Category: Broadband
Progress report for Welsh Superfast Broadband project
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.
Harborough area of Leicestershire should see better broadband soon
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.
First premises in Worcestershire benefit from BDUK roll-out
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 to give three more cities a hyper boost
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.
First villages in Dorset benefit from Superfast Dorset project
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.
BDUK releases next progress report on superfast coverage
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.
Isle of Wight releases first details of superfast roll-out
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.
West Oxfordshire District Council plumps for 100% coverage via Cotswold Broadband
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.
B4RN wins the race to Dolphinholme
The people with lots of fibre in Lancashire have started to connect up another village in the most rural parts of Lancashire as Dolphinholme has started to go live as part of the B4RN project.
Is the super connected cities voucher scheme working?
A core component of the Superfast Britain strategy from the current coalition Government is the 22 super connected cities but there are question marks over what level of impact the scheme is having.