Category: Broadband

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.

The project to improve broadband speeds in Cumbria has just one month after being given the green light by the EU has published a rough and ready roll-out plan.

The Superfast Cornwall project that started deploying before any of the BDUK projects is paving the way in terms of coverage, with the project passing a significant milestone on the way to a planned target of 95% fibre based coverage.

Just a day or two after much political fighting over leaks from a National Audit Office report not due till July, the EU is throwing out statistics showing the UK is doing rather well compared to the other major European countries.