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8,000 Social Homes in Barnet Set for Upgrade to FTTP Broadband

19th March, 2025 (3 Comments)

The Barnet Council in London has reached a wayleave agreement (legal land/property access) that will enable Openreach (BT) to deploy their gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to cover 8,000 households managed by the UK council’s social housing provider, Barnet Homes.

Essex Council Settles Legal Dispute with Rural Broadband ISP Gigaclear

18th March, 2025 (1 Comment)

The Essex County Council (ECC) in England has this afternoon confirmed that they’ve settled their legal dispute with Abingdon-based UK broadband ISP Gigaclear, which was originally raised last summer (here) over an alleged failure by the network operator to deliver on their contracted Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) build.

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Guernsey Court Overturns £3m of Telecoms Competition Fines

18th March, 2025 (0 Comments)

The Royal Court appears to have overturned an earlier decision by the Guernsey Competition & Regulatory Authority (GCRA), which – between 2019 and 2022 – had fined broadband and mobile providers Sure and JT for allegedly breaking competition rules, including by sharing “commercially-sensitive information” and co-ordinating with each other.

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New Technology Helps Subsea Fibre Optic Cables to Detect Sabotage

18th March, 2025 (3 Comments)

A new report reveals how several companies are responding to the growing problem of deliberate sabotage against vital subsea fibre optic cables, which carry much of the world’s internet data traffic, by turning those same cables into a sophisticated sensor net capable of detecting when, where and how an attack may be occurring.

UK Gov Tweak Project Gigabit Broadband Contracts for Quickline and CityFibre

18th March, 2025 (3 Comments)

The Government (DSIT) has published contract modification notices for several of Quickline and CityFibre’s state aid funded Project Gigabit broadband roll-outs across several regions – Lincolnshire and East Riding (Lot 23), South Yorkshire (Lot 20), West and parts of North Yorkshire (Lot 31) and Cambridgeshire (Lot 5). The tweaks change both the level of committed public funding and premises target.

New 280km Full Fibre Network in South Essex Covers 9,000 Businesses

17th March, 2025 (0 Comments)

The ITS Technology Group, which has deployed various open access full fibre broadband and Ethernet networks (“Faster Britain“) across urban parts of the UK for businesses and ISPs, has revealed that their £7.5m (state aid) project to deploy a new 280km long full fibre network in South Essex (England) has now connected 250 public sector sites and covered 9,000 businesses.

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Openreach Backs Fibre Broadband Amendment to Renters Rights Bill

16th March, 2025 (13 Comments)

The CEO of Openreach, Clive Selley, has backed the Liberal Democrat peer Baroness Barbara Janke after she proposed an amendment to the new Renters’ Rights Bill (RRB) that would allow tenants to request the right for a gigabit broadband installation, while ensuring that consent cannot be “unreasonably refused” by landlords (they’d get 28 days to make a decision).

Mobile Coverage in Worcestershire UK is 1000x Worse Than Ofcom Suggests UPDATE

15th March, 2025 (28 Comments)

The Worcestershire County Council (WCC) in England has revealed the results of a recent study they conducted with Streetwave, which harnessed local bin lorries to map the coverage and performance of 4G and 5G mobile (broadband) networks across the county. Overall, it claims to have found that mobile coverage is “over 1,000 times worse than Ofcom and mobile operator data suggests“.

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North Lanarkshire to Deliver Free Broadband to 36,575 Council Homes

14th March, 2025 (26 Comments)

The North Lanarkshire Council (NLC) in Scotland has today announced a “groundbreaking digital plan” that, over the course of between 10 and 15 years, will aim to ensure that “all council housing tenants” (36,575 homes) will gain access to “free internet access, a first for any Scottish council“.

Broadband ISPs Vodafone, BT, KCOM and Zen Internet Prep New UK Battery Backup

14th March, 2025 (47 Comments)

Broadband, mobile and phone provider Vodafone UK has today announced that they’ve teamed up with rival ISPs BT, KCOM and Zen Internet to help bring an improved Broadband Battery Backup (BBU) device for WiFi routers to market, which is said to be capable of powering a customers broadband router (inc. digital phone/voice service) for up to 4-to-7 hours.

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Gloucestershire UK Celebrate Over 98 Percent Superfast Broadband Cover

13th March, 2025 (4 Comments)

The Gloucestershire County Council (GCC) in England has today celebrated how their Fastershire programme, which was jointly conducted alongside Herefordshire Council, has now helped to enable 98.5% of properties in the county to access a “superfast broadband” (30Mbps+) connection, up from only 39% in 2012 and 36% in 2011.

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BDUK Release UPRN Level Data for UK Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout

13th March, 2025 (12 Comments)

The Government’s executive Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has today published fresh data that reveals the current levels of broadband connectivity, future commercial plans for gigabit broadband, and any premises included in BDUK’s publicly funded interventions (e.g gigabit vouchers and Project Gigabit contracts) down to the individual premises (UPRN) level.

Streetwave to Map 4G and 5G Mobile Cover Across Liverpool City Region

12th March, 2025 (1 Comment)

As hinted last week (here), network analyst firm Streetwave has confirmed that they’ve won yet another contract to map 4G and 5G based mobile broadband coverage using bin lorries, which will this time focus on the Liverpool City Region in Merseyside (England) and some 7,000km of the UK’s road network.

Mayor of London Releases Interactive Map of City Broadband Speeds

12th March, 2025 (13 Comments)

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan has this week published a new interactive map that shows how broadband speed availability varies across the city by postcode and where improvements may be needed.

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BDUK Reveal Benefits and Impacts of UK Superfast Broadband Rollout

11th March, 2025 (6 Comments)

The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has posted a final evaluation of the previous ‘Superfast Broadband Programme’ (UK National Broadband Scheme), which reveals the various “economic, social, and environmental benefits” from the previous project to extend “superfast” (30Mbps+) coverage – run between 2016 and 2022.

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CityFibre Target 850k UK Homes Covered by Full Fibre Altnets for Consolidation

11th March, 2025 (39 Comments)

A new research note from James Ratzer at New Street Research has claimed that CityFibre, which have already deployed their full fibre broadband (FTTP) ISP network to cover 4.3 million UK premises (4.1m RFS), is making progress on their plans for future consolidation and already has “up to” 850,000 homes served by other alternative networks “under M&A exclusivity“.

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Hope for Broadband and Mobile Boost as UK Gov to Publish Planning Bill

10th March, 2025 (6 Comments)

The UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has called on the government to be “bold and brave” when they publish their new Planning and Infrastructure Bill (PIB) tomorrow, which it’s hoped may contain some measures that will benefit the roll-out of gigabit broadband and 4G / 5G mobile networks.