News Archive February 2013
Birmingham Chamber of Commerce hails fibre broadband plan
Birmingham Chamber of Commerce has welcomed plans that will see fibre optic broadband coverage extended to tens of thousands more West Midlands properties. A further 245,000 homes and businesses in six Birmingham and Black...
Read moreCalix helps bring ultra-fast fibre broadband to Cotswolds villages
Two Cotswolds villages have gained access to ultra-fast fibre optic broadband thanks to telecoms multiservice access solutions firm Calix. The company's E7-2 Ethernet Service Access Platform is helping to bring some of the...
Read moreMore Merseyside homes to benefit from BT's fibre broadband rollout
Tens of thousands more Merseyside properties will be connected to fibre optic broadband over the coming year, BT has announced. In a move that is expected to benefit the local economy and boost job creation, the telecoms giant is...
Read moreBlisland IT firm welcomes launch of fibre broadband
One of the first businesses in the Cornish village of Blisland to sign up for fibre optic broadband has spoken out about the benefits of the technology. Local IT company Tanist has been connected to super-fast broadband by BT and...
Read moreBT 'committed to Yorkshire and the Humber fibre broadband rollout'
BT's new regional director for Yorkshire and the Humber has restated the telecoms giant's commitment to investing in high-speed fibre optic broadband. Tom Keeney, who will head up a team of 12 senior executives based in...
Read moreSuperfast Cornwall project brings fibre broadband to Rock and St Minver
Rock and St Minver have become the latest communities to be hooked up to fibre optic broadband under BT's Superfast Cornwall programme. The villages were connected last week as part of a scheme that began in 2011 and has so...
Read moreFibre broadband arrives in Folkestone
Fibre optic broadband has gone live in the Kent town of Folkestone, with more than 17,000 properties set to be connected over the coming weeks. BT engineers are currently working on the project, having previously completed...
Read moreTalkTalk signs up 22,000 new fibre broadband customers in Q4
Thousands more customers signed up for TalkTalk's fibre optic broadband service in the final three months of 2012. In its latest financial results publication, the internet service provider (ISP) revealed that it attracted...
Read moreKCom sees increasing fibre broadband demand
KCom has revealed it is seeing increasing demand for capacity on its fibre optic broadband network. The east Yorkshire-based internet service provider has already rolled out the technology to 15,000 homes and businesses across...
Read moreBT boosts fibre broadband footprint in Q4
BT significantly expanded the footprint of its fibre optic broadband network during the final three months of 2012, passing around 1.3 million properties in the quarter. The telecoms giant is planning to invest £2.5 billion...
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