Category: Broadband

Vodafone in Germany has set out a 2 billion Euro investment plan that should boost availability of Gigabit speeds and will have many in the UK worrying that this means we are slipping even further behind.

The fact that urban areas are doing better for superfast broadband options is no real shock and while many will complain about rural areas being left behind the data shows that things are improving, just not fast enough for those who have not seen any improvements yet.

The £645 million in this latest announcement is the cumulative amount of money that is available for reinvestment in the superfast broadband roll-outs and comprises both gainshare and efficiency savings from the BDUK projects.

The excitement levels on full fibre building and it will be interesting to see how the commercial and Government initiates impact on the current full fibre coverage level of 2.66% of UK premises in the next 12 months, in addition to tracking all our usual metrics.

Full fibre is being increasingly talked about, but for now its largely been small amounts via the BDUK process or commercial roll-outs that have given the UK coverage of 2.7%. Into the breach leaps six pilot projects with funding from the treasury to kick start bigger roll-outs.

Another months analysis of all the speed tests were see people running has been completed and we can now present the fastest 60 packages and providers, making this round up the most extensive regularly published in the UK.

With decades of practice and little to physically do we are used to moving home and having no issues with electricity supply but broadband is struggling to fulfil a similar ease of moving with 1 in 3 reporting issues.

One persistent problem with the BDUK schemes is that they never seem to go where people want them to, so a new community scheme in Northumberland may help to avoid that issue with £2.2 million of funding available for superfast and ultrafast roll-outs.

The first round of the Digital Scotland superfast broadband project has hit its target in Orkney and savings are going to see some further roll-out in the area.

The latest figures on the number of premises delivered by the BDUK process has been released by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport showing over 4.5 million premises have gained access to a superfast broadband option since December 2012.