Category: Broadband

As usual, our weekly brief covers news items we didn’t cover in the past few days but are noteworthy nonetheless: Eight Advisory appoints Nicholas Collins as Senior Advisor Telecoms consultancy Eight Advisory has appointed Nicholas Collins as a Senior Advisor to assist with digital infrastructure projects across Europe. He is a former member of the […]

The official BDUK annual progress report has been published showing how much Gigabit broadband (full fibre usually) has been delivered by the current three main strands the Government department overseas. The three strands being full fibre delivered by the old Superfast contracts, Hubs combined with voucher schemes and the Project Gigabit contracts (GIS). The headline […]

A round-up of other news bits that we didn’t cover this week. LSBUD – Digging up Britain Report LSBUD’s (Linesarch before U dig) annual report on Digging up Britain has analysed the activity across the country and found that more than 1.4 million underground asset searches occurred on their data from the telecoms industry. Banks […]

One would have hoped that, given the resources of the BT Group that BT Consumer would have consistent and accurate messaging when communicating with customers, particularly those who are vulnerable. Alas, we have seen an email to an elderly customer saying full fibre has “arrived in your neighbourhood” when it is not yet available at […]

Fibrus, which has been rolling out FTTP across Northern Ireland, has confirmed they have completed Project Stratum – delivering next-generation broadband access to over 81,000 premises. The project finished in June 2025. Almost £200m of funding was provided for the project, including £150m from the UK government, £15m from the Department of Agriculture, Environment and […]

Here are some shorter articles that we haven’t covered otherwise this week: TOTSCo 2026 pricing TOTSCo have confirmed that pricing for using the switching platform will remain unchanged for 2026, and stay at the current £0.28 unit charge per residential customer and £350 subscription fee per RCPID. River Severn Partnership Completes Mobile Coverage Survey The […]

Virgin Media has announced some precise figures for its full fibre rollout in 5 urban areas: Immediately on seeing the Belfast figure we knew the figure was a mistake by Virgin Media O2 or they are counting the combined footprint from the nexfibre joint venture XGS-PON roll-out, and the Project Mustang upgrade programme overbuilding the […]

TOTSCo launched with live broadband migrations in September 2024 and in the next few days they should hit the 1.5 million switches completed milestone. This is around 4,500 switches completing each day, and hopefully as the amount of network competition grows the volume will grow further. Apparently the match rate is edging upward, failed matches […]

AlphaReal a specialist assets investment manager has agreed a bespoke lending solution for Highland Broadband that when combined with £10 million from the Scottish National Investment Back gives the altnet full fibre provider a total of £50 million to invest in rural communities across Scotland. To date our tracking of the Highland Broadband (many may […]

The UK Government has today announced a £9.5m Digital Inclusion Innovation Fund to tackle digital exclusion and inequality to help get the remaining population online. Local councils, charities and research bodies will be able to bid for grants of between £25,000 and £500,000 to deliver grassroots initiatives such as tech workshops and run schemes to […]