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CityFibre Win Five Big UK Project Gigabit Broadband Contracts

6th February, 2024 (55 Comments)

CityFibre has today secured another five of the UK government’s Project Gigabit broadband rollout contracts, totalling over £394m. The deals will spread their full fibre (FTTP) ISP network to over 202,000 hard to reach premises across parts of Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Berkshire, Leicestershire, Warwickshire, Sussex, Kent, Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire & Milton Keynes.

Cable Thieves Knock Out Openreach Broadband in Rickmansworth UPDATE

6th October, 2023 (2 Comments)

Some 880 homes, businesses and schools in the Hertfordshire (England) town of Rickmansworth, which is home to a total population of over 25,000, have been left without a working fixed broadband ISP and phone service. The situation occurred after criminals damaged Openreach’s local network while attempting to steal their copper telecoms cable.

ACOME Outs New 96 Fibre Cable to Boost UK Full Fibre Builds

13th September, 2023 (1 Comment)

Fibre manufacturer ACOME has today highlighted the recent introduction of a new ultra lightweight (ULW) 96 fibre cable, which has been designed to help speed up aerial deployments of new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP networks across the UK.

Netomnia UK Start FTTP Broadband Rollout in Hitchin

17th August, 2023 (31 Comments)

Some 85,000 homes and businesses across the Hertfordshire (England) town of Hitchin will soon benefit after Netomnia, supported by UK ISP YouFibre, started a significant £25.5 million project to deploy their new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) broadband network across the area.

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Netomnia Add 4 Hertfordshire Towns to 2023 UK Full Fibre Rollout

9th April, 2023 (17 Comments)

Network operator Netomnia, which is supported by UK ISP YouFibre, has confirmed to ISPreview that they’ve quietly added another 4 towns – this time in Hertfordshire (England) – to the 2023 rollout plan for their 10Gbps capable full fibre (FTTP) broadband network (currently covers 410,000 premises, up from 300k in Nov 2022).

ISP Lit Fibre Extend FTTP Broadband to Watford and Basildon

31st January, 2023 (0 Comments)

Network operator and UK broadband ISP Lit Fibre, which aims to reach 500,000 homes by 2026 with their 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, has today announced that they’ve added the towns of Watford (Hertfordshire) and Basildon (Essex) in England to their rollout plan.

F&W Networks Secures Funding and Extends UK Full Fibre to 185k Premises

17th October, 2022 (1 Comment)

F&W Networks – supported by UK ISP Hey!Broadband – has today announced that they’ve secured “significant” new funding from Foresight Group and claim to have covered 185,000 premises (up from 150k in July 2022) across the South of England with their new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network.

Lit Fibre UK Name 5 New Towns for Full Fibre Broadband Build

12th September, 2022 (22 Comments)

Broadband ISP and UK network builder Lit Fibre, which is working to deploy a new gigabit-speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to cover 500,000 homes by 2026, has today added 5 new towns across parts of the West Midlands, Essex and Hertfordshire in England to their ongoing rollout plan.

Cable Thieves Knock Out Openreach’s Broadband in Shenley

5th September, 2022 (1 Comment)

Openreach UK has confirmed that around 970 premises (homes and businesses) in the village of Shenley (Hertfordshire), near Watford, were impacted late last month after copper thieves ripped 1,400 metres worth of the operator’s cable out of the ground, which has so far taken several weeks to fully resolve.

Grain Name 3 New Locations for their UK FTTP Broadband Rollout

1st September, 2022 (12 Comments)

Broadband ISP and digital infrastructure builder Grain (Grain Connect) has today added three new locations to their ongoing UK rollout of a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, which will see them building across Watford (Hertfordshire), Reading (Berkshire) and Northampton (East Midlands).

Swish Fibre Add 4 Yorkshire Locations to FTTP Broadband Build

25th August, 2022 (1 Comment)

Fibre builder and UK ISP Swish Fibre, which until now has been busy deploying their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to cover 250,000 premises across the Home Counties of England, has begun to extend their plans into Yorkshire by establishing a new subsidiary – Swish Fibre Yorkshire.

F&W Networks Get £25m to Expand Full Fibre in South England

5th July, 2022 (19 Comments)

Network operator and builder F&W Networks – supported by their UK retail ISP Hey! Broadband – has today secured a significant £25m funding package from Santander, which will enable them to expand the rollout of their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) infrastructure across the South of England.

Swish Fibre Add a Few Locations to Home Counties FTTP Build

2nd July, 2022 (10 Comments)

Swish Fibre, which is building a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to cover 250,000 premises across the Home Counties of England, appears to have quietly added a few additional locations to their build plans – mostly catching some of those that were near to existing deployments.

Swish Fibre Give Progress Update on Home Counties FTTP Build

24th February, 2022 (4 Comments)

UK ISP Swish Fibre, which is deploying a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to cover 250,000 premises across the Home Counties of England, has today given a brief progress update on their build and appointed Nigel Sudell to their Senior Leadership Team, as Chief Integration Officer (CIO).

BDUK Publish New Phase 2 Gigabit Broadband Coverage Reviews

5th February, 2022 (11 Comments)

The Broadband Delivery UK team have just published a new batch of Public Reviews (PR) and Open Market Reviews (OMR) for additional parts of England – mostly covered by Phase 2 of the Government’s £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout. Both aim to identify which areas need state aid support for future builds.

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Lit Fibre Extend FTTP Broadband Rollout to Sudbury and Evesham

26th November, 2021 (16 Comments)

UK ISP Lit Fibre, which is building a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to reach 500,000 homes by 2026, has announced that the next two towns to benefit from their rollout will be Sudbury (Suffolk) and Evesham (Worcestershire). But aggressive competition will soon follow.

ISP Lit Fibre Goes Live with Gigabit Broadband in Wiltshire UK

29th September, 2021 (12 Comments)

Lit Fibre (formerly Broadreach Networks), which aims to deploy a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to reach 500,000 UK homes by 2026, is now connecting their first customers in Wiltshire (England) and today confirmed that two towns – Cirencester and Bishop’s Stortford – will be the next to benefit.