Category: Broadband

In a surprise move Labour is promising free full fibre broadband for all and to have completed a national roll-out by 2030.

The G.fast roll-outs continue and we have a bumper crop of new exchanges that have been added to our maps in the last six weeks.

Time to throw a handful or two of biodegradable confetti into the air as part of a mini celebration that the UK has reached 10% FTTP coverage.

The roll-outs of full fibre are where the biggest changes are across the UK, but the numerous small BDUK and other projects do continue to have a small impact on the superfast coverage levels.

While the levels of full fibre and superfast coverage continues to increase in new properties they are still more likely to not have superfast broadband than existing homes.

After dodging the ghouls of Halloween there is now time to share the speed test results for October 2019. Covering everything from the Gigabit providers down to the slow old ADSL/ADSL2+ services.

The full fibre roll-outs are still in their early days but with 5 local authority areas where coverage is now over 50%, the promised social and economic benefits should start being less theoretical and observable.

The full fibre coverage in the Highlands and Islands region of Scotland may only be 1.2% today but the re-investment announced today along with other work should see that rise steadily.

After all the excitement of the summer and a massive push towards a full fibre future the chance to cement this in Queen's Speech has been missed and rather the weaker Gigabit definition is used.

Our tracking of the total Openreach FTTP footprint indicates that their pace has increased to the 22,000 premises they are talking about and might even be higher than that.