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BT Deal Extend Superfast Broadband to 95% of North Yorkshire UK UPDATE

4th January, 2018 (32 Comments)

The Superfast North Yorkshire project in England has awarded its £20.5 million Phase 3 contract to Openreach (BT), which will see their FTTP and FTTC based “superfast broadband” (24Mbps+) network being extended to reach an additional 14,239 homes and businesses (95% of premises).

UK ISP Boundless Networks Expand Worth Valley Broadband Coverage

21st December, 2017 (0 Comments)

Many more homes and businesses in the rural Worth Valley area of West Yorkshire (England, UK) can now gain access to “ultrafast broadband” speeds of 100Mbps+ after Boundless Networks expanded their fixed wireless network coverage with the help of local contractor Pennine Plus.

B4RN Volunteers Begin Build of 1Gbps FTTH Broadband in Norfolk UK

14th December, 2017 (5 Comments)

The recently formed B4RN East Anglia (B4RNorfolk) ISP has this week gathered a group of volunteers to help mark the official start of construction on their new community built and funded 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband network for rural Norfolk and Suffolk (England).

Openreach Community Fibre Broadband Scheme to Reach 60000 Premises

6th December, 2017 (43 Comments)

The Community Fibre Partnerships scheme that Openreach (BT) runs, which offers grants up to £30,000 to help co-fund the cost of upgrading an area to receive their FTTC or FTTP based “fibre broadband” network, expects to have benefited 60,000 UK premises within 12 months (currently 30,000).

North Yorkshire Rural Broadband ISP Moorsweb Acquired by Signa

1st December, 2017 (0 Comments)

Fixed wireless broadband ISP Moorsweb, which has been running since 2006 and serves homes across several dales in the remote rural North Yorkshire (UK) moors, has been taken over by Signa Technologies after former owner Barry Sunley chose to retire.

KCOM Unveil £85m Lightstream Broadband Rollout for 100% of Hull UK

28th November, 2017 (13 Comments)

The incumbent telecoms operator for Hull in East Yorkshire UK, KCOM, has today announced the final phase of their “Lightstream” roll-out, which will extend their “ultrafast” fibre optic broadband (FTTP/C) services to cover 100% of their network area (around 200,000 premises) by March 2019.

KCOM Ready to Bring Ultrafast Broadband to Everyone on their Hull Network

27th November, 2017 (2 Comments)

The incumbent phone and broadband provider for Hull in East Yorkshire, KCOM, as told the UK Government’s Digital Minister, Matt Hancock, that they will hit their target of 150,000 properties on their fibre optic network (FTTP/C) by the end of 2017 and will then extend this to “everyone in our network.”

KCOM Working to Recover from Major Broadband Network Outage

21st November, 2017 (3 Comments)

Subscribers to KCOM’s broadband network in Hull (East Yorkshire, UK) suffered a major service outage last night between approximately 7:30pm and 10pm, which resulted in a “large number of customers being unable to connect to the internet.” Sadly some problems are on-going.

ISP TalkTalk See Growth in Broadband Users to 3.99 Million and FTTH Plan

15th November, 2017 (1 Comment)

UK Internet provider TalkTalk has today published their interim results for the 6 months to 30th September 2017 (H1 2018), which reveals that they added +46,000 new on-net broadband subscribers in the period to total 3,993,000 (29% of those use their FTTC/H “fibre broadband” network).

Streethouse Village Stuck on Flaky Battery Backup for Broadband

10th November, 2017 (16 Comments)

Residents in the West Yorkshire UK village of Streethouse have been left to suffer weeks of unstable broadband connectivity after a lorry crashed into the local transformer box, damaging its power supply. This has forced Openreach (BT) engineers to rely on battery backup at their FTTC street cabinet.

Boundless Networks Bring 150Mbps Wireless Broadband to the Ribble Valley

8th November, 2017 (0 Comments)

Fixed wireless ISP Boundless Networks has announced that their 150Mbps capable ultrafast broadband network has been extended to reach businesses in the rural Ribble Valley area of Lancashire UK, with firms in the large rural village of Whalley (population of 2,700) being among the first to benefit.

Superfast Broadband in East Riding Set to Reach 2,200 Extra Premises

25th October, 2017 (7 Comments)

A reinvestment of £6 million into the on-going Broadband East Riding project in Yorkshire (England) will enable Openreach (BT) to extend their existing FTTC, FTTP and FTTRN rollout of “superfast broadband” (24Mbps+) in the region to an additional 2,200 homes and businesses.

Fixed Wireless Broadband ISP Connexin Boosted by £10m Investment

17th October, 2017 (0 Comments)

Hull-based Connexin, which operates wireless broadband networks in East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire (England), looks set grow after it secured an investment of £10m from Digital Alpha Advisors (DAA). A focus on smart cities (e.g. public Wi-Fi), 100 extra staff and a new data centre are all in the plans.

Boundless Networks to Bid on North Yorkshire Broadband Rollout Contract

13th October, 2017 (1 Comment)

Fixed wireless ISP Boundless Networks has revealed that they intend to bid on Phase 3 of the state aid supported Superfast North Yorkshire project, which if successful would expand their “ultrafast broadband” (100Mbps+) network to cover 25,000 premises in rural areas across the county.

ISP Signa Build New Broadband Network for the Hutton Wandesley Estate

12th October, 2017 (1 Comment)

A rural business park on the Hutton Wandesley Estate in North Yorkshire has been given a huge boost after Signa built a new fixed wireless superfast broadband network in the area to help serve isolated firms, which will also soon also be expanded to cater for local residents.

West Yorkshire Hamlet of Slippery Ford Gets 30Mbps Wireless Broadband

12th October, 2017 (0 Comments)

UK ISP Boundless Networks has successfully deployed a new fixed wireless superfast broadband network to cater for residents of Slippery Ford, which is a tiny rural hamlet and part of the Worth Valley in West Yorkshire that has long campaigned for faster internet connectivity.

KCOM Detail Q4 – 2017 FTTP Broadband Rollout to 11,555 Premises in Hull

10th October, 2017 (1 Comment)

East Yorkshire ISP KCOM has today announced the final 2017 phase of their £60m Lightstream project, which aims to have deployed their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) dominated “ultrafast broadband” network to a further 11,555 premises in Hull between now and the end of the year.