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East Riding of Yorkshire Suffers GBP10m Broadband Funding Shortfall

9th June, 2016 (9 Comments)

The Broadband East Riding project in Yorkshire (England), which is being conducted with support from BT, will need another £10 million of funding if it is to reach the goal of making a superfast broadband (24Mbps+) network available to 95% of local premises.

Fibre Optic ISP Gigaclear Improves Rural UK Customer Support

9th June, 2016 (4 Comments)

Gigaclear, which deploys Gigabit class FTTP broadband to rural areas across the United Kingdom, claims that it can now answer 90% of calls within just 30 seconds after adopting new technology. The upgrade is necessary because they expect to quadruple their customer base in the next 12 months.

KCOM Clarify Level of FTTC in its Fibre Optic FTTP Broadband Rollout

9th June, 2016 (5 Comments)

The Hull and East Yorkshire (England) focused telecoms operator KCOM has kindly confirmed to ISPreview.co.uk that around 8% (12,000 premises) of their planned fibre optic based broadband roll-out to 150,000 local premises will be catered for via the slower Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC) service.

UPD Q1 2016 Uptake Stats for the BDUK and BT Fibre Broadband Rollout

8th June, 2016 (34 Comments)

The Government’s Broadband Delivery UK scheme has published its latest Q1 2016 take-up data for their roll-out of superfast broadband (24Mbps+) services across the United Kingdom, which confirms that almost all local authorities have now passed the 20% threshold for clawback.

Artist Covers BT’s FTTC Broadband Cabinets with Weird Street Art

7th June, 2016 (8 Comments)

Openreach’s (BT) big green FTTC superfast broadband Street Cabinets can be a bit dull and so an artist from Doncaster in South Yorkshire (England), Nick Boruk, has decided to help promote the new service by covering a few of them with a big Teddy Bear face (painted canvas cover). Ok then.

LLU Unbundled UK Copper Phone and Broadband Lines Decline to 9.8M

7th June, 2016 (6 Comments)

The latest quarterly update from the Office of the Telecommunications Adjudicator (OTA) has revealed that the era of traditional pure copper line based Local Loop Unbundling (LLU), which gives rivals greater control over part of BT’s UK telecoms infrastructure, may be entering into a slow decline.

ISP Aylesbury Vale Broadband Reveals Next Villages for 300Mbps FTTH

6th June, 2016 (10 Comments)

The Aylesbury Vale Broadband network, which has recently rolled out a 300Mbps Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) service to part of both North Marston and nearby Granborough in rural Buckinghamshire (England), has today named the next two villages to benefit from their deployment.

First Phase 2 “Fibre Broadband” Roll-out Areas for Northumberland Named

6th June, 2016 (3 Comments)

It’s been a year since BT and the Northumberland County Council signed a £4.1m deal (phase 2 extension contract) to further expand the reach of their “superfast broadband” (24Mbps+) FTTC/P network to 95% of local premises by the end of 2017. Today we’ve learnt which areas will be the first to benefit.

Hyperoptic Roll-out 1Gbps Fibre Optic Broadband into 7 Extra UK Cities

30th May, 2016 (5 Comments)

Fibre optic ISP Hyperoptic, which are already deploying their ultrafast 1Gbps (Gigabit per second) capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP/B) broadband network into 13 cities across the United Kingdom, have confirmed that they will be adding seven new “hyper-cities” to that list.

TrueSpeed Start Next 100Mb FTTP Broadband Rollout Phase in Somerset

27th May, 2016 (2 Comments)

Fibre optic ISP TrueSpeed Communications has begun taking pre-orders from a number of new rural communities in North East Somerset (England), which could soon be able to benefit from their £47.50 per month 100Mbps+ Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband service.

KCOM Fibre Broadband Reaches 78,000 Premises in East Yorkshire

27th May, 2016 (2 Comments)

KCOM, the incumbent telecoms operator for Hull and East Yorkshire in England, has revealed that their on-going “Lightstream” roll-out of fibre optic broadband (FTTP/C) services has now covered 78,000 premises with 26,000 connected including 1,700 businesses (33.33% take-up).

BT Trial 5.6Tbps on a Single Optical Fibre and 2Tbps on a Live Core Link

25th May, 2016 (21 Comments)

Telecoms operator BT and Chinese technology firm Huawei have announced that they’ve successfully run two new fibre optic network trials, one that delivered 2Tbps (Terabits per second) over a 727km live core network link (London to Dublin) and another that pushed 5.6Tbps via a single optical fibre.

Shifting Goal Posts – Wales Misses its Superfast Broadband Target

25th May, 2016 (22 Comments)

A report today claims that Wales and BT have missed their original Superfast Cymru project target for ensuring that 96% of the country can access a superfast broadband service by “spring 2016“, but there may be more to this situation than meets the eye.

First Granborough Customer Connects to 300Mbps FTTH Broadband Pilot

24th May, 2016 (5 Comments)

Good news for homes and businesses in the Buckinghamshire (England) village of Granborough today because the first local customer is expected to go live on Aylesbury Vale Broadband‘s new 300Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) network, which has just reached the area.

B4RN Begins to Build Own Rural 1Gbps FTTH Civil Engineering Team

23rd May, 2016 (8 Comments)

The community built B4RN project, which is deploying ultrafast Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband networks to remote parts of rural Lancashire, Cumbria and Yorkshire in England where commercial operators ignore, has begun hiring to build its own in-house civil engineering team.

NextGenAccess UK Moots Rural Fibre Broadband Expansion for SMEs

20th May, 2016 (0 Comments)

London-based ISP NextGenAccess has hinted at plans to expand its fibre optic based broadband network into more areas that are currently outside the coverage of the BT’s UK FTTC/P roll-out, with a particular reference being made to “rural areas and non-city centre data centres and technology hubs.”

BT Update on FTTPoD Stop Sell Removal, 3db Trial and Long Range VDSL

17th May, 2016 (33 Comments)

BT has published some important updates on their broadband products and future UK technology trials, which reveals a plan to test 3db Signal/Noise margins, the first location for their Long Range VDSL (FTTC) trial and removal of BTWholesale’s “stop sell” for Fibre-on-Demand (FoD) lines.