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Wessex Internet has revealed the locations where its services have gone live in the first quarter of the year, connecting more than 20 villages and rural areas across Dorset, Somerset, Hampshire, and Wiltshire to ultrafast broadband between January and March 2024. Despite enduring the wettest winter in 130 years, the network delivery teams persevered through … Read more
Stockton on the Forest residents are cheering as full fibre broadband connections are finally rolling out across their Yorkshire village. With 377 properties now hooked up, once bogged down by sluggish internet, locals can now revel in ultrafast speeds of up to 1000Mbps. This positive change is all thanks to a recent injection of £350,000 … Read more
CityFibre, the UK’s largest independent full fibre platform, has wrapped up its full fibre installation project across multiple neighborhoods in Wolverhampton. With homes and businesses now marked ‘Ready For Service,’ over 90,000 residents can opt for top-tier digital connectivity options available in the area. This achievement marks a significant step forward in CityFibre’s mission to … Read more
nexfibre, the rapidly growing “altnet”, has just announced its connection to over 2000 premises in Loughborough to its full-fibre network. This investment is part of their broader plan to reach over 22,000 premises across Leicestershire, in partnership with their build partner and anchor tenant, Virgin Media O2. This development in Loughborough highlights the progress nexfibre … Read more
This is pretty exciting news! nexfibre is building at an unbelievable rate, and as of today, they’ve passed 1 million premises! That puts them as the fourth biggest “altnet” in the market. Now, to put this into perspective, the last update we wrote in February was 800,000 premises, so that means, in the space of … Read more
In an exciting collaboration, Kloud9, the UK government, and Shropshire Council’s Connecting Shropshire programme have joined forces to bring lightning-fast gigabit broadband to nearly 200 homes and businesses nestled in the remote corners of Shropshire. This new milestone was achieved through the Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme, (a government lead scheme to help ISP’s bring full … Read more
More funding supplied to Quickline Communications from the Project Gigabit Scheme! has clinched its second contract under the government’s ambitious £5 billion Project Gigabit initiative. This latest achievement firmly establishes Quickline as one of the select few providers across England with multiple Project Gigabit contracts. Covering over 60,000 premises and backed by over £104 million … Read more
Yesterday, we released our latest episode of the Fibrenews Podcast, which featured Ian Dunstan, a reseller/MSP based in Exeter. Ian has been operating Cobalt (his business) for the last 20 years and has a full scope of customers (1–500 users) across multiple products (voice, connectivity, & IT). I (Jonny Rae) (about yay-high, brown hair, devilishly … Read more
Openreach, the powerhouse behind Northern Ireland’s broadband landscape, is making waves with a monumental commitment: an investment exceeding £100 million to expand and fortify its Ultrafast Full Fibre network. This ambitious endeavor aims to connect over 100,000 additional homes and businesses, stretching its reach into the farthest corners of rural Northern Ireland. Already, Openreach has … Read more
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