Category: Broadband

The race to build FTTP continues and the next point of coverage has taken 25 days to find.

With the pace of change in the technology world but techUK attempts to look at what has changed and in particular what barriers Government needs to if the UK is to reach its ambitions for FTTP and 5G coverage.

The latest Ofcom Connected report is out so time to see how our work on tracking the full fibre roll-outs stands up to scrutiny.

The summer is over and we may be seeing a slow down in FTTP roll-outs, whether that is the end of the summer building season or just us having caught up to more of the roll-outs only time will tell.

Thirteen years ago the mean download speed seen in the UK was just 3.3. Mbps and is now vastly increased at 95 Mbps. We look at how the download and upload speeds have changed in those thirteen years.

Project Gigabit is meant to be spending some £1.2 billion to build Gigabit capable services in areas where commercial operators fear to tread and we are now ready to track what effect this money will have.

New homes already far outstrip the rest of the UK housing stock for availability of Gigabit and full fibre connectivity but changes to the Building Regulations 2010 aim to push the current 96% to something closer to 100%.

Nineteen days after the UK broke the 40% barrier we can announce that the next point of coverage has been added and there is a more to come.

The improvements to the UK broadband scene continue and the binary nature of full fibre means those not covered are only going to get more annoyed as the FTTP coverage continues to grow.

We were close to 40% when the 70% premises passed by Gigabit was announced, but we have now broken the 40% barrier for full fibre networks in the UK.