Category: Broadband

Zyxel deploy 500,000 ONT’s with Openreach Over half a million sustainable ONTs made by Zyxel have been deployed by Openreach engineers. The GPON devices use recycled plastic in their construction and are shipped in zero-plastic, minimal packaging made from recycled materials. The Zyxel casings for the ONTs are made from 95% recycled plastic pellets, which […]

North Lanarkshire Council is seeking expressions of interest from “suitably qualified and experienced” broadband infrastructure providers who can provide “1Gbps-capable” full fibre broadband services to its social housing estate. The opportunity is valued at £40 million and expects to cover around 36,000 social housing properties across North Lanarkshire. “This programme forms a core element of […]

Lenders will take over the broadband altnet Gigaclear after the company has been struggling with its near £1bn of debt. The news from the FT yesterday Gigaclear is a rural fibre altnet across 26 counties in the UK and has 600,000 premises ready for service, and reports around 160,000 customers. The latest from the FT […]

The full fibre rollouts continue and with the end of March last week and the start of a new financial year it looks like another bumper rollout month for Openreach further boosting the overall UK gigabit figures so that this stands at 90.49%. The commercial and Government funded rollouts of full fibre (Gigabit) in Wales […]

Brighton and Hove may be the largest city in the latest batch of towns and cities where O2 has now switched on its 5G+ standalone mobile service. Other large areas include Peacehaven, Hastings, Eastbourne, Lewes, Seaford and Rye. Across East Sussex some 14 large towns or cities now have coverage of 5G+ from O2, and […]

The Welsh Government has selected suppliers for its project to fund broadband build-out in hard-to-reach Welsh premises that would not otherwise be served by commercial operators. The framework is funded by a £70m budget, which was clawed back from the original Superfast Cymru Project, where money was returned when take-up increased. The Extending High-Speed Broadband […]

CityFibre announces the launch of its 8.5Gbps product, which it is rolling out across its entire network, allowing customers across the UK access to some of the fastest FTTP products available. The company has been working to roll out 10Gbps XGS-PON technology nationwide across the CityFibre footprint, which reaches over 4.7m premises according to the […]

Some other news items from this week that may be of interest. Starlink offer reduces pricing in some areas to £25/month Our friends over at ISPreview have found that Starlink have cut the price of its satellite broadband service to £25/month in some areas. This is a discount of £10/month for the first six months, […]

nexfibre has announced that Brentswood Hub in Haywards Heath has been connected to free full fibre broadband. The company is working with charity UK Youth to offer youth centres access to high-speed connectivity, in partnership with Virgin Media O2. Youth centres will have access to free connectivity at 1 or 2Gbps for the next two […]

Virgin Media O2 has announced that it has reached a milestone of 1 million people connected via its Better Connections Plan, to help people experiencing digital inclusion access services online. A range of different programmes and partnerships have been provided to help people get online, access essential services, and stay in touch with family and […]