Category: Broadband

The excitement levels when Google originally announced its Kansas City would have been difficult to beat but five years down the line things look different.

With the last quarter now a few weeks behind us it is time for the financial results, so a chance to see how all the major providers are doing.

Public Wi-Fi is something that is both very useful and also very frustrating, all too often its unreliable and slow, but not all of it is created equally and it seems BT is rolling out new kiosks that will hopefully offer decent speeds.

While millions of us happily chase around the best deal for ourselves on broadband, there are those who cannot afford those deals or not able to identify the best offers and the LGA is highlighting that any USO based solution for UK needs to consider social needs.

The future is fibre, but please tell us how to do it cheaply pleads the current Minister of State for Digital and Culture.

It seems only a few months since G.fast was the big news in October 2015 at the Broadband World Forum but 12 months have really passed and we at the event again looking to see what is going on.

The predatory death squid that some equate with BT has risen once more and may be about to swamp one of the BDUK wireless pilot areas.

The partnerships with various local providers continue as Exa is the partner for three more Gigabit cities via CityFibre.

Some criticism has been aimed at Analysis Mason and the old studies into the cost of deployment FTTH in the UK, a new study commissioned by the European Commission looks at a number of deployment scenarios and thus updates previous published work.

Another month goes by and so long as the roll-outs continue at the current pace the 95% superfast by the end of 2017 looks achievable.