Category: Broadband

Tracking the take-up of the various BDUK projects is very important as increasing take-up allows more funding to be re-invested and thus the £1.7 billion of funding can and is going further than originally expected.

Further investment in broadband in Dorset has been announced and should deliver decent broadband to another 3,800 premises by summer 2019 with most new connections being full fibre (FTTP).

Full fibre and future proofing are key words for anyone talking about broadband in public and the Government as part of its future proofing is looking to change the business tax rules around broadband infrastructure.

Telling the difference between the PR blurb and political rhetoric on the broadband roll-outs is never an easy game, hence why we have our monthly round-up on what we are tracking for broadband coverage across the UK.

With the full awards ceremony due on 13th July ISPA has announced the results of the nominations in the two categories that the ISPA Council will award.

The £400m of money seeded into the Digital Infrastructure Fund is not new money, we have known that it was on the way but now there is a little bit more detail on how it will be used.

London is back in the broadband limelight again with the focus being that Spain apparently has 83% of buildings connected to a full fibre network compared to just 3% in the UK, and other cities across the UK are Gigabit cities.

Essex which is currently one of the few counties still chasing the 90% superfast broadband coverage target and has now signed a contract to enable another 24,000 (~4% of county) in several contracts worth £24 million.

The news of extra funding for broadband infrastructure in Northern Ireland is welcome news for those with only slow speed options still, but it is entangled in the confusing world of politics too.

As we edge closer to the end of the second quarter of 2017, we have made it easier for people to access the collective analysis for UK local councils and take a look at how speeds vary across the UK.