Category: Broadband

First cabinet as part of Newcastle broadband project unveiled by college students from nearby Walker Technology College.

The Welsh broadband project is one of the more contentious ones due to the overlap with previous spending in North Wales (FibreSpeed) but the build work is continuing.

Another county another picture opportunity, Shefford is the exchange and the village to be benefit is Standford.

While the BDUK projects continue to draw criticism they are starting to deliver in increasing numbers and West Sussex is celebrating having enabled cabinets covering 5,000 homes and businesses.

The joint project between Warwickshire, Coventry and Solihull have announced the next areas to benefit from the project, which include superfast available in five areas for the first time.

The deadline for the various authorities across the UK to state they are able to match fund the Governments proposed funding for the 2015 to 2017 project to increase superfast coverage to 95% is June 30th. Some councils may miss this deadline with serious implications for the digital economy,

GTC who are a utility network builder who install network and utility services for the large building firms has firmly pinned itself to a full fibre optic future with the announcement that all new internet connections will be FTTH.

We ran a poll three months ago on the amount of information coming out of the various BDUK projects and now Surrey County Council appears to have done a widespread mailshot to ensure people know about the new service options.

DCMS announces the successful pilot projects for the £10m rural superfast broadband innovation fund, looking at technologies, operations and financial models.

Cornwall has long been the leader for Superfast broadband roll-out and at last we have a better idea of the levels of availability for the full fibre (FTTH/FTTP) service in the county.