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The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today proposed to stop publishing its annual summary of fixed line home broadband ISP speeds after the next report is released later this year (due Q4 2023). Mainly because they deem that it’s no longer needed as the market has changed. Ofcom’s most recent report, which was based on […]

NEWS The Netherlands based multinational announced yesterday that it has entered the final stages in closing the sale of its Russian division to senior members of the latter’s management team The plan to exit Russia, first announced last November, now appears close to fruition with VEON announcing, hat it has submitted all necessary paperwork to Euroclear and Clearstream – two European securities transaction settlement firms – pertaining to the cancellation of Veon’s Eurobonds held by its...

Network builder and UK ISP Zzoomm has today announced that they’ve started to connect the first homes in the North Yorkshire (England) market town of Tadcaster to their new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network, which follows a £1.25m investment that began last September. The operator, which aspires to cover 1 million premises across 85 UK […]

Civil engineering firm VolkerHighways‘ has announced that their UK telecoms division, which is playing a role in the nationwide deployment of full fibre broadband networks (as well as potentially some 5G network infrastructure), has rebranded to VolkerTelecoms to help “simplify and strengthen the business“. VolkerTelecoms, which provides a full turnkey solution from exchange to property […]

Press Release EXA Infrastructure, the largest dedicated digital infrastructure platform connecting Europe and North America, has announced a partnership to connect its ultra-low-latency, high-speed connectivity digital infrastructure to Cinturion’s TEAS – Trans Europe Asia System. Cinturion has chosen EXA to land one of its dual path connections of the TEAS in Pescara, on Italy’s Adriatic coast, to provide the lowest latency and most diversely routed links. Two separate open access sub-sea and...

London-focused broadband ISP CommunityFibre, which aims to deploy a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to cover over 2.2 million UK premises by the end of 2024 (720,000 premises have already been done), has discounted the price of their 1Gbps plan to just £25 per month for 24-months (£27 thereafter). The only negative of the latest offer […]

The Shetland Islands Council (Scotland) has given the green light for Shetland Telecom, which is the arms-length network operator that the council set up some years ago, to apply for Code Powers – ahead of a possible move to expand their full fibre broadband network to reach the remotest homes and businesses. The operator was […]

Alternative network operator Broadway Partners, which is supported by sibling UK ISP Broadway Broadband and had been aspiring to deploy their own gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across rural parts of Scotland and Wales, has called in the administrators. Broadway – supported by a significant investment of £145m from London-based sustainable investment manager Downing LLP (here) […]

Broadband ISP and mobile operator Vodafone has announced that they’ve expanded their existing partnership with Currys, which until now was exclusively focused on Mobile, to also include the provider’s range of Home Broadband products for consumers. As a result, Vodafone’s entire Home Broadband portfolio will be available at all Currys stores (300+) and eligible Vodafone […]

Back in April 2017 the UK Government allowed broadband networks in England and Wales to claim 100% business rates relief on new fibre infrastructure for a period of 5-years, which is a change that Openreach and other FTTP builders had long sought. So it may come as a surprise to learn that BT has never […]