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

Rollout of superfast, Gigabit and full fibre across the UK since 2010

The steady progress continues with the full fibre rollouts, but the last few weeks has seen a big slow down in what is being found in terms of new full fibre rollouts. This is not just because of the rollbacks from Openreach, but there is a general slowing across many of the networks we are […]

Broadband

Weekly Brief – 6th February 2026

Our usual weekly article on some broadband-related news that we didn’t cover in a full article. Broadband ISP Vispa ceases trading Manchester-based ISP Vispa has announced that it has ceased trading and will commence liquidation proceedings, with customers advised that they need to find an alternative provider. This will, of course, cause some upheaval but […]

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Ten point drop in Openreach full fibre coverage in Stevenage

We have focussed on Stevenage because it looked likely as a place where we might find Openreach pausing Ready for Service availability on lots of addresses. After a couple of days of checking addresses we are in a position to share the results, at the start of 2026 Openreach full fibre coverage in the Stevenage […]

Broadband

The Big PSTN Switch Off — What you need to know

We’ve just published a guide on the PSTN/Analogue Switch Off, the move by BT Openreach to transition from copper-based technologies to full fibre. Eventually, copper-based phone lines will be removed completely, but the first step of this process is to migrate the telephone service (voice calls) from being plugged directly into your phone line to […]

Broadband

BT results indicate record numbers of full fibre connections

The latest BT Group trading update has been released, covering the quarter ending 31st December 2025. On the one hand, we have a record rollout of full fibre and some 8.2 million premises connected and subscribed to a full fibre service. On the other hand, we see declining revenue of 4% compared to the same […]

Broadband

Be careful if signing a new broadband service if there’s any chance you may need to move!

Broadband services tend to be sold on the basis of 12-, 18- or 24-month initial contracts. Sometimes you need to renew these for equal terms to avoid switching onto a higher tariff, a bit like “Standard Variable Rate” mortgages. In other cases you can stay on reasonable costs after this time, without tying yourself to […]

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Project Gigabit data in September 2025 now fixed

On Tuesday 3rd February 2026 a new set of DSIT Open Market review (OMR) files dropped and the data mismatch in the Project Gigabit supplier column fixed. On Tuesday afternoon and evening we scanned the 41 million UPRN records and have updated the Project Gigabit supplier entries that show on our broadband maps. The various […]

Online Safety

Ofcom sets out next moves in its investigation into X

The investigation that Ofcom started into X on 5th January 2026 is at the position where they’ve requested information from X and are waiting for X to respond to the legally binding information requests. Ofcom has published the timeline update as the Information Commissioner’s Office is launching its own investigation into Grok as part of […]

Wholesale

Openreach full fibre rollout rolling back in some areas – UPDATE

Over the Christmas break, we started to see some oddities with addresses where Openreach full fibre has previously been recorded as available, and now, a month later, we can share what looks to be happening at some scale across Great Britain. In the last few weeks, we’ve removed Openreach FTTP availability for over 18,000 addresses […]

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