Category: Broadband

Residents of a small village in Wales on the end of 6 or 7 kilometres of copper cable used to have their broadband wiped out everyday and Openreach traced the fault to an old television set.

Our coverage database has seen some 153,767 extra premises where Openreach FTTP is available added since 12th August and almost half a million premises in the last 3 months.

While the roll-outs of superfast broadband continue in very small amounts, the big change each month continues to be the amount of full fibre rolled out.

Virgin Media and its 1104 Mbps Gig1 product is sat at the top of the speed test table for the first time.

Another 1 percent point increase and this latest jump from 15% to 16% has taken 43 days, which is five days faster than the jump from 14% to 15%.

Our quarterly summary of what is available to new build homes reveals that 2020 does appear to show an improvement in the amount of full fibre available by default, but we are still 13% short of the magic 100% target.

While the situation nationally is fairly stable with regards to waiting lists i.e. not able to order VDSL2 even though a cabinet is present there are lots of regional variations.

A record month for FTTP additions in our tracking of what Openreach is building and its not just a small just but an extra 32,000 premises on top of previous month.

Okehampton is one of the original 13 Fibre village areas announced in Autumn 2019 and the build has hit the 75% mark, both in terms of Openreach and our tracking.

The Government has announced a Gigabit milestone has been reached, of 0.5 million premises now have access to gigabit connectivity. We look into the figures and whether the vouchers are something you should consider.