Category: Broadband

Hopefully one the General Election is over we can go back to proper press releases rather than the nod and wink system as council's sign the contracts to extend superfast coverage.

Hampshire may have reached its goal for the financial year 2014-2015, but there is still some roll-out to go and planning for the second wave to further increase superfast coverage is underway.

Regular flyers fall into two camps, those who enjoy the isolation of a flight and those who need to stay in touch even if flying at 30,000 feet.

Bromley is one of the best connected areas of the UK, with 95% already with access to superfast broadband, but the council has refused to match fund Westminster money to help those getting slow speeds still.

The Connecting Cambridgeshire project has signed its extension contract to take superfast coverage from the current planned 90% to 95% by the end of 2017.

G.INP (ReTx) was meant to improve throughput on interleaved lines without any major downsides according to chipset blurb but the reality is a lot more of a mixed bag and the level of help from Openreach is far from epic.

Sky has increased the incentive for those signing up to the ADSL2+ and phone bundle (without TV) from £50 to a £100 M&S voucher as well as the broadband being half price for the whole minimum term.

The question of exactly what will be delivered and mapping precisely what is already available has been a challenge for the BDUK projects, and a remote corner of Cumbria has all the hallmarks of a soap opera.

The confusion that arose from the original BDUK contract announcements is back, as its not clear if the phase 2 project in Lancashire is really 99% at superfast speeds, or 99% with access to the lesser target of fibre broadband.

Telford and Wrekin stayed out of the first round of BDUK projects but is now on-board and has signed a £5.6m contract with BT to get superfast to over 98% of premises in the area.