Category: Broadband

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%.

Eric Malcomson has been awarded an MBE for services to the community in Tove Valley and

For those that are not queuing in their car to get to a retail park for the sales we have the monthly update on how full-fibre and Gigabit services are looking with regards to Ofcom area 2 and area 3.

Behind todays window on the advent calendar is the news that our tracking of the busy alt-net FTTP networks shows they are available to 30.02% of properties in the UK.

Its not clear what serious incidents have led to the Ofcom and the major providers being locked in a room in Whitehall until a new charter was agreed but we have some new undetakings over the voice over broadband.

If it was not illegal to request a duel we think Community Fibre could be tempted to, based on their reaction to further delays in One Touch Switching.

Another Project Gigabit contract has been awarded, the winner being Connect Fibre with a £33 million contract to bring a Gigabit capable service to 17,000 homes and businesses in rural Derbyshire.