UK Broadband News, Comparison, Analysis and Data

Our tracking of the numerous full fibre roll-outs big and increasingly small has seen the Gigabit coverage for the United Kingdom increase by 0.2 points to 91.63%. Full fibre availability has increased by 0.31 points to 86.34% with the bulk of that being the Openreach full fibre roll-out. London for some months has seen its […]

Low Earth orbit satellite broadband provider Starlink has launched a 30% off for Starlink residential and roaming service for November. The discount is available only in selected areas across the UK until the end of the month. The discount will continue to apply for the duration of your subscription, and means you can get Starlink […]

Broadband Altnet Community Fibre, which has a wide network in London and the South East (Community Fibre Map), is offering a 6-month free promotion on all broadband packages both on 12- and 24-month contract options for new customers only. This offer is limited and ends on Monday 09/11/2026. We do expect Community Fibre to have […]

Gigabit broadband is so 2025, the real action is XGS-PON which supports a maximum of 10 Gbps and Vodafone has launched several new speeds on the CityFibre full fibre network with the maximum being an 8 Gbps download and 8 Gbps upload service. “It’s brilliant to see VodafoneThree’s continued ambition to innovate and grow across […]

The BT Group financial results for the half year to the end of September have been released and the slow down in the Openreach full fibre rollout we’ve been seeing is now confirmed in the results. The 25 million premises with full fibre from Openreach target was the end of 2026, and until now everyone […]

Northern Ireland is exceptionally well served when it comes to full fibre broadband with 97.7% Gigabit and 97.45% FTTP coverage as tracked by our Labs site. This compares to 91.9% Gigabit and 86.4% full fibre in England for comparison. Much of this is down to investment by Fibrus. However, a recent survey of mobile network […]

Broadband alternative Gigaclear has launched a new 3Gbps broadband service called the Nova 3000, although it appears to be in a pre-launch phase with availability limited to select households. We haven’t yet mapped where these are, but have added the product with some caveats to our package listings. If you are currently on the 900 […]

Twenty years after a glossy launch Virgin Media O2 is laden with some £22 billion of debt and its latest financial results set out a plan to create cost savings of around £800 million by 2029. The cost savings are said to be around £400 million in the 2027 financial year and a further £600 […]