Category: Broadband

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.

The act of being the first is a significant milestone for each BDUK project, as it helps to show to those waiting and hoping to benefit that the project has really moved from planning to the build phase.

Broadband projects are not just for Christmas, and the Fibre Garden project has been three years in the making but has reached a memorandum of understanding with a supplier to build and deliver the network, and the share offer to fund the project is nearing its closure date.

The pace of the BDUK roll-outs is building and the DCMS has dubbed Wednesday 18th December Super Switch on Day as it sees cabinets serving some 5,000 premises go live.