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BT Start BDUK Rollout of Fibre Broadband in Gloucestershire and Herefordshire

20th March, 2013 (6 Comments)

The Gloucestershire County Council (GCC) has announced the first areas to benefit from its state aid supported project with neighbouring Herefordshire, which aims to make superfast broadband (25Mbps+) services available 90% of homes and businesses in both English (UK) counties by the end of 2016 and 100% by 2018.

BT Starts Delayed Deployment of Superfast Broadband in Lancashire UK

19th March, 2013 (1 Comment)

The Lancashire County Council (LCC) has confirmed that its state aid supported project with BT, which aims to roll-out superfast broadband (30Mbps+) ISP services to 97% of local homes and businesses, has finally got underway with the first areas being announced. Sadly the end date has also been put back by around one year.

Binfield Heath UK Locals Raise £60k to Help BT Install FTTC Broadband

18th March, 2013 (31 Comments)

Residents of the isolated Binfield Heath village in Oxfordshire (England) have clubbed together to raise £60,000 in order to help cover some of BT’s costs for rolling out superfast broadband (FTTC) technology in the area, which currently suffers from internet download speeds of just 1Mbps or less.

UPD Northamptonshire and BT Sign GBP16.26m Superfast Broadband Contract

18th March, 2013 (0 Comments)

The Northamptonshire County Council (NCC) has today signed a new £16.26 million contract with BT that will provide “world class fibre broadband speeds” to 53,000 local homes and businesses. Sadly the final time-scales, speeds and targets seem to be unclear.

Kent and Medway UK Award GBP40m Superfast Broadband Contract to BT

18th March, 2013 (0 Comments)

The Kent County Council (KCC) in England has this morning awarded a £39.47 million contract, which will ensure that 91% of local homes and businesses gain access to superfast broadband ISP speeds of 25Mbps+ by the end of 2015, to BT.

Point Topic Claim Residential Demand for 1Gbps Fibre Broadband is Low

13th March, 2013 (14 Comments)

A new study from telecoms analyst Point Topic UK has suggested that there is a ceiling to the broadband speeds that residential consumers are prepared to pay for, with hybrid-fibre (e.g. FTTC, FTTN) solutions tending to dominate the “superfast” market and demand for “bandwidths of a gigabit” being “relatively low“.

BT Help 88 Percent of Lincolnshire UK to Get Superfast Broadband by 2016

13th March, 2013 (4 Comments)

BT and the Lincolnshire County Council (LCC) have today announced details of how they intend to make superfast broadband (25Mbps+) available to “at least” 88% of all homes and businesses in the English East Midlands county by April 2016 (everybody else will get speeds of at least 2Mbps).

UPD Why Fibre Based Broadband Internet Access is Not Always Superfast

13th March, 2013 (21 Comments)

Just because your local authority has promised to cover 98% of homes and businesses with “fibre-based broadband” does not mean that you’re going to get a superfast broadband (25Mbps+) speed and, according to at least one council, you might only get downloads from upwards of 2Mbps.

Cornwall UK Expands Superfast Broadband Coverage Target to 95%

12th March, 2013 (2 Comments)

The joint public and privately funded £132m Superfast Cornwall scheme, which originally aimed to deploy BT fibre optic (FTTC etc.) based broadband ISP services to “at least” 80% of homes and businesses in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly by the end of 2014, has now expanded its target to cover 95%.

ISP PlusNet UK Offer 6 Months Half Price FTTC Fibre Broadband and Phone

12th March, 2013 (2 Comments)

Internet provider PlusNet UK has today launched a new promotion that offers their FTTC based unlimited superfast broadband (up to 80Mbps) and phone bundles at half price for the first six months of service, which means that the entry-level package costs from just £7.99 a month.

BT Disguise UK Superfast Broadband Street Cabinets with Vinyl Wraps

12th March, 2013 (7 Comments)

BTOpenreach, which manages access to BT’s national telecoms network in the United Kingdom, appears to have found a new way of using customised Vinyl Wraps to help camouflage some of their superfast broadband (FTTC) street cabinets.

UPD 98% of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough UK Get BT Fibre Broadband

8th March, 2013 (3 Comments)

BT has officially signed the £45 million Connecting Cambridgeshire contract, which aims to make superfast broadband (25Mbps+) ISP services available to 90% of homes and businesses across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough (England, UK) by the end of 2015 (i.e. 98% will get FTTC but the 8% difference will be sub-25Mbps).

BT Recruits 1000 New UK Engineers to Support Superfast Fibre Broadband

7th March, 2013 (8 Comments)

BTOpenreach, which takes care of BT’s national telecoms network in the United Kingdom, has today announced the recruitment of a further 1,000 new engineers to help with the on-going roll-out of superfast broadband (FTTC, FTTP) and phone services into customers’ homes.

Timico CTO Hit by Slow FTTC Broadband Speeds After Copper Corrosion

5th March, 2013 (15 Comments)

The CTO and Co-Founder of business ISP Timico UK, Trefor Davies, has called for a “total network rollout” of true fibre optic broadband (FTTP) services after highlighting how corrosion on his copper BT telecoms line had caused a recently installed FTTC service to drop from an average speed of 53Mbps to just 6Mbps (Megabits).

VIDEO Surrey UK Detail Phase One of its BT Superfast Broadband Project

26th February, 2013 (1 Comment)

The Surrey County Council (SCC) and BT have detailed the first phase of their part-publicly-funded £33m contract to make superfast broadband (25Mbps+) ISP services available to “nearly” 100% of local premises by the end of 2014.

UPD North Yorkshire UK Detail 1st Phase of its Superfast Broadband Rollout

20th February, 2013 (4 Comments)

The state aid supported Superfast North Yorkshire (SNY) project, which with the help of BT seeks to make superfast broadband ISP services available to 100% of local homes and businesses by 2017 (90% by the end of 2014), has revealed that over 24,000 premises in 34 communities will be included in the first stages.

UPD Sky UK Extend 3 Months Half Price Unlimited Fibre Broadband and Calls

15th February, 2013 (0 Comments)

ISP Sky Broadband (BSkyB) has today extended its offer of three months half price service for their up to 38Mbps capable superfast broadband (Sky Fibre Unlimited) with free weekend calls, TV and free connection bundle until 28th March 2013.