Network builder FullFibre Limited has today added 26 new communities in the East and West Midlands of England to their rollout plan for a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network, which aims to cover “at least” 500,000 UK premises by the end of 2025. The operator, which builds its service as a wholesale network […]
"Bulk of investment will be in the buildout of the high capacity digital infrastructure"
Can you introduce yourself and your role?
I am head of the Digital Infrastructure Division at the Projects Directorate of the European Investment Bank based in Luxembourg. I oversee a team of sector experts involved in sector and technology analysis as well as project appraisal. I also works on the Bank’s business strategy with respect to financing of digital infrastructure…
South Yorkshire Planning Rules Help to Spread Gigabit Broadband
The Superfast South Yorkshire project, which represents the broadband connectivity interests of Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield in England, has given itself a pat on the back this week after reporting that a change to local planning rules has helped to ensure that 17,000 new build homes are capable of gigabit speeds. At present around […]
Jisc Pick Neos Networks for 100Gbps Dark Fibre in N.Ireland
Jisc, which provides network and IT services to the education sector, has once again chosen Neos Networks to deliver yet another of their new Dark Fibre networks, which will this time be used to serve their sites (e.g. Universities and Research Centres) in Northern Ireland with speeds of up to 100Gbps (Gigabits per second). The […]
Toob Bring FTTP Broadband to 18000 Southampton Council Residents
The Southampton City Council in Hampshire and UK ISP toob have today signed a new wayleave (legal land / property access) agreement, which will enable the provider to extend their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to cover 18,000 council residents in houses and flats. The operator, which was originally backed by an investment of £75m […]
Broadband ISP TalkTalk Confirms Huge Annual UK Price Hikes
Customers of UK ISP TalkTalk have in the last week or so started to receive notification emails that confirm the provider’s intention to hike their broadband and phone prices by 9.1% (average) from 1st April 2022, which is something that we first predicted back in January (here) due to the surging levels of inflation. Often […]
SpaceX Hikes Prices for Starlink LEO Satellite Broadband Service
Bad news folks, SpaceX has just hiked the price of everything from rocket launches to their already expensive Starlink constellation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) based ultrafast broadband ISP satellites, the latter of which due to increase in price by 11.11% per month (20% for the hardware) in order to “keep pace with rising inflation.” […]
Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom fill 2,000 German 4G grey spots
Back in 2019, Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone Deutschland, and Telefonica Deutschland signed a joint agreement to tackle areas of Germany with no 4G coverage at all, known as ‘white spots’. This encompassed the building and sharing of around 6,000 new mobile sites around the country, though only the sites&rsquo…
Ethiopia puts the brakes on Ethio Telecom stake sale
The road to liberalising Ethiopia’s telecoms sector – until recently one of the last remaining telecoms monopolies in the world – has been a bumpy one.
While the wider liberalisation of Ethiopia’s economy had been discussed for many years, it was Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed who first set the ball rolling in earnest in June 2019, announcing plans to make two new operating licences available for foreign operators to win at auction…
Gov Commits Gigabit Broadband for All England Schools by 2025
The Government’s Education Secretary, Nadhim Zahawi MP, has today made a new commitment for “every school across the country” to be able to access “high speed internet” by 2025, which is said to complement the wider £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout programme. Funding will also be provided for related WiFi upgrades. On top of this, […]