Today, Vodafone has announced that it has expanded its existing partnership with CityFibre to encapsulate the fibre operator’s entire UK network.
According to the operator, the expansion of this partnership will make Vodafone the UK’s largest full fibre broadband provider, able to offer services to over eight million homes by spring 2022, making use of both Openreach and CityFibre’s growing networks.
“Consumers need competition in the broadband space…
Orange talks European tech sovereignty at Open RAN lab launch
Europe’s major operators’ growing interest in Open RAN technology has been clear for quite some time now.
At the start of the year, TIM, Orange, Vodafone, Telefonica, and Vodafone signed a Memorandum of Understanding, vowing to collaborate to develop the new technology, from creating unified standards to testing solutions. Since then, various operators, have launched their own Open RAN-focussed laboratories across the continent, offering vendor partners the opportunity to test the interoperability of their RAN technology.
Now, Orange has done the same, launching their Open RAN Integration Center in Paris, France, hoping to provide the perfect testing ground for the wider European vendor ecosystem.
The launch itself, which saw reporters invited to take a peek inside the new facility…
Ofcom and BT Adopt Changes to Help 10Mbps Broadband USO
Ofcom has today finalised the changes that were first confirmed in July to improve how BT handles delivery of the UK’s Universal Service Obligation (USO), which aims to bring faster broadband ISP speeds to those who can’t yet receive a 10Mbps+ capable download speed and aren’t planned to do so in the near future. We’ve […]
ISP Ogi’s FTTP Broadband Rollout in Wales Passes 4,565 Homes
A few months ago Ogi started their £200 million project (here) – backed by Infracapital – to deploy a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to cover 150,000 premises in South Wales by 2025. The good news is that their build has already passed 4,565 households. The programme, which is still in its earliest ramping-up […]
Update on Hereforshire Broadband Rollout and Gigaclear Delays
The Herefordshire County Council (HCC) in England has issued a new proposal for how they intend to tackle the problems caused by UK ISP Gigaclear last month (here), which warned that 2,324 of the planned premises for their state aid fuelled rollout of a new gigabit broadband (FTTP) network would be too expensive to reach. […]
Vodafone Push CityFibre FTTP Broadband Availability Nationwide
Mobile and broadband ISP Vodafone UK (Gigafast Broadband) has today announced that their full fibre packages will now become available to order across CityFibre’s entire Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, which is a marked improvement from the 12 cities and towns that they initially launched with. Just to recap. Vodafone was the original anchor tenant ISP for […]
Doubts Cast Over CityFibre’s 1 Million UK FTTP Premises Claim
Analysis by Thinkbroadband (TBB), which maintains an independent database of broadband network coverage, has called into question CityFibre’s recent claim to have covered 1 million UK premises with their new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network. The figure was announced earlier this month (here) and is important because it represented the completion of their first […]
Major Email Outage Hits Plusnet’s UK Broadband ISP Customers
Customers of broadband ISP Plusnet have been affected by a major email outage, which appears to have started at around 6am yesterday morning and prevented users from being able to login to their email account. Some access has been restored this morning, albeit not without plenty of new problems showing up. The provider’s service status […]
ISP Virgin Media O2 UK Kicks Off Black Friday Broadband Sale
UK ISP Virgin Media (VMO2) has today introduced a range of “Black Friday” discounts across their various ultrafast broadband-only packages, which now start at just £25 per month for a download speed of 108Mbps (average). Some of their other bundles with phone and TV have also been reduced, but not as much. New customers can […]
Connected Italy returns next week – what’s in store?
The Italian telco market is arguably one of the most interesting and dynamic in Europe. Next week’s Connected Italy conference will seek to explore the unique political, regulatory and investment context which is underpinning the roll-out of the country’s next generation broadband networks…