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UK social media ban for under 16’s set to start in Spring 2027

Building on previous legislation such as the Online Safety Act 2023 and the Children’s Well Being and Schools Act 2026, the heavily trailed social media ban has now been officially announced. The timeline is that the plan is to bring everything to Parliament before Christmas 2026 and come into force in Spring 2027. The restrictions […]

12 hours ago

Weekly Brief – 12th June 2026

A few brief bits of news from this week. Extending High Speed Broadband Framework Agreement for Wales signed The contracts for the Welsh Extending High-Speed Broadband (EHSB) scheme have now been signed. This is a project with two Lots defined to split contracts into projects with more than 1,000 premises and those with fewer than […]

3 days ago

TOTSCo celebrates 3 million completed broadband migrations

In the less than two years since the One Touch Switching platform started handling migrations it has seen 3 million switches completed. In May 2026 alone there was 147,894 switches completed. While the average match rate for matching someone to the right provider when an switch is started is still fairly low at 62.93% in […]

3 days ago

EXCLUSIVE May 2026 update on Openreach full-fibre roll-out

The period 12th May to 12th June has been an average month for mapping Openreach full fibre ready for service (RFS) premises with us adding 259,240 to the footprint which is now standing at 22,776,815 premises. The goal of 25 million premises passed by December 2026 means another 2.25 million premises need to built and […]

4 days ago

Project Gigabit January 2026 OMR data mapped – UPDATED

Our broadband maps have been updated and now feature the data from the Project Gigabit Open Market Review with the data being collected in January 2026 and released as a 31 million row data set in the last couple of days. The January 2026 data joins the previous sets from Sept 2025, May 2025, Jan […]

4 days ago

Richard Tang interview with Juliette Scott, Openreach

Richard Tang has released the most recent of his interview series, this time with Juliette Scott of Openreach. Juliette is the Senior Manager for all IP Migrations and Exchange Exit. This means that she is in charge of getting the 5,500 telephone exchanges reduced to a new estate of just 959. The PSTN (public switched […]

4 days ago

Delivery performance data released by BDUK for last year

The latest BDUK delivery performance report has been published by BDUK. The data shows how many premises in the UK have received a gigabit-capable broadband connection due to a BDUK subsidy. The data covers the period April 2025 to March 2026. The headline estimate for the number of gigabit broadband capable connections that BDUK has […]

5 days ago

Virgin Media O2 predicts late-night surge for broadband usage during World Cup

With the first Scottish game set to start at 2am UK time on 14th June it is likely that many Scottish fans will stay up to watch it live, to avoid the usual app alerts giving away any result. The first England match is 17th June and with a 9pm kick-off is likely to not […]

5 days ago
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