Category: Internet Service Providers

A couple of days late this month, due to the start of the month falling on a weekend and a busy week keeping broadband coverage data up to date.

The latest BT offer changes mean the FTTC or FTTP if available Superfast 2 service is now just £29.99/m with a £70 reward on a 2 year contract.

We have mapped the latest areas which are Bradford, Falkirk, Glasgow and Leeds where Virgin Media has turned on its DOCSIS 3.1 Gigabit service.

The need for broadband during lockdown means Virgin Media has added 23,900 new customers in the last quarter.

The latest BT Group results reveal that Openreach has passed some 2,979,000 premises with FTTP and connected 554,000 properties with live lines.

The list of villages and towns where Openreach is to build full fibre to in the next three years just got a lot larger. The updated list is part of a larger programme where the operator has committed to building FTTP to some 3.2 million premises.

Truespeed are busy rolling out FTTP in South West England and Wells is the largest area they are building to at present.

It has been a long time coming and while if happy to phone up TalkTalk you might be able to order FTTP, the launch is still something of a soft launch.

Two more areas in the East Riding of Yorkshire are starting to be able to order a full fibre service from KCOM.

Openreach and its teams and contractors have been busy during lockdown and have increased their build rate such as there are now 3 million premises where FTTP is available via the providers using the Openreach network.