Category: Broadband
7,000 more premises of full fibre in Cornwall
Cornwall is to see a third phase of broadband roll-outs, with £17.6m being allocated to deliver 7,000 premises of full fibre (FTTP) by the end of 2019.
We test five InLinkUK structures to see how fast the Wi-Fi is
Free Wi-Fi in public places is increasingly being used as a draw to different areas and with talk of ultrafast Wi-Fi speeds
Peak and off peak performance at the largest UK broadband providers in July 2017
A little later than usual in the month this time but we can now share the results of how the major providers have performed at peak time during July. The volume of other analysis we have been doing and fact checking of other announcements has delayed the publication of the peak information this month.
Why we don’t think average UK broadband speed is 49 Mbps
The last few years has seen us working hard to ensure we have a good understanding of the performance of the various consumer and SME broadband products so when others publish various average speeds we can usually figure out if they are in the ball park or not.
We reveal size of proposed BT USO footprint
The proposed BT USO with its minimum 10 Mbps download speed and more importantly a minimum upload speed of 1 Mbps should effectively mean that standard ADSL2+ services will not meet the USO standard due to upload performance. Therefore today we can reveal that if broadband roll-outs stopped today some 1.39m premises would need assistance under a new USO.
Which? leaves us confused with its latest broadband news
Yet another round of complaining about poor broadband performance in the UK as Which? has represented the analysis it previous published in June 2017 now adding analysis on what consumers claimed the speed was they paid for.
Nation shocked that countries with more full fibre or faster cable beat UK in speed tables
Another week and the headlines are about the UK lagging behind being a poor 31st out of an analysis of 190 countries.
13,500 more superfast broadband premises for Berkshire with new contracts
Superfast Berkshire is claiming two new contracts with Gigaclear and BT will push superfast coverage across the county to 99.5% and our analysis suggests this looks real.
Broadband to get better for Suffolk with another BT contract
An extension contract has been signed for Suffolk to make 'high speed' broadband available to a further 50,000 premises in the county, we hope that 'high speed' really means superfast too.
Gigaclear announced as winner of final CDS phase two project
After a long wait the winner of the final lot that forms the phase II BDUK project in Devon and Somerset has been formally announced - Gigaclear.