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Research by OnePoll for Community Fibre of 2,000 adults shows lots of people they are tied into agreements that are not good value for money (38% of respondents) or the service they receive does not justify the price they pay (26%). Looking at where people said they are frustrated with household bills and long term […]

INCA commissioned research reveals that 1 in 10 people are considering switching to an alt-net such as Community Fibre. Community Fibre is available to more than 1 in 3 properties in the London region and has services that start at £19/m for a 100 Mbps symmetric full fibre broadband service. Current offers mean 1 Gbps […]

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 […]