Category: Broadband

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.

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.