Category: Broadband

If your broadband woes are Wi-Fi related with Virgin Media cable broadband then is hope on the horizon. Virgin Media O2 is giving its Hub 5 router out to select customers who have the older Hub 3 and Hub 4 models. “Providing our customers with the very best broadband experience sits at the heart of […]

The results of Ofcom’s mmWave spectrum auction, which took place yesterday, have been released by Ofcom. Wavelength across two bands, 26 GHz and 40 GHz were up for grabs with this intended to provide additional network capacity in crowded locations over short distances of typically a few hundred metres. There are 68 “high-density” areas where […]

Vodafone in the UK appears to be suffering a network outage affecting both broadband and mobile-broadband data services (phone services seem to be working). A quick check has also shown that their website is down, and this appears to be due to a routing issue. (For the technically minded – the DNS servers appear to […]

The last 30 days has seen us find and add 510,223 premises to the network operators full fibre footprint. This is just shy of the record amount for a single months deployment which we covered in March 2025 with a monthly change figure of 518,745 premises. Combined with the previous two months the quarter saw […]

Here are some news articles that may be of interest which we did not cover in the last week. Ofcom rejects competition harm from Openreach proactive upgrades to FTTP Ofcom has put out a letter to the industry saying that it does not yet see evidence of clear competition harm from the Openreach offer, where […]

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 […]