Category: Broadband

It is time for the next FTTH Council Europe conference and that is underway, but a surprise was to find the council welcoming a recent UK broadband initiative.

The £410m project to improve broadband speeds across Scotland has at last started to deliver with the first cabinet going live in Buckie.

The noble but ultimately flawed Digital Region scheme is getting closer to an eventual closure, as providers start to mention closure dates.

The latest financial results show that while its cable broadband user base is growing it is not growing as fast as other providers who are now offering superfast services.

Northern Ireland may be ahead of the curve with superfast broadband available to 95% of premises, but efforts continue to push this closer to 100% by 2015.

Holding a fibre rich broadband service launch in a farm shop is sure to bring out all the puns about a fibre rich diet, so we will just say that Wansdyke Telecom has apparently got its first two properties up and running.

The first BDUK funded cabinet in Oxfordshire went live in December and the next exchange areas to benefit have been announced in a newsletter.

The first cabinet in the joint Durham project went live in December 2013 and now the project is expecting the first phase to be completed ahead of schedule.

Good news for some areas of North Lincolnshire that are going to get access to superfast broadband for the first time, but the roll-out announcement contradicts the information the council has released.

Vodafone has shifted in and out of the fixed line broadband world, but rumours are suggesting we seem them in the arena in the next year.