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Wessex Internet has secured a £50m investment from the National Wealth Fund (NWF) to expand coverage to 140,000 hard-to-reach homes and businesses.

Quickline is giving one lucky winner the chance to win a unique prize in a new competition, as part of a wider mission to tackle digital equality and ensure rural communities across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire have access to fast, reliable internet.

Openreach has combined its own data of internet usage with a study of household behaviours to show the country’s broadband habits, mapping the UK cities by their online activity.

A new survey from consumer watchdog Which? of nearly 4,500 UK adults has revealed that more than 85% of broadband customers have experienced a problem with their connection in the past year, including at least one “connection issue” such as slow speeds, connection drop-outs, and router problems.

Following a successful charity golf day, Mills has raised over £40,000 for The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust towards refurbishment of the neonatal unit, helping to transform it into a comforting environment for premature newborns and their parents.

Meachers Global Logistics has renewed its strategic partnership with toob, extending the agreement for a further three years, continuing to provide critical warehousing and transport services to the altnet provider.

The Institute of Telecommunications Professionals (ITP) has appointed Guy Arnel as a new Fellow, bringing a wealth of expertise, insight, and leadership into the ITP fellowship community.

Octaplus has launched its new range of Multi-Gig broadband packages, delivering ultrafast speeds of 1.8Gbps and 2.3Gbps available on CityFibre’s upgraded network, and boosting the ISP’s position within the market.

Freedom Fibre is no longer able to complete a contract to roll out gigabit-capable broadband to 12,000 premises in north Shropshire in full, due to changes in the external market, in a new report from the government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) Agency.

Neos Networks has joined forces with Network Rail and Freshwave to sign an infrastructure deal in a bid to fix the worst signal blackspots across Britain’s major train routes, providing improved connectivity and the start of a new high-capacity telecoms infrastructure.