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Superfast final 5% set to be final 3% as over £200m clawback confirmed

For those who've followed the roll-outs and announcements of the last couple of years news of more coverage from the clawback should be no surprise.

10 years ago 14 comments

Have accountants put paid to G.fast from distribution points?

The excitement of the 10 million G.fast line announcement got many who have slow VDSL2 speeds hopeful, but it looks like the fast may simply be able to go faster rather than uplifting the slow people.

10 years ago 49 comments

Grant Shapps calls for £258m windfall to be spent on fast broadband

The £129m of money released by changes in take-up calculations by the BT Group in July 2015 has now surfaced on the radar of The Telegraph and Grant Shapps and may be causing more confusion.

10 years ago 11 comments

Progress of superfast broadband roll-out across the UK

One month on from when the UK hit the mythical 90% coverage at over 24 Mbps we take a look at how far we have gone, or if you prefer what is left to be done if you want roll-outs to continue to 100%.

10 years ago 43 comments

The policitics of the Universal Service Obligation

A good headline should be attention grabbing and make people want to pick up a paper and pay for it, accuracy sometimes takes second place - hence the current wave of superfast roll-out ceasing stories.

10 years ago 45 comments

Broadband speeds in 42 UK cities

uSwitch has published analysis showing the speeds of visitors to their website over a six month period and it has kicked off an interesting debate.

10 years ago 16 comments

Lincolnshire ends first phase of gap funded rollout

Lincolnshire is the latest county to have claimed to have reached and exceeded its BDUK project target, so we take a look at our figures to see which bits of the county are still waiting for help.

10 years ago 2 comments

Grant Shapps and BIG turn big guns on broadband advertising speeds

The latest campaign from the lobby group BIG has started and while well meaning there are serious questions and little data to back up the campaign that we have seen yet. So we share some more data on the top 25 providers.

10 years ago 30 comments

What does Superfast Cymru report mean to the overall picture?

The Superfast Cymru project has released a coverage update that allows us to compare their figures with the ones from our own coverage model.

10 years ago 11 comments

What did the Budget 2016 do for digital economy infrastructure?

The Budget on March 16th did not make some peoples dreams of millions being made available to invest in FTTH come to true, there are a couple of measures that may help to encourage alt-net roll-out.

10 years ago 6 comments