Broadband Suppliers Blog

UK ISP County Broadband, which is beingfuelled by £46m from Aviva to help it deploy a new “gigabit-capable”Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across the rural East of Englandregion, has seen its local workforce soar from 16 to 60 since thestart of 2019 and they expect to hit 79 before the year is out.The provider recently began theirdemand-led (i.e. requires interest from 30% of premises in eachcommunity) rollout around rural Essex (here), as well as the Diss andThetford areas of South We... Read More»

UK ISP Sky Broadband (Sky TV / Comcast)appears to be offering their Free Sky Evening and Weekend callsadd-on at no extra cost (usually +£5 extra per month) for the first18 months of service, when new customers take out one of their ADSLor FTTC based broadband and phone bundles (with or without TV).The new promotion is set to run for anyorders made between now and 17th October 2019. As usual you’ll alsoreceive unlimited usage, a wireless broadband router, Sky Talk linerental, unlimited access ... Read More»

Broadband ISP and TV provider Virgin Media has today announced the completion of another rollout of their 500Mbps+ Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, which has just reached 4,000 premises in the historic West Yorkshire market town of Pontefract.As usual this all forms part of their national Project Lightning network expansion, which aims to add an additional 3-4 million premises to their UK coverage (so far they’ve completed over 1.7 million) via a mix of Hybrid Fibre Coax (HFC) technology ... Read More»

Dorset-based My Fibre Limited, which describes itself as a “mechanical or industrial engineering” company that runs some Dark Fibre networks, has proposed to extend their network and may build an ultrafast Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband ISP service for a rural community in mid-Wales.At present the company mostly seems to operate a few niche Dark Fibre networks for film production facilities and academic institutions in London and the South East of England. A website domain does exist for... Read More»

RecentlyEE has announced that their old Pay TV product (IPTV) will bereplaced by a new service – Apple TV 4K set top box for their fixedline home broadband & phone packages. ThePay TV product, which was introduced before merger with BT and thebroadband customers were required to pay an additional amount of £8per month to get the box. The product offered PVR features, access toFreeview TV channels, access to premium on-demand content and an app.However it does not support 4K. Last year BT ... Read More»