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Accenture to Acquire Ookla

Technology consulting company Accenture has announced it has agreed to acquire Ookla from Ziff Davis group. The company is known for its Speedtest.net web-based speed test service but it has commercial arms that spread across network analytics, benchmarking and user experience monitoring. It also includes the Downdetector website. Accenture’s driver is that networks are no […]

Internet Service Providers

TalkTalk to get £115m funding injection from Ares Management

A new cash injection of £115m to TalkTalk will be welcomed at the heavily indebted broadband provider as parts of the business are being offered for sale. Ares Management are injecting the cash, £65m of which is senior debt, and will replace a £47m debt facility due to be redeemed in March. £50m is being […]

O2 confirms £700m network investment in 2026

O2 has announced that they expect to spend £700m on network investment this year. This reiterates their existing Mobile Transformation Plan, rather than being an announcement of new funding, and continues the spend level seen in 2025, which was also announced at approximately £2m per day, or £700m. Considering inflation, this could actually mean that […]

Mobile Broadband

Vodafone signs mobile backhaul agreement with Amazon Leo

Vodafone has announced a deal with Amazon Leo, their low-earth orbit satellite network, to provide mobile network backhaul for 4G and 5G cell sites in remote areas across Europe and Africa. The deal will see the base stations connected up at a lower cost in areas than installing fibre or fixed wireless links back to […]

Internet Service Providers

Extended outages for (some?) iTalk Telecom Broadband Services?

There have been several reports of broadband subscribers of iTalk Telecom experiencing a significant outage lasting days. A user on our forums raised this topic, along with a rather worrying account about being asked to commit to a new contract to fix the issue” “We were looking into it as an elderly relative relies upon […]

Weekly Brief – 27th February 2026

A look at a few bits of news that have also come out this week. PXC reveals major updates to 1Portal PXC has updated its wholesale platform, 1Portal, focusing on end-to-end automation. The platform allows providers to order services including Openreach SOGEA, CityFibre FTTP, Community Fibre and Freedom Fibre, with further altnets in the pipeline […]

Broadband

Openreach awarded another Project Gigabit Type C contract

The Project Gigabit contract that FreedomFibre held for Cheshire until a mutually agreed termination was reached in eleven months ago has now been recreated as a Type C contract with Openreach set to deliver. The new contract is Call Off 8 and is said to be aiming to deliver Gigabit capable (i.e. full fibre) to […]

UK reaches 90% Gigabit broadband coverage as full fibre rollouts continue

Our tracking of the UK and its constituent councils and 650 constituencies has the UK at 90.04% Gigabit broadband coverage as of 25th February 2026. 90% Gigabit coverage is a significant milestone on the way to the political ambition of 99% Gigabit for 2032, and follows on from the UK reaching the 85% milestone back […]

Broadband

GoFibre starts full fibre build for 100,000 premises rollout in North East Scotland

GoFibre was awarded a Project Gigabit contract for North East Scotland last summer with a contracted value of £105 million to deliver Gigabit capable broadband to 63,000 premises. The altnet full fibre operator who has an existing network in North East England and Scotland has announced work starting in Stonehaven, St Cyrus, Laurencekirk, Auchenblae, Letham […]

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