Category: Broadband

The need for good broadband has been central to many peoples house hunting for some time, but proof it is becoming standard practice is now available as RightMove make broadband speeds a standard feature of their listings.

The Government has talked a good rural broadband game for some years, but it is only with the shift from 90% superfast planning to 95% with superfast that rural areas are the main target, but it appears even then that some cities are to benefit.

As part of the announcements from the latest funding split Maria Miller MP in charge at the DCMS has declared that she wants Britain to be one of the best countries for broadband.

We have hunted high and low and cannot see a central DCMS source for the allocations, but Computer Weekly somehow has found a copy, either official or on a USB stick dropped on the tube.

While the DCMS sticks to the line that the current BDUK projects are improving rural broadband it is announcing how the next tranche of money will be split out across the UK.

A community meeting that will be attended by the BT Scotland director for Orton, Moray is unlikely to dare to point out the obvious, that an exchange with just 71 broadband customers is probably in the final 5%, and not likely to see improvements until 2017 or later.

Another council has announced details for the first areas to benefit from the council, BDUK, ERDF and BT project to improve broadband speeds in the area.

After a turbulent few years EE has now shown four quarters of growth in its fixed line broadband customer base, while the growth is small it is at least still growth.

It is probably not really news that the UK has less than 1% availability of FTTH as most people reading this will be all too aware, but it still needs talking about so that we look back in the future and point out our mistake.

It is not just the blogosphere where people are complaining about the BDUK projects, but even at the County Council level people are not agreeing on the way forward.