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London and South East Altnet Community Fibre had an exceptional 100Mbps deal until yesterday which offered the service from £14/month, representing one of the best deals even for those eligible for social tariffs (although it did come with a 24-month contract and price increases each April). Today they have announced their June promotion of 1 […]

Openreach asks the public to report suspected metal theft Openreach, along with Crimestoppers are teaming up with metal recycling firm EMR to help combat the rise in copper theft from the Openreach network. Openreach says that since April 2024, more than 100,000 people have lost access to their home phone line or broadband due to […]

London-based Altnet Community Fibre have been known for their ‘no qualification criteria’ Essential Social Tariff product which doesn’t require you to be on either Universal Credit or one of the other benefits that is usually needed for a broadband social tariff. This provides a 35Mbps symmetric service for £12.50/month, although it does come with a […]

Wales-based broadband Altnet Ogi has launched a new deal running until 07/06/2026 23:59 with £1/month pricing for the first six months of a 24-month contract. It runs across all the current services from 250 Mbps up to 1Gig (900Mbps), is available to new customers. If you know someone on Ogi the ‘refer a friend’, the […]

A round up of some news bits that we haven’t covered this week. Virgin Media O2 launches responsible business plan to reach net Zero VMO2’s new responsible business plan, as part of its Environmental, Social, and Governance strategy, will see the company plan to keep 500,000 low-income households connected. The new plans also see the […]

Fibrus, following on from its previous Project Stratum contract in Northern Ireland, was awarded a contract to deliver Gigabit connectivity to 9,333 rural and hard-to-reach premises as part of Project Gigabit. The contract is funded by the UK government through the Department for Science, Innovation, & Technology (DSIT) and delivered by the Department for the […]

(please see update below) AllPoints Fibre has agreed to sell off its Cuckoo customer base to Onestream, which will allow the company to focus on its wholesale network and platform, Aquila. Under the terms of the agreement, the customers, brand and domain will all move over to Onestream, with customer connections not changing, and remaining […]

London-focussed Altnet Community Fibre ran their Double the Speed Promotion from 9th April until 6th May (their website still shows this promotion even though it was supposed to expire yesterday as we publish this in the early hours) which provided some stunning deals to get faster services for less money. This offer was exceptional on […]

DIGI across Europe has a reputation for undercutting the competition and its aiming to do the same in the UK with three offerings: We don’t know why the US spelling of Fiber is used throughout the Digi UK site, they use a mixture of fibre and fiber spellings when we on their English version of […]

An additional £3,195,012 has been allocated to the Project Gigabit contract that stretches from Skipton and Holmfirth in the West to Pocklington at its Eastern edge. There are some additions and subtractions from the properties that the contract covers, the end result being a net addition of 2,642 premises in the initial scope of the […]