Category: Broadband
Next step for Superfast Cymru announced with grant for 16,000 premises
A grant of some £13 million has been announced by the Welsh Government to deliver fast broadband to almost 16,000 premises in the North West, South West and the Valleys across Wales.
Peak and off peak performance at the largest UK broadband providers in September 2018
The third of our monthly items summarising the data from all the speed tests that we see each month is showing the difference between streaming and download performance for the largest providers at both peak and off-peak time periods.
6 cats talk broadband
We recruited a number of cats in the UK and have quizzed them for their opinion on broadband and we are pleased today to be able to share their important opinions.
VDSL2 and FTTP has arrived for Doe’s Corner near Maldon
In the last couple of weeks we have seen some changes in what we are spotting for some of the BDUK superfast broadband roll-outs and that is more VDSL2 cabinets appearing with parts of the area also seeing native FTTP available.
Average peak time speeds for UK broadband services in Q3 2018
The evening peak time window is the crucial time for broadband to perform well and with more and more people watching online video slow downs and blips in performance are more apparent in the form of buffering or video pixelating itself.
Over half of new premises in 2018 available with full fibre broadband
Our analysis of new build coverage shows that for new postcodes created in Jan to July 2018 over 50% of those premises have a full fibre option and 4.48% actually have a choice of two or more full fibre infrastructure operators.
Top 25 areas of the UK for full fibre broadband
The UK may have reached the 5% full fibre milestone and is continuing to add full fibre with another 0.02% in the last few days but coverage is far from uniform so we tell you the 25 areas most likely to have a full fibre option.
Three new areas set to receive the CityFibre FTTP treatment announced
Cambridge, Leeds and Southend-on-Sea are the latest areas announced as part of the CityFibre/Vodafone Gigafast roll-out with investment of some £170m to fund the roll-out.
Openreach Ultrafast footprint now at 1.5 million premises
Just 8 days ago we reported on Openreach breaking the 1.4 million premises barrier with its ultrafast services but today the 1.5 million barrier has been passed.
Indeterminate delays for Gigaclear roll-out in parts of Devon and Somerset
People have been murmuring about when will the various BDUK lots that Gigaclear in the CDS phase two project would go live but and CDS has now announced that while they don't know the extent of the delay yet they should know by the end of October.