The “Great British Broadband Boost” is ringfenced for BT.
The DCMS Press release headlined "The Great British Broadband Boost" needs to be put in context. The "boost" comprises £465 million 
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Which is more important to the future of BT? Quadplay or a Converged Utility with EE?
BT may be resisting the forced separation of Openreach but its wider business strategy is unclear and it is unlikely to be able to fund both its quadplay ambitions and the investment needed to provide the reliability, resilience and security, not just response times, its customers are increasingly...
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Could London match Singapore with unsubsidised fibre to the flat?
Singapore and Hongkong are London's most dangerous global financial services rivals and also have the best big city broadband. What do we and they they have in common? The high proportion of residents who live and work in housing and office complexes which are cheap to fibre up - provided this is...
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If barely half UK FTTC lines meet definition for Superfast, how can BDUK be on track?
I recently became embroiled in a dispute as to whether UK Broadband performance should be measured by "speed" supposedly "available" or by that actually experienced by customers. This led me to look at the 13 Comments
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Does rapid take-up of SME broadband vouchers indicate a better way for final 2%
The broadband talkfest on 7th October appears to have been a profound disappointment although there is still...
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Why can’t small firms adjacent to the Silicon Roundabout get BT Infinity?
I has just approved a comment to my "How Rural is Smithfield?" blog entry from a small firm in
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How rural is Smithfield (London EC1)? Where is final 10% which is “uneconomic” for BT?
I was recently contacted by a small firm in the heart of London, under pressure from customers who wanted it to do far more on-line, asking why...
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