Category: Broadband

A little later in the month than usual, but January has started off unusually busy on the broadband data front. So excuse the gap of a few days between having processed the results and running them up the flag pole.

The Christmas decorations are now all down and 2020 is underway, which means its time to look at how 2019 ended with respect to broadband availability across the UK.

The full fibre roll-outs in the UK mean that 11% of UK premises are now able to order a FTTP service.

The last decade has seen the UK change its broadband landscape dramatically and so we look back how things looked in January 2010 and how they are on New Years Eve 2019.

The New Year Honours list includes two well known names from the broadband world, Kim Mears OBE of Openreach and Dame Sharon White

We will not dive into the superfast and ultrafast figures as we do that a lot each month ourselves, but the big story from the 2019 Connected Nations report is the big drop in those not getting 10 Mbps down and 1 Mbps up.

Plans announced today should once delivered make switching between different broadband infrastructures easier and in the mobile market proposals are being worked on to ban locked mobile phones from being sold.

The next area to see the CityFibre FTTP roll-out has been spotted and premises in the north of Cambridge now have a full fibre option via the Vodafone Gigafast service.

Openreach is still the largest full fibre builder in the UK by a long way and each month we give you a breakdown on the types of areas where we've found them delivering FTTP.

We've covered what Openreach FTTP builds look like in the past, but there are some changes that are worth sharing so people can spot when stuff starts to happen locally.