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Town of St Helens Start £2.5m Project to Build Full Fibre Network

11th March, 2024 (6 Comments)

The local authority for the Merseyside (England) town of St Helens, which is home to a population of around 103,000, has notified ISPreview of a new digital infrastructure project that aims to invest £2.5m to deploy a fibre optic network to support businesses across the town centre with gigabit-capable broadband.

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MP Calls on Openreach to Pause Pole Builds After Alleged Rule Breach and Whistleblower

1st March, 2024 (56 Comments)

The recent dispute between residents in the seaside town of Southport (Merseyside) and Openreach reached UK parliament yesterday, with the local Conservative MP, Damien Moore, claiming that an alleged “whistleblower” had revealed that the broadband builder was sidestepping its own rules on pole deployments.

New LCR Connect Full Fibre Network Goes Live Across Liverpool

23rd February, 2024 (1 Comment)

The LCR Connect network, which is a £32m joint venture that has rolled out a new 214km long full-fibre (broadband and Ethernet) network across much of the Liverpool City Region, has today become fully operational and made multi-gigabit speed internet connections available to more than 28,000 businesses.

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Southport Residents Block Street to Stop Openreach Pole Build

16th February, 2024 (99 Comments)

Angry residents living on Griffiths Drive in Southport (England) have used their cars to block access to the street in an effort to prevent Openreach from deploying poles. The new infrastructure is necessary in order for the operator to deploy their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based gigabit broadband ISP network.

Vandals Attack Netomnia’s FTTP Broadband Network in Liverpool UPDATE

13th December, 2023 (35 Comments)

Police have been called in after vandals caused “extensive” damage to part of Netomnia’s (supported by UK ISP YouFibre) new full fibre broadband network in Liverpool, where the operator is currently investing £39 million on a large deployment project. But thankfully only a few customers have felt the impact.

Freedom Fibre Add 3 North West Towns to UK FTTP Broadband Rollout

25th April, 2023 (1 Comment)

Network operator Freedom Fibre, which aims to cover over 2 million premises in England and Wales with their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network – supported by UK ISP TalkTalk, has today added three new neighbouring towns along the Wirral Peninsula in Cheshire and Merseyside to their rollout plan.

High Court Blocks Crowdfunded Legal Challenge to UK 5G Rollout

13th March, 2023 (0 Comments)

The High Court (King’s Bench Divison) has once again blocked a questionable crowd-funded legal challenge by the Action Against 5G campaign, which had been attempting to disrupt the UK rollout of 5G (mobile broadband) over fears that the government was being “unlawful” in “failing to protect the public from the health risks from 5G.“

Netomnia FTTP Broadband Rollout Targets Apartment Blocks

27th February, 2023 (19 Comments)

Network operator Netomnia – supported by UK ISP YouFibre – appears to have started to put more focus on extending their 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) broadband lines into large residential buildings (Multi-Dwelling Units), with MDUs in Liverpool expected to see quite a bit of work.

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150 Businesses Benefit from New Full Fibre Network in Liverpool

2nd July, 2022 (2 Comments)

Some 150 businesses based on the Sci-Tech Daresbury site have become the first to benefit from a new 212km full fibre broadband and Ethernet network called LCR Connect, which is being built as part of a £30m project backed by the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority, ITS Technology and NGE.

CityFibre Begins GBP30m FTTP Broadband Rollout in St Helens

9th June, 2022 (6 Comments)

CityFibre has today broken the first ground on their £30m investment to deploy a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across the large town and borough of St Helens in Merseyside (England), which aims to cover most of the local homes and businesses by 2025.

Netomnia Reveal GBP39m Gigabit Broadband Build in Liverpool

19th May, 2022 (19 Comments)

Network builder Netomnia – supported by UK broadband ISP YouFibre – has today announced their first deployment across a major city, which will see them invest £39m to cover homes and businesses across Liverpool (Merseyside) with a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network.

Freedom Fibre Add 4 Towns to FTTP Broadband Rollout in England UPDATE

2nd December, 2021 (1 Comment)

Alternative network operator Freedom Fibre, which recently received a funding boost from UK ISP TalkTalk (here) and is busy building a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to homes in semi-rural parts of North England, has just added four new towns across Merseyside, Cheshire and Greater Manchester to their plans.

ISP Baltic Broadband Introduce Baltic Backpack to Fix Connectivity

8th November, 2021 (6 Comments)

Business ISP Baltic Broadband, which typically offers a mix of fixed wireless and full fibre broadband to firms in the Liverpool area, has introduced an unusual new product called the ‘Baltic Backpack‘ – designed to be introduced to tackle areas of slow or failed broadband, seemingly by harnessing multiple cellular networks.

Judge Blocks Crowdfunded Legal Challenge to UK 5G Rollout

30th July, 2021 (0 Comments)

The High Court has blocked a highly questionable crowd-funded legal challenge by the Action Against 5G campaign, which had been attempting to disrupt the rollout of ultrafast 5G (mobile broadband) services over fears that “radio-frequency radiation from masts and wireless devices puts health and life at risk.“

£30m Deal Sees ITS Rollout Full Fibre Across Liverpool City Region

25th February, 2021 (0 Comments)

The ITS Technology group is to lead a new consortium, which includes the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority and NGE, that will invest £30 million in order to rollout a new 212km long gigabit-capable “full fibre” network across the Liverpool City Region so as to “create jobs and boost key sectors.”

5G Conspiracy Theorists Hire Lawyer to Sue UK Gov Over Health Fears

15th August, 2020 (0 Comments)

The Action Against 5G mobile group, which holds to a widely debunked conspiracy theory that “radio-frequency radiation from masts and wireless devices puts health and life at risk“, has crowd-funded £105K to hire barrister Michael Mansfield QC in order to take legal action against the UK Government to stop the roll-out.

Virgin Media UK Extend Full Fibre to 2,500 Leasowe Homes

10th August, 2020 (0 Comments)

Broadband ISP and TV provider Virgin Media UK (Liberty Global) has completed another network extension, which this time sees an additional 2,500 homes in Leasowe – an area on the north coast of the Wirral Peninsula (Merseyside) – gain access to their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) service.