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The Ferns Group, which is a Kent-based civil engineering firm that specialises in reinstatement works, has become the latest such company to sign a major £50m+ network services agreement with Openreach (there are actually several contracts involved). The deal mostly covers the South of England and may lead to bigger things. The contracts will run […]

UK ISP BT has apologised and promised to automatically refund customers who were impacted after a billing error meant that a “small number” of them had a “duplicate direct debit taken from their bank account“, which in some cases forced a few of those impacted into overdrafts. According to MSE, BT has not yet confirmed […]

Cumbria-based network operator and broadband ISP Grain (Grain Connect) has today named a further 6 UK towns and cities for their ongoing rollout of a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, which includes some major locations like Leeds and Brighton. The provider has already announced full fibre builds for over 50 locations (plus 150 new build […]

Across the country, you’ll find many rural villages that have fought and been successful in getting a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network installed, often with the help of the Government’s voucher scheme. But sometimes even success stories can hit roadblocks, leaving locals stuck in limbo. In this case, we’re going to take a […]

News Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio continue to exchange the 5G rollout lead, leaving Vodafone Idea (Vi) and state-run BSNL trailing far behind This week, Indian mobile network operator Bharti Airtel has announced that its 5G network has reached its next milestone, now being accessible in 500 cities. “We have already covered 500 cities and are adding 30 to 40 cities every single day. By September of 2023, we expect to expand our 5G footprint to all of urban India,” said Randeep Sekhon, Bharti...

Press Release Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced that eir evo, the largest managed cloud services provider in Ireland, has selected the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform to enhance the cloud services offering for its private cloud platform, Digital Planet. HPE GreenLake will enable Digital Planet to meet increasing demand, accelerate deployment of new services and improve overall customer experience for its private cloud offering. Eir evo has operations and data centers...

Startup Stories Tell us about your start up Mapsd is an innovative Fibre Design and Planning firm that provides cutting-edge solutions for FTTx, enterprise, rural community, and multi-dwelling unit (MDU) planning to suit the ever-increasing demands of Internet service providers. We offer technical consulting services to help with ITTs, procedures, and standards related to the construction and deployment of fibre optic networks. What is your USP? We have a firm grasp of the telecoms business...

UK ISP Virgin Media UK (VMO2) has confirmed that they’ve just completed the expansion of their gigabit-capable broadband network – via Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / RFoG) technology – to cover 6,400 homes in the West Sussex (England) town of East Grinstead. Eagle-eyed readers may recall that we first spotted Virgin Media expanding their coverage in the […]

Network operator Netomnia – supported by UK ISP YouFibre – has just quietly added two new towns in Kent (England) to the 2023 rollout plan for their 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network, which has already been extended to cover 410,000 UK premises (up from 300k in November 2022). The operator, which is currently present […]

Some of UK broadband ISP Virgin Media’s phone customers, primarily those on their latest Hub 5 router who have been moved to their new IP (VoIP) based voice platform, have spent the best part of a year having to deal with lots of phantom “ghost calls” (no number calls). But a firmware fix is finally […]