Category: Broadband

Since everyone is talking about mobile coverage and speeds we thought that we should share some of the data we have that goes all the way back to 2008. We have even older data but not in a format we can easily process.

The battle for hearts and minds with the BDUK led roll-out continues, with Staffordshire one of the latest projects to release some snippets of information on the project.

Suffolk was one of the first to declare its original BDUK project targets at 85% with access to a fibre based broadband service and is the first to sign on the line with BT for an extension, but it is unclear what the goal of the project extension will be.

Two villages near Stroud in the Cotswolds are clubbing together to fund a FTTC service for their area after the commercial and County led roll-outs have passed them by.

With the Chapelton in Elswick development slated for FTTH via Openreach and several thousand homes planned the new town may be the largest single concentration of FTTH in the UK.

Ireland may be about to jump ahead of the UK in terms of the availability of Gigabit speed services as a joint project between ESB and Vodafone has been given the go ahead by the European Commission.

Surrey set out with the ambition of 99% of the homes and businesses in the county having access to fibre based broadband and our figures independent of anything released by the project suggest they are very close as they celebrate their 500th cabinet.

While FTTC is the dominant technology rolling out in the BDUK projects, bits and pieces of FTTP are starting to appear in more places.

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.