Quickline Communications is helping more than 4,000 primary schoolchildren across North Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire benefit from an internet safety project that aims to keep pupils safe online and make their switch from primary to secondary education less emotionally stressful.
New economic research by Cebr shows Openreach’s digital upgrade could generate £4bn for Scottish economy by 2029 and help reverse depopulation, with half of Scottish residents now able to connect to broadband – thanks to £435m investment in the nation’s new network.
Openreach is continuing to roll out full fibre to rural areas, including villages in the Tyne Valley where 1,500 residents are now connected just months after joining the company’s Fibre Community Partnership (FCP) programme.
GoFibre is teaming up with Angus Council to hold an information event for Forfar residents interested in better broadband, at a special community drop-in event at Forfar Indoor Sports, on 27th January.
Virgin Media has connected 8,000 more homes and businesses in Northallerton to its broadband services, giving residents speeds of 2Gbps after work to bring full fibre to the area has been completed.
CityFibre has deployed EXFO Exchange throughout its extensive network, helping to deliver cloud-based testing results four times faster.
According to data from the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER), women make up less than one fifth of the nation’s telecoms workforce, putting the UK far below the global average of 37 per cent.
GoFibre is celebrating connecting 1,000 Hawick residents, as build completes in the town with homes and businesses now benefitting from full fibre.
The organisers of a combined charity football tournament and CSR initiative in the ICT industry are calling on more fibre providers to get involved in 2025 and help young homeless people change their lives.
Openreach is to stop selling legacy analogue copper-based phone/broadband services in a further 163 locations, covering more than 960,000 UK premises, to help encourage people to upgrade to new digital services over a full fibre connection.
netomnia is celebrating a strong year for premises serviceable passed in 2024, following the full financial results published that includes figures for YouFibre and Brsk.