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The BT Group has outlined its plans for the next few years with a plan to bring speeds of 300 to 500 Mbps to some 10 million premises and the majority of the UK by 2025. Also a commitment to re-investing claw back dividends into pushing superfast coverage further will take superfast coverage beyond 95%.

It is not clear yet what the precise problem is but broadband users in East Lothian appear to be suffering dropped or corrupt packets causing issues with streaming and potentially corrupt firmware updates.

So in an attempt to see how bad things are this news item was composed and written in what is said to be one of the worst places for broadband in London and across Europe according to some.

The testing of G.fast is underway and the first speed test from a G.fast connection has appeared.

The regulation of the BT Group has dominated the Ofcom telecoms agenda for as long as Ofcom and Oftel have existed, but does Ofcom have the legal power to force a separation?

The three trial areas of Gosforth, Huntingdon and parts of Swansea for the G.fast trials are now known and a few more snippets of the trials are appearing.

Northern Ireland has superb coverage of FTTC but the rural nature of some areas leads to the gap between the fibre available and superfast speeds being large, and it seems some FTTP may be used to bridge this gap.

Openreach is set to expand its vectoring trials starting in February and expanding to 100 DSLAMs by the end of March 2015.

The US may prefer to repurpose the definition of the word broadband and rewrite history, but the European method is to add nice words to the front and thus we now have BT talking about ultrafast broadband as public trials and roll-out dates have been announced.

G.INP appears to be live and in the armoury of Openreach for dealing with errors caused by noise, in addition to the old fall back of interleaving.