Category: Broadband
Point Topic highlights inequality of entry level broadband pricing in England and Wales
Point Topic has published a map for England and Wales showing how broadband pricing varies between £11.75/m to £39.99/m for the entry level package available in different areas.
January 2021 update on Openreach full fibre roll-out progress
The last 31 days has seen the Openreach FTTP footprint grow to 6,028,369 premises based on what we have found.
December 2021 update on broadband availability across the UK, nations and regions
The latest broadband figures from our model of what is and is not available across the UK shows full fibre is available to some 9.45 million premises and 950,000 have a choice of two different FTTP networks.
Electricity price rises could dent full fibre ambitions
With the likelihood that the gas and electricity price caps will rise substantially in February it seems likely that many broadband users will hunker down and search out the cheapest deals rather and stick with older slower but marginally cheaper broadband packages.
UK hits 30% full fibre coverage with an early Christmas
While we don't think Santa delivers broadband we are sure some will have added it to their list for Santa to bring. The good news though is that UK FTTP footprint continues to grow.
Why thinkbroadband says UK has 65% Gigabit coverage but Ofcom says 47%
The latest Ofcom Connected Nations report has been published and for those not used to how it works will be wondering why there is such a big difference in the figures.
65.02% of UK now has one or more Gigabit broadband option
Now the big Virgin Media DOCSI3 3.1 switch-on is complete phase one of the Gigabit roll-outs are over and the 2025 target of 85% coverage is going to take four or more years to reach.
November 2021 update on broadband availability across the UK, nations and regions
Our monthly round up of the broadband picture across the nations and regions that make up for UK is now available with the UK full fibre coverage standing at 29.46%.
UK blasts past 29% full fibre coverage figure
The UK has gone from 28.01% full fibre availability to 29.24% in just 27 days.
Broadband Provider package speeds in October 2021
The nights are dark and cold but still time to look back to a couple of weeks ago and what speeds we were saying on the many broadband packages sold in the UK.