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BT Openreach Complete “Independent Board” with Final Appointments

14th February, 2017 (5 Comments)

BT’s network access division, Openreach, has today announced the completion of an “independent majority” on their newly formed board with the final appointment of Liz Benison as a non-executive member. Liz is currently the CEO of public services provider Serco in the UK and Europe.

ISP Hyperoptic Sees Progress with Newcastle’s 1Gbps Broadband Roll-out

14th February, 2017 (0 Comments)

Thousands of residents at a number of developments across Newcastle city centre in North East England can now get access to Hyperoptic’s “ultrafast” fibre optic (FTTP/B) broadband network, which offers download speeds of up to 1000Mbps.

H2O Networks Fibre Optic Fraudsters Sent to Prison for Total of 44 Years

13th February, 2017 (6 Comments)

Last week we reported on the case of four men who had been found guilty of a £160m financing fraud that involved Total Asset Finance (TAF) and H2O Networks Ltd. (here), which was one of the UK’s early FTTH/P network pioneers. The men have now been sentenced to a total of 44 years in jail.

Onecom Offers FREE Business FTTP Fibre Broadband Installs in Coventry

13th February, 2017 (0 Comments)

Business ISP Onecom has launched a new “Lighting Up Coventry” campaign for businesses in the West Midlands city, which offers installation worth £2,000 at no charge to any business that takes their “ultra-fast” (up to 1Gbps) Fibre-to-the-Premise (FTTP) broadband.

Virgin Media UK Squeeze a Little Extra Broadband Speed for Subscribers

9th February, 2017 (57 Comments)

Cable operator Virgin Media appears to be quietly tweaking the ‘Max Traffic Rate‘ (speed profile) for some of their broadband packages, which for example means that those with their 300Mbps HomeWorks+ add-on may theoretically be able to achieve 345Mbps (its old profile was 330Mbps).

Hampshire Council Add 400+ New Forest Homes to FTTC Broadband Rollout

9th February, 2017 (0 Comments)

The Hampshire Superfast Broadband project in England, which is working with Openreach (BT) to roll-out “superfast broadband” (24Mbps+) to 97.4% of local premises by 2019, has announced a deal that will add 400+ extra premises in the rural New Forest area to their coverage.

Hyperoptic Bring 1Gbps FTTP to 865 Premises at Battersea Power Station

8th February, 2017 (3 Comments)

UK ISP Hyperoptic has announced that 865 residential units at Circus West Village, which is the first phase of a major new Battersea Power Station (BPS) redevelopment project in South West London, will be able to benefit from their 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premise (FTTP/B) broadband network.

UPDATE Court Convicts £160m H2O Networks Fibre Broadband Fraudsters

8th February, 2017 (0 Comments)

After years of waiting the Southwark Crown Court has found four men guilty of a £160 million financing fraud, which is a case that began in 2010/11 (here) after the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) opened an investigation into one of the UK’s early pioneers of alternative fibre optic broadband networks.

Cityfibre Sign UK Fibre Optic Network Access Deal with Business ISP Gamma

7th February, 2017 (0 Comments)

Business ISP Gamma has moved to upgrade their national core network in the United Kingdom by signing a new long-haul Dark Fibre agreement with Cityfibre. The access agreement will connect 15 data centres and exchanges across the country via CityFibre’s long-distance and metro networks.

Gigaclear Scoop Gloucestershire and Herefordshire Broadband Contracts

7th February, 2017 (20 Comments)

As predicted last month (here) the Gloucestershire and Herefordshire county councils in England have agreed to hand a major new broadband roll-out contract to rural ISP Gigaclear, which will deploy their “ultrafast” 1Gbps FTTP network to thousands of additional homes and businesses.

“Fibre Broadband” Set to Cover 3,000 Extra Premises in Merseyside

6th February, 2017 (10 Comments)

The joint Merseyside Connected project with Openreach (BT) has today announced that an additional 3,000 homes and businesses in the region will be put within reach of an FTTC/P based “fibre broadband” network by the end of 2018, which is thanks to a £2 million reinvestment (clawback) boost.

BT Update on UK FTTP, SOGEA, 3dB and 21CN WBC Broadband Plans

6th February, 2017 (49 Comments)

At the end of last month BT (Wholesale) released an update on their UK roll-out plans for various future broadband upgrades and technologies, which covers a variety of areas from the new FTTP speed profiles to the national roll-out of 21CN WBC (replacing all IPStream by 2018). Check out what’s coming.

Carillion telent Extends £1.5bn UK Engineer Deal with BT Openreach

3rd February, 2017 (4 Comments)

Carillion telent has announced a 3-year extension (extendable to 5 years) to its framework agreement with Openreach (BT), which could be worth up to £1.5bn. They’re BT’s main delivery partner for the management, maintenance and upgrading of their UK “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P/G.fast) network.

UK ISP Association Asks Gov to Remove Barriers for “Full Fibre” Broadband

2nd February, 2017 (0 Comments)

The UK Internet Services Providers’ Association (ISPA) has told the Government that if they wish to boost the roll-out of ultrafast “full fibre” FTTP/H broadband networks then the “most important factor” will be to reduce the high costs and admin burden of existing regulatory barriers (wayleaves etc.).

UPDATE String of Network Outages Hit Rural FTTP Broadband ISP Gigaclear

1st February, 2017 (42 Comments)

Over the past week or so Gigaclear’s “ultrafast” fibre optic FTTP broadband network, which is focused on connecting tens of thousands of premises in various rural areas across England, has suffered a string of network outages and Internet connectivity disruption.

UPDATE BT Openreach Setup New “Independent Board” with Key Appointments

1st February, 2017 (50 Comments)

The lack of a final agreement with Ofcom over Openreach’s future structure and position in the broadband market hasn’t stopped BT from progressing with their own plan for governance change. This has today resulted in the appointment of the network operator’s first “independent” board members.

6,330 Premises in Northamptonshire UK to Get Ultrafast 1Gbps FTTP Broadband

31st January, 2017 (4 Comments)

The Superfast Northamptonshire project in England has today signed two new contracts – worth £10.23m – with rural fibre optic ISP Gigaclear, which will enable the provider to roll-out their ultrafast (1Gbps+) Fibre-to-the-Premise (FTTP) broadband network to 6,330 premises.