Category: Broadband

Seven communities look set to benefit from further roll-out of fibre based services, mostly as part of the BDUK assisted County Council project.

Lancashire is a county bitterly divided over the broadband plans, with a war of words sometimes overshadowing the rate of improvement in the county.

The jibe directed at David Cameron by Angela Merkel is interesting as Germany may have plans, but it is not clear if the project has started to roll-out yet, as funding is still being discussed.

While the BDUK projects are a total disaster for those that will not benefit, they are starting to deliver in larger volumes as time progresses and East Sussex is the next area to talk about its roll-out.

The UK broadband scene can often get heated, and while some elements of the technology are hard to map and predict at times the claims made by various parties are difficult to accept.

After the outrage and grilling of BT by the PAC one expects that anything approved by the PAC to be clear and concise but the latest broadband map for Cumbria is barely different to any other part of the UK.

We have been working on analysis of cabinet based data for year or so but have never managed to get enough accurate information to give a large regional analysis but the Royal Society of Edinburgh has dared to publish results with a swathe of caveats.

North Yorkshire was one of the original BDUK pilot projects and is considering how best to use the extra £4.6m as part of the 2015-2017 broadband funding.

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.