Category: Broadband

Imagine how much better off you would be if without fail you managed to find a new fiver down the back of your sofa every day for a year? This is the scale of a new study into the economic benefits of a 100% full fibre United Kingdom.

The R100 contracts are dragging on having known about the 3 areas for almost two years now. With BT as the sole bidder in 2 of the areas they have effectively got the contract for those areas.

The numbers have been crunched overnight and it is looking like the UK will hit the 10% full fibre coverage point in 5 or 6 weeks.

Its not rocket science but a simple numbers game so it should be no surprise that the Gigabit services dominate the top of the monthly speed test results. These results are the largest summary of provider speeds in the UK covering the widest range of services.

The Chancellor Sajid Javid has spoke at The Conservative Party conference and while the £5 billion investment was featured in a key note speech we are not much clearer on what or how this will be spent.

With the announcement of DOCSIS 3.1 going live in Southampton we can share the level of coverage for Gigabit based services in the UK.

Broadband announcements from the Chancellor are rare and all too often in the past fews are summaries of previously announcements amounts but the excitement over £5 billion for full fibre is fading rapidly.

Ahead of a firm commitment the political equivalent of A/B testing is underway as The Telegraph is saying The Conservative Party is set to reveal up to £5 billion of funding for the 2025 target.

We covered the snippet that Openreach was trialling use of Fujikura spider web ribbon fibre cables earlier in the year and now a contract for a wider supply of this format of cable and the associated fusion splicer has been signed.

G.fast may have a limited lifespan with its lifespan dependant on how quickly Openreach decides to build a full fibre network across the whole UK In the meantime more G.fast pods are being found.