Home Broadband

21st February, 2018 (5 Comments)

ISP Vodafone and fibre optic builder Cityfibre have today confirmed that the second UK city to benefit from a deployment of their 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) ultrafast broadband network will be Aberdeen in Scotland, which is expected to cost around £40m.

Uncertainty Grips Wireless Broadband Project in Swindon AGAIN

20th February, 2018 (4 Comments)

The Swindon Borough Council‘s £1.9m contract with UKB Networks, which has been building an LTE (4G) based Fixed Wireless Access network that can bring “superfast broadband” (24Mbps+) to 19,500 premises (99.4% total coverage), is facing a fresh challenge over changes to its deployment.

7200 Hereford and Gloucestershire Premises to Get Fibre Broadband UPDATE

15th February, 2018 (9 Comments)

Openreach today confirmed they will deploy their “superfast fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network to cover a further 7,200 homes and businesses in the UK counties of Herefordshire and Gloucestershire (completion by the end of 2019), which comes after BT signed a new £5.1m contract under the Fastershire project.

UK Fails to Enter 2018 FTTH Ultrafast Broadband Country Ranking

15th February, 2018 (66 Comments)

The FTTH Council Europe, which campaigns for the adoption of pure fibre optic based Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH/P/B) style ultrafast broadband technologies, has published their latest 2018 country ranking and sadly the United Kingdom remains notable for its continued absence.

CEO of Gigaclear Wins Award for Contribution to FTTH in Europe UPDATE

14th February, 2018 (5 Comments)

The CEO of rural focused UK fibre optic ISP Gigaclear, Matthew Hare, has this afternoon been presented by the FTTH Council Europe with an award for his “outstanding contributions” to the acceleration of Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) ultrafast broadband technology in Europe.

Fibre Optic ISP Hyperoptic Trial Crazy Fast 10Gbps Home Broadband

13th February, 2018 (46 Comments)

City focused fibre optic UK ISP Hyperoptic, which claims to be the United Kingdom’s largest residential provider of Gigabit broadband connections (FTTP/B), have carried out a trial of the “fastest home broadband the country has ever seen” by testing a 10Gbps service at East Village (the London 2012 Athletes’ Village).

Rock and a Hard Place as Openreach Criticised for Limited FTTP Rollout

12th February, 2018 (62 Comments)

Openreach’s accelerated “Fibre First” plan to deploy FTTP “ultrafast broadband” to 3 million UK premises by 2020 (here) has allegedly left the Government “extremely frustrated,” so much so that they are rumoured to be revisiting the option of completely splitting BT’s network access division.

KCOM See Full Fibre Broadband Surpass Copper on Hull UK Network

9th February, 2018 (3 Comments)

The incumbent telecoms operator for Hull in East Yorkshire, KCOM, has today confirmed that more people on their network are now using their new Gigabit capable “full fibre” (FTTP) broadband lines than older copper (ADSL) based connections for the first time.

ISP Commsworld Scoops £30m Glasgow City Council Fibre Deal

9th February, 2018 (0 Comments)

Scottish business ISP Commsworld has today won a £30 million ICT contract with Glasgow City Council, which will see them deploy a new Wide Area Network that can connect local schools, libraries and other council buildings to a new “ultra-fast” Gigabit capable full fibre network.

Q3 2017 Take-up Progress of the BDUK Superfast Broadband Rollout

8th February, 2018 (8 Comments)

The Government’s Broadband Delivery UK scheme has today published its latest Q3 2017 take-up data for the state aid supported roll-out of “superfast broadband” (24Mbps+) services across the United Kingdom, which sees adoption continue to climb above an average of around 40%.

Gigaclear Celebrate 15000th Rural UK Full Fibre Broadband Customer

8th February, 2018 (20 Comments)

Rural fibre optic ISP Gigaclear has today celebrated the connection of the 15,000th customer to their 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP/H) ultrafast broadband network, which now covers 60,000 homes and businesses across 20 counties of the United Kingdom (25% take-up).