Category: Broadband

One has to be careful about what you say and Fergus Ewing appears to have lots of confidence over the R100 contracts which are yet to be signed i.e. that the unknown winners will deliver 100% superfast coverage across Scotland by 2021.

The BDUK projects in Essex continue and in addition to hitting a 52% take-up figure the contracts for phase 4a are expected to be signed in the next month as the county pushes on from the current

As indicated a few months ago the end of March dataset from DCMS was set to be the last and the final results were released earlier this week. As part of our tracking for what the commercial and BDUK processes have delivered we will endeavour to now report the number of premises based on what we are seeing.

In a report set to be delivered at the next cabinet meeting for Telford and Wrekin council the Superfast Telford project is said to have reached a 98% superfast coverage level with 1% or less stuck with a sub 15 Mbps option.

In a speech to the CBI the Chancellor Philip Hammond will announce a new target for where the Government wants the full fibre coverage levels to be in 2025.

We have started updating the broadband packages and offers we list to feature the average download speeds supplied by the providers.

Which? has published its average speed analysis from a years speed tests but stops short of naming and shaming providers rather it is attempting to be ISP agnostic unusually.

For a long time we had not added the 70 Mbps and 150 Mbps tiers to our existing collection of 50, 100, 200 and 350 Mbps speeds for Virgin Media but with the changes in advertising rules and median speeds under lots of scrutiny we have taught our services about the extra tiers.

We look at peak time performance for UK broadband providers two different ways, earlier in the month we reported on the new ASA median standard, but we also looking at the difference between single thread download and multiple thread for the larger providers.

The tallying up of what has and has not been delivered via the Superfast Cymru contract by the Welsh Assembly continues and we still see the odd bit of infrastructure going live as delayed areas sometimes go live. So in addition to what Julie James AM shared with the Welsh Plenary on 15th May we look at some of our corresponding data.