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Wessex Internet has begun deploying Nokia’s 10Gbps XGS-PON technology and a Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing solution to upgrade the capacity of its core network.

Some of the UK’s largest connectivity providers have agreed to work together to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the telecoms supply chain. 

Grain is extending its rollout to Blyth, Northumberland, where the average download speed currently sits between 43Mb and 148Mb.

BT has named the next 18 UK exchanges where it will stop selling legacy analogue copper-based phone and broadband services. This batch, Openreach’s tranche 13, represents 161k premises.

Connexin has acquired Encompass Training and will merge the company with its own training and development arm.

Only around 53 per cent of those eligible for social tariffs are currently aware of their existence. For this reason, uptake rates remain concerningly low. As of April 2022, only 5.1 per cent of those eligible for social tariffs had made the switch according to Ofcom, representing 220k of a potential 4.3 million households. This is against a UK market penetration rate of just over 11 per cent for fibre.

brsk is expanding its West Midlands build into South Birmingham, in an expansion that will take its regional total of premises passed to 385,000.

CityFibre is investing £42m in the digital infrastructure of South Tyneside and will work with GCU UK to rollout a regional fibre network over the next two years.

Openreach has begun work to build a new network for Grimsby and Healing, with the build expected to reach most premises over the next 12-18 months. More than 7,500 homes and businesses can already access the new technology.

Over 16,000 homes and businesses in Barry can now access Netomnia’s fibre network as the altnet continues its £8.1m rollout in the region.