Category: Broadband

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.

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.