Category: Broadband

Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service has signed up to a Starlink satellite broadband service provided by reseller Brdy. This is replacing current connections through one of the mobile network operators which they have found variable in terms of bandwidth and coverage. This will allow command vehicles to be upgraded to provide better connectivity with […]

Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) have published the financial results of their holding company VMED O2 UK Holdings Limited showing a drop in revenue across the board for both mobile (O2) and fixed (Virgin Media) Services: The revenue reductions in mobile and consumer represent just a 1% reduction whilst the total revenue has dropped dropped 5%. […]

Point Topic has published its Q3 2025 UK ISP and network supplier metrics, which show that for the first time, full fibre FTTP connections have overtaken FTTC. The statistics indicate that an estimated 11.56m FTTP connections are now live, passing FTTC, which has reduced to 10.60m. The full fibre figures published by Point Topic show […]

The Chancellor of the Exchequer has delivered her budget for autumn 2025, and it doesn’t reveal any new funding to help businesses or consumers realise a future fibre or gigabit broadband connection. The limit of the broadband references appears to be on DSIT consulting on measures that will allow leaseholders to request a gigabit broadband […]

The news articles this week that we didn’t cover in a full article which may be of interest. VodafoneThree upgrades 8,000 sites with Multi-Operator Core Network VodafoneThree has announced that they have reached a milestone of 8,000 sites that they operate have been upgraded to support Multi-Operator Core Network (MOCN). This is allowing expanded 4G […]

BDUK has published its monthly progress data on Project Gigabit contracts. The data tracks how many premises have been delivered and how many are planned for each of the contracts that have been issued under Project Gigabit. Contract Supplier Contracted premises Built contracted premises Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire and Milton Keynes CityFibre 21,030 1,580 Bucks, Herts and […]

Ofcom has released its annual Connected Nations report, which aims to give a picture of how the UK communications infrastructure is performing and improving and to monitor the availability of both broadband and mobile services across the UK. This article focuses on the mobile network side of the report. 5G rollout Ofcom is monitoring the […]

The latest Connected Nations report has been published by Ofcom and its a long read, but on a cold wet day with snow in some parts of the UK its an ideal day to scroll through on your tablet in a cosy chair. The key figures from the sixty page document are: Ofcom Connected Nations […]

The acquisition of Connexin by CityFibre was announced in March 2025 and now it looks like the footprint of over 80,000 premises in the Hull and East Riding area is available via CityFibre. This should now mean in the coming days and weeks we will see other retailers utilising the CityFibre platform. This is presuming […]

A global outage on Cloudflare, a network which offers web application security and performance, has had an outage today, which began at around 11:30 GMT. This has affected many websites, including our own, with users seeing Cloudflare error pages rather than the actual webpage itself. Other services, including X.com (formerly twitter) and chatgpt.com have been […]