Category: Broadband

The Internet Services Industry awards (The ISPAs) have been announced at a black tie cermony this evening. We have the winners for you.

An Openreach commissioned report states that its full fibre broadband roll out could add £66bn to the UK economy by 2029.

For the vast majority of the public the PSTN switch off is nothing to worry about, but local authorities have additional responsibilities and how they manage the migration from analogue voice lines to IP based voice over broadband or mobile connectivity will have an impact beyond the obvious switchboard at the council offices.

Derbyshire now has two providers available for the Project Gigabit Voucher Scheme after it was relaunched in the area.

The reliance on copper in the last mile of connectivity to properties across the UK continues to decline and our tracking of the roll-outs shows 72% of premises can now order a full fibre service and ditch copper.

The push to 85% Gigabit connectivity may be in the past, but the roll outs have not stopped just yet. The question now is about how much higher will coverage go as networks seem to be overlapping each other more and more.

Updated analysis on budget and implications for broadband

We will try and keep track of what is being said in the budget related to broadband - if anything.

Now the UK has hit and passed the 85% Gigabit availability mark, we publish our latest summary of the two markets that Ofcom has divided the UK broadband market into, and the digital divide that exists between them.

Rural MPs have written to the government about Project Gigabit broadband funding and fear that it could be reallocated from rural areas to urban not-spots.