Category: Broadband

Some areas see councils and residents objecting to FTTC installs, but Tendring District Council appears to be working with BT to try and ensure as widespread coverage as possible.

People often argue what counts as Superfast Broadband but we are sure a 1 Gbps service at £50 a month does count.

Sky has published its Q1 financial report for 2011/2012 which reveals that fully unbundled customer numbers continue to grow, with 58% of its LLU customers using a fully unbundled solution.

While many think Central London may be the place to live to get fast broadband, roll-outs by both Openreach and Virgin Media mean Derry City on the fringes of Europe has services of up to 40Mbps and up to 100Mbps available.

It was over a year ago that a vision of 30 Mbps being available to all homes in Europe was set out by the European Commission. Now the actual amount of money available to do this is known at some £8 billion.

The 2015 Universal Service Commitment of 2 Mbps, is likely to be as outdated as sub half meg services are today by the time it is fully implemented, but Arqiva still considers it a reasonable service level.

BT Openreach will be launching an early deployment of their FTTP broadband service offering 110Mbps from the end of October.

Europe will invest €9.2 billion in broadband across the continent to try and drive next-generation broadband growth. The investment it hopes will spur further investment of 100 billion euro's, and could drive Europe towards 1 trillion euro's of GDP growth over 10 years.

To date the proposed Fujitsu fibre network has been a pipe dream, but roll-out is starting in the Wirral area.

Some councils appear to be gearing up to figure out where to spend money allocated to them under the BDUK funding, and part of this is asking the businesses and people what the current state of play is.