Category: Broadband

Gigaclear is trialling a 5 Gbps option for customers that is available in both consumer and business guises.

The SME business broadband is often the less visible face of broadband but after the super-connected cities plan morphed into a connection voucher scheme upgrading from slow broadband for a while became more attractive.

The scale of the change in how much data we are using is often not noticeable but Openreach has published some information about the data flows across the fibre network it operates.

Not everyone thinks that decent broadband is essential and one council had a battle on its hand to have the claw back money re-invested into the project.

Another project from the phase 1 projects has detailed the amount of clawback the project is getting from the larger amount previously announced by BT.

The BDUK process is widely attacked but it is delivering something better to lots of people so tracking its progress is important and the BDUK has just released a new set of official figures.

The headlines usually go to the FTTC roll-out, but with just under 1% of the UK covered it is all too easy to overlook the contribution that Openreach GPON FTTP is making to the UK broadband picture.

Scotland has just broken the 80% superfast coverage figure and the project looking after the more sparsely populated parts of the country has announced the next premises that will be benefit.

The Draft Investigatory Powers Bill has been published which sets out a new framework within which your Internet use can be monitored in various ways. These powers raise significant questions as to their effectiveness. Sebastien Lahtinen, co-founder of thinkbroadband.com, sets out some of the difficulties with the proposed Bill.

Just under three years since the first BDUK gap funded cabinet appeared in North Yorkshire we are seeing other projects declaring phase 1 completion.