Category: Broadband

The push for more full fibre to improve connectivity at hospitals and doctors practices across the UK is set to continue with an aim of pushing from the 70% coverage expected by August 2020 to full coverage.

A House of Lords committee has issued a report looking at the rural economy and while the report covers the full spectrum around the rural economy we will focus on the broadband sector and provide some key stats to help people judge the gap for themselves.

The next batch of 10 exchanges where we have found live G.fast pods can be revealed.

Following on from a presentation by Openreach at an INCA event in Cardiff we are sharing some of our insight into what is happening with full fibre and new builds.

The Easter break means our summary of the differences in performance between peak and off-peak times for the most popular UK broadband providers is a little late this month.

VDSL2 cabinets are still the largest part of the UK superfast broadband infrastructure and this means that as cabinets wait for extra upgrades there is an impact on what services are available in different areas.

The pace of the FTTP roll-outs continues to rise as evidenced by the reality that the coverage level has risen 1.6 percentage points since the start of 2019.

The number of G.fast pods across the UK continues to grow with some 6,130 spotted and added to our availability search and maps.

Another one of those 2,000 people were surveyed to produce some nice stats has surfaced and the main suggestion is that £11.94 of employees' money is spent working from home.

Openreach has released its latest premises passed figures for its Fibre to the Premises network and at 1.2 million they appear on schedule to hit the 3 million mark within 24 months.