Category: Internet Service Providers

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.

ONS has published the latest RPI figure and it is 4.9%, so we now know that the annual price rise for Virgin Media O2 customers will be 8.8%. In short on a £27/m service you will in April 2024 you will be paying £29.38/m.

NOW which is run by Sky has finally launched a full-fibre service, but it is a lightly skinned Sky service with the big advantage of a lower price point.

Alt-net Fibrus has announced it is launching a social tariff, a discounted rate for those on certain benefits including Universal Credit, bringing cheaper broadband for eligible users in Northern Ireland.