Category: Internet Service Providers

The impact of COVID on the economy is visible even in the key industry of telecoms and broadband which, but even with an 8% decline in revenue for BT Group this is nothing compared to the problems affecting many businesses in the UK and wider world.

Fibrus who are busy rolling out in Northern Ireland is the latest FTTP operator added to our systems.

Back on 22nd September Openreach announced it had covered half of Northern Ireland with FTTP, we have now caught up some 26 days later.

Last night adding further coverage in the Fletton area of Peterborough pushed the CityFIbre footprint to the 300,000 premises point.

The average rate of adding Openreach FTTP premises to our records ran at 5,703 premises each day in the last month.

Shenley Lodge and parts of Shenley Brook are the latest areas of Milton Keynes where we have spotted the CityFibre roll-out currently sold by Vodafone under the Gigafast brand.

The wording on the BT Consumer website and how it presents the various FTTP in some cases may cause people to be misled into thinking they have ordered a FTTP service when it reality a VDSL2 service will be used.

More rural FTTP as the Gigaclear roll-out in North Essex has expanded to cover Radwinter.

EE has added the Openreach FTTP services to its portfolio of fixed line services of ADSL2+, FTTC and G.fast. The fastest option is a 900 Mbps service at £54/m without a landline.

Another bit of the rural FTTP puzzle has gone into place as Gigaclear is available to some properties in Gosfield and looks set to expand to more properties in the village.