UK Broadband News, Comparison, Analysis and Data

Those attending Connected Britain 2026 at London Excel had the opportunity to listen to Lutz Schüller the Virgin Media O2 CEO being interviewed on the second day of the conference in a fireside chat. In light of the CMA Interim Report and reactions to the BT Group/TalkTalk/Platform X transaction neither of which were public knowledge back […]

The good news Wales has reached 90.37% Gigabit coverage (i.e. full fibre or Virgin Media O2 cable is available) taking the nation past a major milestone. Actual full fibre coverage is not far behind at 88.62% because of the amount of overbuild of the old cable network in Cardiff and Swansea by Openreach and the […]

Richard Tang, CEO of Zen Internet, produces an interview series with a series of business leaders, and his latest guest is Katie Milligan, CEO of Openreach. The conversation included Openreach’s fibre rollout, competition and regulation, the future of Altnets, AI and efficiency, Project Gigabit and the copper switch-off. Full-fibre Rollout & Regulation Openreach is continuing […]

Lutz Schüler, Virgin Media O2 Chief Executive Officer, has penned an open letter to Lisa Nandy MP, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport with the CEO’s concerns about the purchase of TalkTalk and Platform X by BT Group. We’ve included the full text, rather than screenshots to make it more accessible to people. […]

CityFibre has released its results for the quarter ending 30th September 2026. The alt-net has an over 1.1 million customers connected to the network and 260,000 have been added in the last 12 months. With their self declared RFS footprint this gives a take-up figure of around 22% rising to 26% if looking purely at […]

It has taken since 4th July 2026 for this latest point increase in full fibre coverage across the UK, a period of 3 months and 2 days. This is a long way from the peak of the fibre rush when each point of coverage was happening every 3 to 4 weeks. Full fibre rollouts have […]

Under the remit of the Online Safety Bill Ofcom has announced it is to investigate Instagram Instants with it looking at whether an appropriate content risk assessment and children’s risk assessment was carried out prior to the products launch. Instagram Instants launched on 13th May 2026 and this allows you to share photos or video […]

Virgin Media O2 has issued a statement on the TalkTalk/PXC purchase by BT Group: “This has all the characteristics of a stitch up masked as a rescue deal in the public interest. Just days after the competition regulator proposed potentially blocking a logical deal between nexfibre and Netomnia that would accelerate fibre investment and create […]