Category: Broadband

Politics and egos have been the two staples of the mainstream news in the last week but it may not be much different in the broadband world as a District Council project may force a local wireless operator to close.

Leicestershire County Council has signed its phase 2 contract with BT, with the £9.2 million aiming to bring superfast broadband to another 10,000 in the county.

A councillor for Upottery in Devon has publically challenged Bill Murphy to answer a series of questions about the roll-out, a quick on the Connecting Devon website shows the parish is outside the phase 1 roll-out.

Aylesbury District Council is investing some £1.5 million from its New Homes bonus to drive some pilot projects to build superfast networks beyond the footprint of the current BDUK project.

Swindon dipped out of the first round funding for superfast broadband but got on board for the second round, but is appears to be heading in a different direction to the rest of the UK and continuing the areas love of wireless broadband.

Every year uSwitch runs its slowest and fastest streets and 2015 sees the same happen, but the statistics have been stretched to the limit and faster options often ignored.

After some worries and concern from people that planning authority in the Dales may scupper the Airwave trial, approval has been reached.

A common assertion is that the most rural parts of the UK still stranded on ADSL only services are slowing down, so we have investigated the trend for these areas over six years of speed test results.

Our monthly round-up of broadband speeds is with us again and includes figures for ADSL2+ and FTTC services from the major providers, in addition to extensive round-up of overall speeds.

The plans for the final pilot projects to evaluate technologies and costs for getting superfast broadband to the final 5% of the UK are looking shaky with talk of one trial mast not getting planning permission.