Category: Broadband

It has taken 20 days to climb from 45% to 46% in our tracking of the many full fibre roll-outs.

More FTTP is on its way to South West and Mid Cornwall with the latest contracts worth £36m under the Project Gigabit going to Wildanet.

Those living and working in Sydenham Damerel now have access to FTTP after raising tens of thousands of pounds combined with help from West Devon council.

We are a week into 2023 and that means we are publishing the final set of coverage data from 2022, which saw the UK go from full fibre coverage of 44.32% on 7/12/22 to 45.38% on the morning of 7/1/23.

With the New Year we have been able to analyse the speed test data from Q4 2022 and can now see that FTTC has joined ADSL as a declining broadband technology.

While the Christmas break delayed reaching the next percentage point increase in FTTP coverage by a few days we got there before the end of 2022.

The Ofcom Connected Nations report which uses address level data supplied by network operators was reporting 12.4 million premises passed by full fibre, setting a record of growth of 14 points in the 12 months prior to September 2022.

Another month with lots of full fibre being built, 1.51 points of coverage added in the 30 days since 7th November and if providers had worked harder to avoid overbuild it could have been a 2.1 increase.

The broadband world is so bereft of meaningful changes that the same PR is recycled every year with a slight twist.

Project Gigabit continues to benefit mostly from the commercial full fibre roll-outs and the once areas like Cumbria gets 60,000 premises delivered by Fibrus the £1.2 billion scheme will hopefully accelerate even more.