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Ofcom has started a one month consultation to garner support or opposition to its proposal to force Openreach withdraw its ‘Incremental New to Openreach Offer’ as the regulator considers the charges as potentially harmful to network competition. This would be the first time that Ofcom has blocked a commercial offer from Openreach. The Openreach proposal […]

This is a story of a reader in social housing in Central London who went years without access to full fibre broadband due to a Housing Association that wouldn’t budge, and what we tried to do to help him. We have a fairly full mail bag from users struggling with broadband problems, be it speed […]

The Openreach Stop Sell programme is in full swing, and Openreach state that 15.4 million premises as of 20th August 2026 will be under active Stop Sell. This number is growing all the time and today has seen the next batch of 112 exchanges that will in a years time enter the Stop Sell phase. […]

Some news bits from the week that are worth a read on Friday night or over the weekend. INCA and altnets calls on new Labour Government to put telecoms at the heat of growth agenda Paddy Paddison Chief Exec of INCA had this to say “The government must not assume that the broadband rollout is […]

The latest financial results from Virgin Media O2 show a declared footprint of 18.8 homes and the full fibre rollouts and upgrades are available to 9 million premises, so almost at the half way mark as the operator moves to embrace XGS-PON and full fibre rather than coax. In terms of customers, the level of […]

Several possible reasons for why Ofcom is reporting that broadband complaints have fallen to a historic low, with just six complaints per 100,000 customers in the months January, February and March 2026. Back in 2011 complaints recorded by Ofcom were running at 40 complaints per 100,000 customers. So what are the possible reasons: A key […]

The end of the quarter on 30th June 2026 means its financial results time during July and BT Group has issued a short trading update. A fuller set of results is expected in October. A key take-away is that full fibre take-up continues to grow with the group now having 9.4 million premises connected via […]

With the demise of DSIT which is now part of the Department for Business, Innovation Science and Trade it was not clear what was going to happen to the Digital Infrastructure and BDUK parts of the old DSIT. Two days later we have a better idea, the Department for Culture Media and Sport is to […]