Category: Broadband

The £5.4bn Project Gigabit programme has created more than 3,000 jobs and apprenticeships across England, according to new figures from DSIT. The figure has been sourced from operators involved in the programme that have contractual ‘social value’ commitments with roles they are required to report. It does not include projects in other areas of the […]

The official position on Gigabit coverage is that it is available to 88% of homes and businesses in the latest DCMS/BDUK report on the progress of Project Gigabit across the UK based on January 2026 data. 88% is impressive given it was 20% in May 2020, but a reminder that a large chunk of the […]

To help people visualise what is and is not available in their part of the UK, we have over the weekend added the most recent Ofcom Connected Nations data to our broadband maps. The postcode resolution data for Gigabit availability in each postcode, has been plotted with six levels of colour banding ranging from Ofcom […]

ITS confirms 9 towns and cities are now ready for service ITS broadband is now available in 9 towns and cities after the company announced plans to expand its full fibre service into 13 new locations. Businesses in Aberdeen, Bath, Bournemouth, Chester, Coventry, Huddersfield, Loughborough, Plymouth and Swansea are now able to order services, with […]

The data BDUK collected from broadband networks in May 2026 to inform the Project Gigabit rollouts has now been published and the data has been added to our maps. The interactive layer for OMR data has been updated to work with the May 2026 data, and previous maps for Jan 2026, Sept 2025, May 2025, […]

A quick roundup of broadband news from the last week we haven’t otherwise covered. Airband was sold to Voneus for just £4.6m after racking up £312m of creditor claims Aberdeen Group stands to lose more than £228m of secured debt and its equity after administrators sold the Airband business from administration to Voneus for £4.6m. […]

Shareholders of Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) are looking to reduce costs at the company as its debt pile has grown to over £22.5bn. Liberty Global and Telefónica have, according to the FT, asked the company to find a mix of reductions through job cuts and reducing operating and capital expenditure. Financial markets have been adjusting […]

A pilot programme has been announced by Lincolnshire County Council to provide Starlink satellite broadband to parts of its County Farms Estate. This will target rural properties where fibre broadband is not yet available. The council has announced the pilot as part of the ‘Back British Farming Day’ initiative, and says it hopes to help […]

Connected Britain had the CEO of nexfibre speaking, and other senior staff from competitors and industry talking across the day, both on the main stage and at the various breakout meetings. While everyone was careful not to second-guess the CMA investigation into the acquisition of Netomnia (Substantial Group), it was very clear there are a […]

Scot-Tel-Gould, a wireless ISP based in Aberdeen, will be deploying 6 GHz fixed-wireless kit from Tarana Wireless to build a fixed wireless access network. Tarana describe the equipment, Tarana G1 base stations, as offering next-generation Fixed Wireless Access (ngFWA) with the base nodes configured in 4-carrier (4x 40MHz), capable of delivering 1.6Gbps per wireless link. […]