Exascale will deliver ultrafast FTTP and ethernet services to rural and urban UK residential and business customers thanks to a new strategic partnership with CityFibre, in a move that helps accelerate its network rollout.
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Recent Q1 FY25 results reveal that BT Group is on track to achieve full year guidance, with more than 1m full fibre premises passed for a sixth consecutive quarter, at an average build rate of 81k per week, with the potential to achieve up to 5m this fiscal year.
BT Group has named Patricia Cobian, currently with Virgin Media O2, as its first female Chief Financial Officer (CFO), succeeding long-time Group Chief Financial Officer Simon Lowth following a global search.
BDUK’s latest quarterly statistics report reveals how many premises have received a gigabit-capable broadband connection through the agency’s subsidy between 1st April 2024 and 31 December 2024.
Recent Q2 results figures for Netomnia show the Group's strong growth across the platforms, with a £23.6m revenue, and 341,000 premises connected – a 14% take-up rate increase of 54,000 new customers added.
Openreach has published the list of 137 exchange locations in its FTTP Priority Exchange Stop Sell programme, covering 854,000 UK premises and will give a year’s notice to communication providers ending traditional copper-based phone and broadband services and encourage full fibre upgrading.
Truespeed Communications and County Broadband have “agreed in principle” merge to create a single operator covering 177,000 premises and 40,000 customers in rural communities in the south west and East Anglia.
Data and signals from policymakers indicate that the UK is unlikely to meet its 2030 targets for gigabit-capable broadband at its current rate of progress, according to a report by Cluttons assessing the progress of the UK’s digital Infrastructure rollout.
Grain has secured a £225m funding boost to expand its network to cover around 600,000 premises as the next step on its strategy to build over one million premises.
GoFibre is celebrating a 500-customer milestone in Kirriemuir and has teamed up with Peel Farm Coffee & Crafts to host a local community event to mark the occasion.