Category: Broadband

Warwickshire is in the news today as the first fibre cabinet has gone live in rural village in the country via the CSW Broadband Partnership.

News of more FTTH in the UK is always welcome, but Virgin Media needs to pay heed to what GTC and Sky are doing, as a few thousand homes here and there could in a few years mean Sky is breathing down the established operators neck.

After months of no activity the swan song of the RCBF scheme seems to be to hand out as much money as possible in its closing days.

Apartment living fell out of fashion in the UK after the 1960's and is well behind the rest of the world and if expensive apartments are not going to offer fast broadband developers are going to find them increasingly difficult to sell.

New build properties are those most likely to get FTTH on the continent and it is now starting to pick up pace even in the UK.

Swindon back in 2007 was at the forefront of the broadband race in the UK and has since seen a municipal Wi-Fi scheme fail and now has a large new build estate without any superfast broadband.

Another cabinet has gone live in East Sussex and a yummy cake was devoured to celebrate the switching on of the first fibre cab in Hadlow Down.

Another last minute Buckinghamshire project has announced its funding and this time it covers several villages in Buckinghamshire and from interpretation of the wording and checking the area it looks like FTTP is very likely.

The pressure is building on BT to release more detail about its roll-out plans, but one has to ask why it has taken so many years for the political machine to take notice.

While much of the rural broadband news is more about the fringes of towns, every county has its areas where everyone agrees they are rural and the latest places announced by Cheshire fit that description.