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Oh Hai Cityfibre! Virgin Media to Extend 300Mbps Broadband in York

19th October, 2016 (20 Comments)

Cable operator Virgin Media has announced that their 300Mbps capable “fibre optic” broadband and TV network will be expanded to reach an additional 20,000 homes and businesses in the UK city of York, which is where Cityfibre, Sky Broadband and TalkTalk have also been deploying 940Mbps FTTP.

BT and Huawei in New UK Trial of 40Gbps Ultrafast FTTP Broadband

18th October, 2016 (30 Comments)

Openreach (BT) and Huawei have today claimed to be the “first companies in Europe” to trial three new ultrafast fibre optic broadband technologies, including 40Gbps (Gigabits per second) capable NG-PON2, 10Gbps XGS-PON and 2.5Gbps GPON (Gigabit Passive Optical Network) over a single fibre.

G.fast to Deliver 11% of Broadband Services in Western Europe by 2021

17th October, 2016 (9 Comments)

A new report from Ovum, which was jointly commissioned by BT and Australia’s nbn, has forecast that some 29 million subscribers will be using a G.fast based ultrafast broadband connection by 2021 (3% of the global fixed broadband market) and most of those will be in Western Europe.

West Sussex UK Moot County-Wide 1Gbps Fibre Optic Broadband Roll-out

14th October, 2016 (7 Comments)

The West Sussex County Council has proposed a new “Gigabit West Sussex” framework that will shortly start seeking suppliers to help it “bring ultrafast [FTTP/H broadband] to as many parts of the County as possible,” starting with a contract to deploy a new Dark Fibre network in Adur & Worthing.

Q2 2016 Take-up Stats for the BDUK and BT Fibre Broadband Roll-out

13th October, 2016 (66 Comments)

The Government’s Broadband Delivery UK project has released its latest Q2 2016 take-up data for the state aid supported roll-out of superfast broadband (24Mbps+) services across the United Kingdom, which shows that many local authorities are seeing 30% adoption of the new service and that will help reinvestment.

UPD Study Challenges Ofcom’s Strategy to Grow New Broadband Networks

13th October, 2016 (2 Comments)

A new BT commissioned report from Analysys Mason has perhaps unsurprisingly warned that Ofcom’s effort to encourage alternative network (AltNet) ISPs to build rival ultrafast broadband networks, such as by opening up access to Openreach’s cable ducts, may fail to achieve the desired result.

TrueSpeed’s 150Mbps FTTP Broadband Reaches More Somerset Villages

13th October, 2016 (0 Comments)

Fibre optic ISP TrueSpeed Communications has confirmed that their roll-out of a symmetric 150Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network in the rural Chew Valley area of North East Somerset (England) is now in the process of reaching three more local communities.

KCOM Confirm Next FTTP Fibre Broadband Roll-out Areas in Hull UK

12th October, 2016 (0 Comments)

KCOM has today announced the next roll-out phase for their “ultrafast” Lightstream fibre optic (FTTP/C) broadband network in Hull (East Yorkshire), which reflects the next 6 months of deployment from now until March 2017; this will add an additional 25,000 premises passed to the total.

Cityfibre Confirms Town of Bracknell to Become its Next UK “Gigabit City”

12th October, 2016 (0 Comments)

Cityfibre has today announced that the Berkshire town and civil parish of Bracknell will become their next “Gigabit City“, which means that an existing fibre optic network in the area is being re-purposed in order to supply local businesses with 1Gbps capable / FTTP style broadband.

BT Says – We’ll Do the 10Mbps Broadband USO Without Public Funding

12th October, 2016 (9 Comments)

BT has said that the Government can avoid imposing a tricky industry levy on ISPs or using public funding to help pay for the proposed 10Mbps broadband Universal Service Obligation (USO) because they’ll take the full responsibility, as well as pushing superfast broadband (24Mbps+) to 97-98% of the UK.

Cityfibre Name Sheffield, Rotherham and Doncaster as Next Gigabit Cities

11th October, 2016 (0 Comments)

Fibre optic network developer Cityfibre has today confirmed that the South Yorkshire (England) cities and towns of Sheffield, Rotherham and Doncaster will be the next to benefit from their 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premise (FTTP) style network.

Virgin Media Build Cable Network in Scotland to 360000 Extra Premises

11th October, 2016 (1 Comment)

Virgin Media (Liberty Global) has confirmed that an additional 360,000 homes and businesses in Scotland are set to benefit from their on-going £3bn Project Lightning network expansion by 2019. Elsewhere 19,000 have separately been confirmed for the roll-out in Cambridgeshire (England).

Study – £224bn Needed to Cover All EU Homes with 1Gbps Broadband

10th October, 2016 (28 Comments)

The European Commission has published a new Analysys Mason study that examines the cost of, among other things, providing 1Gbps capable fixed line broadband connections to all residential areas across the 28 EU member states, which for now still includes the United Kingdom.

UK ISP Elite Launch “Nationwide” 330Mbps FTTP Broadband Service

7th October, 2016 (5 Comments)

Following “successful beta trials” business ISP Elite has launched a new range of 40Mbps to 330Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premise (FTTP) based broadband products for their customers, partners and wholesale clients.

Gigaclear’s 1Gb FTTP Broadband Covers 3,000 Gloucestershire Premises

6th October, 2016 (2 Comments)

Rural ISP Gigaclear has confirmed that their State Aid supported Fastershire Phase 2 roll-out of 1Gbps (1000Mbps+) capable Fibre-to-the-Premise (FTTP) broadband in Gloucestershire, which is focused upon the Cotswolds area, has now reached the half-way point with 3,000 premises passed.

Premises in Wales to Get More Detail on BT Openreach FTTP Availability

6th October, 2016 (2 Comments)

Openreach (BT) will today make a small update to their ‘When can I get fibre?‘ broadband coverage checker, which should offer a bit of extra detail about the availability of “ultrafast” 330Mbps Fibre-to-the-Premise (FTTP) technology. But the change will only work for locations in Wales.

BT Openreach Cuts Fibre-on-Demand FTTP Price for “Slow Speed Areas”

4th October, 2016 (46 Comments)

In an interesting move Openreach (BT) has decided to slash the distance based cost of their troubled Fibre-to-the-Premise (FTTP) based Fibre-on-Demand (FoD / FTTPoD) product, albeit only for “slow speed areas” where their FTTC (VDSL2) technology fails to deliver above 10Mbps.