Category: Broadband

The Government is attempting to stimulate the take-up of truly fast broadband connections in the SME sector and a key part of that is the £150m of funding for vouchers in 22 cities across the UK. ICUK is one of the latest broadband providers to sign up to the scheme.

While the price is unlikely to appear to many residents of bath for the SME sector, the ability to order a symmetric Gigabit connection in Bath will make it easier to send and receive large digital media.

Alnmouth and Lesbury are the two areas of Northumberland that are the first ones to go live from the main BDUK project across the county.

Another ten areas of Lancashire have been named as going to see the fibre based rollout from the council project in the county.

The East Sussex superfast broadband project is progressing and the next areas to benefit have been announced with services going live in around six to nine months.

The PAC meeting on Monday gave a hint on the growth of the 44 projects to improve broadband across the UK, and now the DCMS has published more precise figures.

The fibre on demand service from Openreach has probably gained more coverage from its aspirational quality rather than the actual demand for the product due to its already high costs, but as of 1st May 2014 it is set to be even more expensive.

Are councils being driven by BT to overlap areas where alternative solutions might deliver or are councils just not listening to what operators are planning to do?

Worcestershire joins the rush of projects announcing the first communities set to benefit from the BDUK project operating in the area.

At last there is some good news for those living and working in cities that have to date being missed out by the commercial fibre roll-outs, as BT is to invest more money to allow a further 400,000 premises to have access to FTTC or FTTP.