Category: Broadband

Bath and North East Somerset has been part of the Connecting Devon and Somerset project since January 2013, and while that is progressing the council is looking to stimulate ultrafast access too.

Now either the councils have been waiting for broadband to hit the headlines, or they have been steadily working to colour in the county maps. Essex is the latest to release an indicative map.

Amongst the shouting over rural broadband the work to try and improve the speeds across the UK continues, and Leicestershire County Council has released its first map showing the phases for 2016 and 2018.

Underriver is just 20 demand registrations short of the point where Gigaclear will start construction work on the FTTP project.

The improvements to telecoms infrastructure in the UK is not confined to fixed line, though you could easily gain that idea, today sees the first mast enabled as part of the £150m Mobile Infrastructure Programme announced.

The DCMS which has been the target of criticism from the Public Accounts Committee is keen to emphasis the progress for its spending to improve broadband in the final third of the UK.

Digital Britain already exists if you look at how much we all spend on online with bargain chasing, and slowly the next phase of making it faster to do things online is progressing.

We may be a day or two behind on this link, but its still worth pushing out the information so people can go look for themselves.

The plan to roll-out FTTH to some 93% of Australian homes and businesses by 2021 is falling apart rapidly as the change to a FTTC based architecture with a new Government is almost certain.

We covered this originally back in July, but it seems two months later we are still stuck in the BDUK loop.