Category: Broadband

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.

The phase 1 project in West Yorkshire claims to have exceeded its original target so we take a look at how their numbers stand up to independent scrutiny.

Love or hate the way the Government has rolled out Superfast Broadband the reality is that the project has now enabled cabinets or delivered FTTP to some three million premises across the UK, up 0.5 million since May 2015.