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Worcestershire UK Confirms First Phase 3 Fibre Broadband Upgrades

30th August, 2014 (0 Comments)

The Superfast Worcestershire (England) scheme has announced the next batch of areas that will be upgraded to receive BT’s “high-speed fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network, which aims to pass 90% of local homes and businesses by mid-2016 and hopefully 95% by 2017.

First Cabinet Live on Isle of Wight as BT Start Fibre Broadband Rollout

27th August, 2014 (1 Comment)

The state aid supported £7.5m project to help extend BT’s “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network to an additional 20,000 “mainly rural” homes and businesses on the Isle of Wight, which resides just off England’s central southern coastline, has finally begun with the first street cabinet going live in Farriers Way, Shorwell.

Rural Shops Alliance in Urban Broadband Funding Moan to UK Government

26th August, 2014 (12 Comments)

The Rural Shops Alliance (RSA), a trade association that claims to represent over 8,000 rural retailers across the United Kingdom, has described the Government’s city-focused Connection Voucher scheme as “bizarre” for “subsidising businesses which already have the potential to access superfast broadband“.

Let’s Stop Having Different UK Definitions for “Superfast Broadband”

26th August, 2014 (27 Comments)

What is “superfast” or “fibre broadband“? The answer seems to vary depending upon whether or not you’re asking a Local Authority (council), the Government’s Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) office, mobile operators or the national telecoms regulator. The situation has become ridiculously confusing.

Superfast Wales Project Deploys Some Ultrafast 330Mbps FTTP Broadband

21st August, 2014 (11 Comments)

Believe it or not, Wales will be getting some 330Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband from BT as part of the local state aid supported £425m Superfast Cymru project. This aims to make faster “fibre broadband” (FTTC) speeds of up to 80Mbps available to 96% of Welsh premises by the end of spring 2016 (700,000 premises).

3269 Rural UK Premises Getting Superfast Broadband via RCBF Grants

21st August, 2014 (1 Comment)

The government’s £20m Rural Community Broadband Fund, which was setup to help rural areas in the last 10% of England gain access to superfast broadband (24Mbps+), has issued an update to confirm that a total of 3,269 (up from 2,118 at the last update) domestic and business premises are currently anticipated to have the “potential” to receive such a service thanks to RCBF investment.

ITS Bring 36Mbps Fixed Wireless Broadband to East Manchester

20th August, 2014 (1 Comment)

ITS Technology, which very recently gobbled wireless broadband ISP CityServe Ltd. in East Manchester (here), has completed its overhaul of the aforementioned network and today announced the launch of their “faster [and] more reliable” 36Mbps (Megabits per second) capable business and home broadband service in the same area.

375 Leeds and Bradford Firms Gobble Broadband Connection Vouchers

20th August, 2014 (3 Comments)

More than 375 businesses in Leeds and Bradford have taken up the Government’s Broadband Connection Vouchers scheme, which offers grants worth up to £3,000 to help SME firms install a superfast broadband (30Mbps+) service in any of 22 cities across the United Kingdom. As a result they’re no.1 in the top 10 cities (outside London) claiming vouchers.

The Forgotten Importance of Broadband Internet Upload Speeds

20th August, 2014 (60 Comments)

Hands up if your broadband ISP makes the upload (upstream) speed of your Internet package clear on their advertising? We thought not. Sadly only a few of the major ISPs even bother to advertise upload performance and those that do only tend to show it on certain products. But how fast you can push information into the online world does matter and its importance is growing.

Welsh BDUK Scheme Brings Fibre Broadband to 190000 Premises

18th August, 2014 (0 Comments)

The state aid supported £425m Superfast Cymru project with BT in Wales, which aims to make faster “fibre broadband” (FTTC) speeds of up to 80Mbps available to 96% of premises by the end of spring 2016 (total of 700,000 premises), has confirmed that over 190,000 premises are now able to benefit thanks to its work.

Devon and Somerset UK Fall Short of Broadband Funding Target

11th August, 2014 (0 Comments)

The Connecting Devon and Somerset project in England has failed to match the full level of £22.75 million in funding offered by the Government’s Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) Superfast Extension Programme, but it’s not a big deal because they still expect meet the national target and bring superfast broadband to 95% of the area by 2017.

Lancashire Reveal H2-2014 Phase of the BDUK Superfast Broadband Rollout

11th August, 2014 (2 Comments)

The £130 million Superfast Lancashire project, which aims to make BT’s “superfast broadband” FTTC/P (24Mbps+) network available to 97% of local premises by the end of 2015 (a total of around 655,000 homes and businesses), has announced the next 10 areas to benefit from the programme.

Broadband Delivery UK Scheme Passes the 1 Million Premises Mark

8th August, 2014 (8 Comments)

The Government have announced that the £1.7bn (excluding EU and BT contributions) state aid fuelled Broadband Delivery UK programme has now helped more than 1 million homes and businesses (premises passed) to get access to a “superfast broadband” connection, which BDUK typically defines as offering speeds of greater than 24Mbps (Megabits per second).

Superfast Broadband Delivery UK BT Fibre Rollout Reaches 888K Premises

7th August, 2014 (8 Comments)

The Government’s national Broadband Delivery UK project, which is predominantly working with BT to make fixed line superfast broadband speeds of “greater than 24Mbps” (Megabits per second) available to around 95% of people by 2017, has now helped a total of 888,113 homes and businesses (premises passed) get faster connectivity.

UK Moots Switching Off Copper Phone Networks and Fostering FTTP

6th August, 2014 (42 Comments)

The Government has today launched a new Digital Communications Infrastructure Strategy consultation document, which forms part of their effort to develop a long term strategy for helping to ensure that the United Kingdom has the “best connectivity” by 2025-2030 (phone, broadband, mobile etc.).

Bradley Stoke’s Exchange Only Lines Finally Get BT Superfast Broadband

5th August, 2014 (19 Comments)

After years of waiting it now looks as if at least some of the 22,000 strong population of Bradley Stoke, a busy town in South Gloucestershire where many of BT’s copper wire based telephone and broadband services are delivered via Exchange Only Lines (i.e. no street cabinets), are finally getting access to superfast broadband (FTTC) connectivity.

Wales Makes it Easier for Homes to Get Access Broadband Cymru Grants

30th July, 2014 (0 Comments)

The Welsh Government‘s Access Broadband Cymru (ABC) scheme, which offers grants worth up to £1,000 per premise in areas which have “slow broadband connections” (i.e. sub-2Mbps), has in an attempt to correct for earlier criticisms been opened up to more homes and businesses (including those in areas that could already benefit from Superfast Cymru investment with BT).