CityFibre now reach 730,000 customers
CityFibre has announced its most recent financial results, which show it now has 730,000 customers, with customer connections almost doubling in the last quarter – 108,000 customers were added (around 15% of their total customers). This can somewhat be attributed to the addition of Sky now selling FTTP over the entire CityFibre network. The company […]
toob grows CityFibre footprint to a further 33 areas
Alt-net broadband provider toob has announced that they are launching full-fibre broadband in 33 towns and cities through an expansion of its CityFibre partnership. toob, who operate largely in Hampshire, with some towns in Surrey also included, has had a partnership with CityFibre since 2022, which gives them a much larger customer base. The company […]
VMO2 will turn off 3G in Scotland from November
Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) has advised that they will be withdrawing the 20-year old 3G network from Scotland from the 5th of November. The company has already been working on disabling 3G and removing the old infrastructure to free up network spectrum that can be used for the 4G and 5G networks, with the intention […]
Cornerstone to use Vyntelligence AI platform
Cornerstone, the mobile network tower infrastructure company, originally formed as a joint venture between Vodafone and O2, but now partially divested, has announced that they are to adopt the Vyntelligence AI Platform to help deliver mobile sites quicker and safer. Vyntelligence uses ‘Agentic Video AI’, which allows the AI system to watch and interpret the […]
Markings on Openreach poles
We sometimes see questions from users about poles, including what is a ‘D Pole’. YouTuber Ringway Manchester has published a video covering many of the marks on poles which may be of interest to those interested in the topic:
Weekly Brief – 26th September 2025
Broadband Report September 2025 As a reminder, we released our latest edition of the UK Broadband Report (September 2025). A key stat included is that 80% of UK households now have access to full fibre broadband. Our normal weekly brief below includes some news items we didn’t cover but may be of interest. VMO2 and […]
BDUK set to expand broadband voucher scheme
The Government’s broadband voucher scheme, run by BDUK, is set to be reopened in some areas, according to ISPreview. The Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme is part of Project Gigabit and is aimed at helping get gigabit broadband available to more homes and businesses which are not currently included in commercial plans. Initially, this was restricted […]
Zen announces MS3 as new alt-net partner
Zen Internet have announced today that MS3 Networks will join as a new alt-net partner via the Zen network allowing the ISP to retail Zen fibre broadband to more areas from early next year. The company already has deals with alt-nets CityFibre, Freedom Fibre and Trooli, and recently announced a new partnership with ITS. This […]
BT release study into digital network upgrades
BT has commissioned a report from Assembly Research to look at the economic benefits of migrating Critical National Infrastructure away from old legacy networks such as PSTN, 2G and 3G onto new fully digital IP infrastructure and has identified that migrations could provide £3bn net economic benefit by 2040 Some of the obvious costs of […]
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