Category: Broadband

The G.fast roll-out continues with seven new areas spotted over the Christmas period.

Caerffili is the latest exchange to have G.fast services available for the public to order increasing the number of exchanges to 231 exchanges.

There has been the launch events but we have now found the first 1,300 premises in Aberdeen that can order the Vodafone Gigafast services.

Lots of people living and working in Royal Leamington Spa now have a G.fast broadband option, with maximum speeds of 350 Mbps down and 50 Mbps up and the minimum download speed is 100 Mbps.

The spotting of more G.fast pods is an almost daily affair, but two of the larger deployments spotted this week are in Alum Rock area of Birmingham and Milton Keynes.

Yes, we are telling you all that this week is not a good time to order a migration between two broadband providers.

A few thousand full fibre premises have been found in two towns in Northern Ireland.

It is the 7th day of the month so time for our monthly summary of the broadband coverage across the UK and chance to call out some of the trends we are finding.

With the next set of postcode data from ONS due any day, we have published our summary of what is happening with broadband in new build premises and fortunately the superfast broadband gap is shrinking.

The problems around VDSL2 cabinets being full and people not being able to order a new service or migrate between providers is not a new problem but we can reveal that there are some 51 cabinets that appear to have been in limbo since January 2018.