Category: Internet Service Providers

Tetney, in East Lindsey; Kirton, near Boston; and Barnetby le Wold, close to Brigg; in North Lincolnshire are three more places where Quickline is saying its full-fibre service is available and therefore future proofing those villages for broadband connections.

Lightspeed who has been building FTTP in various places across the East of England has just had 100% of its share capital acquired.

It appears Fibrus has gone live early in Gortin, though while we have found an additional 1,500 in the wider rural area we cannot see the village live yet.

If you live in place where Quickline has its FTTP network available then you can get the first three months of service for free and there is no long contract to tie you in for 18 or 24 months like many other providers.

Want more speed, then Yayzi is a provider to look at with 2.5 Gbps symmetrical broadband for just £45/m

Outside of its native network footprint toob already uses the wholesale service from CityFibre in Portsmouth and is now expanding to do the same in Bournemouth and surrounding towns.

There appears to be widespread issues with access to email for Virgin Media customers.

Deadlines for the end of the old analogue voice network (PSTN) are racing towards us now and BT is restarting its Digital Voice roll-out on a regional basis. If you live in the East Midlands there are lots of opportunities in July to ask someone from BT how it will affect you.

The Zybre Broadband homepage has been replaced with a notice to advise customers that Zybre is no longer taking on new customers. Existing customers are in some cases being migrated.

BeFibre has a new interim CEO in the form of Paul Doyle. The provider is aiming to get to a total of 400,000 premises passed, with 100,000 premises apparently ready for connection.