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
This is pretty awesome. Full Fibre installations can be a real pain! There’s multiple ways to bring full fibre to a new premises, using existing infrastructure (ducting & poles) or new. When using existing infrastructure to pull the full fibre cable, you can often come up against blockages. The ducting itself could have collapsed ( … Read more
This is actually no surprise. Jeremy has always been extremely vocal about what TOTSCo could do better. He has always been the one to ask the difficult questions in the monthly meet-ups TOTSCo hosts. To be honest, he has the best ideas to combat the problems the One Touch Switching Company faces. So when we … 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
Freedom Fibre has begun works to introduce full-fibre connectivity to homes and businesses in North Shropshire, supported by the UK government’s ambitious £5 billion Project Gigabit initiative. Securing a chunky £24 million government contract in May 2023, Freedom Fibre committed to linking 12,000 rural premises. In an even more ambitious move, they have extended their … 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
Virgin Media O2 is shaking up the broadband game (well, within the support side) with the launch of an innovative new service aimed at boosting reliability without costing customers a penny extra. Enter “smart support” – a new product to nip network issues in the bud before they even become a headache. In a recent … Read more
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