Category: Broadband

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.

A statement from the Welsh Cabinet suggests that 40% of premises in the Superfast Cymru intervention area will have access to 100 Mbps or faster broadband - how will it do this?

Satellite broadband has come on leaps and bounds and has a place in the broadband landscape but questions are being asked by residents who feel they may have been given a lame duck and are looking at a maximum 50GB data allowance.