Category: Internet Service Providers

With the launch of XGS-PON Fibrus is shifting the goal posts from Gigabit to 10 Gigabit per second in Northern Ireland.

The Quickline FTTP roll-out started in 2022 and with a new bunch of places going live across North Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire the footprint has in theory increased to 10,000 premises.

The rush of providers declaring premises passed figures continues with Zzoomm being being the latest with its network available in 29 different places across England.

LitFibre is targetting 60,000 homes in Watford and 30,000 in Basildon after the success it has had rolling out to other areas like Bishop’s Stortford, Welwyn Garden City, Harpenden, Potter’s Bar and St Albans.

Residents of East Grinstead now have another FTTP network in addition to Openreach, Virgin Media and Hey Broadband as Swish Fibre has started to go live in the West Sussex town.

Another of the smaller FTTP networks is on our maps and checkers, covering parts of Grayshott and Hindhead in Surrey.

The CPI (Consumer Price Index) that is used as the baseline for many annual price rises was marginally lower at 10.5% in December 2022. This means millions will now know how much their broadband price rise in April will be.

As many of the old guard ISP appearing to be sticking their CPI+3.9 formula Truespeed is keeping its price freeze for another year and has introduced a social tariff.

Proving that Gigabit full fibre need not cost an arm and a leg YouFibre has a promotion on its £29.99/m Gigabit service with the first 3 months at just £1 a month.

While what Liberty Global does in Germany can be different to the UK, closing a joint venture in another European country must raise questions about plans to build a 7 million premises wholesale FTTP network in the UK.