Category: Broadband

The differences in performance between our single and multiple thread tests that should highlight many issues affecting the download speed broadband connection for the first month of 2018.

North Yorkshire has signed its phase three contract with BT that will see some 14,329 premises gain the option to order a 30 Mbps and faster service for the first time.

There was a small hope that the UK might avoid the embarrassment of not making it on the FTTH Council EU rankings this year, but alas the UK is just below the 1% penetration criteria once more.

The Fibre to the Home Council Europe has presented two awards for 2018, one to Matthew Hare, CEO of Gigaclear and OpenFiber (Italy) for their contribution to accelerating FTTH roll-outs in Europe.

Our monthly round up of the state of play for broadband across the nations and regions of the UK continues and in a post 95% world it will be interesting to see how different areas of the UK behave in the steady march to ever higher coverage levels.

SE16 the Rotherhithe area has a long history of poor broadband, compounded by much of the residential building in the area completing well before broadband as a utility was something developers considered.

The £200m full fibre fund is rapidly turning into an opportunity for local authorities to upgrade their own connectivity rather than an actually delivering hundreds of thousands of full fibre connections for residents. Bexley has revealed its bid for £5 million from the fund.

The long dark days of January are over and that means it is time to publish our analysis for broadband provider speeds from January, all the way from Hyperoptic at the top to old fashioned ADSL/ADSL2+ from Post Office at the very bottom where the median download is only 3.7 Mbps.

Hands up if you believe the average speed in Scotland is and that peak time speeds in the UK dip by just 0.1% and upload is actually 1.6% faster?

The formal announcement of the next scheme for Wales has been made and unfortunately some of the detail we hoped for is missing, but some other bits of positive news have emerged.