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A Connected Britain 2022 Preview Connected Britain 2022 is just around the corner and, with just over a week left to go, it is only fitting that we highlight some of our amazing keynote sessions, featuring some of the biggest names in the UK telecoms industry.   Day 1 Keynote: Unlocking the benefits of a ‘Connected Britain’ What exactly do we mean when we talk about a ‘Connected Britain’? What does a truly connected, digital economy look like and how can we attain it while still delivering...

Rural broadband ISP Gigaclear, which is investing £700m to reach 500,000 rural UK premises with their full fibre network by the end of 2023 (they’ve so far completed 300,000), has appointed test and monitoring firm EXFO to help reduce the time and cost associated with fault-finding, repairs and truck rolls during operation. The focus on […]

UK ISP 1310 (“thirteen-ten“), which offers gigabit broadband services via Openreach’s national network and is also building their own full fibre (FTTP) across parts of Hampshire in England, has recently reduced the standard pricing across their packages and issued a progress update on their fibre rollout. Firstly, in terms of 1310’s work to build their […]

The wholesale division of UK broadband ISP TalkTalk (TalkTalk Business) has today announced that it has created two new wholesale divisions to support both its business-to-business (‘Business Wholesale Services‘) and consumer wholesale (‘Consumer Wholesale Services‘) segments. The latest move follows hot on the heels of TalkTalk’s acquisition of Ethernet provider Virtual1 (here) and their gobble of […]

Broadband ISP and energy provider Shell Energy will later this morning launch a new promo, which is to offer “free broadband” until January 2023 to both new and existing customers who take one of their Fast, Superfast Fibre, Superfast Fibre Plus, Ultrafast Fibre or Ultrafast Fibre Plus plans (i.e. ADSL, FTTC or G.fast). The promotion, […]

A little-known internet provider called Ashford Fibre has just become the first ISP on Open Fibre Networks Limited‘s (OFNL) open access UK full fibre broadband network to launch a gigabit-class 900Mbps package for residential customers. Most OFNL providers previously only offered up to 360Mbps for homes. The Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network that OFNL builds is usually […]

Chip and technology giants Intel and Broadcom have achieved an important milestone this week after they demonstrated the first cross-vendor Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) network link using prototypes of their next generation Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) hardware, which achieved data speeds of over 5Gbps (Gigabits per second). At present most UK consumers have yet to […]

News  Lightning Fibre has announced its plans for a multi-million-pound investment in West Sussex and Kent. Full fibre network provider Lightning Fibre, founded in East Sussex in 2018, has announced its plans to expand into West Sussex and Kent. The company has the backing of infrastructure and private equity investment manager Foresight Group. Lightning Fibre recently passed 60,000 premises and this next stage of investment will fund the expansion to a further 140,000 homes and businesses....

ISP CommunityFibre, which has already covered 500,000 premises in London with their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network, have this week continued their expansion with the aim of adding “thousands” of residents, businesses and local communities across Harrow. By the sound of it, the operator has probably secured a master wayleave agreement (legal land/property access) with […]

Hull-based network builder and broadband ISP KCOM has today announced a second major expansion of their existing gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, which will see them invest a further £100m to cover an additional 50,000 premises across East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire (14 new locations). In case anybody has forgotten, KCOM originally invested around £85m to […]