Fram Broadband Ltd

20/10/2023

PLEASE SHARE.... Parts of our fixed-wireless network are down due to Tech Centre being underwater. Telephones also unavailable. Fibre customers should all remain online. We'll get to work restoring the Fixed Wireless infrastructure as soon as water levels have receded and it's safe to do so

19/06/2023

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16/01/2021

Been a little while since we last had to call upon the trusty manual de-icer. Apologies to anyone temporarily inconvenienced

16/04/2020

Having run some tests earlier in the week, we've now recommissioned all of our old servers, lab/testing servers and computers and donated all their computing power to supporting Folding@home and Rosetta@home. Two projects working hard to provide compute power to scientists working on Covid related protein folding simulation and drug analysis work. Customers, please note, this has absolutely no impact on our broadband services, we're just donating spare capacity.

02/04/2020

Information/CCTV request.
It's with heavy heart that we believe someone has taken advantage of the roads being generally quieter to rob a ladder and ladder-locks from the roof of the company works van. We believe it was taken during business hours on Monday or Tuesday directly from the office car park which is both a tragic shame and worrying that someone was brazen enough to do it in broad daylight. If anyone knows anyone who has magically come across a set of Zarges Skymaster 8x3 combination ladders (the yellow webbing is pretty faded), or if anyone on Station Road in Framlingham has any CCTV footage that may help we would greatly appreciate it. Pretty hard to keep people online without the most used bits of equipment we own!

19/03/2020

An update on COVID-19 from Frambroadband.

Good morning all.

Following news this morning about the state of telecoms networks in general, we are prepared for the increase in traffic associated with schools closing.

As things stand we do not expect loads any more significant than usual peak-time easter-holiday loads, but we will continue to monitor the situation.

We currently have a significant amount of spare fibre capacity, and radio capacity can be tuned to meet demand (retuning may result in network interruptions of a few seconds if we need to do any during peak times).

As of this point, until isolation is over, we will be waiving all customers usage caps as we understand many will be working from home.

Our current rollout of faster speeds across the network may continue or may be paused depending on changes to demand, we may, or may not also complete hardware upgrades to the network at short notice if required.

There are two things we would particularly like to draw your attention to:

1) It is looking highly likely that streaming service providers (Netflix/BBC/Spotify/Amazon etc.) will be persuaded to switch streaming to Standard Definition only (no HD or 4K) to protect international network infrastructure, streaming makes up approx. 70% of all internet traffic now and with schools closing across the world at the same time this may be a prudent step. We would suggest that all customers do this now themselves to get ahead of the curve. This is usually an option in your streaming app and providers websites/help pages should explain how.

2) Our engineers will need to undertake increased precautions when undertaking premises visits. We will check with you if a visit is booked to see if anyone is showing symptoms or self-isolating and we may need to either reschedule the visit, or find a non-contact way to complete the visit. We appreciate we are now managing nationally critical network infrastructure and need to act accordingly.

If there are any changes to the above, we will communicate them as urgently as we can.

Many thanks,
Oli Stockman
Managing Director

19/02/2018

Lots of news over the weekend about Government reaching agreement with the Church of England to use churches for broadband and mobile distribution. We were one of the first to champion this back in 2004 and it's a model we've been investing in ever since.
https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2018/02/churches-help-spread-wireless-broadband-rural-england.html
ISPreview.co.uk

The UK Government has reached a new accord with the National Church Institutions (NCIs) of the Church of England, which should make it easier for churches to be used in order to help distribute faster wireless broadband and WiFi services across rural communities. Churches tend to be one of the highe...

13/11/2017

We've extended coverage to Stradbroke and the surrounding area and Brandeston, with 5Mbps, 10Mbps and 20Mbps packages available. If you're in these areas and currently getting less than 2Mbps then you may also be eligible for free installation. Call us on 01728 726507 for more info or to arrange a free survey.

15/06/2017

Enjoying the 'outdoor office' this morning!

06/06/2017

Been a busy day for us, with major mains power outages affecting three geographically separate relay sites. A fair few backup battery changes, but less than 30 seconds of total downtime across the three sites. We'll call that a job well done. Thanks to UK Power Networks for the regular updates.

02/06/2017

We're back on social media, and what better way to celebrate than by saying what a lovely morning it's been to be up fitting broadband on people's roofs, making the most before the storm rolls in