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Scottish ISP Lothian Broadband (LBN), which is building a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) network across rural parts of East Lothian, the Highlands and Fife, has announced that they’re extending into the rural areas surrounding the city of Stirling – starting with 3,400 premises across three villages. The latest rollout expansion will utilise funding […]

News  The equity raise was solely supported by existing investors, funds managed by Macquarie Asset Management, Ares Management, and supporting co-investors  altafiber, formerly known as Cincinnati Bell, has raised $600 million in funding to support the ongoing construction of fibre networks in its incumbent and expansion markets of Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, and Hawaii.   As well as continuing to upgrade its current network, the funding will allow the firm to grow its opportunistic edge-out and...

News  The firm passed 2 million premises last September and is currently rolling out fibre at a rate of one million premises per year  UK fibre network operator CityFibre has today announced that its full fibre (FTTP) broadband network now covers 3 million UK premises, with 2.6 million of these ‘Ready For Service’. The figure is up from 2.5 million premises in January this year.  Residents within these areas can now receive internet services from 35–40 Internet Service Providers that currently...

Network access provider Openreach (BT) has revealed that their 1.8Gbps capable UK Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network now covers a total of 949,000 properties in Scotland (up from 800,000 in mid-March 2023), which is estimated to have cost them around £280m (assumes an average of £300 per premises passed). The vast majority of their full […]

Infracapital-backed ISP Fibrus, which is rolling out a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across Northern Ireland and the North of England, has today revealed that their network now covers 300,000 premises (up from 250k in March) and is home to 50,000 customers (up from 36,000). Just to clarify that coverage figure a bit. […]

UK ISP Yayzi Broadband, which mainly sells packages via Cityfibre’s national Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, has made a bold move today by scrapping their existing 150Mbps and 500Mbps packages in order to focus on a 1Gbps and 2.5Gbps tier. But to compensate for this, they’ve introduced a huge price discount. Just to recap. Yayzi previously sold […]

Broadband internet service providers (ISP) are being encouraged to patch or mitigate a “grave flaw” in the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), which could allow a remote attacker to craft a BGP UPDATE message that can de-peer (reset) BGP sessions and disrupt the global flow of internet traffic or cause a Denial of Service (DoS). The […]

The founders of third-party Domain Name Service (DNS) provider Quad9, including Chief Security Officer, Danielle Deibler, and GM, John Todd, have today spoken to ISPreview about the impact of recent court rulings that will force them to block sites suspected of internet copyright infringement (piracy) at DNS level. For context. DNS providers typically convert Internet […]

News  The route is the newest of three between the UK and mainland Europe  Deutsche Telekom has announced an upgrade to its cross-continental Lambda network, adding a third route across the channel between London and mainland Europe.  The new route runs between London and Ostend, Belgium, and adds to the existing routes between London and Paris, and London and Amsterdam.  The Lambda network is a high-bandwidth optical network that delivers cross-continental connectivity, which Deutsche Telekom...

News  NetCo includes TIM’s fixed line network assets and their submarine cable subsidiary unit, Sparkle  The Italian government has announced that it has approved two decrees that will enable it to take up to a 20% stake of Telecom Italia (TIM)’s NetCo, with the rest going to US investment firm KKR.  The Italian state is a pre-existing shareholder of TIM, owning a 9.8% stake through state investor Cassa dei Depositi (CDP).  The move affirms the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed earlier...