Category: Broadband

HS2 is highlighting that thousands of premises have the potential to benefit from the train line being built by broadband network operators renting spare capacity from the trackside comms network.

A busy month with lots of mapping for the 100+ different full fibre networks across the UK and we believe the UK is just seven weeks away from hitting the 85% Gigabit coverage milestone.

The first batch of eleven categories have had their shortlists announced by ISPA and the remaining 6 categories will be announced on another date.

Our tracking of the Virgin Media DOCSIS and the 100 plus different full fibre networks means we are now seeing 84.01% of UK premises with the ability to order a Gigabit or faster service.

A busy month for full fibre additions, driven by a busy month for plotting new additions to the Openreach full-fibre roll-out, but the work of nexfibre and CityFibre along with a hundred other full fibre networks are all contributors to the transformation of the UK from a copper economy to a full fibre one.

A week on from a drunk driver hitting a telephone pole in Felsham, Suffolk residents are still without broadband or landline service. A motorcyclist also was sent to hospital after they hit the pole the drunk driver had crashed into.

BT has today announced that its broadband traffic was 30x the normal average traffic it would expect during the Euro 2024 matches with fans consuming over 11,000 TB of data watching England and Scotland matches and over 11.5 million homes across the UK streaming at least one home nationa match during the event, over BT's network.

Our tracking of the over 100 full fibre roll-outs now is showing 68% of UK premises can order a service and almost 22% of properties have a choice of two different physical FTTP networks.

The new Government is bringing back mandatory housing targets that should boost the construction industry with the aim of 300,000 new homes a year for five years. We have extended new build data analysis to cover the last twenty years, rather than its usual six.

It's exactly a month since we saw the UK hit the 67% full-fibre mark and try as we may we've not been able to reach 68% in the usual 3 to 4 weeks. This seems to be a result of overlapping roll-outs, and pauses while market consolidation takes place.