Category: Broadband

The availability of full fibre combined with DOCSIS 3.1 cable broadband reached the magical milestone of 85% on 1st October and with roll-outs continuing we are now up at 85.20% availability.

The gold standard for broadband technology that is full fibre is now available to some 71% of UK homes and businesses.

DSIT has published the evaluation of its Fibre in Water Project looking at how water pipes could be used to bring broadband services to hard to reach areas.

The bad news is that the full fibre roll-outs do appear to be slowing down. This is a combination of less providers actively rolling out and the reality that once you have the vast majority of a country covered lots more overbuild takes place.

OTS is now three weeks old and on 2nd October some 3,672 switch orders completed but there are still questions around the difficulties of the gaining provider figuring out who the losing provider is.

The latest interview in the series of chats with people from the broadband industry by Richard Tang of Zen Internet is with Katie Milligan the Chief Commercial Office at Openreach.

Our monthly update on the Ofcom Area 2 and 3 is now available for September. Showing while full fibre roll-outs are perhaps slightly slower than the peak we are still seeing a good spread across the UK, particularly now multiple Project Gigabit contracts are in the delivery phase.

Quickline and DSIT have announced that over 4,500 premises in rural Yorkshire are now able to receive gigabit broadband services following rollout by the company backed by government support.

The Welsh government has invested nearly £12m in broadband to delivery high speed connections to businesses and communities across Wales.

The One Touch Switching system has been live now for a week, and not all switches are faster than before the system we are sure people are enjoying the easier switching.