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Lincs council planning to bring fibre broadband to 90% of homes
Fibre optic broadband will be extended to as many as nine in ten homes in Lincolnshire under plans from the county council. The local authority is set to ask Broadband Delivery UK for £20 million of funding, which will be...
Read moreCityFibre makes Bournemouth fibre broadband pledge
CityFibre has pledged to bring "true fibre to the home" to tens of thousands of properties in Bournemouth over the coming months and years. The fibre optic broadband provider told the Daily Echo its network already...
Read moreFibre broadband to be rolled out to 90% of Derby businesses
Nine in ten businesses in Derby will have access to fibre optic broadband over the coming months, according to cross-sector telecoms initiative LightSpeed Derby. BT revealed last week that 71,000 more homes and businesses in...
Read moreBT bringing fibre broadband to 51,000 Greater Manchester properties
Fibre optic broadband will be available to tens of thousands more properties in Greater Manchester over the coming months, BT has announced. More than 51,000 homes and businesses in the metropolitan county have been included in...
Read moreEURIM says universal fibre broadband is within reach
Up to 100Mbps fibre broadband could be rolled out across the entire UK without the need for any extra government funding, according to EURIM, the Information Society Alliance. The organisation claimed this target could be...
Read moreBT apprentices to help roll out fibre broadband in Wales
Growing demand for fibre optic broadband in Wales has persuaded BT to sign up its largest ever intake of apprentices. The trainees will join up with the telecoms giant's 1,500-strong workforce to roll out and maintain the...
Read moreIDATE says FTTH and FTTB coming to 227m homes by 2015
More than 220 million households will be signed up to an 'ultra-fast' fibre optic broadband service in four years' time, according to new research. IDATE, the consulting and market analysis firm, predicted 227 million...
Read moreVirgin Media fibre broadband network prepared for rise in data
Virgin Media has claimed its fibre optic broadband network is well equipped to cope with a predicted "explosion" in bandwidth usage. Jon James, the cable company's executive director of broadband, claimed consumers...
Read moreSuffolk village to get community fibre broadband network
A community fibre optic broadband network will be rolled out in the Suffolk village of Parham thanks to East of England Development Agency funding. The body has awarded Suffolk Action with Communities in Rural England a...
Read morePoint Topic says fibre broadband drives value for money
The growing prevalence of fibre optic broadband is helping to bring better value for money to consumers, according to Point Topic. In western Europe, fibre broadband connections saw a 32.5 per cent fall in prices per megabit from...
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