Category: Broadband

North Yorkshire was the area of the UK to announce the first cabinets deployed via a BDUK project and appears to be racing ahead with many thousands of homes now able to order a fibre service.

Another piece of the broadband puzzle that is the UK, where some say we are doomed and others are much more cheery is falling into place as another BDUK project goes to BT and improved services should appear for people.

EU consumers on average receive only 74% of the advertised headline speeds.

Love or hate it, it appears the BDUK is set to continue to run for another couple of years as £250m of spending between 2015 and 2017 has been announced with the aim to extend superfast coverage to 95% of the UK.

Vectoring is getting some people very excited, but a lack of real world deployments and reports from real users as oppossed to just a handful of trial users seems to be the problem.

Have Virgin Media and BT forced the hand of the chancellor to change the direction for the super-connected cities schemes or were they doomed from the start?

Virgin Media made its last significant change to its traffic management policy back in April and this has been updated with the reduction in speeds for upload traffic now being more generous.

BT has tucked another BDUK project under its belt with the signing of the contract that covers Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire.

It is not totally clear, but Broadway Partners appears to have the backing of a Swedish operator to help roll-out full fibre to the home services.

BT have announced that Ian Livingston is to leave the company to take a role in the government and Gavin Patterson, current chief executive of BT Retail, will fill the position from September.