Category: Broadband

Northern Ireland has extension availability of fibre based broadband already, but there are still around 500 Openreach cabinets to be enabled and this extra funding will shrink that number a lot.

Cornwall has the highest proportion of FTTP compared to any other county in the United Kingdom and more is still appearing.

An Audit Scotland report has looked into what the Digital Scotland report may or may not deliver in terms of broadband coverage.

Scotland is moving towards its goal of fibre based broadband availability at a national level of 85% by 2015/2016 with current coverage sitting at around 74.5%.

A few years ago usage limits and traffic management to slow you down were very common, but a recent panic of billing for extra allowance on legacy PlusNet customers highlights the need to review your broadband accounts every now and then.

Another report calling for the internet to be treated as a utility service with universal access to the service.

It looks like the Welsh Government may be trying to have a go at BT with the wording of a new tender document for resolving the final few per cent of coverage in Wales.

The Wales Office has announced that some 1 million premises across the country now have the option of fibre based broadband.

The results for January 2015 are in allowing everyone to track how much the UK broadband landscape is changing if it is at all.

The spending on advertising to promote that superfast broadband is widely available in the UK may not be universally available, but now that the Government project has passed some 1.9 million premises getting people to sign-up is important.