Category: Broadband

We warned ahead of Christmas that we had seen a slow down in the pace of the number of premises added to our Openreach full fibre tracking and today we share the figures for 12th December 2020 to 12th January 2021.

With no connections delivered yet via the new Gigabit as no contracts have been awarded it is difficult to complain about the process other than asking why it did not start building a year ago.

The 97% superfast broadband target was something of a soft ambition but now the Christmas decorations have been put away a summary of where things stand is worthwhile.

The latest UK broadband figures show full fibre availability running at 19.19% and with Virgin Media Gig1 added Gigabit services are available to 37.41% of UK premises.

With all parts of the UK in some form of lockdown now and the prospect of it lasting until February/March 2021 home schooling is high on the priority list.

Our final 2020 provider speed test results are now ready to be shared. These results are the perfect way to find out how your own speeds compare to others who on the same product.

The latest percentage point has taken longer to reach than the 37 days of last point increase at 49 days but this is still vastly improved compared to two years ago when it would take around 4 months for each point.

After a very long wait we now know that Airband, Truespeed and Wessex Internet are to roll-out FTTP to some 56,000 premises across Somerset and Devon.

No good news in the broadband world as MPs have cast doubt on the UK hitting the recently lowered 85% Gigabit target and apparently industry has no belief in the target being met either.

A little late this month with the November figures which can be put down to the work going on spotting FTTP around the UK. The top two places have swapped around with Hyperoptic now sitting at the top of the table.