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Broadband ISP and network builder Lit Fibre, which is building a new gigabit-speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to cover 500,000 homes by 2026, has today announced that they’ve appointed Openreach’s former CEO, Steve Robertson, as a Non-Executive Director. The provider, which only began their rollout last year and is being backed by an equity investment from […]

UK ISP Virgin Media (VMO2) has today announced that they’ve reduced the monthly price of their “Essential Broadband” plan from £15 to £12.50, which offers speeds of just 15Mbps (2Mbps upload), unlimited data usage and a 30-day rolling contract to those receiving Universal Credit. But they’ve also added a new 50Mbps option. The move came […]

The latest biannual data from Point Topic has revealed how the top and bottom ten UK local authorities have changed, at least with respect to their coverage of Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP networks. As before, Hull remains at the top of the table (99.3%), but the Isles of Scilly (1.5%) are now at the […]

London focused UK ISP CommunityFibre, which has so far covered 675,000 premises in the city and South East with their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network, has this afternoon announced that they’ve signed a new finance facility of £985m that will enable the company to execute the next phase of their rollout. At present the operator, which […]

Marcello Del Brenna, CEO Prysmian UK, shares his thoughts on the increasingly crowded space available for the UK’s energy transition and the deployment of broadband networks The post An interview with Marcello Del Brenna, CEO UK, Prysmian Group first appeared on Total...

INTERVIEW Marcello Del Brenna, CEO Prysmian UK, shares his thoughts on the increasingly crowded space available for the UK’s energy transition and the deployment of broadband networks. Prysmian is using its global experience in broadband rollout to develop smaller, higher quality pre-connectorised products to help networks meet the increasing demand for fibre connections at a time when the UK is experiencing a skills shortage. Furthermore, Prysmian acknowledge that we’re in the first part of...

Press release The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) has announced that Amith Maharaj, Group Technology Executive, from MTN Group has joined its Board of Directors as the company’s representative. Yago Tenorio, Chairman of TIP and Fellow and Network Architecture Director at Vodafone Group, commented on the appointment: “MTN has been a great contributor since it joined TIP in 2016. From its leadership in several Project Groups and other TIP initiatives, including DCSG, MUST, OpenWiFi and OpenRAN, MTN...

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NEWS As Meta are reportedly spending up to $10 billion a year on developing Zuckerberg’s vision of the metaverse, a virtual world where people work, socialise, play games, transact and more in an immersive digital environment, you would assume that its going to be good and that it would get broad support from Meta’s own staff. Now however new reports are emerging that the company’s flagship “metaverse” app – Horizon Worlds is virtually unusable, with quality so poor that not even Meta...

The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) team has informed ISPs of several forthcoming changes to their Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme (GBVS), which helps those in rural areas to get a gigabit-capable internet connection installed. The big news is that the maximum voucher values are to be increased. The GBVS scheme normally offers vouchers worth up […]