The Institute of Telecommunications Professionals (ITP) has been approved to deliver telecoms apprenticeship training, backed by industry support from Vodafone and Cornerstone – a move that directly responds to the UK’s growing need for skilled telecoms engineers.
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Openreach is celebrating the milestone of reaching 90% coverage of its full fibre rollout across Northern Ireland – with the region becoming the first within the Openreach UK network to hit this target.
FibreNest – the full fibre broadband service owned by Persimmon – will be sold to BUUK Infrastructure in a £100m deal, with proceeds going towards the housebuilder’s growth strategy.
BT has signed a contract worth nearly £10m to deliver full fibre broadband access to nearly 1,800 hard-to-reach sites across the Swansea Bay City Region as part of a project to support levelling up in key areas where a connectivity gap exists.
toob is connecting its high-speed broadband service to 12 new towns and cities across the UK, with over half a million homes set to benefit as part of its strategic partnership with CityFibre.
Carnival Internet UK, a new broadband provider, has launched in the UK, aiming to provide a focus on fairness, and sustainability for the industry.
AllPoints Fibre Networks’ (APFN) ambition to give CSPs wide-spread fibre access was shared at the official launch for its aquila wholesale platform (14th May 2025 - Royal Ascot Racecourse).
nexfibre has published its latest quarterly build update (Q1 2025), which shows its 10GBps FTTP/XGS-PON broadband network now covers 2.2m UK premises, with scaled back coverage target for 2025 to 2.5m premises passed, reducing future build plans for the next year.
GoFibre is celebrating a major milestone in Montrose with more than 1,000 customers now enjoying ultra-fast full fibre broadband, and to mark the occasion, the company will be teaming up with local ice cream shop, Scoops of Moo, for a special community event on 17th May.
Quickline is helping children from two grassroots football teams realise their dreams as they stepped into the boots of Hull City players, thanks to the club’s new partnership.