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The second mast under the Shared Rural Network programme in Scotland that is bringing 4G coverage to an area that was otherwise a total not-spot is now live. Residents, businesses and visitors to Islay, and locations such as Machir Bay, Saligo Bay, Loch Gorm, and Cultoon Stone Circle, as well as along the western coast […]

We reported on an iTalk Broadband outage two weeks ago when users were reporting downtime already lasting several days. We covered it again three days later reporting on the continued loss of service to iTalk customers. We contacted the company but have had no response. We are still getting fresh reports from new users a […]

TOTSco, the body which runs the broadband One Touch Switch (OTS) platform, believes there are improvements that could be made to OTS performance and has launched a consultation to engage with providers to facilitate collaboration in making these improvements to the system. The system is now 18 months old and has handled around 2.5 million […]

After a smaller set of figures back in February than usual everything seems to be back to normal, as we’ve tracked an additional 363,513 Openreach full fibre premises in the last four weeks. Worries that Openreach had scaled back its rollout can now recede into the background, and the issue seems to be a big […]

The days of simply entering your date of birth when signing up for a new social media or other tech platform is ending. Age Verification was a core part of the Online Safety Act to do more to ensure only adults could access pornographic content, and Ofcom is calling on platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Roblox, […]

Altnet full fibre coverage had reached 19.7m premises at the end of 2025 according to INCA’s State of the Altnets report, and they have over 3.5 million live connections. The number of premises passed has grown by 20% year on year, but the number of live connections has grown by 32%. The report points out […]

The wholesale aquila platform has had CityFibre services available over it for some time, but a new platform release means that APFN (All Points Fibre Networks) is now able to offer 1.7 Gbps and 2.3 Gbps through the system. This means partners can now offer XGS-PON speeds matching other platforms that sell the CityFibre services. […]