Fibre-optic

319 terabits – great Scott! Boffins in Japan speed along information superhighway at new world record

System compatible with existing infra. No you can't eat it now, kids, it's for later, for upcoming 5G backbone

Networks19 Jul 2021 | 13

UK launches consultation on forcing landlords to allow gigabit broadband upgrades

We want to give your property better internets for free, pls respond

Networks09 Jun 2021 | 20

UK's BT starts trials of new hollow-core optical fibre networks

Promises lower latencies, higher power thresholds

Networks01 Jun 2021 | 41

Maybe high-speed internet is infrastructure after all, say US Republicans in proposal to spend $65bn over five years

Our plan is better than President Biden's, they claim, with few details

Networks23 Apr 2021 | 24

Grotesque soundbyte alert: UK government opens wallet to help rural areas get 'gigafit'

Tough luck if you're in Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales

Networks19 Mar 2021 | 46

Ofcom says no price controls on full-fibre broadband until 2031, giving BT's Openreach the kick to 'build like fury'

Analyst: 'Ultimate winner is BT as it's avoided cost-based regulation for next half decade'

Networks18 Mar 2021 | 38

The good optics of silicon photonics: Light sailing serenely down a fibre

Column 15 years in the making. Out of the labs and into the real world: The 100Gbps Internet connection

Science01 Feb 2021 | 26

Surprising everyone, spending watchdog says the UK's 2025 deadline for nationwide gigabit broadband is 'unreachable'

Regulatory hurdles, funding, pandemic, and Huawei have made this a big ask – but industry remains determined

Networks08 Jan 2021 | 20

Virginia voter registration website falls over hours before deadline. The Russians? No, a broken fiber line

Cable damaged during sewer installation? Now that's a sh** storm

Networks13 Oct 2020 | 22

Congratulations Peebles. Felicitations Queenzieburn. Openreach is bringing you FTTP (yes, they're real places)

Full-fibre connections coming to (some of) the UK's 'final third' by 2026

On-Prem30 Jul 2020 | 46

Community Fibre to splash £400m on FTTP connections as it races to cover a million London properties by 2023

10Gbps upgrade from challenger ISP backed by private equity

Networks30 Jul 2020 | 14

Customers of Brit ISP Virgin Media have downloaded an extra 325GB since March, though we can't think why

That's a lot of... Netflix. Yes, that's it

Networks18 Jun 2020 | 53

Oh crap: UK's digital overlords moot new rules to help telcos lay fibre in sewer pipes

That's the Department of Fun to you

Networks12 Jun 2020 | 49

TalkTalk keeps results under wraps citing 'advanced negotiations' over FibreNation biz

Has it found an investor in £1.5bn venture to build 3 million FTTP connections?

Networks13 Nov 2019 | 7

Openreach's cunning plan to 'turbocharge' the post-Brexit economy: Getting everyone on full-fibre broadband by 2025

£59bn boost – 'if we can get right conditions to invest'

Networks11 Oct 2019 | 56

You better get a wiggle on then: BT said to be mulling switching off UK's copper internets by 2027

Would that be the 'secret talks' Openreach is consulting on?

Networks19 Sep 2019 | 72

Not so G.fast: Hybrid fibre 'under review' as Openreach remembers it's all about FTTP now

BT clears throat, gestures wildly at its new full-fibre targets

Networks12 Sep 2019 | 47

Virgin Media's Project Lightning now at 1.8m connections. Just 2.2m to go before year's end, right?

And yes, broadband flinger appears to shift focus to hybrid

Networks08 Aug 2019 | 33

Virgin Media promises speeds of 1Gpbs to 15 million homes – all without full fibre

But industry is sceptical hybrid network tech will cut it

Networks25 Jul 2019 | 64

Boris Johnson's promise of full fibre in the UK by 2025 is pie in the sky

Analysis From the man who brought us the garden bridge and water cannons

Networks17 Jul 2019 | 218

UK's Openreach admits 50k premises on 'gigabit-capable' FTTP network can't get gigabit speeds

330Mbps will have to do. Boohoo

Networks05 Jul 2019 | 65

European fibre lobby calls for end to fake fibre broadband ads

If you think you have a full-fibre connection, you probably don't

Networks03 Dec 2018 | 58

Openreach names 81 lucky locations to be plugged into its super-zippy Gfast pipe

Take a look up the railtrack, from Barking to Faversham

Networks26 Nov 2018 | 47

TalkTalk's £1.5bn 3-million home fibre broadband hopes on ice for now

FibreNation might exist but the expected sack of cash is yet to be announced

Networks21 Nov 2018 | 13

British fixed broadband is cheap … and, er, fairly nasty – global survey

Though you get what you pay for, mostly

Networks06 Nov 2018 | 45

Openreach hacks full-fibre broadband prices for developers... Property developers, that is

Sorry, programmers. No bowel-moving discounts for you

Networks26 Oct 2018 | 25

BT, beware: Cityfibre reveals plan to shovel £2.5bn under Britain's rural streets

Full fibre deployment shifts up a gear

Networks24 Oct 2018 | 55

UK's Openreach sends full fibre to Coventry

Slow your roll... only Radford's hooked up for now

Networks03 Oct 2018 | 26

Milton Keynes: Come for roundabouts, stay for near-gigabit broadband

Aberdeen and Peterborough to follow in Vodafone scheme

Networks12 Sep 2018 | 50

UK.gov flings £95m at public sector superfast broadband rollouts

Local council or NHS? Step right this way. Not you, SMEs

Networks29 Aug 2018 | 20

Openreach annual review: Eat fibre and be merry, we fixed the faults before you called

The sun is sunny and the dark fibre access is virtual

Networks27 Jul 2018 | 14

Submarine cables at risk from sea water, boffins warn. Wait, what?

The bits on land don't expect to get salty, and that's 1,100 Internet pieces of internet infrastructure in the US alone

Networks17 Jul 2018 | 80

Infrastructure wonks: Tear up Britain's copper phone networks by 2025

Full-fibre diet to cost $33bn over 30 years

Networks11 Jul 2018 | 103

CableLabs' many hands make light work – at four terabits per second

New optical standards give cable operators lots of headroom as they fibre up

Networks05 Jul 2018 | 2

HostingUK drops offline after losing Farmer vs Fibre competition

iomart-owned outfit TITSUP* as trencher slices through critical cable

On-Prem01 Jun 2018 | 70

Small UK firms laying fibre put BT's Openreach to shame – report

But former state monopoly still the biggest single investor

Networks13 Apr 2018 | 30

Copper feel, fibre it ain't: Ads regulator could face court for playing hard and fast with definitions

CityFibre applies for review, says ASA is failing consumers

Systems05 Mar 2018 | 76

Life's a beach – then you're the comms nexus of the British Empire and Marconi-baiting hax0rs

Geek's Guide to Britain Inside Porthcurno's world-spanning telegraphy web

Geek's Guide15 Feb 2018 | 45

TalkTalk to splash £1.5bn laying full fibre on 3 million doorsteps

Shares drop 12% as biz slashes dividends to raise capital

Networks08 Feb 2018 | 85

UK good for superfast broadband, crap for FTTP – Ofcom

Ahead of only Nigeria when it comes to fibre

Personal Tech18 Dec 2017 | 43

How fast is a piece of string? Boffin shoots ADSL signal down twine

Metaphor wrought in flesh

Networks13 Dec 2017 | 121

Someone tell Thorpe Lane in Suffolk their internet sucks – they're still loading the page

Suffering residents have an 8-hour wait for 45 minutes of telly

Networks08 Dec 2017 | 85

Ofcom proposes ways to stop BT undercutting broadband rivals

Tackles former state monopoly's 'significant market power'

Networks01 Dec 2017 | 52

Why does no one want to invest in full fibre broadband, wails UK.gov

Ministry of Fun launches network infrastructure review, extends basic broadband subsidy scheme

Personal Tech29 Nov 2017 | 58

Dark fibre arts: Ofcom is determined to open up BT's network

Analysis But will it make a difference?

Networks24 Nov 2017 | 59

Crap London broadband gets the sewer treatment

Oh rats! SSE inks deal to run fibre through Thames Water's subterranean empire

Networks14 Nov 2017 | 42

Full-fibre ISP Hyperoptic clocked over mock doc schlock shock

Advert looked too much like a BT contract, says watchdog

Networks18 Oct 2017 | 7

Boffins' bonkers fibre demo: 53 Tbps down ONE piece of glass

Japan's NICT looks to data centres of the future

Science09 Oct 2017 | 18

UK.gov unveils six areas to pilot full-fat fibre, and London ain't on the list

Scatters £10m across country out of £200m pot

Networks04 Sep 2017 | 65

Virgin Media only adds another 127,000 homes to Project Lightning

Lightning by name... not on track to hit 800k 2017 target

On-Prem08 Aug 2017 | 27

Mediocre Britain: UK broadband ranked 31st in world for speed

Behind Bulgaria and Romania. But spare a thought for Yemen

Networks08 Aug 2017 | 73

Openreach pegs full fibre overhaul anywhere between £3bn and £6bn

And it'll cost consumers an extra £7 per head a month

On-Prem07 Aug 2017 | 66

CityFibre snaps up Entanet for £29m and plans to raise £185m

Wants to pump fibre to 50 cities by 2020

On-Prem05 Jul 2017 | 14

Research suggests UK consumers find 'fibre' advertising misleading

Alt-net providers call for ads to be reviewed

Networks22 Jun 2017 | 48

Constellations and MIMO to take fibre to a future beyond the terabit

Interview Nokia Bell Labs' Dr Laurent Schmalen explains how networks can find a new gear

Networks22 May 2017 | 2

Up Wolf Creek without a signal: outback cable cut disconnects top end TPG, Optus customers

Truck hauls up Nextgen fibre, the fix is in once repair crews can find the break

Networks02 May 2017 | 4