Category: Broadband

Another village is benefiting from the gap funded superfast programme, this time in Nottinghamshire, improving the speeds for some is driving a digital wedge down the middle of the village.

Essex has started to deliver on its multi-million pound Superfast Essex project, that at present still is only advertising a target of 87% on fibre based broadband.

What is the difference between superfast fibre broadband and fast fibre broadband? Well beyond five letters and a space, fast fibre has no real definition, so means any speed.

The work in Leicestershire to get fibre based broadband to 95% of the county is underway, and parts of Harborough District should see improvements this summer.

Worcestershire is one of the latest counties to start delivering on its project to make superfast broadband available to some 90% of premises across the county.

Hyperoptic who are well known for their Gigabit broadband service in London and who expanded to three other cities earlier in the year have announced the next wave of cities where Gigabit broadband will become available.

Two of the three cabinets on the Charmouth exchange in Dorset are now live and offering a FTTC to residents and businesses with the third cabinet still to be enabled.

The BDUK has issued its central update on the roll-out to the gap funded areas of the UK and they show a large jump of 138,000 premises with superfast now as an option compared to just one month before.

The roll-out of superfast broadband on the Isle of Wight has been contentious, particularly as the island of 140,000 inhabitants is the last bastion of the independent cable networks.

Cotswold Broadband has had a roller coaster lifestyle to date but news of a £1.6m loan to kick start the roll-out to rural West Oxfordshire is a surprise.