Every Friday, Recombu Digital rounds up news of the latest live launches of broadband TV services around the UK, in our imaginatively-titled Broadband Rollout Roundup.
This page is updated every week with a summary of the latest Broadband Rollout Roundup so you can see what’s been covered since March 2012, and link to our original coverage for more details.
July 20, 2012
- 6 new exchanges accepting order for BT Infinity 2
- BT does deal with North Yorkshire council, will rollout fibre to 90 per cent of the county by 2015
- BT does deal with Wales, pledges to fibre up 96 per cent of the country by 2015
- Hyperoptic rolls out 1Gbps fibre to City NItes luxury London apartments
July 13, 2012
- Community broadband projects Cotswold Broadband and Cotswold Wireless begin
- WiSpire and County Broadband connect flatlands of Norfolk, Essex and Suffolk
- CPEND in North Devon uses disused railway track to connect 2,200 people and 100 businesses
July 6, 2012
- BT launches its high speed 330Mbps product in 15 areas
- Zen Internet to seel 330Mbps broadband where available
- Satellite broadband providers Tooway Direct and Bentley Walker benefit from 18Mbps speed boost
June 29, 2012
- BT announces 98 new exchanges to get FTTC in the coming weeks
- 4,500 more premises connected to BT fibre in Eversley, Berkshire
- Locations for 330Mbps FTTP on demand trials revealed
June 22, 2012
- BT connects 233,000 UK homes and businesses with fibre
June 15, 2012
- BT Openreach lights up fibre reaching 190,000 homes and businesses.
June 8, 2012
- BT Openreach turns on fibre in dozens of exchanges.
- eXwavia points wireless broadband at Llanfechain in Wales.
June 1, 2012
- BT fibre goes live in Kent and Wakefield.
- Tooway Direct rescues Cumbrian valley abandoned by fixed wireless scheme.
- BT fibre pushed out of Kensington & Chelsea borough by NIMBY councillors.
May 25, 2012
- Macclesfield gets 10-Gig wireless broadband from Metronet.
- Jersey to benefit from Gigabit fibre.
- BT promises up-to-20Mbps broadband by Spring 2013 for another 762,000 homes.
- North Yorkshire hamlet of Robin Hood’s Bay connected via wireless.
May 18, 2012
- BT adds fibre at another 18 exchanges.
- Anglesey gets up-to-10Gbps in Netserve & Fibrespeed deal.
- Fibre-to-the-premises pilot begins at Highbridge in Somerset.
May 11, 2012
- FTTC arrives for over 26,000 in Aberdeen and 70,000 in London.
- Call Flow upgrades three of the five streetside cabinets in Yalding, Kent, to superfast speeds.
April 27, 2012
- Swindon and Southwark: UK broadband turns on the UK’s first commercial 4G wireless broadband services.
- Cumbria: Cybermoor announces a partnership with Calix to grow its gigabit broadband network around Alston Moor
April 20, 2012
- England: 55 BT exchanges go live with superfast FTTC fibre broadband
- South Wales: Blackwood, Caldicot and Pontcymmer BT exchanges upgraded for FTTC
- Scotland: Cumbernauld and Montrose BT exchanges get a fibre-optic boost
- TalkTalk pledges to provide 80Mbps in six North Yorkshire towns connected to the North Craven exchange
- Superfast Cornwall says it expects to see more than 100,000 homes and businesses connected to fibre broadband soon; BT upgrades the Grampoun Road, Hayle and St Ives exchanges
- North Wales: ExWavia connects Cefn Coch and Adfa to a 20Mbps wireless network fed via a two-way satellite broadband link
April 13, 2012
- BT Openreach announces upgrade of all FTTC areas from 40Mbps to 80Mbps
- BT Infinity and TalkTalk announce 80Mbps upgrades following BT’s news
- Sky announces 40Mbps fibre-optic broadband service
- West, Yorks, Co Durham and south Wales see BT exchange upgrades enabling FTTC for 42.400 homes and businesses
- North-East, Cheshire, Yorkshire and Northumberland: BT Openreach upgrades exchanges covering more than 90,000 addresses for up-to-20Mbps ADSL2+ broadband
April 6, 2012
- Birmingham, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Surrey, and the Wirral: BT promises to connect 184,000 homes and businesses to fibre broadband by Spring 2013
- York: CityFibre says it will get 95 per cent of the city connected for up-to-25Mbps by 2014
- South Yorkshire: LittleBigOne adds TV to its Digital Region footprint and upgrades to 80Mbps FTTC
March 30, 2012
- BT Openreach upgrades mean that more than 400,000 homes and businesses in England, Wales and Scotland can now access up to 20Mbps broadband from a choice of internet providers.
- 27 exchanges are upgraded to FTTC
- Virgin Media completes rollout of 100Mbps service across its whole network, reaching a potential 13million homes
March 23, 2012
- BT Openreach lists the 73 UK exchanges which will be upgraded by Spring 2013.
- FTTC goes live on BT exchanges covering Innerleithen & District, Llanrumney, Carterton, Pimlico and Snodland.
- Villagers in West Hagbourne, Oxfordshire, learn they’ll miss out on superfast broadband coming to the nearby Blewbury exchange because they’re too far away.
- Rutland signs up BT to deliver over-24Mbps fibre broadband to 90 per cent of residents, with up-to-24Mbps for the rest.
- BT Wholesale confirms that up-to-24Mbps ASDL2+ broadband now reaches 20million of the UK’s 26million homes and businesses.
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