Category: Broadband

Another sign that perhaps if we had waited that commercial roll-outs might have gone beyond the original two thirds of coverage they all promised in 2010/2011 emerges as Virgin Media announces some more expansion in the North East.

While the FTTP element is overshadowed generally in terms of volume as part of the BDUK roll-outs, there are areas popping up, you just have to be local or look hard to find them.

The EU is investing research that has the aim of ensuring every person in the 2020 Olympics stadium has access to more than 1 Gbps of bandwidth.

The programme to extend the reach of superfast broadband services in Dorset is continuing and hopes to have reached some 30,000 premises by Christmas 2014.

While many outlets seem to think the Welsh broadband programme target is 96% at superfast speeds the current £425m project is actually aiming at a 90% figure, with 96% being connected to a fibre service.

The Shetlands are distinctly rural and qualify for the added adjective of remote but they have now seen 17 of the phone cabinets on the island start to offer a FTTC service.

Hyperoptic has not lost focus on London, an interesting change has seen a serviced apartment operator now offering free broadband with apartment rentals and options to upgrade to 100 Mbps and 1000 Mbps speeds.

If there was one thing needed to be done different with the BDUK process it is the way that the press has been briefed, the result has been pictures of laptops in fields when the reality of the goals was always going to be different.

While many in positions of power are celebrating the news the UK average speed is going up, there will be millions questioning that and the progress we can see in places like Shropshire show the battle is far from won.

There are signs that Openreach is looking at offering an up to 12 Mbps download service from its fibre cabinets with the aim of uplifting the speed for those who are too far from cabinets to benefit from VDSL2.