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Sky already sells a 5 Gbps in areas where CityFibre is available, which using Sky supplied figures is 14% of UK homes, so the launch of a 1.6 Gbps service utilising the Openreach network is about offering better speeds to a much wider audience. “We’re proud to offer Full Fibre 1.6 Gbps to millions of […]

AI is already starting to play a noticeable role in how UK consumers interact with broadband, mobile and other telecoms services, according to an Ofcom report on Consumers using AI in telecoms. Eight per cent of adult UK internet users have used AI in relation to their telecoms in the past year, with 6% using […]

The £5.4bn Project Gigabit programme has created more than 3,000 jobs and apprenticeships across England, according to new figures from DSIT. The figure has been sourced from operators involved in the programme that have contractual ‘social value’ commitments with roles they are required to report. It does not include projects in other areas of the […]

The 31st January 2027 is rapidly approaching and the start of Autumn will hopefully mean more of those who’ve done nothing to prepare for the PSTN switch-off. As a measure of last resort Openreach has today outlined that those with a PSTN service running on 31st January 2027 will see the telephone part of their […]

The Social Market Foundation, a cross-party think tank published a report yesterday calling on the BBC to be funded by a broadband levy instead of the license fee. The current licence fee structure is not popular with the public, and there is a wider review of the BBC Royal Charter due soon. The report sponsored […]

Ofcom is investigating Vonage Business Ltd and Voxbone SA in relation to telephone numbers that are part of blocks held by the two companies being misused by people engaging in scams. It needs highlighting that Vonage and Voxbone are not being investigated for running scams at all, but rather as the holder of large UK […]

The Virgin Media website and O2 websites appear to be suffering from issues that started around 4:30pm 23rd September 2026. The O2 website was slow to load and may be working as we type this, but the message on the Virgin Media indicates problems with them displaying their broadband deals. We don’t know what other […]

After the work involving Openreach, Affinity Water and Lightsonic the water company Southern Water has deployed the Lightsonic leak detection system. The system monitors the Openreach underground full fibre network and uses AI to help detect water leaks to within a 10 metre accuracy. The detection is based on acoustic data recorded from the passive […]