Category: Broadband

The Fell End project may not be supersized at just 58 premises, but their remoteness meant they were likely to miss out on the main BDUK projects for some years, hence a community led effort with some RCBF and BT money to get things moving.

A row has erupted over the state of broadband on Wrexham Industrial Park with businesses claiming slow broadband is hitting business.

The offshoot from B4YS who are to the west of the M6 has hit its stage 1 funding target, which will allow B4RN to do the detailed planning and start buying materials.

The race to get fibre based broadband available to 96% of premises in Wales continues, with another five cabinets going live in North Wales.

The demand for connectivity to mobile devices or just getting a broadband service to the rural areas of Europe is driving the desire for radio spectrum and the EU has outlined a set of proposals to make 700MHz an EU wide wireless broadband band.

While some complain about the digital divide in the UK, with the pace that rural areas are catching up and sometimes passing urban areas, it is not so much a divide but a rapidly changing broadband landscape.

York with its historic heart and the large number of housing estates hemmed in by the ring road is going to be the broadband battle ground leading up to 2020.

The delivery of the first cabinet on the Isle of Wight with public money means that all the phase one BDUK projects are now underway and delivering something.

South Yorkshire is very possibly the only area in the UK to have tasted superfast broadband and had it ripped away from them with the demise of the Digital Region roll-out, but a BT based one is on the way.

The RCBF scheme may not have lived up to its original promises and hopes but it is delivering and a good number of the properties will get access to full FTTP as a result of the projects.