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Scottish Altnet GoFibre has announced another 2,000 homes and businesses in Oxton, Coldingham, St Abbs, Jedburgh and Lauder are being rolled at the next stage of its Project Gigabit project which aims to connect 20,000 premises across the Borders and East Lothian “We’re a Borders-born company, so every new community we connect in this region […]

Back in September 2025, we launched a Postcode Subscription feature to track changes to broadband availability in postcodes you subscribe to. This is a free feature to all users for up to five postcodes (although we will add more on request on an account if justified). This tool monitors the postcodes for changes on a […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]