Category: Internet Service Providers

Overnight, there have been reports of wide scale outages on Virgin Media's broadband platform with several incidents lasting many hours.

Usually, our additions to our checkers and maps are fairly contained and limited to a town or several villages but Friday saw a big update for Fibrus.

Wivenhoe is becoming greedy for FTTP with the number of networks appearing in the small town on the shore of the River Colne.

After a long period where upload speeds were limited to 50 Mbps on the Virgin Media cable consumer services we are starting to see Gig1 customers with 100 Mbps upload speeds.

So the rumour mill is in over drive with apparently head hunters building short lists for a replacement for Philip Jansen the CEO of BT Group.

The roll-out of Virgin Media RFOG has been on-going for what seems a long term and the operators is saying it has covered over 6,400 homes in the town.

We've not been able to confirm this, but after some weeks of chatter about a sale it is thought someone has bought Trooli, exactly who remains at mystery at this time.

The Aberdeenshire towns of Portlethen and Newtonhill should have access to FTTP via GoFibre and we have found the first live streets in Newtonhill.

The Telegraph is reporting Virgin Media O2 have been in discussions over a potential £3bn bid to acquire CityFibre, the UK's largest alt-net, however the reason may be more about protecting its own market position than expanding its footprint.

Brsk is growing rapidly in Bradford, Manchester, Lancashire and the West Midlands.