Category: Broadband

Three exchanges on the Isle of Wight are earmarked for FTTC from Openreach in 2012, but the island is to invest to provide a superfast network to everyone on the island.

Lincolnshire County Council is adding £10m to the money allocated by the BDUK to improve broadband in the County.

Only 6 weeks after the emergence of plans to bring fibre to the premises to every property on Jersey, we are now seeing the Treasurer of the States approving a £10m investment and a dividend reduction to fund the network improvements.

Ynys Môn looks set to be benefit from extra work carried out on an existing wireless antenna to improve coverage.

Nottinghamshire County Council is in the process of securing matched funding from the various district councils, with the aim of improving broadband for the poor served areas in the County.

The Countryside Alliance has highlighted concerns it has over the deployment of actual connections in the BDUK trial areas.

Worcestershire was allocated £3.3m of BDUK funding, and is looking to add another £8.5m of its own money to meet the goals of superfast for 90%, and 2 Mbps for all by 2015.

B4RN may be small, but the communities it is planning to serve are small too, and under BDUK plans are likely to at best receive a fixed wireless broadband service.

The capitals of the four nations making up the UK will see some funding to help ensure ubiquitous superfast broadband for small businesses, and a competition will see a further six cities receive part of the £100m announced by the Chancellor.

Chancellor statements for the last few years have often covered broadband in various ways, and today is no exception, though the detail is very sparse.