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In the last couple of weeks we have seen some changes in what we are spotting for some of the BDUK superfast broadband roll-outs and that is more VDSL2 cabinets appearing with parts of the area also seeing native FTTP available.
Now the dust has settled on the Virgin Media problems of Monday it is possible to look at what the various impacts were by using our broadband quality monitor that pings your broadband router to build a picture of latency over time.
We are aware of people reporting that Virgin Media is down in some areas of London and it appears to be an outage rather than slow speeds from looking at the latest speed test data.
Virgin Media is running a double speed promotion on four of its bundles for people signing up before 19th November 2018.
The UK may have reached the 5% full fibre milestone and is continuing to add full fibre with another 0.02% in the last few days but coverage is far from uniform so we tell you the 25 areas most likely to have a full fibre option.
Just 8 days ago we reported on Openreach breaking the 1.4 million premises barrier with its ultrafast services but today the 1.5 million barrier has been passed.
The evening peak time window is the crucial time for broadband to perform well and with more and more people watching online video slow downs and blips in performance are more apparent in the form of buffering or video pixelating itself.
Our analysis of new build coverage shows that for new postcodes created in Jan to July 2018 over 50% of those premises have a full fibre option and 4.48% actually have a choice of two or more full fibre infrastructure operators.
Cambridge, Leeds and Southend-on-Sea are the latest areas announced as part of the CityFibre/Vodafone Gigafast roll-out with investment of some £170m to fund the roll-out.
People have been murmuring about when will the various BDUK lots that Gigaclear in the CDS phase two project would go live but and CDS has now announced that while they don't know the extent of the delay yet they should know by the end of October.
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