Category: Broadband

The rise of 4G and 5G services as a replacement for fixed line broadband services means we are seeing a gradual rise in the numbers of people testing their mobile service and Vodafone mobile customers are the new addition to monthly results that help to highlight how providers handle people time traffic.

Borthwickbrae has unusual honour of hosting cabinet number 5000 (really Borthwick Brae cabinet 4) under the Digital Scotland roll-out, this newsworthy bit is that this is one of the last cabinets offering VDSL2 via the project.

The plans from Openreach are still an ambition to build 15 million premises passed of full fibre by FTTP so news today of secret meetings about a full copper switch off in 2027 look like pie in the sky speculation from Sky News.

We could have included an older version and by old we mean 4 weeks old, but we prefer to be as up to date as possible and so overnight have crunched the numbers for business premises coverage split between urban and rural areas of the UK.

An interim Ofcom Connected Nations report is reporting UK full fibre coverage has reached 8% of premises but we published a figure of 9.1% just a few days ago, we explore the reasons for the difference.

Residents in Devon and Somerset who had been waiting on Gigaclear to roll-out FTTP to them as their superfast broadband solution are going to be very upset as the council has cancelled the contracts after various delays.

G.fast is often described as the poor partner when faced with the might of the FTTP roll-outs so talk of a re-assessment of the Openreach investment plans we have a good number of people saying they told us all that G.fast was a waste of time and money.

Another of our round ups of what we are seeing in terms of the Openreach FTTP roll-out and specifically how much is being seen in new build, gap funded areas or is distinctly Fibre First.

The question about who you trust more i.e. a browser manufacturer or your broadband ISP is being debated again, as Mozilla is heading towards making DNS over HTTPS (DoH) the default for some USA based Firefox users.

The good news is that full fibre is now available to 9% of UK premises, the bad news is that we still are waiting on a massive change in roll-out speed to hit the old 2033 100% ambition let alone a much tighter 2025 deadline.