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GoFibre starts full fibre build for 100,000 premises rollout in North East Scotland

GoFibre was awarded a Project Gigabit contract for North East Scotland last summer with a contracted value of £105 million to deliver Gigabit capable broadband to 63,000 premises. The altnet full fibre operator who has an existing network in North East England and Scotland has announced work starting in Stonehaven, St Cyrus, Laurencekirk, Auchenblae, Letham […]

Other

Ofcom says overall phone and broadband prices are falling

Ofcom research has arrived at ten suggestions for how people can save on their broadband, in addition to the measures the regulator introduced such as end of contract alerts, simpler contract summaries and easier broadband switching. The ten ideas are with a few additional words from ourselves: The headline of prices failing will no doubt […]

Broadband

O2 switches on Starlink satellite service for Samsung Galaxy S25 and S26 in UK first

Virgin Media O2 has announced they have launched O2 Satellite, its direct-to-device service using Starlink to improve mobile coverage in the UK. This is the first service to launch in the UK, albeit on a limited basis, not supporting standard voice calls (WhatsApp calls should work). Several networks have been running services in other countries […]

ICO issues £14.47 million fine to Reddit for not checking age of users

The Information Commisioner’s Office has concluded an investigation into Reddit and how it handles the processing of children’s information. The conclusion reached is two large failures at Reddit with respect to data processing for children. “It’s concerning that a company the size of Reddit failed in its legal duty to protect the personal information of […]

Altnets

What would the next bold move by Nexfibre look like? Acquiring CityFibre?

One of the most significant acquisitions in the Altnet world was announced last week when InfraVia, Liberty Global and Telefonica, the shareholders who own Virgin Media O2 and Nexfibre, announced their £2bn deal for Nexfibre to acquire Netomnia. We also published an analysis on what this deal means for the VMO2 and Nexfibre networks. The […]

Online Safety

Ofcom fines 8579 LLC £1.35 million for failure to gate adult content behind age verification

The latest fine Ofcom has levied under the Online Safety Act has been announced and an overseas company is the latest to get fined for not having effective age assurance to prevent children accessing pornographic content. 8579 LLC has been fined £1.35 million due to the lack of age verification and an additional £50,000 for […]

Broadband

Project Gigabit BDUK update for February 2026

BDUK has released its monthly tracking of progress for the contract-level data for Project Gigabit builds, which shows that across all areas, 21% of properties have had fibre built to them. The snapshot of data provided is dated 16th February 2026, but BDUK notes there is a time lag in the delivery of these premises […]

Wholesale

nexfibre to overbuild old Virgin Media O2 coax network as part of Netomnia acquisition

A small line or two in the paperwork but incredibly significant part of the £2 billion acquisition of Substantial Group (Netomnia) needs highlighting. “nexfibre to finance the fibre upgrade of the 2.1m VMO2 HFC homes (that are adjacent to the Netomnia footprint) with VMO2 paying wholesale fibre access fees on its customers in those homes […]

Wholesale

Organisational changes at Openreach to take effect from 1st April 2026

On the same day the new Openreach CEO Katie Milligan officially starts will also see a revamp of several parts of Openreach in moves that the telco feels will improve the experience they deliver for Communication Providers and their customers. Surinder Khatter will be appointed as Chief Customer Experience to lead a new Customer Experience […]

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