Category: Broadband

We have extended the information that showed basic OMR status on our broadband maps to now show the BDUK contract status data.

After the big data drop for all addresses across England and Wales and what the OMR status BDUK has now released additional data that gives some idea of if Gigabit broadband is available now or whether on the way i.e. more detail than the simple OMR Grey status.

As part of the Swansea Bay City Deal which has a £25 million digital infrastructure programme the search is underway for a partner to deliver broadband fit for the IoT future.

Over half a million premises have been added to the Openreach FTTP footprint in the last month, taking the footprint we have mapped to 17.4 million premises.

Our broadband maps have had the Scottish OMR data added to them, so that Project Gigabit status for every address is visible across Great Britain.

The very latest summary of where the UK and its constituent regions stand with regards to broadband availability has been published. Bad news for the South West region as they've now slipped to be the least Gigabit covered region of the UK.

Its unfortunate but a mutual agreement has been reached between Freedom Fibre and BDUK to terminate the contract that was in place to rollout full fibre to 15,000 premises across Cheshire.

There are signs on spring but time to look back at how the broadband picture changed from January to February in relation to the Ofcom competition areas.

The full fibre rollouts continue and while a lot of overbuild is going on the footprint is still expanding and could reach 95% FTTP coverage in another two years.

A Project Gigabit contract bringing broadband to around 11,000 premises across the Scottish Borders and East Lothian has been announced. These form part of a £26m contract awarded to GoFibre by the Scottish Government.