Jonny Rae 
More positive news from Freedom this morning! These guys are absolutely on a roll. Going somewhat “under” our radar until early 2024, they’re moving at a rapid pace in the right direction! Their wholesale offering is the talk of the town, and now they have announced a huge Project Gigabit rollout to bring ultra-fast full … Read more
Vorboss, the “altnet” supplying chunky, affordable ethernet to London businesses, has again received recognition from the City of London Corporation as part of the Considerate Contractor Scheme for delivering “exemplary” work. In a nutshell, they’re smashing it when it comes to laying fibre in central London, which, for any engineer or network supplier, knows this … Read more
Kloud9 announces another plan to connect up to 400 properties to ultrafast full fibre, in collaboration with BDUK, in a rural Shropshire village. Although the numbers seem small, Kloud9 is excelling in the rural space and collectively making significant strides in connecting the “forgotten” rural spots in the north. We wrote about Kloud9 for the … Read more
Cuckoo has entered into a new three-year agreement with GoCardless to further enhance their “tech-heavy” end-user experience. Now, this usually wouldn’t be the most exciting news to report on, but this is Cuckoo. And Cuckoo is still very much the “disruptor” in the broadband space. I’ve been following Cuckoo’s journey since 2018/2019 when the original … Read more
Yesterday, BT Group dropped a bombshell in their year-end report, casually mentioning, “we now expect to have migrated all customers off the PSTN by the end of January 2027, allowing us to align the programme with full fibre broadband customer upgrades where available.” Well, that was certainly news to the industry! (kind of) Back in … Read more
Ogi, the “altnet” bringing ultrafast full fibre to Welsh residents (on a completely separate note, I love how Ogi’s domain uses .wales), has announced the success of reaching two-thirds of its planned “first phase” rollout. This means that one in five “properties passed” have signed up to use one of their full fibre packages. Ogi … Read more
https://youtu.be/-3zmOLN-Vug “Altnet” means “Alterntive Networks” and we have three types of altnets in the UK. Open Access, Closed Access & the hybrid – Open & Closed Access. Open Access Networks are full fibre providers who lay and manage the cable infrastructure and network, but do not connect customers direct to a internet service. The largest … Read more
CityFibre, the UK’s largest independent full fibre network, has finalized the Lit Fibre deal. We first heard of the acquisition back in March. The news came slightly early when Sky released the news (they have a habit of doing that). But now, we can confirm that the deal has formally been completed (announced by CF … Read more
The term “Full Fibre rollout” is widely used in the UK to refer to the efforts of various fibre providers upgrading from the older, slower copper networks to cutting-edge fibre optics. Supported by the UK government and initiatives like Project Gigabit, the goal is to expand Full Fibre coverage to 85% of the country by … Read more
