Category: Broadband

Another day and a few more million invested in our broadband future, this time it is Essex County Council with a £24.6 million product to improve broadband across the county.

The Isle of Wight is either playing the tough negotiating game with BT or is struggling to handle the BDUK process and square the various rules about coverage.

Nottinghamshire County Council has signed on the dotted line with BT as part of a £20m project to get fibre based broadband (FTTC/FTTP) to 95% of premises in the county.

With the plans for Digital Britain failing dramatically if the newspaper stories are true it is good to see some smaller projects progressing.

Another county council has signed its BDUK project, and is aiming to get fibre based broadband to 95% of premises in the county by the end of 2016.

Residents and businesses in Oxfordshire now have some idea of where the counties project to deliver superfast broadband to 90% of premises will happen.

While many counties are still figuring out how much information to publish on its roll-out, Suffolk County Council appears to have adopted the old village church fund raising totaliser to show how things are progressing.

We warned you that the Urban Broadband Fund website would be up and running and it is alive and kicking and ready to do business. So if you run a business and are in a trial area head on over to find out more and see which providers can offer you a service.

After the recent National Audit Office report and Public Accounts Committee one could be forgiven for thinking that nothing was happening in the UK broadband scene but it seems that delivery is starting to progress with little input from the politicians.

Another county and a few more million to improve speeds, though Worcestershire does appear to be aiming for a mixture of FTTC and FTTP in its BDUK roll-out.