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The CEO of UK ISP 4th Utility, Tony Hughes, has today said that access to reliable broadband should be a basic human right and that now is the time for the Government to “rethink” their investment in the High Speed 2 (HS2) rail project. Instead, Tony believes that such funding should be diverted to upgrade broadband infrastructure.
Some 300 homes across Scotland’s most westerly mainland point – the Ardnamurchan Peninsula – now have access to superfast broadband speeds of 35 – 100Mbps after local ISP Scotnet, supported by the government’s voucher scheme, deployed a new Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) network to serve the area.
Good news. Openreach has announced that their direct end customer contact programme is leaving the trial phase and will shortly start to be adopted by broadband ISPs as part of normal business, which will improve the level of contact made between the network operator and consumers for certain installation and repair work.
The Government’s Digital Secretary, Nadine Dorries MP, has appointed Simon Blagden CBE to be the new chair of their Building Digital UK (BDUK) executive agency, which has responsibility for delivering faster broadband and mobile networks across the nation (e.g. the £5bn Project Gigabit scheme and the £1bn Shared Rural Network).
The Welsh Government has issued an easy to miss statement on Digital Connectivity in Wales, which among other things reveals that their £52.5m Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband rollout contract with Openreach (BT) is now expected to cover slightly more premises. But this will push completion back to 31st March 2023.