Category: Broadband

The Gigabit roll-outs driven now by full-fibre being built is still pushing coverage levels higher with the more urban area 2 now with 91% Gigabit coverage. The more rural area 3 where less competition was expected is lagging at around 65%.

nexfibre is making the point in a new report that if we take progress in full-fibre roll-outs for granted, there is a real risk of the pace significantly dropping. Their report also suggests that for every £1 invested in broadband, this could return £9.50 to the UK economy.

In its latest report released today by our partner Point Topic shows the UK broadband market has returned to a slight level of growth. The report shows that in the first quarter of this year, the broadband market saw a small increase against the previous quarter, reaching 28.90m connections, aftwe a decline in the previous quarter.

Combined Authorities and Combined County Authorities are growing in number with the latest one being North East made up from the Durham, Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne, North Tyneside, Northumberland, South Tyneside and Sunderland councils.

The Labour Party aims to keep existing gigabit broadband targets for 2030 and also plans for there to be national 5G coverage by this date

Growing Mid Wales has launched a mobile mapping project to track areas of poor mobile phone signal Powys and Ceredigion using bin lorries.

Our regular 7th of the month summary of what the broadband coverage levels around the UK regions is like and how much has changed in the month is now available.

The full-fibre roll-outs are perhaps just past their peak for the overall volume delivered as some networks scale back build. We've gone from 66% availability to 67% in 29 days so a little slower than recent additional points but still a lot higher then 4 or 5 years ago.

Alex Bloor, General Manager of AAISP struggled to get decent Internet when he moved into a new-build property, so he set up his own microwave link to go from 15Mbps to 150Mbps.

The 2024 General Election has a large number of boundary changes and since the Election was announced we've been putting the puzzle pieces together to update our broadband maps.