Category: Broadband

The latest BT Group results for the three months to the end of June 2025 show some interesting stats, e.g. Openreach FTTP saw 46% net adds of 556,000 compared to the same quarter last year which is a record volume. The interesting thing is that BT Retail (BT, EE, Plusnet) only say its full fibre […]

ISPreview is reporting that two altnets are set to merge with an ‘in principle’ agreement reached between County Broadband and Truespeed. County Broadband has a focus on the East of England and has both a fixed wireless network and a full fibre footprint. Truespeed has its full fibre footprint around Bristol in the South West […]

A study released today by BT shows that up to £230bn of economic benefits could be released by 2035 through the delivery of a highly resilient, high capacity, mobile network that covers the entire UK. The report is calling on the UK Government to step up support for this by releasing more spectrum for mobile […]

A bumper month for the Openreach full fibre rollout, we’ve tracked an additional 401,911 premises added to the total. This means the total Openreach full fibre footprint is 18,922,497 premises and no doubt the internal tracking at Openreach has it at over 19 million premises. Number of Openreach FTTP premises passed as of 12th July […]

Openreach is by a factor of several times rolling out more full fibre than any other network, and we expect to report that we’ve tracked an additional 400,000 premises added to their footprint on Saturday 12th July. The good news is that they have announced several more large areas where they are planning to build […]

We’ve expanded our tracking of the many fibre to the premises footprints to now try and track how much each of the Project Gigabit contracts are delivering. This is possible due to the Open Data from DSIT on Project Gigabit i.e. we are now doing analysis on the millions of addresses in addition to just […]

The UK, along with most European countries, charge Value Added Tax (VAT) on most goods and services. The ‘standard rate’ for this in the UK is 20% having previously been at rates of 17.5% and 15%. What most people may not realise is that there are goods and services taxed at lower rates, typically as […]

A new report issued by ISPA ahead of its annual Parliament and Internet Conference has revealed some stats showing how important the broadband is to UK consumers. The report marks the 30th anniversary of ISPA and covers a range of key issues affecting the telecoms sector, such as broadband rollout, online safety, fraud, and digital […]

Lots more full fibre found in the last four weeks as the UK has gone from 77.73% coverage to 78.60% compared to a much smaller amount the previous month, whether this pace is sustained only time will reveal. The overlapping of the many full fibre networks continues to grow at pace with 31.55% of UK […]

The second tranche of Project Gigabit Open Data from DSIT for England and Wales was released earlier this week. After data ingest on Thursday and changes to our mapping systems everyone can now see the 30 million UPRN on an interactive map. As of 9:45am on Saturday 5th July the tile rendering is on zoom […]