Two Quickline colleagues who served on the frontline together, Installation Engineer Aaron Huntley and Infrastructure Engineer Ian Midgley, have conquered the Yorkshire Three Peaks to support fellow Yorkshire veterans.
nexfibre has secured a £250m debt investment from UK Infrastructure Bank to support its aim of passing five million homes with fibre by 2026.
Ordnance Survey has been working with BDUK to boost connectivity in rural areas by providing a clear view of Project Gigabit build sites.
Grain has donated £2000 to Thornaby Football Club, whose facilities were recently destroyed in an arson attack.
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.