Category: Broadband

Full Fibre is edging towards being more popular than ADSL/ADSL2+ in our what we see from public speed tests.

Our tracking of the UK position around FTTP updates every day and with the accelerated pace we've been finding services in the last few months the major milestones of 50% and 99.9% coverage are looking closer than previously thought.

The money the Government intends to bridge the gap between commercial Gigabit roll-outs and its 85% remains at £1.2 billion.

Back in June the urban areas of England and Wales had 43.58% Gigabit availability which has risen to 64.86% but the increase in rural areas was only an extra 6.61 percentage points.

Our analysis of the UK broadband market and how the various packages are peforming for the public in September 2021 shows Virgin Media leading the pack in its regular battle with the various full fibre services.

ISPA has revealed the three finalists in its Internet Hero category and they are Rory-Cellan Jones, Telecoms Infrastructure Project Team and Helen Milner OBE.

The part of Project Gigabit that has delivered so far is the connecting of public buildings such as schools but at a cost of around £26,000 for each one if our assumptions on the maths are correct.

Another day and another record, it has taken just 4 weeks for the next percentage point rise in FTTP compared to the usual 6 to 7 weeks.

A busy month for increased availability of Gigabit services but the pace of FTTP roll-outs are helping to avoid this being just a tick box exercise.

Switching between different physical broadband networks is set to be easier in 19 months time as Ofcom launches a new One Touch Switch system.