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Internet Service Providers

Home Unity launches retail services over Freedom Fibre network

Home Unity has added Freedom Fibre as another altnet to the list of networks they sell services across. The Freedom Fibre footprint is largely based across the North West and West Midlands, with some smaller areas elsewhere. We presume that in time once the Freedom Fibre/Truespeed partnership is up and running that this will also […]

Wholesale

Virgin Media owner considering other broadband takeovers

Virgin Media owner, Telefónica, has advised that it will consider further takeovers of broadband providers to try and strengthen Virgin Media O2’s position against Openreach. Telefónica owns 50% of VMO2 alongside shareholder Liberty Global. VMO2 recently announced that it was acquiring broadband altnet Netomnia following agreement of a deal worth £2bn for the firm to […]

Mobile Broadband

Shared Rural Network hits 50 mobile mast milestone in Wales

Across the UK as a whole some 119 mobile have seen work under the Shared Rural Network (SRN) programme, and 50 of those are in Wales. The SRN rollout is upgrading masts in locations where there is limited network coverage, so after the upgrade coverage should be available from the four networks i.e. EE, Three, […]

thinkbroadband

Full fibre availability now increased to 83% of UK premises

It has taken two months but we’ve made it to the next full percent point of full fibre coverage in the United Kingdom. Our figures as of the morning of 8th March 2026 have the UK at 83.04% full fibre availability up from 82.18% on 4th January 2026. The pace is a lot slower than […]

EXCLUSIVE: February 2026 update on broadband availability across the UK, nations and regions

Eight days since our tracking of broadband coverage across the UK hit 90% Gigabit availability and the broadband rollouts have continued with the UK Gigabit figure now sitting at 90.17%. Not all is perfect though as we thought we’d added enough coverage from multiple networks during the course of Friday to hit 83% full fibre […]

Broadband

Weekly Brief – 6th March 2026

The weekly brief for this week with a couple of extra stories that we didn’t cover. Openreach tweaks FTTP expedite charges Openreach has updated their price list ot adjust the price of FTTP Expedite. From the 1st of March, the pricing of this option, which can speed up an FTTP install, will rise from £125 […]

Online Safety

Ofcom investigates two imageboard sites over CSAM and non-consensual images

Ofcom has launched an investigation into the provider of two image board services as to whether it has complied with its duties under the Online Safety Act. It is in particular looking to see if individuals have been prevented from encountering non-consensual intimate images (NCII) and child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Ofcom has decided not […]

Broadband

EE 8Gbps trial available to sign up in Guildford/Woking

EE have announced areas where a trial of next-generation XGS-PON will take place through Openreach. The technology has been used by altnets for some time now, with some like YouFibre offering 8Gbps for a couple of years. Pilot wholesale pricing for the services was announced in January, and now people in Guildford, Woking and surrounding […]

Altnets

Fibrus hits Project Gigabit milestone in its Cumbria Contract

The rollout of full fibre to the premises by Fibrus in the North West has continued at a reasonable pace and they have now rolled out FTTP to some 30,000 homes and businesses where no commercial plans to deliver a Gigabit bit capable service across the Cumbria area. The Cumbria Project Gigabit contract from November […]

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