Category: Broadband

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 […]

Virgin Media O2 has announced its Single Visit Install programme is now live across all nexfibre locations. Over the past few weeks, it has already found this sped-up installation for customers. This follows training over 1,000 frontline technicians to roll out the new process. Previously, there would be two separate visits, with the first being […]

After taking two months for full fibre coverage in the UK to go from 79% to the 80% availability milestone, the last month has actually seen deployments that are Ready for Service speed up. In the last 30 days the UK has gone from 79.74% FTTP availability to 80.52%, and more amazingly the jump from […]

Opensignal is better known for its mapping of mobile broadband services, but has now launched two services to help broadband providers check their service is delivering and optimise the service. The new Broadband Spotlight platform aims to track customer experience and network experience for providers and allow them to compare it with competitors at national, […]

Our weekly brief includes some news pieces that we didn’t cover in a full article that may be of interest to our readers. TOTSCo appoint Tim Stranack to the Board TOTSCo have announced a new board appointment of Tim Stranack, Co-Founder and Director of Community Fibre. Tim has served as chair of the INCA board […]

We sometimes see questions from users about poles, including what is a ‘D Pole’. YouTuber Ringway Manchester has published a video covering many of the marks on poles which may be of interest to those interested in the topic:

Broadband Report September 2025 As a reminder, we released our latest edition of the UK Broadband Report (September 2025). A key stat included is that 80% of UK households now have access to full fibre broadband. Our normal weekly brief below includes some news items we didn’t cover but may be of interest. VMO2 and […]

The Government’s broadband voucher scheme, run by BDUK, is set to be reopened in some areas, according to ISPreview. The Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme is part of Project Gigabit and is aimed at helping get gigabit broadband available to more homes and businesses which are not currently included in commercial plans. Initially, this was restricted […]

BT has commissioned a report from Assembly Research to look at the economic benefits of migrating Critical National Infrastructure away from old legacy networks such as PSTN, 2G and 3G onto new fully digital IP infrastructure and has identified that migrations could provide £3bn net economic benefit by 2040 Some of the obvious costs of […]

We can now announce that our independent broadband availability monitoring shows that full fibre broadband is available to 80% of premises in the UK. It has taken a matter of weeks but the leap from 79% to 80% full fibre coverage across the UK has happened at last. Of course the 80% is the average […]