Category: Broadband

While the majority of the Openreach and subsequent BDUK projects is cabinet based fibre services, there are clusters of FTTP being deployed and news on some of the areas in Wales has emerged.

We may know a few things about postcodes and mapping and that means we spend a little more time than probably is wise for our sanity checking many press releases and press coverage on broadband, today has us looking at Wells in Somerset.

Melrose in the Scottish Borders now has a FTTC service available from three cabinets, with another three cabinets on the way.

Residents of the Kings Reach development in Biggleswade look set to benefit from FTTC as the developers have produced the money to get superfast broadband to the estate.

Ambitions are easily turned into statements of fact when news reports are written in haste and it while it may happen that 100% of York signs up to the CityFibre network it is not likely to happen when the trial is just 20,000 homes.

KC has sent out a press release applauding the 78 Mbps average speed for a small village in its footprint, Brantingham. Of course there are several Gigabit FTTP providers who have footprints that could beat this.

The RCBF scheme that has been derided since its launch has delivered some connectivity and importantly two of the three projects delivering so far are fibre to the premises.

A limited trial is to take place to assess the differences in performance between Openreach staff and the two contractors they use, and maybe rolled out on a wider basis.

Malvern Vale is not really rural, though someone living in a city like Manchester or London may consider it so, but in terms of reaching the Government targets providing services to areas like Malvern are important.

While there will be cries of fix and calls for investigations into the figures the pace of roll-out for the BDUK projects is clear, in that since the June figures were released the UK broke the 1 million barrier at the end of July 2014.