Broadband ISP Ogi has confirmed to ISPreview.co.uk that they’ve just managed to unbundle and backhaul their 20th handover exchange in South Wales, which gives them more control to offer cost-effective Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) packages on Openreach’s UK network (i.e. in areas where they aren’t building their own fibre.. yet). At present Ogi, which is being backed […]
Verizon Business and BlackRock partner to deploy private 5G network
BlackRock, a US investment management fund, will feature Verizon’s 5G private network at its new global headquarters in New York.
Private 5G and its benefits has been the talk of the town at MWC 2022 as operators around the world look to enable the transformation of their enterprise customers…
Netomnia Add Guildford, Carlisle and Darlington to UK Full Fibre Rollout
Broadband network builder Netomnia has today added the UK towns and cities of Guildford (Surrey), Carlisle (Cumbria) and Darlington (Durham) to their build plan for a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, which once live will be sold to consumers via ISP partner YouFibre. The operator, which recently secured £123 million of funding (here), has […]
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Airband Upgrades Wireless Broadband in Dartmoor and Exmoor
The Connecting Devon and Somerset (CDS) programme have announced that UK ISP Airband has upgraded their Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) based “superfast broadband” (30Mbps+) network in remote rural parts of England’s Dartmoor and Exmoor National Parks, which should bring more capacity and reliability. Just to recap. The original £4.6m contract to cover 5,800 premises in […]
Cloud technology startup, Robin.io acquired by Rakuten Symphony
Silicon Valley-based cloud technology start-up, Robin.io has today been acquired by Rakuten Symphony, adding additional cloud-native capabilities to their portfolio of high performance cloud infrastructure and operations solutions.
The two organisations had already been cooperating for more than two years…
Hyperoptic targets two million premises
The 2021 Broadband Provider of the Year (Connected Britain Awards), Hyperoptic, has announced that its fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) network now covers more than 750,000 premises and serves more than 230,000 customers with full fibre broadband…
Ofcom UK Propose Upper 6GHz Band for Shared Access Licences
The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today proposed to make the upper 6GHz radio spectrum band (6425-7070MHz) available to Shared Access Licences for low-power, indoor use. But the move raises questions over the future use of this band to help improve 5G and WiFi performance, which has not yet been ruled out. Just to recap. […]
New Grant Opens to Boost Broadband in South Herefordshire
The Fastershire broadband project is starting to make a new Digital Household Grant (DHG) available to homes in some rural parts of South Herefordshire (i.e. those that were originally due to receive FTTP broadband via UK ISP Gigaclear), which will enable them to help cover the installation cost of an “interim broadband solution.” The new […]
Civil Engineer Firm O’Connor Utilities Acquires FKS (UK) Limited
Civil engineering firm O’Connor Utilities (OCU Group Limited), which among other things is helping a number of operators to build full fibre broadband ISP networks across the UK (Netomnia, CityFibre, Ogi etc.), has today announced the acquisition of telecom installation service provider FKS (UK) Limited. Since 2010 FKS, which has offices in the North of […]