Category: Broadband

The path to delivery of faster broadband is not always smooth and after lots of work by both residents and BT a cabinet has gone live in a new development in Greenwich.

In theory the central BDUK team should have the absolute best figures, but given the lack of trust many have in central reporting we keep a close on things and with the latest take-up figures we have for the first time attempted to verify the figures from speed tests people run.

The UK is on the cusp of breaking the 90% superfast barrier at the 30 Mbps and faster EU definition just a couple of weeks before the nation decides on whether to stay in or stay our of the EU.

Another month rolls by and its time to publish the results from all the speed tests we saw in May 2016.

A parish council in Cumbria is working hard to get an alternative provider to actually say they cannot provide a service so that a cabinet can be included in the BDUK/BT project.

The PR battle between the UK broadband scene not being perfect but improving and everything being a disaster continues.

The year is racing by and its time once again to put forward nominations for who you think deserves the Internet Hero and Internet Villain Awards at the 2016 ISPA Awards.

The BDUK team over at DCMS have sifted through all the data from BT and the local authorities and determined how much money central Government has spent so far and what has been delivered.

Time to give another version of a our speed tester a bit of an exercise, so just on over to our site and spare us twenty seconds of your time.

Broadband got a rare mention in the Queen's State Opening of Parliament speech in form of the Universal Service Obligation.