Category: Broadband

The two Ofcom market areas where Area 2 is broadly the urban parts of the UK and Area 3 is rural UK both still have decent amounts of full-fibre appearing.

The full-fibre roll-outs and the use of poles in areas that otherwise had underground infrastructure previously is becoming an issue so we are looking at a street with three different broadband options and poles.

Do you know your bushell and cubit or are you more up to speed on your bits, bytes, superfast and ultrafast? A new survey suggests there is still lots of learning opportunities in the broadband world.

The Gigabit broadband vouchers are worth up to £4,500 for homes and business premises in selected parts of England. The scheme was due run out in March 2025, but it has now been extended.

Another few hundred thousand premises can now get full-fibre taking the UK 64.01% full-fibre coverage. This latest point of coverage has taken 27 days to be found and analysed.

The pace at which the full-fibre counter is increasing has slow down a bit but still lots of full-fibre being rolled out, unfortunately as footprints get larger we see more overlap happening.

Virgin Media has published a blog that attempts to help people, but The Mirror has run with a version saying test your upload with your firewall off. While this is something to try if you know the risks, as a blanket statement, this is dangerous advice.

We are seeing reports of a recent firmware update to Virgin Media Hub 5 routers causing 2.5Gbps ports to drop to 1Gbps.

Area 3 which Ofcom expects to be the part of the UK with less competition and where the vast majority of Project Gigabit contracts will deliver caught Area 2 up this month with a bigger proportion of the Gigabit roll-outs.

£60 million of funding has been awarded to Quickline to deliver Gigabit capable services to 28,000 premises in West Yorkshire and parts of North Yorkshire.