Category: Broadband

CityFibre who are rolling out full fibre in a number of locations claims its roll-out in Peterborough has reached half of the city.

BT boss Philip Jansen has been warning MPs that the 2025 universal Gigabit broadband target might be missed by between two and eight years.

Broadband has come a long way in the UK and while we all enjoy a good moan about it, the pace of change is very much accelerating for the good today. ISPA celebrating its 25th anniversary looks back at some of the key changes since 1995.

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.