Category: Broadband

When the recent Wiltshire news on boosting ultrafast coverage was made we knew about the make-up of the Gigaclear component and now we have the expected figures for the BT part.

The take-up levels which have led to many announcements on recycling superfast broadband funding continue as Oxfordshire is using a combination of this and unspent money to add another 3,000 premises to the roll-out.

The final lot of the CDS project to bring superfast broadband to otherwise under served parts of Devon and Somerset has been awarded to Airband.

Another county is expanding its roll-outs, though it is not totally clear if the expansion is new money or recycling as a result of the gain share arrangements.

To help people understand what the overall picture from the latest Superfast Cymru consultation looks like we have ingested the postcode data onto our maps and postcode checker.

Adding to the various chunks of superfast roll-outs taking place across Wiltshire two new contracts have been awarded to deliver ultrafast broadband to areas with sub standard speeds currently.

Declaring 90% coverage for an area is milestone and for Scotland we believe that at the over 24 Mbps speed target they have passed 90% but still a little way to go if you use a 30 Mbps or faster definition.

Our tracking has in the last day or two shown that Wales overall has broke the 90% superfast barrier and the Welsh Government has launched a consultation on what to do next to close the superfast broadband gap ever closer to the 100% mark.

If you thought XGPON and the promise of 10 Gbps was pushing fibre, then the latest demo by Openreach has shown that their GPON network can go considerably faster if its ever needed.

The council in East Sussex has been reviewing what has gone on with the phase I and is still on-going in the phase II BDUK projects and also is trying to square the circle of what the public is saying about coverage.