ISP Pine Media, which is slowly building their own gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across parts of South Yorkshire, Kent and rural Derbyshire (they also sell products via Openreach‘s rival network), has revealed that their full fibre network now covers over 7,600 flats/apartments in Sheffield. “Alongside our rollout to houses all across Sheffield, we have […]
VX FIBER’s Stoke FTTP Rollout Hit with £2460 of Fines in 1 Week
Network developer VXFIBER (inc. subsidiary LilaConnect) has once again faced criticism over their work to build a new 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across the Staffordshire (England) city of Stoke-on-Trent, which recently saw them being hit with £2,460 of roadworks fines in just one week. The “citywide” rollout, which reflects their project to construct […]
Telford and Wrekin to Deploy Full Fibre via Virgin Media O2 Business
The Telford and Wrekin Council in Shropshire (England) and broadband ISP Virgin Media O2 Business have agreed a new “multimillion-pound” partnership to connect 200 public sector sites (schools, council, libraries etc.) to the operator’s “multi-gigabit … full fibre” network, which could also help to extend residential services. At present Virgin Media’s fixed broadband network already […]
DISH launches 5G services
As of June 14, DISH is offering 5G broadband service to over 20 percent of the U.S. population. This marks a major milestone in building the world’s most advanced cloud-native 5G Open RAN network, as DISH continues to change the way the world communicates.
“This is a big moment for DISH as we connect customers across the country with America’s first and only cloud-native Open RAN network,” said Dave Mayo…
Court quashes Qualcomm’s €1bn antitrust fine
Back in 2018, the EU issued Qualcomm a fine of €997 million in a move that was widely viewed as flagship victory for the regulators over ‘big tech’.
Now, however, Europe’s second-highest court, the General Court, has overturned this decision, saying that "…
Indian 5G spectrum auction approved, will allow private network bidders
Indian operators have been waiting to be allocated 5G spectrum for a long time, with the necessary spectrum auction facing numerous delays over the past two years, from the onset of the coronavirus to clashes between telcos and regulators over pricing.
Now, it seems that the wait may finally be over, with the Indian Union Cabinet approving the terms of the auction and announcing it will begin on July 26.
The auction is set to make 72GHz of spectrum available in the 600 MHz, 700 MHz, 800 MHz…
AltNets Trial Ability to Replace Openreach Copper with Fibre Lines on Poles
Alternative broadband providers are about to begin a new trial that will, for the first time, grant their engineers the ability to replace an existing copper dropwire on an existing Openreach pole (telegraph pole) with a new optical fibre one for gigabit-capable broadband, albeit only under certain circumstances. In the past, we’ve talked quite a […]
ISP Quickline Boosts Network with Proximity Data Centre Deal
Broadband ISP Quickline, which runs a mix of Full Fibre (FTTP) and Fixed Wireless (FWA) networks across parts of Lincolnshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire in England, has signed a deal to boost their network by taking rack space in Proximity’s Nottingham data centre (edge colocation facility). The operator is currently being supported by investment from Northleaf […]
FullFibre Ltd Put Gigabit Broadband Network Live in Leominster
Network builder FullFibre Limited has announced that their new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based gigabit broadband ISP network has finally gone live in the Herefordshire (England) market town of Leominster, which is home to around 12,000 people and was one of the very first locations added to their rollout plan. The operator, which deploys its network as […]
H2 2021 – FTTP Broadband Covers 96% of New Build UK Homes
The latest H2 2021 study into the broadband coverage of new build UK homes has found that over 96% of houses constructed during the second half of last year were connected to a “full fibre” (FTTP) ISP network (up from 93% in H1 2021), which rises to 99%+ for 30Mbps+ “superfast broadband” services. The data, […]