Category: Broadband

Anyone with an ounce of sense will agree that FTTH/P is the connectivity medium for the future, the only real question is at what point does it actually provide an economic benefit to make it worth the investment and disruption to roll-out.

While the impression gained from most broadband coverage is that BT has gained every pound of subsidy over the last ten years, the reality is a bit more diverse than the headlines. Thus it should be a total shock that Dorset appears to be supporting a fixed wireless solutions for the hardest to reach areas.

Residents and businesses in Dorset can now start to look forward to seeing their BDUK project start deliver as the first physical work is starting after the initial surveying period.

Northern Ireland is ahead of the curve on superfast broadband having rolled out FTTC based services to more premises than any other region in the UK, but still there are people with poor speeds complaining.

The regional cable broadband provider SmallWorld has been swallowed into Virgin Media and should give customers a wider range of harder and broadband speeds.

Signing an NDA is something people working in a commercial world will be well used to and one presumes that a good few council and government contracts include clauses about elements of contracts too. It seems though that there may be some confusion over the extent of the NDA in Cornwall and Somerset broadband project.

While Digital Region may only have had 3,000 customers across all the retailers using their network, there does seem to be a bit of confusion arising from how they can switch to other providers or not.

The rush of areas deploying their first live fibre based broadband cabinets continues as Solihull, Coventry and Warwickshire has announced the first areas to benefit.

Another 4,175 premises are now able to order a FTTC based service as the first 14 cabinets in Northamptonshire go live.

The BDUK project for Devon and Somerset is the largest in England with a contract value of £94m and will by early summer have reached some 70,000 premises.