Broadband News, Comparison, Analysis and Data

It has been 11 years since Tesco had a name in broadband, but that could be about to change as the company is reportedly (FT/paywall) in discussion with Virgin Media O2 / nexfibre about retailing services over their network(s). Tesco Mobile is a joint venture between Tesco plc and Virgin Media O2, with the network […]

The common link seems to be Openreach based availability, but the public Openreach checker seems to be working. EE and BT as of 10:50am are saying we are fixed things, Sky is reporting issues, Vodafone appears to work in at least some Openreach areas, along with CityFibre, Zen Internet appears to be working but it […]

Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) has announced that it plans to switch off O2’s 2G mobile network starting in the summer of 2029. All three mobile networks (VodafoneThree, O2 and EE) have confirmed to the government that they will switch off 2G by 2033 at the latest. EE has confirmed it will begin closing its network […]

CityFibre is growing its partnership with VodafoneThree to become a preferred supplier to connect its mobile sites across the UK. VodafoneThree is investing £11bn to build a new 5G Standalone (5GSA) network across the UK, and with these faster mobile technologies, there is always a need for a faster backhaul. CityFibre will be a supplier […]

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 […]