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BT’s CEO Philip Jansen is calling for tax incentives to that encourage investment in fibre to be made permanent, ahead of the Autumn Statement.

brsk has added the West Yorkshire towns of Brighouse and Elland to its rollout plans, enabling 12,000 and 20,000 homes respectively, to access its fibre services.

BT has begun to detail its roadmap for reducing exchanges, through a blog post by Chief Security and Networks Officer, Howard Watson. It plans to go from 5,600 exchanges today to 1,000 in the 2030s.

Spitfire Network Services is extending its wholesale partnership with CityFibre and will now sell the fibre provider’s layer two Business Fibre to the Premises broadband product.

According to PointTopic, the UK’s overall FTTP coverage was just over 17.4m premises (54.5%) at the end of Q3 2023, up from 16.3m in Q2 2023.

Xantaro’s latest street cabinet serves over 8,000 homes and is designed to aid altnets in deploying their networks more efficiently.

Neos Networks has supported Internet Central (IC) to migrate 17 1Gbps circuits, building on a five-year relationship between the companies.

MS3 Networks has completed its network build in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, covering 37,000 premises with its full fibre footprint. 

Quickline has marked Remembrance Day by decorating one of our broadband street cabinets in Carlton, near Selby in North Yorkshire, with red poppies.

Wessex Internet and its majority shareholder ASCI III have secured an additional £35m in funding in 2023 for the business’s long-term growth plans.