Category: Broadband

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.

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.