Category: Broadband

An interim set of financial results from BT Group, giving the bare minimum but the good news is the FTTP roll-outs continue and take-up is 34%.

Some parts of Wales such as Merthyr Tydfil have a fairly good split between rural and urban full-fibre coverage but others such as Pembrokeshire has distinct slant towards urban full-fibre availability at 87% versus just 34% in rural areas.

Just 13 days to jump from 61% to 62% coverage, showing that while some providers are pausing roll-outs others are still building at pace.

The longest month of the year is almost over and we are seeing the first signs of the Openreach full-fibre roll-out speeding up.

While we are seeing lots of better and faster broadband being built, that race is creating increased levels of digital inequality and an extensive analysis by Point Topic highlights how much pricing and service availability varies across the UK.

The widely unpopular annual price rise formula of inflation plus a set percentage affecting both in and out of contract customers will be a known quantity once the CPI and RPI figures are published on Wednesday morning.

Full fibre continues to be rolled out and another several hundred thousand properties are now known to have full-fibre available compared to 31 days ago.

The UK 11.8% Gigabit coverage to 80.05% Gigabit coverage in four years, due to the large amounts of full-fibre built in combination with the Virgin Media O2 DOCSIS 3.1 roll-out.

The holiday season is over and we look at the changes in broadband availability across the UK and its nations and regions. The last 12 months saw superfast coverage increase from 97.4% to 98.4% with full-fibre showing the biggest change jumping from 46.89% to 60.61% when looking at the overall UK figures.

We reported on reaching the 60% milestone for residential full-fibre ten days ago, now the combined figure for residential and business premises has reached 60%.