Category: Broadband

The 100 towns that are to receive up to £25 million as an initial wave of places that are part of the £3.6 billion town fund will have choices to make on how to spend this money on transport, broadband connectivity, skills and culture.

The Highlands and Islands part of the Digital Scotland project continues to deliver and some of that is two more clusters of FTTP.

The LFFN scheme should see the winner of the Greater Manchester contract announced soon once the councils involved have all signed off on their contributions, but we would be shocked if it is not CityFibre announced as the winner for both lots.

The R100 project in Scotland is still all talk but the existing Digital Scotland contract with BT looks set to deliver further coverage with news of money being re-invested and to deliver mostly FTTP.

At some point most people will have experienced the pain of a large venue with 1000's of people and useless Wi-Fi, the latest boost to UK broadband is a fund to help conference centres and hotels boost their broadband and subsequently the Wi-Fi coverage.

The G.fast roll-out continues as we have found another 14 exchange areas where at least 1 pod is active and taking orders.

Another month and full fibre coverage is now up at 8.56% across the UK. FTTC/VDSL2 roll-outs manage only around 2,000 to 3,000 premises with the bulk of any superfast coverage changes now coming from full fibre appearing.

The maths are pretty simple but we will be highlighting this figure showing how many full fibre premises need to passed everyday along with our other broadband statistics each month.

We have been here before with grandiose statements the question is will no-deal Brexit draw focus away or will the Government ensure that it works with industry to make a challenging job possible.

The top of the speed test table is a battle between the various full fibre services and Virgin Media highlighting that even while DOCSIS 3.0 is old it can deliver on download speeds.