Brsk doubles customers in Manchester FTTP deployment
NEWS Alternative network provider Brsk are progressing well with their new gigabit capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network as they announced hitting 1,000 customers across Manchester. This is a 100% increase from December 2022 when they had 500 sign-ups in the area. The Manchester deployment, which Brsk started building early last year, now serves customers across South Manchester, including Stockport, Sale, Didsbury, Edgeley, Reddish, Withington, Burnage, Heaton Mersey, and Parrs Wood....
Over 350 Public Sites in the Midlands to Get Full Fibre Broadband
The Nottinghamshire County Council (NCC) in England has been chosen to lead a new £8m “GigaHubs” project that will rollout a gigabit-capable full fibre broadband network to reach a total of more than 350 public buildings (schools, council offices, hospitals etc.) across the Midlands. Some £6.8m of the funding for this – on behalf of […]
CityFibre UK Launch First TV Ad Campaign for Full Fibre Network
CityFibre, which aims to cover up to 8 million UK premises (funded by c.£2.4bn in equity and c.£4.9bn debt) with their full fibre broadband ISP network by the end of 2025 (here), has today launched their first ever TV advertising campaign – entitled: “Does your broadband suck?“. The campaign is designed to encourage consumers to […]
Brsk Celebrate 1,000 FTTP Broadband Customers in Manchester
Broadband ISP and UK network builder Brsk has today announced their relatively young gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network has managed to sign-up 1,000 customers on their Manchester deployment, which is double the 500 they had in December 2022. The operator’s network in the city is currently live and serving homes across South Manchester, including around Sale, […]
Rakuten launches UK-based European Open RAN centre
NEWS The Japanese operator has officially launched its Open RAN customer centre in Weybridge, Surrey The site, first announced in November last year, and developed with $2.3 million in funding from the Japanese government is designed to “serve as a European hub for interoperability testing around the viability of Open RAN in new and existing networks.” The centre which will test technology from multiple Open RAN vendors for interoperability and conformance to O-RAN Alliance specifications, is...
Scotland’s R100 Full Fibre Broadband Build Hits 20,000 Premises
The Scottish Government has published a brief progress update on their £600m Reaching 100% (R100) project with Openreach (BT), which reveals that over 20,000 premises have now been covered by their rollout of a new “superfast broadband” (30Mbps+) ISP network (inc. almost 3,000 connections also delivered via vouchers). At present over 95% of premises in […]
Tesco Mobile UK Extend Home From Home Roaming Package
Mobile provider Tesco Mobile, which is a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) on O2’s UK (VMO2) platform, has announced an extension to its free “Home from Home” roaming package. The package will run until the end of 2023 for all customers travelling to any of 48 countries across Europe and beyond “at no additional cost“. […]
FCC talks ‘big picture items’ at Connected America 2023
News Federal Communication Commission (FCC) Press Secretary, Paloma Perez, highlighted the progress of a trio of key initiatives: the Affordable Connectivity Programme (ACP), the Broadband Maps, and closing the Homework Gap Speaking at the first ever edition of Total Telecom’s Connected America conference in Dallas, Texas, FCC Press Secretary Paloma Perez took to the stage for the morning keynote address, shedding light on some of the Commission’s key initiatives for bringing connectivity to...
Ericsson snags 5G mmWave speed record with Faroese Telecom
Press Release Faroese Telecom and Ericsson conducted a speed test in a live network showing download peak speeds of up to 6Gbps, using 5G millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum. It is the fastest measured speed in a live network in Europe to date. This multi-gigabit mmWave technology will be deployed across all of the self-governing nation’s 18 Islands, delivering high capacity and multi-gigabit, mobile broadband speeds in suburban and rural areas. In the North Atlantic Ocean, the self-governing...
Octaplus Acquire Legend Fibre’s UK Home Broadband Customers
Broadband ISP and Pay TV provider Octaplus (Octaplus Supercharged), which sells services to consumers over full fibre (FTTP) networks from MS3, CityFibre and FullFibre Limited, has confirmed to ISPreview.co.uk that they’ve acquired the residential customer base from rival provider Legend Fibre. Legend Fibre is a relatively small ISP that operates over CityFibre’s new broadband network. […]