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Wildanet, a full fibre Altnet based in the South West of England has withdrawn from the full build on two Project Gigabit contracts in the Southwest and Central Cornwall (lots 32.02 and 32.03) having completed rollout to 13,200 premises so far, leaving 7,700 premises outstanding. BDUK is looking for alternative suppliers to roll services out […]

Ofcom has today announced that it has fined another porn company for failing to put in place age verification to protect children from pornographic content. Kick Online Entertainment SA has been fined £800,000 for failings under the UK’s Online Safety Act. The Act required companies to ensure age check verification was in place from the […]

In the last week, we have seen some 14 addresses where we had previously seen Openreach make full fibre available, but subsequently remove the ability to order full fibre, and now these addresses are able to order FTTP again. Confusing, we know, but important for those living on these streets. That we are seeing addresses […]

The slowest month for Openreach full fibre additions for some years has just happened, just 160,930 premises have been added to our tracked total for Openreach FTTP. Several reasons are behind this big drop compared to the previous months total of 536,981 and the 353,433 premises we reported on in December 2025. We suspected the […]

Registration for the 28th ISPA Awards is now open and runs until Friday 17th April 2028. Registration is open at https://ispa.thinkbroadband.com which also includes details of the 16 different categories. This year’s line-up recognizes excellence in service, technical innovation, and social responsibility: The Internet Hero category is not open right now, calls for nominations for […]

Altnet group AllPoints Fibre Networks (APFN) has announced a new partnership with Sky Business Wholesale to deliver Ethernet services through its platform, allowing APFN business customers to order full fibre (FTTP) services alongside Ethernet services across Sky’s network outside of APFN’s own coverage, giving it access to a larger nationwide footprint. We are increasingly seeing […]

The M&A arena of the altnet market is heating up this year, with Truespeed Communications and Freedom Fibre the latest companies to announce that they have signed an agreement to merge their businesses. Both companies have already gone through mergers – Freedom Fibre had already merged with VX UK and LilaConnect, and Truespeed had merged […]