Category: Broadband

Alas we missed our December update due to it falling in that week when all track of space and time is lost. It is looking likely that in the next 4 weeks Ofcom Area 2 will hit 85% Gigabit coverage.

London is ahead of the curve on the full fibre roll-outs due in part to the amount of wayleave agreements in place between operators and various London Boroughs.

The massive roll-outs of full fibre are not all re-using Openreach ducts and poles, some are digging their own cabling/ducting in pavements and Ripon has some examples of upsetting future customers.

We have written a guide that may keep you online in the event of a power cut, often with just a £10 cable or two.

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.