Category: Broadband

One of the key aspects for getting a broadband plan approved, is demonstrating that an area has expressed a need for better broadband, hence all the demand surveys by local authorities. Nottinghamshire is the latest to run their survey.

The Rural Community Broadband Fund is starting to pay dividends, with Cotswold Broadband looking to utilise funding to provide fibre services to some 9,000 properties in the Chipping Norton area.

The ASA have ruled that broadband providers will need to include phone line rental prices alongside bundle pricing in adverts.

The Country Land and Business Association has issued a warning that it thinks the UK is going to miss the governments broadband speeds deadline of May 2015.

While many millions are waiting on fibre roll-outs to their areas, there are some that cannot wait for faster speeds to arrive, or know they are so remote that better services are unlikely, this is where in the UK the market for satellite services steps in.

To date Openreach FTTP has had limited availability, hopefully in the next 12 months that will change, as Openreach has now fully launched the service.

Given the rhetoric of 2009 to 2011 about Digital Britain, it is surprising that the population is being as patient as it is about the speed of service delivery from the BDUK project.

A small percentage of lines connected to telephone exchanges are so close they don't have a cabinet, or may be further away but still not served by a cabinet, meaning the FTTC heavy superfast roll-out by Openreach is unavailable. Further progress to a solution appears to be taking place now.

Thinkbroadband has launched a broadband factsheet, a quarterly information pack full of the latest broadband statistics both from government sources and independent research organisations, represented in an easy-to-understand graphical format.

Ofcom has issued its next update on the level of complaints for broadband, telephone and other services.