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Ofcom has today announced that it is recommending that body stigma and depression content should be added to the ‘priority’ content known to be harmful to children under the Online Safety Act. It will be up to government to decide whether this change should be made. At present, it’s up to the individual services subject […]

The nexfibre acquisition of Netomnia valued at £2 billion and a subsequent investment of £3.5 billion saw the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) issue an interim report on 2nd October. Three weeks later the major shareholders in nexfibre have confirmed they will not be submitting a remedies package. Usually when CMA raises questions such as […]

The Project Gigabit contract for Cumbria is held by Fibrus and they’ve been building for a while now and apparently the first phase is complete having brought full fibre to something like 37,700 homes or businesses in the County. The footprint for Fibrus across the North West and Northern Ireland is between 470,000 and 480,000 […]

The West Herefordshire and the Forest of Dean contract between BDUK and FullFibre Ltd was terminated in May 2026, as the two parties agreed to mutually terminate it. The alternative plans that BDUK talked about at the time have been updated so that both areas are now covered by Openreach. A few weeks ago there […]

Our broadband maps have had some additional data added to them, so that people in Scotland can now see Project Gigabit Open Market Review status of their address based on the Scottish Governments review. Previously we only had data for Scotland for the September 2024 data set, but we have in the last day added […]

CallFlow was a rarity in that they did sub loop unbundling and deployed their own VDSL cabinets to serve some areas of Kent. Leaping forward to today and we have residents concerned about their broadband in the village of Hunton, Kent as Trooli who have been running the CallFlow cabinets has recently informed them of […]

DCMS has announced that the rollout of full fibre by Gigaclear under the Project Gigabit contract awarded to the broadband provider in North Oxfordshire has completed and brought Gigabit to some 3,880 premises across the contracted area. Our map updated on the morning of the 13th October to add a few hundred premises where Gigaclear […]

Opensignal has launched a map tracking direct-to-device (D2D) satellite connections, showing mobile phones connecting directly to satellites, avoiding 4G/5G mobile networks. Direct-to-satellite services can be particularly helpful in very rural areas where mobile coverage can be very patchy, although it should be noted that this can extend to some areas in the suburbs, it is […]