Category: Internet Service Providers

The Ofcom code power notifications are a good way of seeing what new companies are looking to take a FTTP roll-out seriously and Smartfibre is one of those this week.

To help those who are not sure what difference full fibre will make Connect Fibre is offering a 30 day free trial for those signing up before the end of July 2023 in Edwinstowe and Sutton.

Zzoomm who offer speeds from 150 Mbps to 2 Gbps is now available in another town in England with the build in Tadcaster started in October 2022 now going live.

Cuckoo Broadband has announced it's providing a British Sign Language (BSL) alternative for customers who prefer to to us eBSL when speaking to their customer support staff. This is based on the InterpreterLive! service available both via the website and mobile platforms.

Virgin Media today announced it is increasing upload speeds for its top tier customers at no additional cost. Customers on the M500 and Gig1 services will see increases of upload speeds to 52 and 104Mbps respectively.

Altnet Freedom Fibre has re-launched applications for its Freedom Fund, set up to provide grants between £250 and £500 for environmental projects by community non-profit groups within the Freedom Fibre coverage area.

Starlink have an offer for rural broadband customers with a reduced hardware fee of £99, instead of the usual £460. Those in non-rural areas will also benefit of a still generous discount to £300 and if you've ordered in the past 30 days, you may be able to apply for a partial refund.

The gap between the RFS footprint of 120,000 that Lightspeed said back in April and our tracking is reducing but still a big gap between 50,000 premises and 120,000 premises.

The pressures on full fibre alt-nets is back in the news once more as Lightspeed is notifying some staff of future redundancies according to ISPreview.

Vodafone remains the largest full fibre retailer in the UK, but as others enlarge their footprint on the CityFibre network the gap is closing.