Category: Broadband

The City of London looks set to expand the coverage and speeds of its existing Wi-Fi network with a new super duper solution which should be live ready for summer 2017.

Cornwall is pushing on with its broadband improvements and has announced the first 25 communities that benefit from the project.

Surrey may already be past the 95% 2017 superfast target but the council has decided based on public pressure to take the gainshare money and push on further.

5G may not be out of the labs but the pressure is building to ensure that 5G is rolled out more methodically than the previous 3G and 4G services.

We've run polls in the past about broadband speeds and importance, but often worry about our poll sample being skewed by the more techie nature of our regular visitors so its with interest that a Which? survey on broadband has been released.

The march of the superfast broadband across the UK continues and it needs to continue at the current pace or slightly faster to reach the 95% in 12 months and 2 weeks time.

Herefordshire and Gloucestershire will still far from being broadband nirvana are set to gain more FTTH on top of that already delivered to the counties.

This months results are worth a look as the apple cart has been upset a bit by us extending the technology split to the main table of 25 providers, meaning the top end of the table has shifted around.

How many homes the Digital Infrastructure Investment Fund will deliver is in the hands of the private finance and operators, but £400m should be a good kick starter.

The big focus is on the superfast coverage figures, but if you are one of the premises stuck with sub 2 Mbps broadband then you may want to chase for a voucher and do something about it.