Openreach Bring FTTP Broadband to 10 Million UK Premises
Network operator Openreach (BT) has officially confirmed that their £15bn rollout of gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP technology has today reached the milestone of 10 million premises passed (up from 9.57m in Dec 2022). Some 3 million customers have also been connected (up from 2.73 million). The milestone and strong take-up help to underline […]
Neos Networks Make Progress on Oxfordshire UK Full Fibre Build
Neos Networks has announced that their ongoing project to deploy a new gigabit-capable full fibre broadband network to over 175 public sector sites (councils, hospitals etc.) across Oxfordshire (England), many of which are in rural areas, is “on track” to complete by the end of 2023 – some 90 sites have already been reached. The […]
Warning of Future UK Broadband Price Hikes as Inflation Jumps
Consumers hoping to see significantly smaller increases in the UK price of their broadband ISP, phone and mobile services next year were given an unwelcome wake-up call today after inflation, which had been forecast to fall sharply in 2023, unexpectedly jumped from 10.1% (CPI) in January to 10.4% in February (RPI also went up). At […]
County Broadband Finally Starts FTTP Build to 9 Suffolk Villages
Rural UK ISP County Broadband, which aspires to cover 500,000 premises across the East of England with their new 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network by the end of 2027, has today confirmed that they’ve started to build across 9 more villages in Suffolk – supported by contractors AB Installs and Highway Workforce. The provider, which is […]
Powys Council Raise Concern Over Project Gigabit Broadband Plans
The Powys County Council in mid-Wales has expressed “concerns” about a change to the UK Government’s £5bn Project Gigabit broadband subsidy programme, which they fear could result in hard-to-reach households and businesses in the county being “negatively impacted“. The statement doesn’t go into a lot of detail, except to highlight how the Building Digital UK […]
Uni of Edinburgh spin-off WhiteHaul bags £275,000 funding for rural broadband
Press Release A technology company that aims to bring high speed broadband to hard-to-reach areas has been awarded £275,000 in funding from Scotland’s national economic development agency, Scottish Enterprise Spinout WhiteHaul, from the University of Edinburgh, has developed a platform that will enable Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to provide users with gigabit-capable broadband speeds over long distances and challenging terrain, at significantly lower cost than current network...
Connecting America: The challenges facing a nation
Interview Ahead of the inaugural Connected America conference, we caught up with The Wall Steet Journal’s SVP of Tech, Media & Telco Business Development, Sara Mascall, to discuss some of the biggest challenges facing the telecoms industry in the US 5G was a major focus at Mobile World Congress this year. Do you think the technology is living up to its potential in the US? 5G was a huge focus at MWC Barcelona recently, and I was privy to a few discussions about it at our Journal House....
Hungarian govt acquires indirect stake in national operator Yettel
News The deal means the Hungarian government now has minority stakes in two of the country’s mobile network operators This week, state-owned Corvinus Nemzetkozi Befektetesi has acquired a minority stake in Hungary’s second-largest mobile operator, Yettel Magyarorszag, via a share swap agreement with Antenna Hungaria. Antenna Hungaria is itself a subsidy of 4iG, the Hungarian IT firm that purchased Vodafone Hungary for €1.7 billion earlier this year. Taking both of these deals together, 4iG...
Gigaclear Expand FTTP Broadband Build to 4 Oxfordshire Villages
Rural UK broadband ISP Gigaclear has announced that, as part of their £84 million investment to deploy a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across Oxfordshire (England), the provider now expects to reach several thousand additional premises across four villages. Engineering work is already taking place to connect more than 2,400 homes in Adderbury and Hook Norton […]
Why lean IT architecture will be paramount for emerging technologies
Interview For years, many nations have declared their desire to be a ‘gigabit’ society. But are they? Not yet. The average fibre-to-the-premise coverage that would provide gigabit speed access is still less than 50% in many countries. But this shortfall is an opportunity. High speed low latency fibre will power fast-growing industries such as autonomous transport, non-line of sight drones, metaverse and more. Investors are waiting. In this exclusive interview at Total Telecom’s Connected...