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The 10 Best and Worst UK Council Areas for Broadband Uploads

22nd October, 2020 (17 Comments)

A new piece of research has helped to reveal the top 10 UK council areas by average (median) broadband ISP upload speed, which perhaps unsurprisingly sees KCOM’s full fibre dominated city of Hull (East Yorkshire) come top on 13.7Mbps. Meanwhile Powys in Wales came last with an upload rate of just 2Mbps.

Virgin Media UK Offering Free Upgrades to HUB 4 Router Again

21st October, 2020 (80 Comments)

Virgin Media appears to have continued to expand the availability of their latest HUB 4.0 (ARRIS TG3492LG-VMB) broadband router under their “Hub Swap” programme, which is giving existing customers on various different tiers the chance to “upgrade to our latest Hub 4 at no extra cost.”

Audit Office Casts Doubt on UK 2025 Gigabit Broadband Target UPDATE

16th October, 2020 (15 Comments)

A new report from the National Audit Office, which examines the original £1.9bn Superfast Broadband Programme (SFBB), has warned that the Government may struggle to achieve its ambition of bringing gigabit-capable broadband to all by the end of 2025 and thus risks “leaving the hardest to reach areas even further behind.”

SMF Report Warns 2025 Gigabit Broadband Target to be Missed UPDATE

7th October, 2020 (15 Comments)

A new report from the Social Market Foundation (SMF), which is a British cross-party think-tank, has warned that the Government is “unlikely to meet its target” of deploying gigabit-capable “full fibre to the premises” broadband to all by the end of 2025 without “significant policy reform.”

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Virgin Media UK Target 1Gb Broadband for 8 Million More Homes

5th October, 2020 (25 Comments)

The new joint venture between ISP Virgin Media and mobile operator O2 (here) appears to have today resulted in an ambition to expand their gigabit-capable broadband network to reach an extra 1 million premises “within 12 months of the merger closing” (total of 16 million) and to then connect a “further 7 million homes.”

BT Predicts Gigabit Broadband for All UK by 2027 with £9bn in Cuts

28th September, 2020 (33 Comments)

The CEO of BT Group, Philip Jansen, has warned MPs that at the current pace it will take until 2033 to achieve universal UK coverage of gigabit-capable broadband, or 2027 if some £9bn worth of cuts in tax (e.g. business rates) and red tape can be found. Considerably later than PM Boris Johnson’s target for 2025.

Virgin Media UK Trials 2.2Gbps Broadband to Homes in Berkshire

22nd September, 2020 (43 Comments)

Broadband ISP Virgin Media (Liberty Global) has announced that they’ve just successfully completed a new trial, which pushed their new DOCSIS 3.1 based network to “hyperfast” 2.2Gbps download speeds (and 214Mbps upload speeds) in the Berkshire (England) market town of Thatcham.

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CBI Joins Calls for Infrastructure Bank to Fuel 1Gbps Broadband

7th September, 2020 (8 Comments)

The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has today echoed existing calls for the UK Government to setup a new “Infrastructure Bank” to help deliver on their planned expansion of “gigabit-capable” and “full fibre” (FTTP) broadband networks, as well as to support roads, railways and housing.

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Government MPs Urge UK Councils to Support Gigabit Broadband

27th August, 2020 (13 Comments)

The UK Government has today called on local authorities to help support the roll-out of gigabit-capable broadband (FTTP, DOCSIS 3.1) and 5G mobile networks by, among other things, implementing new advice on land access and valuations in order to speed up the pace of deployment.

Virgin Media Records Strong Quarterly UK Broadband Growth

4th August, 2020 (12 Comments)

Broadband and TV provider Virgin Media (Liberty Global) has today published their Q2 2020 results, which saw them add +39,200 new UK internet customers in the quarter (up from +8,200 last quarter) to total 5,318,400. At the same time their network coverage grew by 93,000 premises (unchanged).

Virgin Media Bring 1Gb Broadband to Leeds, Bradford, Glasgow

4th August, 2020 (35 Comments)

Cable broadband ISP Virgin Media UK claims to have today become the UK’s “largest gigabit broadband network” after switching-on their DOCSIS 3.1 network upgrade in Leeds, Bradford, Glasgow and surrounding areas, which means that a total 3.6 million premises can now access their top Gig1 service (1104Mbps download and 52Mbps upload).

Fixed Broadband Growth Slows as Global Subscribers Top 1.13bn

16th July, 2020 (0 Comments)

New research from Point Topic has found that world fixed broadband subscribers grew by just 1.25% (13.9 million) in Q1 2020 to total 1.13 billion, but the main impact from COVID-19 won’t be understood until Q2 and Q3. Meanwhile almost every connection technology saw growth, except copper (ADSL etc.) lines that fell -10.3% year-on-year.

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4,000 Homes in Warsop Get Virgin Media UK’s FTTP Broadband

13th July, 2020 (6 Comments)

Broadband ISP Virgin Media has completed an extension of their soon-to-be “gigabit-capable” Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to include 4,000 homes in the Nottinghamshire town of Warsop, which means that locals can access top average download speeds of 516Mbps (35Mbps upload).

Virgin Media Start UK Rollout of Remote Phy to Improve Network

10th July, 2020 (53 Comments)

Cable ISP Virgin Media has just made their first UK deployment of a new-ish technology – Remote Phy (R-PHY) – on their Hybrid Fibre Coax (HFC) based DOCSIS broadband and TV network in Coventry. The development will make their network more efficient, which should lead to better internet speeds and reliability.

UK Government Appears to Soften 2025 Gigabit Broadband Goal

9th July, 2020 (58 Comments)

Remember that £5bn pledge by the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, to have “gigabit broadband sprouting in every home” by the end of 2025 (here)? Perhaps unsurprisingly, it now looks like the Government are watering down their language on that to “go as far as we possibly can by 2025.”

Virgin Media Finish FTTP Rollout to 4,500 Sowerby Bridge Homes

8th July, 2020 (17 Comments)

Some 4,500 homes in Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire, have now gained access to Virgin Media UK’s new “gigabit-capable” Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband and TV network. The work forms part of their on-going Project Lightning network expansion.

Progress on BDUK Plan for £5bn UK Gigabit Broadband Rollout

8th July, 2020 (15 Comments)

Over the past few months’ we’ve seen the UK Government step-up market engagement exercises as part of work to develop a framework for their £5bn investment, which aims to ensure that “every home” can access “gigabit-capable” broadband by the end of 2025. As a result we now have a better idea of what this will look like.