Category: Altnets

GoFibre who are based in Scotland and are busy building full fibre both commercially and as part of its Project Gigabit contracts has announced a milestone for the town of Eyemouth in the Scottish Borders. It is saying it has connected over 1,000 customers to its full fibre network in Eyemouth. Update 11:12am We originally […]

A summary of news pieces that may be of interest from the last week. Octopus Investment reported in advanced talks to buy PXC from TalkTalk Sky News reports that TalkTalk advisers are planning to enter advanced talks with Octopus about buying PlatformX Communications (PXC). Sky is linking this to Fern Trading, which is managed by […]

Back in October 2024 APFN acquired the customer base of Brillband and now as APFN (All Points Fibre Networks) continues its repositioning as a purely wholesale operation utilising the aquila platform the Brillband customers have now been acquired by Olilo. “Brillband has built something really special, and we’re not coming in to rip everything up. The product, pricing, and […]

Truespeed has launched its retail products on the Freedom Fibre network and this is the first phase of the merger completing to create Freedom Truespeed Group. The merger closed in May, so this launch is just 3 months and much faster than some other altnet mergers. “Three months ago, we set out to prove that […]

The Government has issued a press release to highlight the work of several Project Gigabit contracts across Lincolnshire and Yorkshire which are all held by Quickline. Quickline is deploying a full fibre network to rural properties, along with a commercial rollout. 60,000 homes and businesses are able to access full fibre (Gigabit capable) broadband across […]

Some of the areas talked about earlier in 2026 now have full fibre from GoFibre such as Edzell and the altnet is saying the next places will be Montrose, Dunkeld, Bankfoot, Newtonhill, Portlethen, Alyth and Coupar Angus. The build is a mixture of commercial rollout and the contract GoFibre was given to deliver Gigabit broadband […]

We have today published the seventh edition of our State of Broadband Report, providing our latest analysis of broadband availability and full-fibre rollout across the UK. The detailed comparisons in this edition are primarily based on data from 30th April 2026. Key statistics Full-fibre availability continues to increase faster than gigabit coverage is increasing. This […]

Some news bits from the week that are worth a read CityFibre notifies 200 staff of possible redundancy CityFibre has put forward organisational changes that may result in up to 200 roles being impacted. A consultation has been started. It’s been described as being due to slower progress on consolidation in the market. Hat tip […]

While the rollout is said to have been completed in January 2026, we suspect the wait until July for an announcement from Wessex Internet and Connecting Devon and Somerset (CDS) was due to the auditing process the Project Gigabit contracts undergo and the release of the Project Gigabit OMR January 2026 data a few weeks […]

Moody’s has published a report that takes a look at the UK broadband and compares penetration and take-up rates with the collective EU+UK. For years the UK was lagging seriously with regards to full fibre availability compared to the EU 27, but since around 2024 when the UK drew level rollouts have continued. Of course […]