UK Broadband News, Comparison, Analysis and Data

Gigabit broadband is so 2025, the real action is XGS-PON which supports a maximum of 10 Gbps and Vodafone has launched several new speeds on the CityFibre full fibre network with the maximum being an 8 Gbps download and 8 Gbps upload service. “It’s brilliant to see VodafoneThree’s continued ambition to innovate and grow across […]

The BT Group financial results for the half year to the end of September have been released and the slow down in the Openreach full fibre rollout we’ve been seeing is now confirmed in the results. The 25 million premises with full fibre from Openreach target was the end of 2026, and until now everyone […]

Northern Ireland is exceptionally well served when it comes to full fibre broadband with 97.7% Gigabit and 97.45% FTTP coverage as tracked by our Labs site. This compares to 91.9% Gigabit and 86.4% full fibre in England for comparison. Much of this is down to investment by Fibrus. However, a recent survey of mobile network […]

Broadband alternative Gigaclear has launched a new 3Gbps broadband service called the Nova 3000, although it appears to be in a pre-launch phase with availability limited to select households. We haven’t yet mapped where these are, but have added the product with some caveats to our package listings. If you are currently on the 900 […]

Twenty years after a glossy launch Virgin Media O2 is laden with some £22 billion of debt and its latest financial results set out a plan to create cost savings of around £800 million by 2029. The cost savings are said to be around £400 million in the 2027 financial year and a further £600 […]

Broadband providers have been planning for the imminent launch of Grand Theft Auto VI taking place this month. With other major releases, it is expected to cause a spike in broadband usage with the around 210GB expected download (Source: tweet by @PlaystationSize). We understand that it can be preloaded from midnight UK time on 12 […]

The Virgin Media O2 footprint in its various DOCSIS and full fibre flavours covers around 56% of UK premises and the Financial Times is reporting that along with plans to scrap its own plans to upgrade the existing DOCSIS footprint to full fibre it is close to a deal that will see it reselling Openreach […]

While some want to be negative about growth in the UK broadband economy, the altnets Fibrus, GoFibre and toob have made it into the annual index that looks at growth in UK firms. In the all companies list Fibrus sits at 91 out of 200, GoFibre is 53rd and toob is next to them in […]