Category: Broadband

The more urban Ofcom Area 2 where lots of full-fibre competition was expected is showing 21.7% of premises with 2 or more options, but Area 3 which was expected to have less competition is still doing well with 18.5% of premises having 2 or more different FTTP networks available.

25 days after hitting the 65% full fibre coverage mark we are passing the 66% point for the UK and are on the way to reaching 85% FTTP coverage in August 2025.

The full-fibre roll-outs continue at a decent pace due to the fact that the market is not just a handful of players, but a broad market of 100+ different networks. If the pace can be maintained we could be looking at moving from just shy of 66% FTTP coverage to 85% in August 2025.

There was some surprise expressed at Connected North by if we recall correctly Brian Potterill of Ofcom at the amount of full-fibre competition happening in the Area 3 parts of the UK.

The UK full-fibre roll-outs are amazingly still running at a higher rate than the superfast roll-outs a decade ago and a lot of that is rather than just one provider in the form of Openreach we have a massively competitive market of over 100 different networks.

Openreach have reduced cable theft by 30% following use of invisible DNA marking technology from SelectaDNA.

Its taken 30 days, but another point of coverage has been added to the UK full-fibre footprint.

Time for our monthly summary of where the various nations and regions of the UK stand with regard to the full-fibre roll-outs. One observation to share is that while we are busier than ever tracking down the many FTTP footprints the overall roll-out pace does now seem to be slowing down.

Full-fibre can beat DSL broadband technologies on latency but when connections are busy things like gaming can still see lag make gaming annoying. A new Internet standard called L4S is set to change all that.

Take-up is underway for the Wessex Internet Project Gigabit contract covering parts of the New Forest as the first live customer has been announced.