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Suffolk UK Seek to Expand BDUK and BT Superfast Broadband Rollout

4th December, 2013 (10 Comments)

The £40 million Better Broadband to Suffolk project, which is working to make BT’s superfast “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network available to more than 85% of local homes and businesses by the end of 2015, has joined other regions in seeking fresh Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) funding to reach more premises.

Fell End Broadband Project Starts Fibre Optic Rollout in Cumbria UK

29th November, 2013 (2 Comments)

The tiny Fell End Broadband project in Ravenstonedale (Cumbria, England) has this week begun deployment of a new fibre optic cable that will be used to connect 58 local premises (these are spread out over an 11km area) to super-fast Internet connectivity.

UPDATE KC Expand Fibre Broadband Rollout to 24700 Premises in Hull UK

26th November, 2013 (3 Comments)

KC (KCOM Group), which serves Hull and some other parts of East Yorkshire in England with broadband and phone services, has revealed that their superfast fibre optic (FTTP and FTTC) based Lightstream Internet service has now passed 24,700 premises and 5,900 customers have subscribed.

BDUK Expand FTTC Broadband Rollout in Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire

25th November, 2013 (0 Comments)

The £14.57m CSW Broadband partnership of 8 local authorities, which aims to ensure that BT’s “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network is made available to 92% of Coventry, 96% of Solihull and 91% of Warwickshire in England (overall 91% will get speeds of 24Mbps+) by spring 2016, has been expanded by +6,480 additional premises.

Wales BT and BDUK Contract Reveals Actual Broadband Speed Commitment

25th November, 2013 (12 Comments)

A time consuming Freedom of Information (FoI) request conducted by Richard Brown has successfully secured a redacted version of the Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) supported ‘Next Generation Broadband’ roll-out contract for Wales, which was agreed between BT and the Welsh Government and contains a lot of interesting details about service speed.

Staffordshire UK Publish BDUK and BT Superfast Broadband Rollout Map

22nd November, 2013 (4 Comments)

The £27.3 million Superfast Staffordshire project in England (West Midlands), which aims to make BT’s “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network available to 97% (95% will get superfast speeds of 25Mbps+) of local premises by Spring 2016, has today published its official deployment map.

CityFibre Confirm Ultrafast Fibre Optic Rollout Timetable for Peterborough UK

13th November, 2013 (0 Comments)

CityFibre has confirmed that its recently announced £30 million project to deploy a new ultrafast metro fibre optic broadband and telecoms network around the city of Peterborough (East of England) will begin during Spring 2014.

Oxfordshire County Council Rejects Cotswolds Broadband Scheme for BT

13th November, 2013 (8 Comments)

The promising Cotswolds Broadband project, which aimed to roll-out an open access and 100Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to 90% of homes and businesses (5000 premises) in the Chipping Norton area of west Oxfordshire (England), has joined a similar project in Dorset (Trailways) to be rejected by local councils in favour of BT.

Cheshire UK Council Publish BDUK Superfast Broadband Deployment Map

12th November, 2013 (3 Comments)

The £28.5 million Connecting Cheshire project, which aims to make BT’s “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network available to “around” 96% of premises across Cheshire, Halton and Warrington, has today become the latest Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) project to publish a roll-out map.

UPDATE BT Admit BDUK Broadband Speed and Coverage Data is Confidential

11th November, 2013 (29 Comments)

The Managing Director of BT’s Next Generation Access (NGA) division, Bill Murphy, has said that it and not Local Authorities are responsible for withholding the vital broadband speed and coverage (SCT) data as part of the publicly funded Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) roll-out process.

Businesses Benefit as BT Fibre Broadband Reaches 82% of Cornwall UK

11th November, 2013 (2 Comments)

The latest update from the £132 million public and privately funded Superfast Cornwall project has confirmed that 82% of Cornwall in England (206,000 homes and businesses) can now access BT’s superfast broadband (FTTC/P) service and this is apparently providing a “major economic boost” to local businesses.

Hull ISP KC Calls UK Broadband Speed Demand Study a Dangerous Red Herring

7th November, 2013 (5 Comments)

The Hull-based incumbent telecoms provider KC, which covers part of East Yorkshire in England, has advised the UK Government to ignore an “unambitious” new study by the Broadband Stakeholder Group after it suggested that a “median household” might only require bandwidth of 19Mbps (Megabits per second) by 2023.

Gigaclear to Deploy 1Gbps Fibre Broadband to 3 More UK Rural Villages

5th November, 2013 (7 Comments)

Fibre optic ISP Gigaclear has confirmed that broadband speeds of up to 1Gbps (Gigabit per second) should soon become available to 1,500 homes and 4 business parks in Farmoor and Stanton Harcourt (Oxfordshire, England) alongside Underriver and its surrounding villages in Kent.

UK Fibre ISP Gigaclear Calls for More Predictable and Useful BDUK Contract

4th November, 2013 (19 Comments)

Gigaclear, which specialises in deploying ultrafast 1Gbps capable fibre optic (FTTP) networks into rural areas around the United Kingdom, has told ISPreview.co.uk as part of our exclusive interview that the Government needs to create a more “predictable and useful” Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) scheme that allows more than just BT to bid for contracts.

BT Grabs 6.96 Million UK Retail Broadband Subscribers as 1.7m Take FTTC

31st October, 2013 (7 Comments)

BT Group’s latest Q3-2013 (calendar) results reveal that the operators consumer and business ISP divisions have grown their fixed line broadband subscriber base by +156k in the quarter to total 6.961m (up from +95k added in Q2 and +136k in Q1), which includes 1.7m superfast BTInfinity (FTTC) customers (up by +195k in Q3 vs +197k added in Q2).

CityFibre to Deploy Gigabit Fibre Optic Network to Homes in Peterborough UK

28th October, 2013 (7 Comments)

CityFibre has announced that it will invest up to £30 million in order to roll-out an independent ultrafast metro fibre optic broadband and telecoms network around the city of Peterborough in the East of England. The project follows similar deployments in both York and Bournemouth.

UK FTTH Fibre Optic Broadband ISP Connections Pass 186500 Premises

28th October, 2013 (15 Comments)

The latest information on coverage of true fibre optic broadband (FTTH/P/B) connections in the United Kingdom suggests that the market hasn’t moved much since the end of 2012. The latest count for June 2013 records a total of 186,500 premises have now been passed by the ultrafast (100Mbps+) connection method.