Category: 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 […]

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 […]