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Rural UK ISP County Broadband Completes Sudbury FTTP Rollout

2nd April, 2024 (10 Comments)

Despite last year’s concerns over redundancies (here), network provider County Broadband has today announced the completion of their work to deploy a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across the Suffolk market town of Sudbury, which is home to a population of around 13,000.

Cityfibre UK Complete Bury St Edmunds FTTP Broadband Build

30th January, 2024 (9 Comments)

CityFibre has announced that they’ve completed their “primary build” of a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network in the Suffolk (England) town of Bury St Edmunds. The network is now Ready for Service for over 16,000 homes, which is said to reflect about 81% of homes and most businesses in the town.

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Cityfibre Completes Full Fibre Broadband Rollout in Lowestoft

20th December, 2023 (14 Comments)

CityFibre has announced that they’ve completed their £15 million project to deploy a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network across the seaside town of Lowestof in Suffolk (England), which originally began during the spring of 2020 and has now covered nearly 30,000 premises (RFS).

Sizewell C Deal Helps Openreach Extend FTTP Broadband in Suffolk UK

9th October, 2023 (6 Comments)

Network provider Openreach (BT) has announced that an additional 5,000 homes in East Suffolk (England), covering an area in and around the town of Leiston, are due to gain access to their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network thanks to a new contract with the Sizewell C nuclear power development.

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Job Cut Fears Strike Rural England Full Fibre Builder County Broadband

26th September, 2023 (13 Comments)

Rural network builder and UK ISP County Broadband (CB), which holds an aspiration to cover 500,000 premises across the East of England with their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network by the end of 2027, appears as if it may soon become the latest network operator to make redundancies.

CityFibre Update on Project Gigabit FTTP Build Progress in England

21st September, 2023 (15 Comments)

CityFibre has announced that they’ve awarded their “first round of contracts” to civil engineering firms under their state-aid supported Project Gigabit broadband rollout contracts in Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Hampshire and Suffolk. The deployments will bring full fibre (FTTP) lines to a total of 715,000 extra rural properties.

Full Fibre Broadband Builders Telec Networks Calls in Administrators UPDATE

19th August, 2023 (25 Comments)

Grimsby-based civil engineering firm Telec Networks, which has been used by full fibre (FTTP) operators like CityFibre and County Broadband to help construct their networks across various parts of England (e.g. Suffolk, Lincolnshire and Norfolk etc.), has reportedly notified that it intends to appoint an administrator.

Rural Full Fibre UK ISP County Broadband Launch Grant-Funding Charity

9th August, 2023 (1 Comment)

Alternative network provider County Broadband, which is working to deploy a new gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to 500,000 rural premises across the East of England by the end of 2027, has today launched the ‘Hypercharged Foundation‘ – offering grants to support community-centric causes in their build areas.

Kompass Kapital Acquires UK Full Fibre AltNet LightSpeed Broadband

7th July, 2023 (28 Comments)

Alternative network provider and UK ISP LightSpeed Broadband, which recently announced job cuts and a slowdown of their plan to reach over 1 million premises across the East of England with a gigabit-capable full fibre (FTTP) network by 2026 (here), has been acquired by Kompass Kapital for an unspecific sum.

CityFibre Win Three Major UK Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout Contracts

1st July, 2023 (48 Comments)

The UK Government’s £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout scheme has announced that CityFibre have secured three major build contracts for Hampshire, Norfolk and Suffolk in England. The combined award is worth £488m (£318m state aid and £170m private) and will see the operator extend 10Gbps capable FTTP to 218,000 premises (500k inc. commercial build).

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County Broadband See Success with Connecting Remote UK Homes

27th June, 2023 (1 Comment)

Alternative network provider County Broadband, which aspires to cover 500,000 premises across the East of England with their gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network by the end of 2027, has revealed that the specialist team they created to help reach the most remote homes has now completed 200 connections.

Full Fibre Operator VX FIBER Pauses UK Rollout and Cuts Jobs

22nd June, 2023 (21 Comments)

More bad news for alternative networks today. Swedish provider VXFIBER, which alongside subsidiary and ISP LilaConnect had recently been busy rolling out several new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP networks in the UK, has confirmed to ISPreview that they’ve paused the rollout.

Rural Full Fibre ISP County Broadband Appoints New CIO

30th May, 2023 (2 Comments)

Colchester-based alternative network ISP County Broadband, which aims to reach 500,000 premises across the East of England with their new gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network by the end of 2027, has today announced the appointment of Chris Davies as Chief Information Officer (CIO).

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ISP County Broadband Boosts FTTP Rollout in East of England

17th May, 2023 (8 Comments)

Colchester-based alternative network ISP County Broadband, which has an ambition to cover 500,000 premises across the East of England with their new 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network by the end of 2027, has today signed a new partnership with civil engineering firm AB Installs to accelerate their rollout.

Job Losses Strike UK Full Fibre ISP Lightspeed Broadband as Build Slows

27th April, 2023 (48 Comments)

Alternative network builder and UK ISP LightSpeed Broadband, which aspires to deploy a gigabit-capable full fibre (FTTP) network to cover 1 million premises across the East of England by 2026, has confirmed to ISPreview that some of their staff have been notified of redundancies in the future.

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County Broadband Finally Starts FTTP Build to 9 Suffolk Villages

22nd March, 2023 (1 Comment)

Rural UK ISP County Broadband, which aspires to cover 500,000 premises across the East of England with their new 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network by the end of 2027, has today confirmed that they’ve started to build across 9 more villages in Suffolk – supported by contractors AB Installs and Highway Workforce.

Openreach Extend UK Pilot of 1.2Gbps and 1.8Gbps FTTP Broadband

1st March, 2023 (85 Comments)

Network access provider Openreach (BT) has announced that their ongoing broadband ISP pilot of faster Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) download speeds – 1.2Gbps and 1.8Gbps (both offer 120Mbps upstream) – has been extended to run for several more months and is also being expanded into more exchanges.