fibre

BT: Third Broadband Fibre Competitor ‘Unlikely’

Encouraging a third major fibre network would be 'extremely difficult', finds a BT study

8 years ago

Northampton Gets CityFibre 1Gbps FTTP Broadband Network

CityFibre makes Northampton its latest gigabit city, delivering 1Gbps fibre broadband to businesses in the area

8 years ago

Reading Receives 30km Of CityFibre’s High-Speed Network

Reading becomes the UK's latest Gigabit City with access to ultrafast broadband

8 years ago

BT Trials Long Reach VDSL Broadband In Outer Hebrides

Scottish island plays host to Openreach long reach broadband trials

8 years ago

Sky Fixes Fibre Broadband After Network Upgrade Causes Outage

After BT broadband and EE roaming outages, Sky is the latest to suffer as fibre service goes down

8 years ago

Bristol Network Partners Connect First Users To 10Gbps FTTP Broadband

Bristol Network uses council-owned ducts to provide 10Gbps capacity for wholesale ISPs

8 years ago

Virgin Media Brings Cable To 450,000 London Premises And FTTP To Barnet

Virgin Media has already connected 100,000 premises to superfast broadband as part of £3bn Project Lightning expansion. Now it targets…

8 years ago

MPs Tell BT To Up Broadband Investment Or Face Openreach Separation

DCMS select committee says BT is not spending enough on broadband infrastructure and Openreach service levels are suffering

8 years ago

BT Trials Openreach Fibre Ducts And Poles Access With 5 Broadband Providers

BT presses ahead with Ofcom demand to make it easier for other providers to access Openreach's ducts and poles to…

8 years ago

Openreach CEO: Now Is The Time To Go From Superfast To Ultrafast Broadband

Openreach CEO Clive Selley says his engineering background will influence his tenure as BT starts its rollout of G.Fast and…

8 years ago

CityFibre: Our FTTP Broadband Network Can Compete With Openreach

As revenues reach £6.4m, CityFibre explains how KCOM purchase, network architecture and ducts and poles can help it compete with…

9 years ago

BT Raises Standard Fibre Package Speeds To 52Mbps

BT makes its entry level fibre package a bit faster, claims its speedier than any of its rivals

9 years ago

Is Dominant KCOM Giving Hull Businesses The Best Broadband It Can?

Hull has cream phone boxes, not red. It also has one single dominant ISP and it's not BT. But KCOM…

9 years ago

Gigaclear: Rural Broadband Demand Will Justify Expensive FTTP Deployment

As Gigaclear raises more funds for its FTTP rollout, CEO Matthew Hare explains why rural demand for superfast broadband will…

9 years ago

Ofcom Orders BT To Open Up Dark Fibre And Install Business Broadband Faster

Ofcom's business broadband review wants better competition, more innovation and cheaper prices

9 years ago

BT Plans FTTP Trial In Bradford And More G.Fast Pilots In Ultrafast Broadband Push

BT says FTTP trial will help it develop a 1Gbps service for SMBs and has promised to connect all new…

9 years ago

Ofcom: We Want Network-Level Broadband Competition

Ofcom director of strategy says its main goal is helping deliver ultrafast broadband, not separating BT or promoting a particular…

9 years ago

Broadband Is More Popular Topic In This Parliament As BDUK Reaches 3.6m Premises

Industry body ISPA says increasing references to broadband show importance of connectivity, as government publishes new BDUK figures

9 years ago

UCL Researchers Achieve Record 1.125Tbps Fibre Transmission

Multi-channel transmissions system could make fibre terabit capable to cope with expected growth in network traffic

9 years ago

MPs Report: BT And Openreach ‘Natural Monopoly’ Should Be Separated

A report backed by 121 MPs says BT and Openreach should be separated for the good of the UK's broadband…

9 years ago

Gigaclear Gets £18m EU Loan To Expand Rural Fibre Coverage

Gigaclear will use money to reach at least another 40,000 properties in 2016

9 years ago

CityFibre Brings 1Gbps Broadband To Bristol

CityFibre picks Bristol as first location for expansion following £90m KCOM fibre acquisition

9 years ago

Government Broadband Schemes To Reach 4m By Spring

Government says 3.5m covered by BDUK, says satellite coverage and 10Mbps universal service obligation will boost UK broadband further

9 years ago

Orkney Fibre Link Built On 1940s U-Boat Defences

Digital Scotland's high-speed broadband links to the Orkney Islands are making use of the famous Churchill Barriers

9 years ago

CityFibre To Build Glasgow FTTP Network

CityFibre says it will become the second largest wholesaler of fibre in Scotland

9 years ago

Hyperoptic FTTP Network Now Live In Sheffield

Hyperoptic switches on speeds of 1Gbps in the centre of the Steel City

9 years ago

Gigaclear Offers 5Gbps Broadband In Rural Areas

Gigaclear is trialling 5Gbps and will launch nationwide from early 2016

9 years ago

Average Openreach Fibre User Consumes 190GB A Month

BT reveals Openreach figures for the summer... but not a lot of them

9 years ago

Gigaclear Presses Ahead With Rural FTTP In Berkshire And Cotswolds

Work on delivering fibre to 18,000 homes in two BDUK projects gets underway

9 years ago

BDUK Scotland To Connect Another 20,000 To Superfast Broadband

Digital Scotland reveals the next 40 areas to get superfast broadband

9 years ago