Category: Broadband

The battle lines in the Lancashire broadband battle are getting more competitive as another 15 areas are announced as getting improvements from the County Council and BT project.

Hyperoptic is starting to see some competition in the urban Gigabit environment, suggesting that the commercial market is not totally dead just yet.

The voucher scheme to help businesses upgrade their broadband connections to something better and more suited to the 21st century digital economy is progressing with Portsmouth issuing its first voucher.

It is often overlooked but Openreach is still the largest FTTP provider in the UK, and with new deployments in Birmingham has added another 800 or so premises passed.

The situation at Openreach since its creation when it thinned out the ranks and has subsequently had to employ third party contractors is not always a pretty one, but there are suggests that Kelly engineers may be making chargeable calls on lines they are working on.

A new off-shoot from B4RN looks set to become another debating point as parts of the new Hyperfast B4YS are already in line for BDUK funded cabinets.

The Post Office is a popular choice for cheap line rental, but this is an element that is going up in price as of 14th April, but their broadband is decreasing in price.

Almost every day seems to bring a couple of updates on the 44 local authority projects across the UK, and Northamptonshire is one of the latest.

The commercial roll-out of FTTC is coming to an end, and as with other counties the BDUK scheme is starting to ramp up, and the first two areas have now been announced.

Telford is often at the top or close to the top of speed charts in the UK due to the high availability of Virgin Media cable and FTTC services in the local authority area, but with extra funding now allocated it seems the council is willing to match fund it.