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Gigaclear Hand £90m FTTP Broadband Roll-out Contract to Complete Utilities

4th September, 2017 (8 Comments)

Rural fibre optic ISP Gigaclear has today handed the £90 million civil engineering contract for deploying their 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premise (FTTP) ultrafast broadband network into Gloucestershire and Herefordshire (England), which should reach “almost” 70,000 premises, to Complete Utilities.

TrueSpeed Get £75m Investment to Extend FTTP Broadband in the South West

11th July, 2017 (6 Comments)

Ultrafast “Full Fibre” ISP TrueSpeed Communications, which has been deploying a new 100Mbps+ Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to rural areas in North East Somerset (England), has managed to attract a huge investment of £75m from Aviva Investors to help expand their network.

Gigaclear Confirm Phase 2 FTTP Broadband Rollout in Gloucestershire UK

13th June, 2017 (6 Comments)

Fibre optic ISP Gigaclear has today announced which areas will be the first to benefit from the second phase of the Fastershire project in Gloucestershire, which will see their ultrafast 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premise (FTTP) network being extended to thousands of additional rural premises.

Herefordshire – 8000 Premises to Benefit from Gigaclear’s 1Gbps Broadband

18th April, 2017 (3 Comments)

The Herefordshire County Council in England has confirmed that its new state aid supported contract (Phase 2) with Gigaclear will help to put ultrafast Fibre-to-the-Premise (FTTP/H) broadband technology within reach of an additional 8,000 homes and businesses in the region.

£25K Business Broadband Grants for Herefordshire, Shropshire and Gloucestershire

22nd February, 2017 (0 Comments)

A new voucher scheme has been launched for businesses in Herefordshire, Shropshire, Gloucestershire and the Borough of Telford & Wrekin (England), which offers local SMEs up to £25,000 to help fund the installation of a 30Mbps+ “superfast” Next Generation Access (NGA) broadband connection.

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.

UPDATE Gloucestershire and Herefordshire Moot Big Broadband Extension

25th January, 2017 (4 Comments)

Rural fibre optic ISP Gigaclear looks set to grab yet another major state aid supported contract under the joint Fastershire project for Gloucestershire and Herefordshire in England, which is currently busy rolling out “fast broadband” services to “all who need it” by 2018.

1Gbps FTTP Broadband for More of Gloucestershire and Herefordshire

2nd December, 2016 (16 Comments)

The joint State Aid fuelled Fastershire project for Gloucestershire and Herefordshire in England has announced that rural ISP Gigaclear is now the preferred bidder for the next £4.54m phase of their local broadband roll-out, which will benefit over 2,600 remote premises.

TrueSpeed Hints At Expansion of FTTP Broadband to More UK Counties

11th November, 2016 (0 Comments)

Fibre optic ISP TrueSpeed has hinted to Ofcom that its 150Mbps Fibre-to-the-Premise (FTTP) broadband network, which is currently rolling out to parts of the Chew Valley in rural North East Somerset (England), could also be expanded into Devon, Wiltshire, Herefordshire and Gloucestershire.

ITS Technology Brings FTTP Ultrafast Broadband to Skylon Business Park

1st November, 2016 (5 Comments)

Businesses operating from Skylon Park, which is a 72-hectare site within the Hereford Enterprise Zone, look set to benefit after the ITS Technology group announced that it would roll-out a 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premise (FTTP) broadband network to the area using existing cable ducts.

100Mb Community FTTP Broadband Connects Rural Herefordshire Villages

11th June, 2016 (6 Comments)

A new 100Mbps capable community and government grant funded fibre optic (FTTP) broadband network has officially launched in rural Herefordshire (England) today. The network serves two small rural villages – Dewsall Court and Callow – as well as a few surrounding premises.

UPD3 BT Elect “not to participate” in Herefordshire Fibre Broadband Extension

8th December, 2015 (23 Comments)

The Herefordshire Council has said that BT has decided “not to participate” in Stage 3 of their tender to deploy superfast broadband connectivity to the remaining parts of the county, which means that the local authority may have to depend upon alternative network (altnet) providers.

Wireless ISP Allpay Broadband to Withdraw Service in Herefordshire

9th July, 2015 (2 Comments)

Herefordshire-based Allpay Broadband has announced that it will begin withdrawing service from some rural areas because the local Government-backed Fastershire project, which is working with BT to deploy “fibre broadband” services to most of the county, is now achieving what it once set out to solve.

Hereford Enterprise Zone Hunts for Ultrafast Fibre Optic Broadband Fix

19th June, 2015 (1 Comment)

The Herefordshire County Council are working to deliver an alternative “ultrafast broadband” solution to help businesses within the Hereford Enterprise Zone at Rotherwas, which can already receive expensive leased lines or cheaper FTTC connectivity from BT; but apparently neither of those are good enough.

Rural Herefordshire Villages Celebrate Arrival of 330Mbps FTTP Broadband

9th February, 2015 (4 Comments)

Several remote rural villages in Herefordshire (England), which include Llangarron and the nearby villages of Llancloudy and Llangrove, look set to become some of the first in the county to benefit from the arrival of a new ultrafast Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network that will offer top speeds of 330Mbps (Megabits per second).

Gloucestershire and Herefordshire Reveal H1 2015 Fibre Broadband Upgrades

23rd January, 2015 (1 Comment)

It’s been awhile since we ran any coverage on the £56.6m Fastershire project (still the best name ever), which aims to make BT’s “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network available to around 90% of premises in Herefordshire and Gloucestershire by the end of 2016 (148,000 premises). But the good news is that we now have the roll-out plan for the first half of 2015.