A serious broadband outage that began in Wrexham (Wales) yesterday afternoon, which is affecting multiple ISPs and around 6,000 premises, appears to have been caused after one of Openreach’s contractors ended up cutting through their own fibre optic cable. The situation seems to have started at around midday on Sunday, when customers of BT, Sky […]
Brookfield and Cellnex eyeing Deutsche Telekom’s towers
Deutsche Telekom has been looking to spin off its German tower business, Deutsche Funkturm, since at least December 2021, following a broader trend across the telecoms industry to sell off passive infrastructure in exchange for quick cash.
At the time, Deutsche Telekom said it would be open to selling up to a 51% stake in the business, but would also be open to approaches for smaller pieces of the business…
Complaints Prompt Inspections of CityFibre’s Swindon Full Fibre Build
The Swindon Borough Council has confirmed that “all works” by CityFibre, which is currently investing £40m to deploy a new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across the Wiltshire town, will be “inspected for defects shortly“. The move was prompted by “numerous” complaints. The rollout in Swindon, which is currently due to be “substantially […]
Welsh Government Give Local Broadband Fund a GBP9m Boost
The Welsh Government’s £10m Local Broadband Fund, which was setup in 2020 to help local authorities and social enterprises to deliver broadband projects to areas that need it, has been given a funding “boost” of £9m. The money will provide better connectivity to communities in Cardiff, Newport, Vale of Glamorgan and North Wales. The fund […]
CityFibre Prep GBP23m FTTP Broadband Build in High Wycombe
The large market town of High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire (England) has been named as the next to benefit from CityFibre’s rollout of a new 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network. The local build aims to “reach … almost every home and business” in the town and is being supported by a £23m investment. Construction work […]
Connexin Extend 10Gbps UK Broadband Rollout into Beverley
Broadband ISP Connexin has announced that their £80m project, which aims to build a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across parts of Hull and East Yorkshire (here and here), has now been extended into the market town of Beverley. The operator plans to start connecting customers “shortly“. Until now, the operator has initially been […]
Five UK ISPs in Alliance to Fight for Better Service and Lower Prices
A group of five independent UK broadband ISPs – Gigabit Networks, Triangle Networks, Air Broadband, Highnet and Trunk Networks – have formed a new consortium called the ‘Rebel Alliance‘ (Lucasfilm and Star Wars might have words), which appears to be demanding better service levels and lower prices. The companies involved are all reflective of a […]
Rural ISP Wessex Internet Tops 5000 Broadband Customers
Broadband ISP Wessex Internet, which is currently rolling out a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across parts of South and South West England (Dorset, Wiltshire and Somerset), has revealed that they’re now home to 5,000 customers, including one who just got free broadband for life. We should point out that some of those customers will […]
Gov Issue Spring 2022 Update on UK Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout
The Government’s Building Digital UK team has today published a Spring 2022 progress update for their £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout, which among other things adds new regional procurements in Norfolk and Suffolk and two local supplier procurements in Cornwall, potentially extending 1Gbps speeds to c.190,000 premises. Project Gigabit is designed to extend such download […]
CityFibre to Start GBP28m 1Gbps Broadband Build in Stockton
Network developer CityFibre has announced that they’ve committed £28m to help rollout their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across “almost every home and business” within the market town of Stockton-on-Tees, which is in County Durham (England). Construction work on the new full fibre network in Stockton is currently set to “begin later this year“, […]