Category: Broadband

We called Scotland reaching its fibre based broadband coverage target in January, and the roll-out has continued to add more premises since then but the PR machine for BT and Digital Scotland has now announced the target.

The UK is slowly adding more superfast broadband coverage from the mixture of the BDUK roll-outs, Virgin Media and other commercial additions.

Another month and time to see who is getting faster and who is getting slower as people upgrade and downgrade their broadband connections.

The pressure on where the UK should be heading continues to build with the Institute of Directors joining the growing group of voices complaining about the lack of broadband vision in the UK.

We would all love to have access to FTTH and while some say it needs men of grit running some numbers suggest it needs many willing to work for nothing or very deep pockets.

The Essex BDUK project had one of the lowest ambitions so some would say it was going to be easy for them to hit the target, so we take a look at what coverage in the county is like.

Southend is already well ahead of the curve with 96.7% of premises covered by superfast broadband from BT and Virgin Media but it looks like the council wants more.

Another project has declared reaching the 90% superfast target, and our figures which suggest 89.99% coverage suggest this is actually the case.

The battle to get superfast broadband to the under served and rural parts of the local authority continue as 5 masts had their planning permission rejected.

The complaints about the inability to access a decent broadband connection show no sign of subsiding as the coverage levels improve and may actually get worse as coverage levels improve.