Category: Broadband

The race to all IP platforms in many industries is underway with the prize of reduced maintenance costs and increased flexibility that an all IP platform has to offer, so no surprise that Openreach is opening a consultation for providers to feedback on the plan to move old fashioned telephones into the IP age.

The year is slipping by and with the ISPA Awards due in July it is once more the time of year where people can nominate a person or organisation for the Internet Hero category.

A few more weeks have passed so its time to publish our summary of broadband coverage across the regions and look forward to hopefully many hundreds of thousands of full fibre premises delivered during the summer months.

It is time once more to share some of the wealth of information we have on broadband speeds from all the speed tests that our speed test users carry out.

We look at not just the speed test results to find the best places for broadband in the UK but are is this article ranking councils based on what speed we could see if the best services were purchased by everyone. As a bonus we also tell you about the ten worst areas.

We don't say this lightly and if it was before midday on 1st April we would be thinking this was an April Fool rather than Fake News but BroadbandChoices is claiming West Dunbartonshire is the worst area in the UK for superfast broadband at 11%.

The Scottish Government has announced great headline of 95% fibre coverage has been verified but it needs to be highlighted that the superfast figure is only 92.7%.

How the USO will work or what level of funding industry will contribute is yet to be decided but Fergus Ewing the rural economy secretary in Scotland says it will be grossly unfair if Scotland is excluded while having to contribute.

The million premises milestone for alt-net full fibre is rapidly approaching according to the latest figures from INCA and Point Topic.

We look again at the impact of an Openreach VDSL2 cabinet reaching a capacity limit on the availability statistics. The delays in being able to migrate or order a new service can last a few weeks and in rare cases times of a year for a whole new cabinet to appear.