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Scotland’s New Digital Strategy to Boost 5G and Superfast Broadband by 2021

22nd March, 2017 (5 Comments)

The Scottish Government has today published a new Digital Strategy, which among other things confirms their plan to make 30Mbps+ “superfast broadband” available to 100% of premises by 2021 via an “outside-in” approach (prioritising public investment for the hardest to reach rural areas).

Scotland Boost Superfast Broadband Coverage with £15.6m Reinvestment

17th March, 2017 (20 Comments)

The £410 million Digital Scotland project with BT (Openreach) has announced that £15.6 million from contract clawback (Gainshare) will be reinvested to raise the number of homes and businesses that have access to “superfast broadband” speeds of greater than 24Mbps.

Cityfibre’s 1Gbps Business FTTP Rollout in Glasgow Expands into Finnieston

14th March, 2017 (1 Comment)

Cityfibre has announced that the construction of their pure fibre optic ultrafast broadband and Ethernet network in the city of Glasgow (Scotland) has now begun moving westwards into the Finnieston area, where a number of local businesses have expressed an interest in receiving their service.

Trouble in Edinburgh as CityFibre Contractor KNNS Slapped for Unsafe Work

8th March, 2017 (7 Comments)

Cityfibre has suspended one of their civil works contractors, KNNS, in the city of Edinburgh (Scotland). The action occurred after a dashcam video emerged that showed one of their fibre optic engineers sitting exposed in a manhole on a busy 30MPH street, with only two small traffic cones for protection.

10,000 Midlothian Premises to Get Virgin Media’s Ultrafast Broadband

3rd March, 2017 (4 Comments)

Cable operator Virgin Media has confirmed that 10,000 premises in Scotland’s Midlothian council area will gain access to their TV and 300Mbps capable broadband network before the end of 2018, which forms part of the operator’s wider expansion to another 360,000 premises across the country.

Virgin Media Extends Ultrafast Broadband to 38,000 Premises in Edinburgh

28th February, 2017 (5 Comments)

Cable and fibre optic provider Virgin Media has announced that an additional 38,000 homes and businesses in the city of Edinburgh (Scotland) will soon be put within reach of their 300Mbps capable broadband and TV services, which forms part of their £3bn ‘Project Lightning’ network expansion.

City of Inverness in Scotland Starts Roll-out of FREE WiFi Network

7th February, 2017 (0 Comments)

The Scottish city of Inverness has become the latest to launch a free “high-speed” public WiFi Hotspot service for local residents and visitors. The roll-out began this week and is being supported by public funding from the £315m Inverness City Region Deal.

30Mbps Wireless Broadband Coming to Tiree – Inner Hebrides of Scotland

7th February, 2017 (2 Comments)

The remote Inner Hebrides island of Tiree, which sits alongside nearby Coll, has been awarded £80,000 from the Community Broadband Scotland (CBS) programme to help upgrade their local wireless broadband network so that it can offer “superfast” speeds of up to 30Mbps.

The UK Impact of Full to Capacity FTTC “Fibre Broadband” Cabinets

23rd January, 2017 (11 Comments)

A new piece of research estimates that around 3% of premises in the United Kingdom could be affected by a full to capacity FTTC (VDSL2) “fibre broadband” street cabinet on Openreach’s (BT) network, which might prevent you from ordering a faster service.

Cityfibre Connect 100+ Public Sites in Aberdeen to its Fibre Optic Network

23rd January, 2017 (6 Comments)

Cityfibre has announced that their 1Gbps capable fibre optic (FTTP) broadband network in the city of Aberdeen (Aberdeen Core), which is already being used to connect local businesses, is being extended to connect over 100 public buildings (schools, libraries etc.).

Cityfibre to Deploy 20km Fibre Optic Network in the City of Stirling (Scotland)

17th January, 2017 (2 Comments)

Fibre optic network builder Cityfibre has confirmed that Stirling will shortly become their 4th “Gigabit City” project in Scotland, thanks to a £1.7m deal to support the roll-out of a new FTTP based Public Service Network (PSN) that will later be extended to local businesses.

Good Broadband Helps Winchester to Win UK Quality of Life Survey

19th December, 2016 (1 Comment)

The Bank of Scotland’s (Halifax, Lloyds) annual Quality of Life Survey, which examines a combination of broadband speed, health, crime rate, weather, employment, happiness and skills etc. to determine the best places in the UK to live, has ranked Winchester and the Orkney Islands top.

89% of UK Covered by 30Mbps Broadband, But Only 1.7% See “Full Fibre”

16th December, 2016 (12 Comments)

Ofcom has today published their annual Connected Nations 2016 report, which confirms that 89% of UK premises are now within reach of a fixed line superfast broadband service (up from 83% in 2015), with take-up hitting 31% (up from 27%). But only 1.7% (498K premises) can get “full fibre” (FTTP/H).

UK ISP Internet for Business Pumps £1m into Ultra-High Speed Connectivity

13th December, 2016 (0 Comments)

Aberdeen-based broadband and telecoms provider Internet for Business (IFB) has today announced that it will invest an extra £1 million to upgrade the capacity of its UK network, which will help the ISP to support their current and future “fibre and ultra-high speed connectivity” (e.g. FTTP) products.

Aberdeenshire Council Prep Massive WiFi Upgrade for Local Schools

12th December, 2016 (3 Comments)

The Aberdeenshire Council in Scotland has signed a deal with Aerohive Networks that will result in a huge upgrade of 4,000 new WiFi access points to public sector sites across the county, with a specific focus on covering 170 schools and 50 other sites (public libraries and buildings etc.).

Virgin Media and Scottish Property Federation Sign Deal for New Builds

1st December, 2016 (0 Comments)

Last month Virgin Media announced that their ultrafast cable broadband and TV network would be extended to 360,000 extra premises in Scotland. Today the operator has built on that by signing a partnership with the Scottish Property Federation, which will help to reach more new build homes.

Scotland’s RemIX Internet Exchange Wins 2016 EU Broadband Award

16th November, 2016 (0 Comments)

A unique distributed Internet Exchange (IX) for remote and rural networks in Scotland and the United Kingdom, RemIX, has won the “Future-proof and quality of service” category of the European Commission’s (EC) annual 2016 European Broadband Awards event, which was held on Monday.