Category: Broadband

Scotland may have the lowest ambition currently with a target of 85% able to access a fibre based service, so the level with super fast speeds will be even lower but for the most remote areas there is a small funding boost to help communities looking to go the DIY approach.

The Federation of Small Businesses is calling for government to re-evaluate its broadband policy as currently broadband is failing UK businesses. It proposes a 10meg minimum speed to all businesses by 2017/8.

The Isle of Wight already has WightFibre and commercial fibre based services from Openreach available in some places, but the BDUK/council funded project is starting to deploy the first of the gap funded cabinets to the rest of the island.

The signs of it being less than 12 months to a General Election are ever increasing and the 39 growth deals aimed at making different parts of England feel special looks to be part of that.

The rush to get updates from the various broadband projects across the UK before the summer hiatus continues with Connecting Devon and Somerset publishing its latest update.

While the BDUK projects are criticised every second of every day they are in the process of delivering improvements to many and thus we have the update for West Yorkshire.

You have to spend to accumulate and the answer to a question in the House of Commons reveals that the current Government believes the various final 5% projects will let them know how much needs to be spent to reach 100%.

No-one in their right mind has ever denied that FTTC based solutions don't fall off over distance, but one project appears to have taken the its mapping and intervention to the extreme thus excluding rural properties outside the towns.

Essex County Council has responded to a FOI request releasing postcodes and some information for those living in Brightlingsea.

Since the £10m innovation funding split was announced very little has been said, other than a few cheers that BT did not directly win any of the work.