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Rural UK Full Fibre ISP Airband Reportedly Seeking New Funding

20th June, 2023 (4 Comments)

Alternative network provider Airband, which aims to cover 600,000 UK premises in rural areas via a mix of their wireless (FWA) and full fibre (FTTP) broadband networks by the end of 2025, has reportedly appointed restructuring firms AlixPartners and Houlihan Lokey to help find additional funding amid difficult conditions.

Gigaclear street cabinet fttp 2021 by David Harkis

New Cabinets Help Gigaclear Build Full Fibre to 5 Oxfordshire UK Villages

24th May, 2023 (6 Comments)

Abingdon-based UK broadband ISP Gigaclear has expanded their street cabinet options in order to help serve smaller communities, with the first to benefit from this approach being five small villages in Oxfordshire (England) – Burford, Islip, Cassington, Tackley and Weston-on-the-Green.

Gigaclear Expand FTTP Broadband Build to 4 Oxfordshire Villages

21st March, 2023 (0 Comments)

Rural UK broadband ISP Gigaclear has announced that, as part of their £84 million investment to deploy a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across Oxfordshire (England), the provider now expects to reach several thousand additional premises across four villages.

Netomnia Adds UK City of Oxford to FTTP Broadband Rollout

3rd August, 2022 (0 Comments)

Full Fibre network builder Netomnia – supported by broadband ISP partner YouFibre – has today added a second “major city” (after Liverpool) to their UK rollout of a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) network, which will see them invest £36m to cover 120,000 premises in Oxford (England).

Voneus Plan FTTP for 17000 Homes in Oxfordshire and Warwickshire

5th April, 2022 (2 Comments)

Macquarie Capital backed UK ISP Voneus, which holds a “near term” plan to cover 100,000 homes in rural areas with their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network (here), has signed a new partnership with Glenevin Construction to reach 17,000 homes across Oxfordshire and Warwickshire in England.

Gigabit FTTP Broadband in Wingrave Finally Going Live via Ecom

8th March, 2022 (0 Comments)

After a long wait, UK ISP Ecom has finally started to connect the first properties in the rural Buckinghamshire (England) village of Wingrave – home to a local population of around 1,500 – to their new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network.

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.

Troubled UK FTTP ISP People’s Fibre Acquired by Swish Fibre UPDATE

29th December, 2021 (16 Comments)

Alternative UK broadband ISP Swish Fibre, which is being backed by Fern Trading in its plan to build a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP network across 250,000 premises in the Home Counties (here), has stepped in to rescue troubled provider People’s Fibre after they recently fell into administration.

Rival Fibre ISPs Gigaclear and Swish Fibre Both Go Live in Thame

15th December, 2021 (11 Comments)

Smaller UK alternative network ISPs are increasingly starting to butt heads in some of the same areas. The latest example comes from the small market town of Thame in Oxfordshire (England), where Swish Fibre and Gigaclear have both started to go live with a new full fibre broadband network, within days of each other.

Gigaclear Complete GBP21m West Oxfordshire Full Fibre Rollout

5th November, 2021 (4 Comments)

Some 16,000 extra premises across rural parts of West Oxfordshire in England can now access a gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network after Gigaclear completed its local project, worth £21m, in the district. The area has now also achieved almost universal (99%+) coverage of “superfast broadband” (30Mbps).

Ecom’s Remote Rural FTTP Broadband Reaches Hillesden in Bucks

1st August, 2021 (13 Comments)

UK ISP Ecom, which is currently building a new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to reach remote rural communities across Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, has now managed to extend their fibre to reach homes in the villages of Hillesden and Steeple Claydon.

ISP Zzoomm Extend FTTP Broadband into More Berkshire Towns

19th July, 2021 (9 Comments)

UK ISP Zzoomm has today confirmed that their new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network will next be expanded into the Berkshire (England) towns of Sandhurst and Crowthorne. The rollout is expected to cover 10,500 homes and businesses in the two locations.

Zzoomm Apologises for Disruption in Oxfordshire UK After DDoS

25th June, 2021 (6 Comments)

Alternative broadband ISP Zzoomm, which is deploying a 10Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to 1 million UK homes by the end of 2025, has apologised to their customers in the Oxfordshire town of Henley-on-Thames after a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) assault disrupted their connectivity.

Gigaclear Focus on Infill as it Extends FTTP to Chipping Norton

20th May, 2021 (4 Comments)

Rural focused UK broadband ISP Gigaclear has begun a new phase of network expansion in their existing deployment areas, which will see their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) service being extended into some places that they’d initially missed (infill). One of the first towns to benefit will be Chipping Norton in West Oxfordshire.

Zzoomm Builds FTTP Broadband Network into Staffordshire UK

18th May, 2021 (1 Comment)

UK ISP Zzoomm has today revealed that their new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network will shortly be expanding into Staffordshire (England), specifically thousands of homes and businesses within the town of Cannock, which is home to a local population of c.30,000.

FTTP Broadband ISP Zzoomm Extends Network to Cheshire UK

17th May, 2021 (6 Comments)

Alternative UK ISP Zzoomm has announced that their new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network will next be expanded into Cheshire (England), specifically tens of thousands of homes and businesses within the large railway town and civil parish of Crewe.

Zzoomm Start First Yorkshire FTTP Broadband Rollout in Thirsk

23rd March, 2021 (3 Comments)

Alternative UK ISP Zzoomm has today announced the first deployment of their 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband network in North Yorkshire (England), which will take place in the poorly served market town and civil parish of Thirsk.