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Four Arrested Over Theft of Batteries from Broadband Cabinets in Kent UK

11th October, 2024 (14 Comments)

The Kent Police‘s Rural Task Force this week arrested four suspects – three men aged between 37 – 57 and a 14-year-old boy – in connection with the theft of batteries from “telecoms boxes” (i.e. street cabinets used by broadband providers) and a large number of cables from across the South East of England.

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Lightning Fibre Slows Down UK FTTP Broadband Network Build and Cuts Jobs

1st October, 2024 (12 Comments)

Eastbourne-based alternative broadband builder and ISP Lightning Fibre, which over the past few years have been building a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across parts of Sussex and Kent in England, has confirmed to ISPreview that they’ve hit staff with another round of redundancies and slowed their network build.

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Lightning Fibre Trial 50Mbps UK Broadband Plan for People Aged 66+

30th September, 2024 (1 Comment)

Eastbourne-based alternative UK broadband ISP Lightning Fibre, which has built a new full fibre (FTTP) network across parts of Sussex and Kent in England, have today begun to “trial” a new 50Mbps (symmetric) package that costs just £15 per month for 24-months. But it’s only available to people born before 23rd September 1958.

Openreach Restores Broken Fibre After Major Kent UK Outage

2nd September, 2024 (5 Comments)

Openreach (BT) have restored their broadband and phone services in the Swanscombe and surrounding areas of Kent (England), which follows a major network outage that struck thousands of local premises. This began after damage was caused to the operator’s core fibre optic cables at around midday on Saturday (31st Aug).

Lightning Fibre Seek Code Powers to Continue UK FTTP Broadband Build

6th August, 2024 (4 Comments)

Eastbourne-based alternative UK broadband ISP Lightning Fibre, which fell into administration earlier this year and ended up being acquired by existing backer Foresight Group via a new company called LF Holdco2 Ltd (here), are now seeking Code Powers from Ofcom for the new holding company in order to continue their full fibre build.

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Altnet Broadband ISP Lightning Fibre Join CityFibre’s UK Wholesale Network UPDATE

1st August, 2024 (2 Comments)

Eastbourne-based alternative network operator and ISP Lightning Fibre, which has deployed a gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across parts of Sussex and Kent in England, have today signed a wholesale agreement that will enable them to sell packages via Cityfibre’s network too. But initial coverage will be limited.

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Nexfibre Building FTTP Broadband to 13,000 Canterbury UK Premises

20th June, 2024 (7 Comments)

Network operator nexfibre, which shares some of their parentage with broadband ISP partner Virgin Media (O2), has today announced that they expect to cover 13,000 premises across the Kent (England) city of Canterbury via their new wholesale accessible 2Gbps speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network.

Fibre Broadband ISP Lightning Fibre UK Goes into Administration UPDATE4

25th February, 2024 (46 Comments)

Eastbourne-based network operator and ISP Lightning Fibre Ltd, which was busy deploying a new gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across parts of Sussex and Kent in England, fell into administration last week – only a few days after the company cancelled £39.3m worth of shares.

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Nexfibre Publish Q1 2024 UK Full Fibre Broadband Build Update

23rd February, 2024 (38 Comments)

Network operator nexfibre, which shares the same parentage as Virgin Media (VMO2), has this morning published a new quarterly (Q1 2024) progress update on their work to deploy a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) broadband ISP network across up to 7 million UK premises.

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.

Openreach Updates on Isle of Wight and Dover UK FTTP Builds

30th January, 2024 (4 Comments)

Network access provider Openreach has announced that they’ve started their rollout of a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network in the town of Dover (Kent). Separately, they’ve also issued a progress update on their £4.5m project to deploy the same network on the Isle of Wight (just off the south coast of Hampshire).

ISP Lightning Fibre UK Launch 2.5Gbps FTTP Home Broadband

27th November, 2023 (12 Comments)

Eastbourne-based broadband ISP Lightning Fibre, which is rolling out a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across parts of Sussex and Kent in England, appears to have responded to CityFibre’s recent move to launch faster tiers by adding a new 2.5Gbps (symmetric) product tier for residential customers on its network too.

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Virgin Media O2 Linked Nexfibre Publish UK Full Fibre Rollout Plan

7th November, 2023 (40 Comments)

Network operator nexfibre, which holds a wholesale partnership with Virgin Media (VMO2) to deploy a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across up to 7 million UK premises, has today published its first “nationwide rollout plan” for 2024 – listing the first large batch of planned locations.

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Ashford Borough Council in Kent Reports on Broadband Progress

3rd October, 2023 (0 Comments)

The Ashford Borough Council (ABC) in Kent, England, has published a review of the local area’s progress on improving broadband and have identified, perhaps unsurprisingly, that “more needs to be done” to ensure that all local residents and businesses benefit from access to “fast and reliable internet connections“.

Thousands of Orbit’s Homes to Gain Access to Lightning Fibre FTTP Network

17th August, 2023 (6 Comments)

Blocks of flats across the South East of England, specifically those from UK housing group Orbit, look set to benefit from a “new” plug-and-play solution to full fibre (FTTP) broadband deployment, which is to be delivered by fibre installations specialist Complete Fibre – supported by broadband ISP Lightning Fibre.

Netomnia UK Start FTTP Broadband Build to Sevenoaks Premises

8th August, 2023 (43 Comments)

Some 14,000 homes and businesses in the Kent (England) town of Sevenoaks will soon benefit after Netomnia, supported by UK ISP YouFibre, started a £4.2m project to deploy their 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) broadband network in the area.

ISP Lightning Fibre Appoints Interim CEO as Ben Ferriman Exits

24th July, 2023 (8 Comments)

Network builder and UK broadband ISP Lightning Fibre, which is deploying a multi-gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across parts of Sussex and Kent (England), has today announced the appointment of an interim CEO, Stefan Stanislawsk, to replace the company’s outgoing boss and founder, Ben Ferriman.