Category: Broadband

The cause of business broadband is one with lots of criticism, but with the pressure to reduce costs businesses all too often cut back on telecom communications infrastructure costs only to complain when service and repair levels are below par when it all goes wrong.

The BT and council projects in the North West to improve broadband speeds have been some of the most controversial attracting a good number of complaints that the predominantly FTTC roll-out is not going to help and is a waste of money.

The last part of the UK to sign a BDUK contract has now signed one, as the four councils comprising the Black Country LEP have signed with BT to push superfast coverage levels across the area.

The emphasis on the BDUK process improving rural speeds, when the reality is that it needs to ensure value for money to satisfy the PAC means the hardest most deserving places are usually left out of the first phase of the project.

The super-connected city scheme was originally objected to on competition grounds and it is interesting to see the levels of competition develop for the funding, that is used to subsidise the installation costs of a new more business like connection.

A high target of 98% with access to fibre based broadband is the goal of the £22 million BDUK project for the four local authorities.

The project to improve broadband speeds in Suffolk is like many other projects with its critics and supporters, but it appears to be delivering improved speeds to people.

For once we can talk about a number of exchanges that actually look distinctly rural when talking about the BDUK roll-out as the Connecting Shropshire announces more areas to benefit from the project.

The pace of the FTTC roll-out both commercial and now BDUK is such that since June 2014, 30 cabinets have gone live serving the people and businesses of Colton and Rugeley.

The patchwork of superfast broadband is highlighted by the complaints from residents of some new flats in Basingstoke that have been built and expanded over the last few years.