Category: Broadband

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.

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.