Category: Internet Service Providers

The trend for firms to miss out what some may see as key statistics continues as BT Group seems to have skipped including the number of customers on its fixed line broadband products for the BT Consumer division.

In addition to saying they are passing a property with fibre every 30 seconds Openreach has increased the list of exchanges where it is building or planning to build under its Fibre First programme.

The push to keep growing fixed line customer numbers continues and gets harder as the vast majority of the public who want broadband access are signed up to a service. 31,000 net adds for Vodafone sounds good but a year ago in the same quarter then added 52,000 customers.

The free Amazon Echo with Vodafone Superfast 1 and 2 has ended but new low price points mean it is probably more attractive than a free speaker.

Something has changed at Virgin Media as previous tentative plans for two Gigabit cities has changed into the whole cable providers network delivering DOCSIS 3.1 by the end of 2021.

CityFibre has issued a comment while we wait to learn more detail about the plans for full fibre under the new Prime Minister and the presumed bringing forward of the ambition for 100% full fibre coverage from 2033 to 2025.

A bit slow on this one as the results came out on 17th July, the problem of spending a lot of time tracking the FTTP roll-outs. The king of the budget aisle of the broadband market is highlighting the appeal of the partial fibre products in its results.

The ambitions for full fibre in the UK continue to ramp up and even though only live in parts of 5 cities the CityFibre full fibre roll-out has announced 14 more places to bring its total to 2 million homes.

The 2019 ISPA Awards have taken placed and crowned Andrew Ferguson of thinkbroadband as their Internet Hero. Other notable mentions go to Hyperoptic, winning two awards this year.

In around 8 weeks B4RN has gone from £2 million of crowdfunding to breaking the £3 million barrier and therefore should be on the path to quadrupling its network footprint in the next few years.