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UPDATE BT Admit BDUK Broadband Speed and Coverage Data is Confidential

11th November, 2013 (29 Comments)

The Managing Director of BT’s Next Generation Access (NGA) division, Bill Murphy, has said that it and not Local Authorities are responsible for withholding the vital broadband speed and coverage (SCT) data as part of the publicly funded Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) roll-out process.

Businesses Benefit as BT Fibre Broadband Reaches 82% of Cornwall UK

11th November, 2013 (2 Comments)

The latest update from the £132 million public and privately funded Superfast Cornwall project has confirmed that 82% of Cornwall in England (206,000 homes and businesses) can now access BT’s superfast broadband (FTTC/P) service and this is apparently providing a “major economic boost” to local businesses.

Hull ISP KC Calls UK Broadband Speed Demand Study a Dangerous Red Herring

7th November, 2013 (5 Comments)

The Hull-based incumbent telecoms provider KC, which covers part of East Yorkshire in England, has advised the UK Government to ignore an “unambitious” new study by the Broadband Stakeholder Group after it suggested that a “median household” might only require bandwidth of 19Mbps (Megabits per second) by 2023.

UPD2 BT Openreach FTTC Superfast Broadband Modems Break VPN Access

5th November, 2013 (2 Comments)

The Director of broadband ISP Andrews & Arnold (AAISP), Adrian Kennard, claims to have discovered a fault with the superfast broadband FTTC (VDSL) modems that BTOpenreach distributes to new subscribers, which can affect “almost anyone running any sort of VPN” (Virtual Private Network) Internet service.

BT Grabs 6.96 Million UK Retail Broadband Subscribers as 1.7m Take FTTC

31st October, 2013 (7 Comments)

BT Group’s latest Q3-2013 (calendar) results reveal that the operators consumer and business ISP divisions have grown their fixed line broadband subscriber base by +156k in the quarter to total 6.961m (up from +95k added in Q2 and +136k in Q1), which includes 1.7m superfast BTInfinity (FTTC) customers (up by +195k in Q3 vs +197k added in Q2).

BT Infinity UK Superfast Broadband Packages Add £100 Sainsburys Card

28th October, 2013 (0 Comments)

New customers taking one of BT’s standard broadband or FTTC based superfast broadband (BTInfinity) packages will for the next week be able to gain a Sainsbury’s Gift Card worth either £50 or £100 respectively. BT has also decided to rename some of their TV packages.

BT Openreach Confirm Commercial Launch for Fibre Based GEA Multicast

26th October, 2013 (0 Comments)

BTOpenreach has announced that its GEA Multicast product, which is a point-to-multipoint network layer service that enables operators to deliver IP data streams (e.g. IPTV traffic) more efficiently to their customers, will finally become a full commercial product on 25th November 2013.

Shropshire Name First BDUK and BT Superfast Broadband Rollout Areas

24th October, 2013 (0 Comments)

The £24.6 million state aid supported Connecting Shropshire project, which aims to roll-out BT’s fibre broadband (FTTC/P) network to 93% of local premises by the end of Spring 2016 (excludes Telford & Wrekin), has today named the “first rural communities to benefit“.

Fibre Optic Lines Boost World Broadband Users to 654.6 Million

23rd October, 2013 (0 Comments)

The latest Point Topic report reveals that the total number of global broadband subscribers in Q2-2013 has grown just +0.7% (down from +2% in Q1) to total 656,500,000, which is the “slowest quarterly growth reported since 1998“. But the expansion of superfast fibre optic (FTTH, FTTC etc.) based connectivity has continued and now accounts for nearly 25% of all connections (up from 22% in Q1).

North Yorkshire UK Seek Extra Funding to Extend BDUK Broadband Scheme

23rd October, 2013 (0 Comments)

The Superfast North Yorkshire project, which is working with BT to make superfast broadband (25Mbps+ FTTC/P) services available to 90% of local premises by 2014 and “100% of businesses and citizens … by 2017“, hope to secure another £8.1 million to help achieve the projects final goal.

Alcatel-Lucent Unveil Micro-Nodes for Affordable Fibre Broadband Rollouts

22nd October, 2013 (7 Comments)

Global telecoms giant Alcatel-Lucent has developed a new solution – Micro-Nodes – that could bring broadband speeds of up to 100Mbps or faster to homes using existing FTTC (VDSL2) or G.Fast technology and by adopting a cheaper approach to the Fibre-to-the-Distribution-Point (FTTdp) method.

Wales Moot 3rd Open Market Review of BT Superfast Broadband Plan

22nd October, 2013 (8 Comments)

The Welsh Government has warned that it might need to launch a third Open Market Review in order to determine the extent of commercial Superfast Broadband availability, which follows concerns that initial predictions might have underestimated the expected pre-Digital Wales coverage of BT’s FTTC/P services.

First Berkshire UK Area to Benefit from £8m Broadband Rollout Named

21st October, 2013 (2 Comments)

The £2.03m Superfast Berkshire project, which aims to roll-out BT’s hybrid fibre broadband (FTTC/P) network to “around” 91% of local premises by the end of September 2015, has revealed that premises in Wargrave will be the first to benefit by the end of 2014.

UPDATE BT Confirm UK Plan to Trial 1Gbps G.Fast and FTTdp Broadband

21st October, 2013 (28 Comments)

BT Group has quietly confirmed that it plans to trial the next generation G.Fast (aka – FTTC2) broadband solution alongside another future enhancement – Fibre-to-the-Distribution-Point (FTTdp) – at its Adastral Park R&D facility near Ipswich in Suffolk (England).

UPDATE BT Explain Unusual Broadband Speed Estimates on UK FTTC Lines

21st October, 2013 (52 Comments)

An interesting question popped up during BTWholesale’s last Customer Service Forum, which occurred after an ISP raised concerns that BT’s estimate for speeds on its ‘up to’ 80Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC) broadband lines were changing after a period of time. This made it difficult for them to determine whether particular users had a speed fault.

East Sussex UK Reveal First 9 BDUK Superfast Broadband Rollout Areas

16th October, 2013 (0 Comments)

The £35.44m e-Sussex project, which hopes to make BT’s superfast broadband (25Mbps+) services available to 96% of local premises by mid-2016 (note: a total of 99% will be covered by the new FTTC network but some will only receive up to 24Mbps), has named the first nine telephone exchange locations to benefit.

UPD Digital Scotland UK Reveals First 8 Superfast Broadband Rollout Areas

16th October, 2013 (1 Comment)

The £264m Digital Scotland project, which aims to ensure that 85% of Scottish homes and businesses can access BT’s “high-speed fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network by the end of 2015 and around 95% by the end of 2017, has revealed the first 8 areas to benefit and most appear to be in the Highlands and Islands region.