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Altnets

INCA State of the Altnet report says altnets moving towards monetisation

INCA Ann Davies MP, at Better Fibre Live

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 […]

Altnets

All Points Fibre Networks now offering 1.7 Gbps and 2.3 Gbps CityFibre full fibre

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. […]

Internet Service Providers

Home Unity launches retail services over Freedom Fibre network

Home Unity has added Freedom Fibre as another altnet to the list of networks they sell services across. The Freedom Fibre footprint is largely based across the North West and West Midlands, with some smaller areas elsewhere. We presume that in time once the Freedom Fibre/Truespeed partnership is up and running that this will also […]

Wholesale

Virgin Media owner considering other broadband takeovers

Virgin Media owner, Telefónica, has advised that it will consider further takeovers of broadband providers to try and strengthen Virgin Media O2’s position against Openreach. Telefónica owns 50% of VMO2 alongside shareholder Liberty Global. VMO2 recently announced that it was acquiring broadband altnet Netomnia following agreement of a deal worth £2bn for the firm to […]

Mobile Broadband

Shared Rural Network hits 50 mobile mast milestone in Wales

Across the UK as a whole some 119 mobile have seen work under the Shared Rural Network (SRN) programme, and 50 of those are in Wales. The SRN rollout is upgrading masts in locations where there is limited network coverage, so after the upgrade coverage should be available from the four networks i.e. EE, Three, […]

thinkbroadband

Full fibre availability now increased to 83% of UK premises

It has taken two months but we’ve made it to the next full percent point of full fibre coverage in the United Kingdom. Our figures as of the morning of 8th March 2026 have the UK at 83.04% full fibre availability up from 82.18% on 4th January 2026. The pace is a lot slower than […]

EXCLUSIVE: February 2026 update on broadband availability across the UK, nations and regions

Eight days since our tracking of broadband coverage across the UK hit 90% Gigabit availability and the broadband rollouts have continued with the UK Gigabit figure now sitting at 90.17%. Not all is perfect though as we thought we’d added enough coverage from multiple networks during the course of Friday to hit 83% full fibre […]

Broadband

Weekly Brief – 6th March 2026

The weekly brief for this week with a couple of extra stories that we didn’t cover. Openreach tweaks FTTP expedite charges Openreach has updated their price list ot adjust the price of FTTP Expedite. From the 1st of March, the pricing of this option, which can speed up an FTTP install, will rise from £125 […]

Online Safety

Ofcom investigates two imageboard sites over CSAM and non-consensual images

Ofcom has launched an investigation into the provider of two image board services as to whether it has complied with its duties under the Online Safety Act. It is in particular looking to see if individuals have been prevented from encountering non-consensual intimate images (NCII) and child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Ofcom has decided not […]

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