Category: Broadband

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.

With another batch of Virgin Media Gig1 rolled out it is time to see how far up the table the extra Gigabit availability has pushed Scotland.

The latest batch of Virgin Media Gig1 areas has pushed the UK Gigabit coverage level to 25.71%, up from 8.4% this time last year.

The roll-out of VDSL2 and FTTP across Scotland under the original BDUK contract and extensions is drawing to a close and so before the focus fully shifts to the R100 they issued an update.

It appears a fire may behind a chunk of people using BT consumer and wholesale broadband services not having any connectivity to the Internet.

The superfast broadband roll-out in Wales continues with another contract extension that means an extra 13,000 properties are going to be future proofed with FTTP.

The UK appears to be speeding up its FTTP roll-outs with the last 1% being added in 48 days.

The 100% Gigabit coverage was talked about in the House of Commons on 9th July and as ever there are nuances to be understood.