Category: Broadband

The next wave of roll-outs for the Digital Scotland project have been announced, comprising of 39,000 homes and businesses spread across 13 local authority areas.

The Battle of Dolphinholme is underway, with the vampire death squid on one side and the plucky English underdog on the other (BT vs B4RN) to see who will be offering FTTP services first and who will win the take-up battle.

The new version of the RCBF which was due to end in March 2014 was announced back in December 2013, but the plans have been slightly firmed up now and mixed in with the announcement of a new Chief Executive at the BDUK.

The concept of a Gigabit City is an admirable one, but all too often grandiose schemes turn out to be little more than the monorail scheme from a Simpsons episode.

The Race to Infinity which was run some four years ago, is proving to be contentious as people in winning areas are complaining about coverage still.

The failed Digital Region project left large chunks of South Yorkshire in a broadband limbo, but there are signs that funding may be available to improve speeds.

With £250m of funding creamed off of the BBC Licence fee set to be spent on increasing superfast broadband coverage, the question is how will this be divided around the country.

Fibre GarDen will proceed with now continue with discussions to get the build programme started.

Wray village has been connected to B4RN allowing residents and businesses to connect to the gigabit fibre broadband network.

Christmas Day and Boxing Day are setting new records for online sales and broadband usage.