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Bin Lorries to Survey Mobile Coverage Across Glasgow City Region

3rd December, 2024 (1 Comment)

Network analyst firm Streetwave has been contracted to conduct a huge survey of mobile broadband network (4G, 5G) coverage, using bin lorries, which will this time focus on 8 council areas within Scotland’s Glasgow City Region – including North Lanarkshire, West Dunbartonshire, South Lanarkshire, Glasgow, East Dunbartonshire, and East Renfrewshire.

5G DRIVE and O2 Project Bring Mobile Signals to 31 Rural UK Notspots

28th November, 2024 (1 Comment)

Mobile giant O2 (Virgin Media) has announced that, while working alongside the government-backed 5G DRIVE project, they’ve been able to deliver reliable mobile network coverage to 31 “iconic tourist destinations” that were previously “not spots” for mobile signals (i.e. 21 in Wales, 5 in England, and 5 in Scotland).

November 2024 BDUK Update on UK Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout

27th November, 2024 (4 Comments)

The Government’s Building Digital UK agency has published its latest quarterly November 2024 progress update on the £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout scheme, which now has “over” 30 live contracts in place across England and Wales – supporting planned deployments of gigabit-capable broadband to around 1 million premises.

Gov Launch £3.5m UK Rural Broadband Trials of Hybrid Networks

27th November, 2024 (2 Comments)

The UK Government (DSIT, UK Space Agency) has today announced the launch of a new £3.5m “Very Hard to Reach Programme“, which will conduct three projects that seek to use hybrid networks (e.g. a mix of satellite, fixed wireless and 5G/6G mobile technologies) to help improve broadband connectivity in remote rural areas.

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Full Fibre Broadband Reaches Remote UK Island of Iona for the First Time UPDATE

26th November, 2024 (5 Comments)

Engineers working for Openreach (BT) have started to extend the operator’s new 1.8Gbps speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to the beautifully remote Inner Hebrides island of Iona, which is sometimes described as the birthplace of Christianity in Scotland and sits just off the Ross of Mull on the country’s western coast.

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Streetwave to Conduct County-Wide Mobile Coverage Study of Argyll and Bute

19th November, 2024 (0 Comments)

The Argyll and Bute Council (ABC) in Scotland has joined forces with network analyst firm Streetwave and the Scottish Futures Trust (SFT) to conduct the “first county-wide mobile coverage survey” in Scotland, which will mirror similar studies that are already being conducted across other parts of the UK.

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Clarus Networks Deploys Starlink Broadband Across Scotrail Trains

14th November, 2024 (4 Comments)

Communications provider Clarus Networks has today announced that they’ve teamed up to use Starlink’s (SpaceX) global network of ultrafast broadband satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), which will be used to help bring improved internet connectivity to ScotRail’s trains and related commuters across the highlands of Scotland.

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O2 Switch On First Publicly Funded UK 4G Mobile Mast for Total Not Spot Areas

12th November, 2024 (9 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has today marked an important milestone by switching on the UK’s first publicly funded “Total Not Spot” (TNS) 4G (mobile broadband) mast site on South Uist in Scotland, which forms part of the £1bn industry-led Shared Rural Network (SRN) programme and its efforts to extend mobile coverage into remote rural areas.

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Orkney Broadband Rollout Ran Fibre Cables via Water Pipes

7th November, 2024 (12 Comments)

The Scottish Government (SG) has revealed that nearly every home and business in Papa Westray, on the remote archipelago of Orkney, now has access to faster broadband speeds. This is after contractor CloudNet used the community-owned water authority’s existing infrastructure (pipes used for drinking water) to run new fibre optic cables.

Scottish Government Launches New Digital Connectivity Website

1st November, 2024 (0 Comments)

The Scottish Government (SG) has launched a new Digital Connectivity website, which is now directly integrated into the main government website and appears to replace the old Digital Scotland (Superfast Scotland) site. The new site continues to cover the SG’s various broadband (e.g. R100), mobile, IoT and green data centre projects.

October 2024 Progress Update on BT’s 10Mbps UK Broadband USO

29th October, 2024 (10 Comments)

UK ISP BT has published the final biannual progress update for 2024 on their delivery of Ofcom’s somewhat maligned 10Mbps Universal Service Obligation (USO) for broadband. The ISP has so far helped to build a USO connection to over 8,248 premises (up from 7,954 in April 2024), with 215 further builds in-progress (down from 265).

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UltraNetworks Deploy 5G Broadband to Reach Part of Rural Aberdeenshire

21st October, 2024 (2 Comments)

Internet provider UltraNetworks has used vouchers from the Scottish Government to help it upgrade and deploy a new 5G Standalone (SA) based fixed wireless (FWA) network from Mormond Hill. The site will be able to serve homes and businesses in rural parts of North East Aberdeenshire (Scotland) with 1Gbps+ broadband speeds.

CityFibre’s Broadband Services in Glasgow Downed by Potential Exchange Fire UPDATE4

16th October, 2024 (69 Comments)

Broadband ISP connections on CityFibre’s UK full fibre (FTTP) network in Glasgow have been knocked offline after a potential fire caused damage to the operator’s local Fibre Exchange (FEX) last night, which took down their core link (gla1215). But unusually they’re having to pull in a specialist electrician from Portsmouth as they don’t have any in Scotland.

GoFibre Completes FTTP Broadband Rollout to 25,000 Borders Premises

15th October, 2024 (6 Comments)

Edinburgh-based UK alternative network ISP GoFibre (BorderLink) has today announced that they’ve “completed” their planned roll-out of a new full fibre (FTTP) broadband network to the Borders area, which has covered 25,000 rural premises. This is a big chunk of the 118,000 they already cover across the North of England and Scotland (up from 115k on 28th Aug 2024).

Virgin Media O2 UK Set to Open New Office in Lanarkshire

3rd October, 2024 (6 Comments)

Broadband and mobile operator Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2) has today announced that they will open a new office within the business community at Maxim Park in Lanarkshire (Scotland) during early 2025, which will ultimately become home to around 350 employees that are currently based at their Bellshill office in the same region.

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Scotland to Require Gigabit Broadband for Almost All New Homes from 2025

21st September, 2024 (1 Comment)

The Scottish Government has finally caught up with similar legislation in England (here and here), which was introduced at the end of 2022, by effectively mandating that property developers must ensure their new build homes are constructed with support for gigabit-capable broadband connections. This will become effective from 1st January 2025.

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Openreach Spreads FTTP Broadband Across Perth in Scotland

16th September, 2024 (4 Comments)

Network access provider Openreach (BT) has today announced that the first 5,000 premises (homes and businesses) across Perth in Scotland can now access their new 1.8Gbps capable full fibre broadband ISP network. But thousands more are planned in the city and across more rural parts of the county over the next 12 months.