Category: Broadband

Community Fibre has created a solution to the issue around people wanting the full fibre installed to a particular room in their home. Generally, FTTP installers will want to install the ONT and router on the inside of the wall facing the street. That can result in routers being installed in sub-optimal locations, either due […]

Openreach has published an update to its programme build, which reports the status of its full fibre exchange build programmme. ISPReview spotted the new release, which includes data up to October 2025. The PDF format is not very helpful for tracking changes in the data, although Openreach does mark fields that have updates with an […]

It looks like there is an ongoing outage with Amazon Web Services is impacting many services that people are used to using seamlessly. While social media sites like Snapchat experiencing issues is annoying, more important services like card payments are seeing payments being declined to the problems with the cloud services. Some VoIP services appear […]

Our weekly news brief is out with some stories that we haven’t covered as full news articles this week. New Chief Security and Networks Officer at BT BT has announced that Greg McCall has been appointed as Chief Security and Networks Officer for BT following the retirement of Howard Watson, who had worked for BT […]

If your broadband woes are Wi-Fi related with Virgin Media cable broadband then is hope on the horizon. Virgin Media O2 is giving its Hub 5 router out to select customers who have the older Hub 3 and Hub 4 models. “Providing our customers with the very best broadband experience sits at the heart of […]

The results of Ofcom’s mmWave spectrum auction, which took place yesterday, have been released by Ofcom. Wavelength across two bands, 26 GHz and 40 GHz were up for grabs with this intended to provide additional network capacity in crowded locations over short distances of typically a few hundred metres. There are 68 “high-density” areas where […]

Vodafone in the UK appears to be suffering a network outage affecting both broadband and mobile-broadband data services (phone services seem to be working). A quick check has also shown that their website is down, and this appears to be due to a routing issue. (For the technically minded – the DNS servers appear to […]

The last 30 days has seen us find and add 510,223 premises to the network operators full fibre footprint. This is just shy of the record amount for a single months deployment which we covered in March 2025 with a monthly change figure of 518,745 premises. Combined with the previous two months the quarter saw […]

Here are some news articles that may be of interest which we did not cover in the last week. Ofcom rejects competition harm from Openreach proactive upgrades to FTTP Ofcom has put out a letter to the industry saying that it does not yet see evidence of clear competition harm from the Openreach offer, where […]

In December 2024, it was announced that Voneus and BDUK had mutually terminated their Project Gigabit contract for Mid West Shropshire. At the time, not much was known about the reasoning. The contract was worth around £12 million and was looking to bring gigabit to some 6,000 premises in Mid West Shropshire. Thankfully, no public […]