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The R100 project in Scotland is still all talk but the existing Digital Scotland contract with BT looks set to deliver further coverage with news of money being re-invested and to deliver mostly FTTP.
At some point most people will have experienced the pain of a large venue with 1000's of people and useless Wi-Fi, the latest boost to UK broadband is a fund to help conference centres and hotels boost their broadband and subsequently the Wi-Fi coverage.
A new bundle from Vodafone not really a first since you've been able to buy the two individual products for a while but it does make buying them as a bundle for new customers a bit simpler.
Another round figure barrier has been busted in the full fibre roll-out by CityFibre that is currently exclusively sold by Vodafone under the Gigafast umbrella.
The Virgin Media network continues to grow its footprint but there are signs the public are shifting away from cable TV bundles towards just buying a data service they can mix and match TV options such as Amazon Prime, Netflix etc
The maths are pretty simple but we will be highlighting this figure showing how many full fibre premises need to passed everyday along with our other broadband statistics each month.
The G.fast roll-out continues as we have found another 14 exchange areas where at least 1 pod is active and taking orders.
The Fibre First programme from Openreach is their big commercial roll-out of FTTP but the incumbent is building FTTP elsewhere and we look at how the figures have changed in the last month.
Another month and full fibre coverage is now up at 8.56% across the UK. FTTC/VDSL2 roll-outs manage only around 2,000 to 3,000 premises with the bulk of any superfast coverage changes now coming from full fibre appearing.
We have been here before with grandiose statements the question is will no-deal Brexit draw focus away or will the Government ensure that it works with industry to make a challenging job possible.
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