Category: Broadband

With now less than four months to go the Superfast Cymru project is showing progress but needs to add another 10 percentage points of coverage to hit its original December 2015 deadline.

There are those that say FTTC was a waste of money and the roll-out of G.fast to bring ultrafast speeds to the Openreach network is probably not going to change their opinion, but then does the average homeowner care so long as it delivers a faster connection?

Some 6,500 premises in the Cotswolds should now have a good idea if the Gigaclear Gigabit broadband solution is on the way to them as part of a phase 2 BDUK contract.

The appearance of £129m coming back into the BDUK process via the claw back mechanism has awoken calls for more competition to be added to the process.

Worcestershire another area to announce savings and clawback money that will help to boost superfast coverage in the county.

Fibre to the basement and Fibre to the remote node with VDSL2 to the actual properties is being played with in the City of London and is available to order for businesses and residents.

North Lincolnshire now has £4 million to increase coverage of superfast broadband in the area after previously announcing the end of its phase 1 contract in June 2015.

The DCMS coverage milestone combined with the rash of clawback announcements means a lot of areas have updates and Staffordshire is one of those.

Another small corner of the UK is set for further improvements as Rutland pushes towards its phase two goals.

A common insult used against Openreach is that they protect their leased line business by not providing FTTC services to business parks, but it looks like this is clearly not the case in Devon and Somerset.