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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 […]

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 […]

The rollout by CityFibre in Leighton Buzzard appeared recently on our maps and while there is a far bit of overlap with the Openreach full fibre network based on the DSIT OMR data it does look like some streets and addresses are part of Project Gigabit. The addresses we think are via Project Gigabit subsidy […]

Over the weekend, we reported on outages suffered for severals days by customers of iTalk Telecom. Following our article, we’ve received quite a few new reports from users. “Like others my broadband has been down since 18.00 hours on Tuesday the 24/02/2026 and is still down. When I contacted them they couldn’t tell when it […]

Technology consulting company Accenture has announced it has agreed to acquire Ookla from Ziff Davis group. The company is known for its Speedtest.net web-based speed test service but it has commercial arms that spread across network analytics, benchmarking and user experience monitoring. It also includes the Downdetector website. Accenture’s driver is that networks are no […]

A new cash injection of £115m to TalkTalk will be welcomed at the heavily indebted broadband provider as parts of the business are being offered for sale. Ares Management are injecting the cash, £65m of which is senior debt, and will replace a £47m debt facility due to be redeemed in March. £50m is being […]

O2 has announced that they expect to spend £700m on network investment this year. This reiterates their existing Mobile Transformation Plan, rather than being an announcement of new funding, and continues the spend level seen in 2025, which was also announced at approximately £2m per day, or £700m. Considering inflation, this could actually mean that […]