Category: Internet Service Providers

If you were thinking of joining BT there is a choice of a tech gift worth £89 to £179 plus BT reward cards ranging in value from £80 to £130 on their VDSL2, G.fast and FTTP products and the offer runs until 14th March 2019.

The latest snippet of information or just maybe the next excuse on the crib sheet has emerged from Vodafone in relation to its on-going problems with video streaming and other activities that are based around a single download stream.

Beyond the usual figures such as adding 21,700 new broadband customers in the last quarter and news of a new 500 Mbps tier for Spring 2019 the transcript from the Liberty Global earnings conference call reveals two cities will get a Gigabit option.

Zen Internet has added a price guarantee to some of its broadband packages to guarantee no price rises while for your lifetime with the provider.

B4RN is exploring a different method for raising money to allow its expansion to continue and is set to soon open a crowdfunding scheme with the aim to raise £3 million.

Four more exchanges in the Fibre First roll-out now have live areas of FTTP, these are Sheldon and Streetly exchanges in Birmingham along with Sefton Park and Stoneycroft in Liverpool.

There is a new entrant to the FTTP operator scene, Zzoomm is a new infrastructure operator set up by Matthew Hare with the aim of starting a FTTP roll-out in 2019.

The choice of retailers for the Openreach FTTP services is somewhat limited but there is a choice beyond BT for those that look beyond the TV adverts.

Squeezing more fibres into an ever smaller space and making it easier to fusion splice large numbers of fibres is key to rolling out in dense urban areas and Openreach is testing a new cable from Fujikura in Leeds.

The Fibre First roll-out from Openreach has involved a lot of press releases and just a couple of exchanges with obvious live networks but in the last few days this has expanded to some 20 exchanges.