Category: Broadband

Openreach has announced it has begun work on full fibre rollouts under the Project Gigabit contract, targeting some of the most rural of properties. This will affect areas around: Staffordshire Lancashire Other areas

GoFibre named as top 50 fastest growing businesses in Scotland Scottish broadband provider GoFibre has been named as one of the top 50 fastest growing businesses in Scotland by UK Fast Growth Index which identifies the fifty fastest growing companies in seven regions and nations. “Being named among Scotland’s fastest-growing companies is an incredible honour […]

Virgin Media O2 is continuing on its path towards turning off its old coax network and shifting its millions of customers to XGS-PON full fibre. The third item in this quarters financial statement is that their fibre (full fibre) footprint is approaching 8 million premises from a total footprint of 18,675,100 million premises which can […]

The clusters of Starlink satellites are set to be busier as they overfly the UK as Virgin Media O2 and Starlink have agreed a Direct to Cell agreement. The agreement means Virgin Media O2 customers with the right mobile plan and compatible mobile phone will be able to use messaging and data services using a […]

Quickline Project Gigabit update in East Riding of Yorkshire Quickline has announced new areas are live on its Project Gigabit contract in East Riding of Yorkshire. This includes 550 premises in the villages of Swinefleet, Reedness and Whitgift on the banks of the River Ouse as well as 1,300 premises in Patrington, Tickton and Broomfleet. […]

Quickline has highlighted the amount of work it does beyond just building a full fibre network either commercially or as part of the Project Gigabit contracts they hold. In the last academic year, some 10,000 students have been part of the STEM and digital skills workshops run by Quickline and some £450,000 has been invested […]

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 […]