Brilliant news today in the Autumn statement, with Newport to be one of 12 smaller cities to share £50m superfast broadband funding. Well, almost brilliant news. Recently the Welsh Government announced that the NextGen deal with BT would deliver 20Mbps+ speeds to 96% of Wales residents. Are we seriously to believe that Newport was not
The Welsh Government chipped in with their congratulations for Bangor University’s OCEAN Project, which seems to be close to enhancing the performance of fibre broadband distribution. It’s an interesting project, and one that was originally mooted in the House of Lords evidence given by Peter Cochrane. Use different wavelengths to carry different data streams and the
I’ve been very fortunate recently to have contact with Mike Kiely (yeah – that Mike Kiely) and while exchanging emails about the EE 4G announcement, BDUK came to mind. BDUK is viewed by many as ‘broadband in the UK’, and it simply isn’t. Anyone that is reading this and thinks that the BDUK is going to
A Twitter conversation with Andrew from ThinkBroadband got me to thinking this morning. The conversation was predominantly around USC (universal service commitment) of 2Mbps. Essentially, this was something that BDUK laid out as a target for 2012 (recently moved to 2015) and was prompted by an Ian Grant EIU article he wrote (see article HERE). The Economist Intelligence
Listening to some ‘experts’ it would be easy to believe that Superfast broadband (defined as 24Mbps+ by Gov) and better speeds are irrelevant as there are few services that are capable of utilising such speeds. It is certainly true to say that there are plenty of reasons to argue that anyone on 100Mbps would not be
It is not particularly difficult to find comments that we have made about broadband, on the internet. We make no secret of the fact that: The regulator (Ofcom) is not regulating The Gov have woefully inadequate targets for our future £830m is going to be wasted by BDUK BT could do more, but why should
In March 2012 wispa Limited published the whitepaper Broadband UK – Ubiquitous, superfast (100Mbps+) delivery is achievable which contains a great deal of practical policy changes that the Government could make in order to assure the UK a place in the forthcoming Data Revolution. Yesterday, Akamai released their ‘State of the Internet‘ quarterly briefing. The
We have learned today that all of our worst fears are soon to be announced as part of the Welsh Government’s NGBW (Next Generation Broadband Wales) deal with BT. BT were left as the only remaining bidder when: BDUK rules excluded £20m turnover companies, all other bidders withdrew their bids one by one it became