Category: Broadband

The nexfibre rollout continues and today Virgin Media O2 has decided to highlight Ripon and they claim over 6,000 homes have XGS-PON full fibre to them. The city looking at our data saw the bulk of the nexfibre rollout between April and August 2025, so this is not about announcing a newly built area, but […]

A wide range of pages on the Virgin Media website including the main root page were returning 404 to visitors as of 5:15pm Friday 14th November 2025. As of 5:25pm it looks like whatever error it was has been fixed. As everyone knows never do major changes to websites or software late on a Friday […]

Here are some brief news pieces that may be of interest that we haven’t otherwise covered in the news this week. TalkTalk CFO Appointment TalkTalk has appointed Henry Davies as Group Chief Financial Officer. Previously, he was CFO of Circle Health Group, where he undertook multiple refinancing rounds, experience TalkTalk most certainly will value. “On […]

TOTSCo have confirmed that they are “just shy of” two million completed switches on the platform since it launched on the 12th September 2024. This presumably means they are expecting to pass the milestone imminently, although they haven’t provided the actual figure reached to date. The company have also announced that two new members have […]

BDUK has published its second official quarterly statistics to provide data on how many premises in the UK have had gigabit broadband installed through a subsidy funded via BDUK. This data includes the last two quarters of figures from April to the end of September 2025. Figures from previous time periods have also been revised […]

Triodos Bank has announced that it has agreed a new funding package with alt-net B4RN (Broadband for the Rural North) to allow it to expand further into the North East, with a focus on areas around Northumberland and the County Durham border. In 2019 Triodos helped B4RN raise 3.3m, which was used to support fibre […]

Openreach has put out some details on where it is starting to build its FTTP fibre network and also extending parts of its full fibre footprint to cover new towns and villages. Some of these include areas which are funded via Project Gigabit. Cumbria Cockermouth, Millom, Carlisle, Wigton, Maryport, Workington, Aspatria, Kirkby Lonsdale, Kirkby Stephen, […]

Netomnia, who are the second largest alt-net in the UK have announced their Q3 results for 2025. The company which comprises YouFibre and brsk, following the merger of the two networks earlier this year, now boasts coverage of 2.8m serviceable addresses (2.84m in thinkbroadband tracking), having increased by 241k premises in the last quarter. They […]

An average month for the Openreach full fibre rollouts after a very busy end of the quarter push. Between 12th October 2025 and 12th November 2025 we’ve added 295,905 premises which are Ready For Service via the Openreach full fibre network. The rollout continues to be a mixture of overbuild of altnets, and easier to […]

Four out of five UK premises had full fibre available to them on 24th September 2025 and after 46 days this has now risen to 81.01%. The days of reporting each point increase in around 20 days are in the past, but as the builds venture into areas that are either not commercial and support […]