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The South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority undertook a project last year to measure the mobile signal across Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, and Sheffield. This is similar to a Welsh project in 2024 to use bin lorries to map mobile signals as they travel across every residential road. The project is in conjunction with StreetWave. The latest […]

Imposing a £450,000 fine on Meta is small compared to the size of Meta but the fine is inline with the guidelines Ofcom works to for setting the level of fines. Since Meta admission that it got things wrong the fine includes a 25% discount. So that has Ofcom fined Meta for? The fine relates […]

The revised deadline for reaching 25 million premises passed by Openreach of March 2027 is still on track, we currently estimate we will be reporting our tracking reaching that figure between 23rd February 2027 and 16th March 2027. The last month saw a net increase in the Openreach full fibre footprint of 243,839 premises, following […]

As many of our long-standing users will know, we offer a free tool called the Broadband Quality Monitor (BQM) which allows you to monitor your broadband connection once a second, every second. We have been running this service for over 15 years. It is exceptionally effective at showing where your performance might vary at peak […]

On the evening of Tuesday 10th November 2026, YouFibre took action to avoid GTA VI pre-loading causing network problems. YouFibre has been selling speed as a big feature of its network since its inception, and with 8 Gbps download plans there will probably be a good number of gamers seeking to get the download onto […]

The pre-loads for GTA VI which are letting people get the game downloaded ahead of the launch if you have pre-ordered are impacting traffic volumes already with the gameplay launch taking place on 19th November 2026. Virgin Media O2 is reporting two records have been broken on its network on Tuesday 10th November 2026. The […]

Gigaclear is boosting broadband speeds on its full fibre service automatically for customers to allow them to download GTA VI at full speed for no extra cost. The launch of the latest release in the GTA series from Rockstar Games is set for the 19th November, and it’s been confirmed that it comes in at […]

Telecom Acquisitions Ltd, a communications company which has acquired customer bases and brands has indicated it is looking for businesses with turnover between £0.5m and £2m with loyal customer bases and strong reputations. The company was willing to offer investment and support for those businesses to grow. CEO Nigel Barnett prefers founders staying with businesses […]