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FullFibre has made two key appointments, hiring Adele Whild as Director of Delivery and Ross Duke as CTO.

The west Wales beach of Mwnt is now ready for wave and web surfers as Openreach connects the nearby Caban Mwnt café to full fibre.

Jurassic Fibre’s planned fibre rollout in Bude will represent the altnet’s first move into Cornwall, having connected over 100,000 premises in 30 towns and villages across Devon, Dorset and Somerset.

Virgin Media O2 is working with Neighbourly on an eight-week trial scheme in Bournemouth that will use engineer vans to deliver donations from customers to foodbanks.

Oxford will become the second major city in Netomnia’s rollout roadmap, as the altnet invests £36m into the area’s digital infrastructure.

Community Fibre is laying the foundations to expand its customer service centre by migrating its services to Amazon Connect with the help of SVL.

Genexis, which designs and develops FTTH products and end-to-end solutions, has appointed The Kenton Group as a distributor to facilitate growth in the UK.

Zzoomm is making an £18.4 million investment in Northwich, Cheshire to roll out full fibre to approximately 28,000 properties.

Without meaningful engagement between the Welsh and England governing bodies, the UK administration will create a gigabit scheme that does not meet the needs of Wales, warns a report by the Senedd’s Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee (CCEIC).

According to Ofcom estimates, Altnet fibre deployment exceeded the Openreach build machine for the first time this January, but ‘overbuild’ without customer uptake could threaten further fibre expansion.