Category: Broadband

Cabinets in Grafham and elsewhere across Cambridgeshire are going live today with appropriate fanfare, bringing fibre based broadband to areas that otherwise would have had to wait many years.

While some will be pushing the negative always, there is something positive from the final release of a copy of the Welsh BDUK contract, we now know what the precise wording over speeds required to be delivered.

The move towards self-install FTTC is getting closer, and updates to the information given out by the BT Wholesale checker will most likely be part of the puzzle to ensure people get reasonable speeds.

The good people of Staffordshire can now squint at a map to see which colour their property is in, telling them whether they are in the 97% or the 3%.

Maybe in a hundred ears they will look back and talk about how the Internet revolution started in rural Lancashire and they will have upgraded the optics on the B4rn network to 100 Terrabit devices.

While in theory full fibre connectivity which is what you'd expect at any decent sized college should be very reliable there is a plan to fund building of diverse connections to colleges.

Wales has been the slowest collective part of the UK for some time and with its love of small grant schemes is a different picture to much of the UK. Alas the new grant rules are not proving popular.

INCA who exist to help a patchwork quilt of providers emerge in the rural broadband landscape has issued a statement over the recent demise of two RCBF projects.

TalkTalk for sometime has been the sole major provider with network level parental controls, but Sky has now enabled the system for its customers with customers able to control the filtering level via their web based account.

The question is, has the BDUK spending woken competitors up, or would the increase in fibre roll-outs have happened anyway?