Category: Broadband

Our monthly look at the difference in performance at peak times and off-peak and how well the major providers are delivering single download services (aka video streaming) for February 2019 shows that while Vodafone is working on fixes for its problems no substantial improvement has been observed.

The Fibre First roll-out has been spotted on another five exchanges, Wallasey, Chapeltown, Radford, Whitchurch (Avon) and Beacon.

The pace of the full fibre roll-outs is now at a pace where the long established order for the areas of the UK with the most FTTP are set to change and it looks like Cambridgeshire and Peterborough are going to try and stay towards the top of the table.

The growth in full fibre availability across the UK appears to be accelerating with 6.3% of premises where there is a FTTP option, this is an increase of almost 0.5% in the last four weeks.

The latest 12 exchanges we have found with live G.fast pods are now in our availability checker and on our maps.

Our monthly round-up of the performance for a wide range of broadband services for the February period is now available. The pattern of full fibre and cable services leading the pack continues unsurprisingly.

Another 12 exchanges have been to give a total of 316 exchanges where we know about live ultrafast broadband delivered by G.fast pods.

With both Openreach looking to withdraw WLR voice service by 2025 and Virgin Media doing the same and instead deliver voice services over broadband Ofcom has issued a document that outlines some of the policy implications.

A 5G trial has delivered a wireless service to the village of Llanddewi Rhydderch in Monmouthshire that otherwise only had fixed line speeds of zero to 1 Mbps.

The wave of FTTP news means our monthly figures on how the different big name providers are delivering in terms of speeds has been delayed, but we can now reveal how different providers performed in January 2019.