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First Fibre Broadband Rollout Areas in East Riding of Yorkshire Confirmed

21st February, 2014 (0 Comments)

The £14m Broadband East Riding Project, which aims to make BT’s superfast broadband (24Mbps+) services available to a further 42,734 local premises by December 2015, has announced its first roll-out locations for late April 2014 onwards.

KC Says 71% of Brits Consider Broadband Speed During House Hunting

21st February, 2014 (104 Comments)

A new survey conducted by incumbent Hull ISP KC, with more than 2,000 adults across the United Kingdom, has revealed that 71% of Brits take Internet speed into account when looking for a new home. This is partly being driven by the growth in connected devices and home working.

First BT Superfast Broadband Cabinet in Rural Scotland Project Goes LIVE

18th February, 2014 (7 Comments)

The Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) has announced that the first “high-speed fibre broadband” street cabinet (FTTC) has gone live in Buckie today, which also represents the first official deployment in the highlands under Scotland’s public and privately funded Digital Scotland project.

South Yorkshire UK Digital Region Network Sets August 2014 Closure Date

18th February, 2014 (6 Comments)

The controversial tax payer fuelled £100m+ Digital Region superfast broadband network in South Yorkshire (England), which surprised nobody when it finally collapsed last year under a pile of its own debt and a lack of political support (here), has finally set a closure date of 15th August 2014.

UPD Fluidata Claims Real Competition Can Drive BT to Go Fibre Optic

18th February, 2014 (27 Comments)

The accounts manager for business ISP Fluidata, Andi Soric, has observed how one of the quickest ways to encourage BT into deploying a true fibre optic (FTTP) broadband network is for rivals to foster competition at infrastructure level by doing the same thing first.

BT Fibre Broadband Coverage in Cornwall Hits 85% Milestone

18th February, 2014 (12 Comments)

The finish line is now in sight after the £132m Superfast Cornwall project in England revealed that BT’s “high-speed fibre optic broadband” (FTTC/P) network had now “reached” 85% of Cornish homes and businesses, which means that they’re on-track to achieve the 95% coverage goal by the end of 2014.

BT Helped by £24.5m Northern Ireland Broadband Improvement Project

13th February, 2014 (5 Comments)

The Northern Ireland Executive (NIE) has announced a £24.5m project, which is part funded by BT and the Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) scheme, to make faster Internet speeds available to over 45,000 of the regions most remote rural homes and business premises by December 2015.

UK ISP PlusNet Cuts Unlimited Fibre Broadband and Calls Price to GBP12.50

13th February, 2014 (5 Comments)

Internet provider PlusNet has slashed the cost of its up to 76Mbps capable superfast ‘Unlimited Fibre Broadband and Calls’ (FTTC) package from £19.99 to just £12.50 a month for the first 9 months of service.

Better Broadband for Oxfordshire Project Names Next BT Fibre Upgrades

11th February, 2014 (1 Comment)

The £25m Better Broadband for Oxfordshire project, which aims to extend BT’s superfast broadband access (25Mbps+) to 90% of Oxfordshire in England by the end of 2015, has revealed the next batch of locations to benefit from the upgrade.

BT Denies Underspend on its GBP2.5bn UK GEA Fibre Broadband Rollout

11th February, 2014 (11 Comments)

BT has denied that its commercial investment of £2.5 billion, which is being used to make their superfast broadband (FTTC/P) network available to around 66% of the United Kingdom by Spring 2014 (19 million premises), will complete with significant underspend worth hundreds of millions.

Durham’s Phase 1 BDUK and BT Superfast Broadband Rollout Begins

11th February, 2014 (4 Comments)

The £24m Digital Durham project, which is working with BT to make superfast broadband speeds (FTTC/P) available to “around” 94% of local premises by the end of 2016, has finally begun the first phase of its deployment.

BT Openreach MD – Sorry for 6 Week Binfield Heath Broadband Outage

10th February, 2014 (0 Comments)

Don’t blame the hybrid fibre upgrade. The Managing Director (Service Management) of BTOpenreach, Warren Buckley, has apologise to residents of Binfield Heath in Oxfordshire, which last year raised £60k to help roll-out a superfast broadband (FTTC) service in the area (here), following an up to 6 week long broadband and phone outage.

25 More Areas to Get Superfast Broadband Under Connecting Shropshire

10th February, 2014 (1 Comment)

The £24.6m Connecting Shropshire project in England has revealed a new list of 25 telephone exchange areas that will benefit from an upgrade to BT’s “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network, which should be expanded to reach 93% of local premises by the end of Spring 2016 (excluding the separate Telford & Wrekin).

North Lincolnshire UK Begins BDUK and BT Superfast Broadband Rollout

10th February, 2014 (0 Comments)

The state aid supported £9.6m Northernlincs Broadband project has named the first communities to benefit from the roll-out of BT’s “high-speed fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network, which aims to cover 92% of North and North East Lincolnshire in East England by spring 2015.

BT’s Struggle to Upgrade Broadband in Costly Deep Rural Parts of the UK

10th February, 2014 (12 Comments)

Competition concerns with the Broadband Delivery UK project have again been raised after BT’s Programme Manager for the £94m Connecting Devon and Somerset scheme in England, Laurent Boon, rejected a call for the parish of Upottery to receive a “fibre broadband” upgrade, which it said would cost the equivalent of £2,000 per property.

UPDATE2 EE UK Offers FREE Connection to Superfast Fibre Broadband

10th February, 2014 (2 Comments)

Communications provider EE will today remove the £50 connection fee from their superfast “Unlimited Fibre Broadband” (FTTC) packages, which offer speeds of up to 76Mbps and currently also benefit from a 3 months half price discount.

AAISP and BT Lock Horns Over 3 Percent FTTC Broadband Packet Loss

7th February, 2014 (6 Comments)

The boss of popular broadband ISP Andrews & Arnold (AAISP), Adrian Kennard, has angrily reported how a BTWholesale services Team Manager told him that “3% packet loss is not considered as a fault” on the operators hybrid fibre superfast broadband (FTTC) lines.