UK Broadband News, Comparison, Analysis and Data

The latest postcodes and addresses to see full fibre arrive under the Kent Project Gigabit contract may not be massive at around 20 postcodes added in the last week to our maps but it shows CityFibre is still delivering. The latest addresses going live are around Teynham which sits midway between Faversham and Sittingbourne. While […]

To help people visualise what is and is not available in their part of the UK, we have over the weekend added the most recent Ofcom Connected Nations data to our broadband maps. The postcode resolution data for Gigabit availability in each postcode, has been plotted with six levels of colour banding ranging from Ofcom […]

ITS confirms 9 towns and cities are now ready for service ITS broadband is now available in 9 towns and cities after the company announced plans to expand its full fibre service into 13 new locations. Businesses in Aberdeen, Bath, Bournemouth, Chester, Coventry, Huddersfield, Loughborough, Plymouth and Swansea are now able to order services, with […]

The data BDUK collected from broadband networks in May 2026 to inform the Project Gigabit rollouts has now been published and the data has been added to our maps. The interactive layer for OMR data has been updated to work with the May 2026 data, and previous maps for Jan 2026, Sept 2025, May 2025, […]

Community Fibre was no slouch before today offering 5 Gbps for £56.70 a month, and now the first customer on the XGS-PON network that Community Fibre has in London is up and running on an 8.5 Gbps service. The 8.5 Gbps download and 8.5 Gbps upload XGS-PON service is not cheap at £300 a month […]

GoFibre broadband, an independent Scottish altnet, has announced that they have begun fibre build to almost 1,000 homes and businesses across Aberdeenshire. The firm has announced that the build is underway in St Fergus, Inchmarlo, Kincardine O’Neil, Collieston, and Newburgh, and also Kingswells in Aberdeen. The company will be offering speeds of up to 1Gbps […]

A bit of fun or a table highlighting the scale of work left if the WLR switch off is to complete by end of January 2027. There is little time left for homes and businesses that are using a copper based telephone line (Wholesale Line Rental/WLR) service to switch to a VoIP (Digital Voice) or […]

The last BDUK update in August 2026 suggested that Fibrus has delivered 37,060 premises with the option of full fibre out of a contracted total of 53,540 premises. Today sees a small change notification issued for the contract in relation to addresses where wayleaves or other third-party permissions, while the number of premises that will […]