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CityFibre Reaches Over 2 Million FTTP Premises in the UK, Boosting Country’s Full Fibre Targets for 2025

CityFibre, the UK’s second-largest Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network provider, has announced that its FTTP network footprint has reached over 2 million premises in the country. This significant milestone puts the company in a strong position to maintain its position as the second-largest FTTP network in the UK. CityFibre’s FTTP network has been expanding rapidly, with the … Read more

Fibrus Aims to Reach 1 Million UK Premises with Full Fibre Network Rollout to Address Digital Poverty in Rural and Regional Areas

Fibrus, an Infracapital-backed broadband ISP, is making significant strides in its mission to address digital poverty in rural and regional areas. The company is currently rolling out a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across both Northern Ireland and the North of England, and it aims to reach a total of one million premises over the … Read more

Vodafone boosts York with new Full Fibre Technology

Vodafone is launching a 2 Gbps service in York over the CityFibre network. This announcement comes after the successful completion of the trial and the upgrades to the York CityFibre network to support XGS-PON. With XGS-PON supporting symmetrical speeds of up to 10 Gbps, the 2 Gbps service is only the first step in Vodafone’s … Read more

CityFibre Lights up Luton

CityFibre is making great strides with its £45m network in Luton and Dunstable, with the project now bringing fibre to thousands more premises. This new network will provide Luton and Dunstable residents with a faster and more reliable internet connection, which is vital for modern-day living. The works have been completed in large parts of … Read more

New Full Fibre ISP in Glasgow

The UK broadband market is known for being overly crowded, making it risky for any new player to establish itself. Despite the competition, a new alternative network provider has emerged, Giggle, focusing on building a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across the city of Glasgow in Scotland. This new provider is being backed by Triple Point’s … Read more

A partnership is born: County Broadband & Highway Norfolk  

County Broadband has partnered with civil engineering firm Highway Workforce to help extend its fibre build in rural Norfolk. The altnet is currently working on designing, building, and deploying FTTP infrastructure in over 50 rural communities across the county. Its goal is to target 500,000 premises across the east of England by the end of … Read more

Quickline ISP continues to grow its Full Fibre offering

Quickline’s innovative hybrid full fibre and 5G fixed wireless broadband rollout has tripled broadband speeds for more than 50,000 rural homes across the UK in 2022. The last year has seen almost 100 mast sites go live in North and West Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, upgrading internet speeds for over 2,000 rural communities. This is a … Read more

More Fantastic Full Fibre is rolling out

The latest report on broadband coverage in the United Kingdom for the second half of 2022 indicates that the deployment of full-fibre (FTTP) internet service provider networks has increased substantially, with coverage now reaching 45.13% of premises. This represents a significant rise from the 37.61% coverage reported in the first half of 2022. Furthermore, the … Read more

More Towns for Lightspeed!

Expansion! – the Lightspeed network has expanded its fibre coverage to Thetford and Sutton Bridge in the UK, bringing ultra-fast internet speeds of up to 100 Mbps download and upload to the area. And the best part? The service is available starting at just £24.95 per month on a 24-month contract! This is great news … Read more

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