Category: Broadband

Following on from Salisbury the second PSTN switch off location has had a stop sell notice placed for the old copper based products.

40% of UK premises now have the option of access to an FTTP connection or Virgin Media DOCSIS 3.1 connection.

Being online and actually able to do things like shopping has been critical in the last year so the latest figures from Ofcom showing the digital divide has narrowed is very welcome.

The benefits of full fibre may seem obvious to those who have been building it for years, but the scale of the benefits from much higher coverage than today does need restating.

East Grinstead is one of many towns and villages Openreach is building to and after several months of relative inactivity the roll-out has numerous patches of live FTTP.

Virgin Media and its Gig1 product tops the speed test table for March 2021 and that is a service that is not full fibre based.

Build it and they will come is the dream of many projects and while people are signing up for full fibre the pace is very like the 2010 to 2012 era for partial fibre.

The UK full fibre roll-outs continue and that latest point of coverage has been added in just 35 days.

The UK full fibre roll-outs continue with the UK now at 21.58% FTTP coverage and around 7% of all the speed tests we see are using an FTTP connection.

The £5 billion Project Gigabit has been fleshed out with some more info on the first areas to benefit and the Gigabit voucher scheme survives.