Category: Broadband

The pace of the FTTP roll-out from Openreach now just needs to be joined by a couple of other operators and the ambition of 50% full fibre availability in 2025 is looking very likely.

All of the press releases announcing roll-outs and the promise of rainbows in the future are good but what really matters is people signing up to the new services when available and we reveal how the observed market share of technologies such as ADSL, FTTC, FTTH and cable has changed in the last 7 years.

The latest speed test analysis is complete and the battle for the top position continues as full fibre services and cable broadband fight it out.

Our regular updates on new G.fast areas has slowed down a bit in March, with us only spotting 15 new exchanges since the 5th of the month.

Milton Keynes is one of the high profile CityFibre roll-out locations and our tracking of FTTP coverage for the local authority area shows that CityFibre has passed some 18,962 premises.

Remember the R100 project for Scotland, meant to bring superfast broadband to everyone in Scotland? Well we've not talked about it much as with no contracts signed yet there is no real news, but John Lamont MP is rattling the cage to try and find out when more will be known.

The Openreach FTTP footprint continues to grow as the Gedling and Twickenham new exchange areas are now on our maps with a growing FTTP footprint.

As people in our comments often like to point out premises passed by full fibre is useless if no-one buys the service and unsurprisingly Openreach wants to ensure that premises passed converts to premises connected and is consulting with industry on the best path to take.

No one knows the price yet but Google is teasing people with talk of 4K HDR gaming without having to spend on graphics cards or a new games console.

After years of not featuring in the pretty charts from the FTTH Council Europe the UK is now on the charts as the roll-out of full fibre gathers pace.