Category: Broadband

The Openreach FTTP footprint has now grown to 19,235,579 premises, with the last three months seeing the footprint grow by 1,038,430 premises. The addition of 313,082 premises in the last month means a daily total of 10,099 premises being added each day, and this is excluding around 10,000 premises where service is partially live. This […]

Here are some other news items that we didn’t cover this week but could be of interest: O2 encourage the government to implement changes to combat ticket touts charging on average triple the ticket face price. O2 sell over 1.5 million tickets to customers/fans every year via their ‘Priority Tickets’ platform. ASUS routers have picked […]

A quieter month in terms of the increase in overall UK FTTP footprint rising 0.67 points to 79.27%. The fairly low rise in the FTTP figures does not mean no one is building full fibre but with the relatively high levels of availability we are seeing increasing overlaps, the % of premises with 2 or […]

There has been a 1.21% increase in broadband subscribers globally in Q1 2025, according to data from Point Topic, who track global broadband statistics. South and East Asia are leading this expansion. Fibre to the Home or Building (FTTH/B) also increased and stands at 72.34% of total fixed broadband connections, showing the dominance of the […]

We haven’t written full news articles on these but there are a few bits we wanted to highlight: B4SH (Broadband for Surrey Hills) has launched a Social Tariff for £20/month delivering a full symmetric 1Gbps service for recipients of Council Tax support (not single person discount/students). Order through their website. Although it is one of […]

There’s one conference we have been attending for the past few years due to the number of operators, vendors and government representatives (from Central and Local Government) in the room — Connected Britain 2025 will take place on 24 and 25 September 2025 at London’s ExCeL Exhibition Centre. The event often attracts senior ministerial keynotes […]

Virgin Media O2 added some 480,200 mobile connections in Q2 2025 taking the groups mobile footprint to 46.2 million connections. Broadband customers appear to be voting with their feet with 51,400 leaving them with 5.6 million broadband connections. “Against a tough trading environment, we have continued to be disciplined delivering growth in profitability which means […]

DSIT has published its own analysis of what the various Project Gigabit contracts delivered in the period April 2024 to December 2024. We believe we can do better in terms of indicating what is going on much more recently. We are using the Open Data that was released by DSIT as part of its Open […]

The fibre to the premises rollouts continue and the combination of commercial and Project Gigabit rollouts has seen the full fibre footprint go from 78% of UK premises to 79.01% in 35 days. While we are finding ourselves spending more time mapping footprints from different providers that are bringing the second or third FTTP network […]

Starlink with its large low earth orbit clusters provides a key service to many people and as of 9pm UK time Starlink posted a short status message on X saying “Starlink is current in a network outage and we are actively implementing a solution. We appreciate your patience, we’ll share an update once this issue […]