Category: Altnets

Good news for FTTP availability as our tracking of the many full fibre footprints is showing 85.05% of UK premises are now covered by one or more Ready for Service options. The time taken to go from 84% to 85% is a lengthy 78 days. The slow down in the full fibre rollouts from almost […]

Quickline was awarded its Project Gigabit contract for North Yorkshire back in June 2024 and has delivered full fibre to some 10,980 funded premises. With the delays in getting press releases put together this is likely over the 11,000 premises milestone now. The altnet has a total of four contracts in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire and […]

The Competition and Markets Authority has started its phase 2 investigation that will delve into the detail of the acquisition of Substantial (Netomnia i.e. Brsk and YouFibre) by Liberty Global, Telefónica and InfraVia (nexfibre). nexfibre and Substantial asked the CMA on 11th June 2026 to fast track the phase 2 investigation and has started the […]

As part of a national awareness campaign that will run for a week from 4th July 2026 INCA has announced July 4th as Broadband Independents’ Day. The aim of the day and subsequent awareness events is make people aware of the options that are available to them. Some 3.6 million broadband connections are already up […]

Our weekly news brief covers things that didn’t make it into our news this week. ITS Technology announces network expansion to 13 locations Altnet ITS Technology Group has announced the next phase of its network build, which will allow more businesses to connect. The company is focusing on its business network, delivering Ethernet over FTTP. […]

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 […]

Note: see below correction after GoFibre reissued the press release to advise that premises are not yet live. As part of its Project Gigabit contract, the altnet GoFibre is busy rolling out its full fibre service to places such as Montrose, Dunkeld, Bankfoot, Newtonhill, Portlethen, Alyth and Coupar Angus. The roll-out in Angus, Perth & […]

Connect Fibre was awarded the Project Gigabit contract for Derbyshire back in 2023, and the contract has just been modified to increase the number of premises covered and due to see Gigabit broadband (i.e. full fibre) delivered. The new contract sees an increase in the value by £1,577,558 to £35,011,555 and covering an additional 790 […]

Another Project Gigabit modification this time with additional premises and therefore a slightly increased value. Quickline was awarded the Project Gigabit contract for North Yorkshire and the original value was £73.5 million, it subsequently increased in value to £75,580,000 and has now increased again to £76,850,907. The latest increase adds 1,323 premises to the initial […]

Zen Internet adds FTTP services from MS3 Zen Internet has started offering Full Fibre services from altnet MS3 Networks. Details can be found in our broadband listings with a promotion active offering the Full Fibre 900 product for the same prce as the 500, until the end of August. MS3 launched to try and break […]