Category: Broadband

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 […]

VodafoneThree to increase in-contract price rises The company has announced that annual price rises will increase from next April. Current pricing for Vodafone is a £3 annual price rise, and this will increase to £3.50 from 12th November. Three customers on their home broadband offering will see a £3.50 annual price rise implemented. This will […]

As the availability of full fibre across the UK continues to grow so does the amount of overlap between the networks. In the last month the number of premises in the UK with a choice of 2 or more full fibre networks has risen by 1.09 points i.e. from 33.55% to 34.64%. We continue to […]

Every broadband provider is jumping on the Black Friday Sale bandwagon. We’re updating our specific Black Friday Broadband page with the deals along with our main broadband comparison listings of all packages. All the promotions are tagged with ‘BLACK FRIDAY 2025’ so should be easy to see. It’s worth noting that expiry dates range from […]

BT Group has announced that they have signed a deal with Starlink to offer satellite broadband connectivity in areas where traditional broadband is not available. The deal will see customers able to get online with speeds up to 280 Mbps, whilst also offering ‘low latency’ of between 25 and 60ms (more in line with old […]