Full Fibre

CityFibre has begun work to connect more than 45,000 homes and businesses across areas of Leicestershire and Warwickshire to full fibre thanks to an award of £77m as part of Project Gigabit. 

ITS’ Faster Britain bus has reached its final destination, marking the end of a year-long roadshow journey to highlight the importance of gigabit-capable connectivity to UK businesses and communities across the UK.

Wessex Internet has connected its first customer in South Wiltshire as part of an £18.8 million contract awarded by Project Gigabit, bringing faster broadband to around 14,500 residents across the region.

Openreach has revealed the London borough which has the highest level of full fibre coverage, with 1.5 million homes and businesses across the city now able to connect through the broadband provider’s network.

Openreach has hit the milestone of connecting 50% of UK premises to its full fibre network, with 16 million residential and business premises ready for service, according to a story on the thinkbroadband site when tracking the broadband provider’s footprint.

MS3 Networks has partnered with ISP IDNet, in a move that will offer increased choice of broadband provider to thousands of homes and businesses across MS3’s network areas of Hull, Scunthorpe, Grimsby, Immingham, Cleethorpes and Mexborough.

The latest annual report on the nation’s broadband and mobile networks from industry watchdog Ofcom reveals that a record 20.7 million UK homes can now access full fibre broadband, with an increase in the number of households signing up to services where available rising to 35 percent.

More than 5,000 additional homes in Whitby can access Virgin Media’s full fibre speeds of 2Gbps for the first time.

Alncom has helped to create a training programme for local Northumberland students to learn some of the skills required to deploy fibre broadband, alongside gaining an understanding of how the internet gets into their homes.

CityFibre has connected the first customers in Suffolk to its network, helping more than 80,000 residents across rural areas access full fibre broadband, funded by a £100m award as part of the government’s Project Gigabit.