Category: Internet Service Providers

Cuckoo is set to be the home for customers from the previous Fern Group and has launched retail options across the CityFibre network ahead of integration work for the various Fern Group alt-networks.

The combination of 4,100 premises covered by the old Virgin Media Project Lightning roll-out and 13,100 premises of XGS-PON full-fibre via the nexfibre gives a 17,200 premises footprint in the North Eastern town.

G.network who have their own full-fibre network in London is offering cover up to £150 of early exit fees you sign up to their Ultrafast, Gigafast or Gigafast extra services.

It is rare but with so many full-fibre alt-nets it was bound to happen at some point. Administrators have been appointed to Lightning Fibre Ltd.

Brighton Fibre is the latest full-fibre network added to our extensive maps of the many FTTP networks across the UK.

Full-fibre may remove the problems of copper lines, but service is still reliant on a providers core network to link the various locations to the rest of the Internet.

Due to an interconnect disagreement between global networks NTT and Cogent, routing between these networks in Europe appear to have been severed, sending traffic to the United States in an Atlantic shuffle that may see latency increase for users unless broadband providers work around the issue between these operators.

Lutz Schüler, CEO of Virgin Media O2 in the latest VMO2 results has declared 2023 as their fastest year for the roll-out of full-fibre.

Passing homes is one metric, the number that are Ready for Service is another and actual number of customers i.e. take-up is another. F&W Networks i.e. Hey Broadband is saying they have passed 410,000 homes.

After its launch a week ago, Virgin Media O2 is now showing the 2 Gbps service to people searching for broadband pages.