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BT Sign £264m Superfast Broadband Upgrade Contract for Scotland UK

9th July, 2013 (4 Comments)

The government of Scotland has today signed a state aid supported £264 million deal with BT that will make “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) services available to 85% of local homes and businesses by the end of 2015 and around 95% by the end of 2017. As before we don’t know what proportion of those will get “superfast” (25Mbps+) speeds.

HIE Says 75% of Shetland Islands Should Get Superfast Broadband

30th May, 2013 (0 Comments)

Scotland’s Highlands and Islands Enterprise has “guaranteed” to help connect “at least” 75% of homes and businesses on the remote Shetland Islands to a new superfast broadband network by the end of 2015, which forms part of HIE’s wider £146 million investment into new fibre optic based infrastructure.

Lottery Funding Helps Remote Shetland Islands Village Get Fast Broadband

1st May, 2013 (3 Comments)

The tiny community of West Burrafirth on the remote Shetland Islands (North of Scotland) will soon see their broadband ISP speeds lifted from just 0.16Mbps (Megabits per second) to around 25Mbps thanks to a new wireless and fibre optic link, support from a local ISP and national lottery funding.

Shetland Islands Suffer Vital Undersea SHEFA2 Fibre Optic Cable Break

22nd March, 2013 (0 Comments)

Some parts of the remote Shetland Islands (North of Scotland, UK) could be left without good broadband internet and phone connectivity for well over a week after a vital fibre optic link to the undersea SHEFA-2 (Faroese Telecom) cable, which links the Faroe Islands with mainland Scotland, was cut.

Shetland Telecom Boss Slams UK’s Broadband Strategy as “Madness”

29th October, 2012 (12 Comments)

The project manager for Shetland Telecom, which is busy improving internet capacity on the remote Shetland Islands via a new fibre optic link with Scotland, has told ISPreview.co.uk that it’s “complete madness” for the UK government to spend millions attempting to “squeeze more life” out of BT’s existing copper broadband ISP network.

UPD BT Reveal New GBP8m Fibre Optic Broadband Link to Orkney and Shetland

18th September, 2012 (2 Comments)

BT has announced a new £8 million project to replace its slow microwave wireless connection to the remote islands of Orkney and Shetland with a fibre optic cable link, which is expected to connect via the undersea SHEFA-2 cable that links the Faroe Islands with mainland Scotland (UK). But don’t they have this already?

Shetland Telecom Claims Scottish Highlands Need More Money for Broadband

14th July, 2012 (9 Comments)

The project manager for Shetland Telecom’s effort to roll-out a new fibre optic infrastructure around the remote Shetland Islands, Marvin Smith, has warned that the Scottish Government‘s (UK) recent allocation of £120m to improve broadband in the Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) region will not be enough.

UPD Thieves Cut Broadband and Phone Services to the Shetland Islands

21st June, 2012 (2 Comments)

The remote Shetland Islands have this week been hit by a double whammy of BT communication problems after copper cable thieves in the North of England (UK) cut a vital fibre optic link that disrupted services to the island for two days. A separate problem at the Aberdeen (Scotland) exchange then knocked out the local coastguard communication system.

Two Puffins are First to Test Shetland Telecoms Fibre Optic Broadband Service

14th May, 2012 (3 Comments)

Shetland Telecom, which was established by the Shetland Islands Council (SIC) to help deliver superfast broadband services across 90% of the remote Shetland Islands (North of Scotland, UK) by March 2016, has successfully connected its first “test customers” to the link in the form of two cute Puffins (Tammie and Norie).

Vodafone UK Could Boost Mobile Cover in the Shetland Islands with Femtocells

17th April, 2012 (0 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone UK has announced that two communities in the remote Shetland Islands (North of Scotland, UK), Hamnavoe and Walls, could soon benefit from faster mobile phone and Mobile Broadband connectivity after they were shortlisted to take part in the operators Open Femto trial.

Shetland Islands Connect Local Superfast Fibre Optic Link to SHEFA2 Cable

2nd April, 2012 (2 Comments)

Shetland Telecom, which was setup by the Shetland Islands Council (SIC) to develop better telecom and superfast broadband internet access services in the remote Shetland Islands (North of Scotland, UK), has successfully connected up its new fibre optic infrastructure to the undersea SHEFA-2 cable that links the Faroe Islands to mainland Scotland (UK).