Category: Internet Service Providers

Milton Keynes is climbing the full fibre charts and the latest news about a partnership between Milton Keynes Council and Hyperoptic will add another 4,500 to the full fibre total.

As the target of 4 million premises passed by Openreach by the end of March 2021 creeps up on us, Openreach has announced the next batch of towns, cities and boroughs that will see the FTTP rolled out under the Fibre First programme.

Virgin Media has launched its Gigabit service in Southampton at £62 a month for the standalone service with average peak time speeds of 1,104 Mbps down and 52 Mbps upload.

CityFibre who are building a GPON FTTP network in Stirling which is currently exclusively sold via Vodafone Gigafast claims to have passed the half way point in its build and is set to complete by summer 2020.

The Shambles in York is one of the iconic images of the city and now businesses have access to affordable full fibre connectivity via a roll-out by FACTCO.

The days of news stories about people being annoyed by price rises every few months on broadband may be coming to an end as moves by Ofcom to make providers more fair start to bite.

Fibrus has embarked on a roll-out of FTTP in Northern Ireland with the aim of investing an initial £84 million into the roll-out.

Sky TV services have been supplied over fibre deployed by BUUK for a few years to new builds but Sky has now reached an agreement to be the anchor tenant for broadband on the network.

While the most of the village of Ascott under Wychwood had access to VDSL2 those who have gained most from the roll-out in the area are those in the outlying properties.

The race to roll-out full fibre networks and also getting the attention of the public is heating up but there is a danger of hype over taking reality.