The Government has today confirmed their intention to introduce a series of changes to Permitted Development (PD) rights for mobile infrastructure, which aims to help extend 5G and 4G (mobile broadband) coverage in rural areas of England via key changes (e.g. allowing taller masts of up to 30 metres). At present all of the major […]
Angus, Perth and Kinross Benefit from New Full Fibre Network
Some 154 rural public sector sites, as well as 650 homes and businesses, across the Angus, Perth & Kinross areas of Scotland are able to benefit from gigabit-capable broadband speeds after BT (Openreach) “completed” infrastructure work on a new “full fibre” network, which was partly funded by the UK Government. The project is being funded […]
Don’t Bank Your ISP Choice on Future FTTP Broadband Build Plans
The rapid rollout of gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP networks across the UK – occurring via a mass of different networks (Summary) – is wonderful to see, but we would caution consumers not to bank their future choice of provider until AFTER such networks have been deployed and gone live. At present over 65% […]
Recent UK Storms Damaged 650 of Openreach’s Telegraph Poles
Last month was unusual for a number of reasons, not least of which was the fact that – in the space of just six days (16th to 21st of February) – the UK experienced three named storms (Dudley, Eunice and Franklin). As a result, over 650 of Openreach’s broadband and phone carrying poles were “badly […]
Commit to wiring every single American – or fall further behind
David McCourt, Chairman of National Broadband Ireland gave a stark warning to the US, “If the U.S. doesn’t provide universal access, it will ensure that the Americans who are already struggling to compete in the global economy will fall further behind"…
Champagne time? Rogers acquisition of Shaw loses its sparkle
Twelve months ago Canada’s Rogers Communications agreed to buy Shaw Communications in a transaction valued at CAD 26 billion, proclaiming the combination of the two networks would create the possibility of “unprecedented wireline and wireless broadband and network investments…
ISP Gigaclear Freezes Prices for 18 Months – Ahead of 2023 Hike
UK ISP Gigaclear, which is busy extending their 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across rural parts of England, has today announced that they’re “freezing … prices for 18 months at the lowest ever rate” in order to help tackle the ongoing cost of living crisis. But there’s a catch, a big hike is coming in […]
Regulator gives Cellnex six country tower deal the thumbs up
The final regulatory hurdle to Cellnex acquiring more than 24,600 CK Hutchison’s sites in six European countries has been given approval.
The series of agreements first announced in November 2020 covered Austria…
ISPs BT and TalkTalk Sign UK TV Deal to Keep YouView Until 2024
Broadband ISPs BT and TalkTalk look set to keep their respective YouView based TV services running until March 2024 after they reached a new Shareholder Agreement with the platform’s other Joint Venture partners in the broadcasting sector, including ITV, the BBC, Channel 4 and Channel 5. Just to recap. YouView is a broadband internet (IPTV) […]
Government in GBP9m Boost to WightFibre’s Rural Broadband Rollout
Infracapital-backed broadband ISP WightFibre, which is already investing £85m to deploy a 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across the Isle of Wight (South Coast of Hampshire), has received a £9m boost from the Government’s Building Digital UK programme in order to help extend local rural coverage. So far WightFibre’s FTTP rollout has already covered over 35,000 […]