Category: Broadband

Surrey is the latest local authority to announce its BDUK project contract winner, and from a short list of three, BT was chosen.

While the BDUK does not require an A-list celeb, the public perception of the project might improve if its CEO was to speak more, and TotalTelecom reports from a Westminster eForum.

The £20m of funding for superfast broadband in rural areas is starting to become visible in terms of projects.

Part of the Upper Eden project in Cumbria looks set to send out its invitiation to tender, to deliver a fibre service to properties over a 10 square mile area.

Vispa is expanding its wireless service to increase the coverage by a further 4,000 homes.

The EE service appears to have soft launched because of an agreement to allow negotiations between providers to take place over the early 4G roll-out.

Sixteen cities representing a third of the UK population will have access to 4G from EE by the end of 2012.

With a footprint that covers some 3.5% of the UK population, South Yorkshires Digital Region project should be a showcase for other local authorities, but delays and increased simply act to discourage more sub-loop unbundling.

The announcements by Google relating to its fibre deployment were almost universally praised, but as time progresses the reality of roll-out looks very like the have and have-not problems we have in the UK.

The super connected cities plans continues, and cities are competing to be one of ten sharing £50m, after ten larger cities got access to a £100m fund.