Broadband News, Comparison, Analysis and Data

Some news bits here that might be of interest from this week. Opensignal ranks the UK last in their European Network Excellence Index Opensignal has released an analysis of mobile networks across Europe, focusing on the experience of 4G and 5G networks. Of the 29 countries listed, the UK came last. This seems to be […]

The monthly detail for the progress on the Project Gigabit contracts that Building Digital UK (BDUK) directly administers has now been published. The number of premises delivered as of June 2026 stands at 271,460 out of a total of 839,340 premises that are in in a Project Gigabit area. This is an increase of 14,780 […]

Olilo who describe themselves as broadband redefined for speed-freaks, sysadmins and home lab heroes has signed up to the Telecoms Consumer Charter. Three key parts of the consumer charter are: For Olilo the mid-contract price rises is easy, they don’t appear to do mid-contract price rises and even offer a rolling monthly contract for those […]

Ofcom has announced that another company has been fined under the Online Safety Act 2023 for failing to protect children from accessing pornographic content. First Time Videos LLC operates two websites that have been found to be in breach. “Ofcom has determined that First Time Videos has failed to comply with section 81 of the […]

Some call it Project Mustang, some call it FibreUp but the programme Virgin Media O2 has underway to upgrade old coax DOCSIS 3.1 areas to XGS-PON full fibre has been underway for a while, but now with giffgaff selling its full fibre services using the nexfibre wholesale platform in some Project Mustang areas the landscape […]

Virgin Media O2 has expanded the number of devices that its O2 Satellite service works with. Today sees the official announcement that Google Pixel devices are supported, though it will need to be a Pixel 9 or newer to work. O2 Satellite exists to provide connectivity in areas with no traditional mobile network and is […]

Note: see below correction after GoFibre reissued the press release to advise that premises are not yet live. As part of its Project Gigabit contract, the altnet GoFibre is busy rolling out its full fibre service to places such as Montrose, Dunkeld, Bankfoot, Newtonhill, Portlethen, Alyth and Coupar Angus. The roll-out in Angus, Perth & […]

It has been a long time since we looked at the state of new home statistics and starting in 2023 it looks like the UK has been hitting 99% full fibre availability in new-builds. Previously we used to present data based on calendar year, but we re-worked the analysis to shift to financial year, so […]