CityFibre celebrated the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee in their own special way at the end of last week, announcing that they had raised an additional £4.9 billion to fund their FTTP rollout across the nation.
The move is one of the largest single financings for full fibre deployment in Europe, with CityFibre suggesting that the funds will fully enable their deployment target of 8 million homes by 2025, as well as their increasing their contribution towards the UK government&rsquo…
Rural UK ISP Alncom Target 25000 Premises for FTTP Broadband
Alnwick-based ISP Alncom has today announced that they plan to extend the deployment of their new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to cover a further 25,000 rural premises across parts of Northumberland, County Durham and the Scottish Borders. At present, the provider already has a Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) network in Northumberland, which connects […]
Birmingham Scientists Create New 5G Beam Steering Antenna
A team from the University of Birmingham‘s School of Engineering in England has developed a new beam-steering antenna for future 5G and 6G mobile (mobile broadband) networks, which claims to have achieved “vast improvements in data transmission efficiency” via a range of frequencies that are “inaccessible” to existing technologies. The new device can apparently provide […]
New Brsk FTTP Broadband Network Live in Portwood, Stockport
Fibre optic builder and UK ISP Brsk has today announced that their new gigabit-capable and “open access” Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network has just started to go live in the Portwood (Stockport) area of Greater Manchester, which follows a similar development in Accrington last month. The operator, which is currently targeting parts of Greater Manchester, Lancashire […]
Openreach and the Case of a Tricky FTTP Transition Problem
Imagine if your FTTC (VDSL2) broadband line was cancelled and couldn’t be re-provisioned by your ISP because “full fibre” FTTP was now the only option available. Fine. But now imagine if you tried to order FTTP and found that UK ISPs were quoting you up to £12k for installation. This could become more common. As […]
CityFibre Sign GBP4.9bn Debt Raise to Boost UK Full Fibre Rollout
CityFibre has announced “one of Europe’s largest ever Full Fibre financings” by completing a debt raise worth a staggering £4.9bn. The deal enables them to complete their plan to cover 8 million UK premises with gigaibt-capable FTTP broadband and to bid on contract’s under the Government’s £5bn Project Gigabit scheme for rural areas. The operator […]
How Long to Replace a Faulty ONT on FTTP Broadband ISP Lines
The ever-increasing coverage of Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP networks across the United Kingdom has also started to highlight that, while the infrastructure is fundamentally more reliable, providers will face a rising problem from faulty optical modems or ONT / ONUs (Optical Network Terminal / Units). In the old days you often only needed to […]
London ISP CommunityFibre Launch WiFi in Every Room Service
London-focused UK broadband ISP CommunityFibre (CF) has today launched a new premium and guaranteed ‘Wi-Fi in Every Room‘ (mesh network) service. The operator’s multi-gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network currently covers 500,000 homes and aims to reach 2.2 million in the city by the end of 2024. As you’d expect, the new service says it “guarantees […]
CityFibre to Connect 4,000 Solihull Community Housing Tenants to FTTP
CityFibre has today announced a new “blanket wayleave agreement” with the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull in the West Midlands (England), which will enable their existing £25m rollout of a new 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network in the town to reach 4,000 Solihull Community Housing tenants. The town-wide deployment – delivered via civil engineering firm […]
Why Some UK Full Fibre Builds Take Longer to Go Live Than Others
A large number of network operators are currently busy building gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP infrastructure across the UK, but some of them appear to take significantly longer than others to go live in similar areas. In this article, we explore the reasons why. More and more people are starting to have a similar experience. […]