Category: Broadband

The Vodafone Gigafast roll-out built by CityFibre continues and availability for the 100 to 900 Mbps FTTP service has now extended to the Stony Stratford area.

In an unusual turn this year everyone has been talking about the ISPA Awards ahead of the actual awards evening due to controversy over Mozilla being nominated for its DNS over HTTP technology.

The soft target of 97% superfast coverage for when the USO comes into effect in March 2020 looks set to be missed by several months unless the pace of FTTP delivery in not spots increases massively in the next couple of months.

With ECI cabinets demonstrating slower speeds on average compared to Huawei cabinets the news that has reached us that Openreach is set to replace many (maybe all) ECI VDSL2 cabinets with a Huawei version.

While there is a still a long way to go to reach 100% coverage the pace of FTTP roll-outs has increased massively in the last 12 months.

While past performance is not always an indicator of future performance the death of ADSL2+ looks set for around 2023/2024 if the switching away from the technology by the public continues at a pace similar to the last few years.

The second quarter may have just finished but more importantly it is the start of July so it is time to share our broadband speed test results from June and discover who is at the top and bottom of the speed test results.

We have crunched the numbers now and all our checkers, maps and coverage statistics have been updated to reflect the new minimum speed for G.fast broadband.

A bumper crop of G.fast exchanges as we publish the list of exchanges where we have spotted more live G.fast pods from the last few weeks.

Boris Johnson who is one of the candidates for the leadership roll in the Conservative Party and thus Prime Minister is pledging that full fibre will be available to every home by 2025.