There's been an interesting juxtaposition of announcements this week, related to the next generation of UK Internet access for homes and businesses. So-called "superfast broadband" access is still patchy in the UK, but getting less so...

Here's more good news for those of us waiting for fibre broadband to be available at our homes and small businesses. Councils will in future be unable to prevent the installation of new streetside cabinets...

It's emerged today that BT Openreach is to hire another 400 roving engineers, to help with the national fibre broadband rollout. BT says that the majority of the jobs will be given to ex-forces personnel...

Ofcom this week proposed significant price cuts for BT OpenReach's wholesale leased-line products. And now BT has published its response: the 1Gb/s or 622 Mb/s Ethernet-based products -- known as WES, WES/WEES, and EAD -- will enjoy rental reductions of up to 45%.

BT is happy to announce that it's enabled 10 million UK premises for optical fibre broadband. It's reached this artificial landmark eight months ahead of schedule. Richi Jennings looks behind the numbers...