Category: Broadband

£3.75 million of public will help to take West Sussex from its phase 1 target of 90% coverage to 95% superfast coverage.

The CDS project is making it is clear that they believe that the reason for them rejecting the BT bid is down to the time frame for its delivery.

The West Yorkshire BDUK project has signed its phase 2 contract to extend coverage to a further 28,000 homes and businesses.

Devon and Somerset councils have decided that the BT bid for phase 2 did not represent value for money so have rejected the bid and are going to enter into an open procurement competition.

On 2:30pm on Wednesday 24th Matt Warman MP is led a debate on the superfast broadband roll-out, with the closing remarks left to Ed Vaizey MP.

The Connection Voucher scheme arose from a failed scheme but with 25,000 vouchers now claimed it seems to be making a dent, but more will be needed to silence critics of the UK broadband programme.

Satellite broadband may be a measure of last resort but in a world where people are being left behind it should in theory allow people to connect.

The £3bn investment by Virgin Media is getting underway with Manchester as the starting point and an extra 150,000 premises are likely to benefit from an ultrafast option.

The East Riding of Yorkshire is a more complicated BDUK project area as a decent sized chunk in terms of population is actually within the KC remit, but our data shows some 34,000 getting better broadband in the last eight months.

As part of the iconic London skyline the BT tower which was built 50 years ago represented the ambition of the 1960's and with the restaurant closing in the 1980. Now some 1,400 people will be able to dine as the 50th Birthday for the tower is celebrated.