Category: Broadband

We sometimes see questions from users about poles, including what is a ‘D Pole’. YouTuber Ringway Manchester has published a video covering many of the marks on poles which may be of interest to those interested in the topic:

Broadband Report September 2025 As a reminder, we released our latest edition of the UK Broadband Report (September 2025). A key stat included is that 80% of UK households now have access to full fibre broadband. Our normal weekly brief below includes some news items we didn’t cover but may be of interest. VMO2 and […]

The Government’s broadband voucher scheme, run by BDUK, is set to be reopened in some areas, according to ISPreview. The Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme is part of Project Gigabit and is aimed at helping get gigabit broadband available to more homes and businesses which are not currently included in commercial plans. Initially, this was restricted […]

BT has commissioned a report from Assembly Research to look at the economic benefits of migrating Critical National Infrastructure away from old legacy networks such as PSTN, 2G and 3G onto new fully digital IP infrastructure and has identified that migrations could provide £3bn net economic benefit by 2040 Some of the obvious costs of […]

We can now announce that our independent broadband availability monitoring shows that full fibre broadband is available to 80% of premises in the UK. It has taken a matter of weeks but the leap from 79% to 80% full fibre coverage across the UK has happened at last. Of course the 80% is the average […]

We have today published our latest UK Broadband Report for September 2025. Key Statistics from this edition are: Along with our usual statistics updates, we have also updated the Fibre Overbuild matrix, which identifies where there is overlap between the different networks. The Financial Backers to the alt-nets page has been updated to include current […]

Postcode Subscriptions (New feature) As a reminder, we launched a new feature called Postcode Subscriptions which allows you to watch broadband availability information for up to five postcodes, and be notified when there’s a change. This feature has been long overdue and should help you keep an eye out for any new altnets. We hope […]

The reasoning behind the rebranding at TalkTalk with more of an emphasis on Wi-Fi is clearer now after they’ve published some details of research carried out. The short version is that with three quarters of adults saying they understand the term Wi-Fi versus only half understanding fibre partly behind the rebranding. “Wi-Fi is a staple […]

As the result of shareholdings Bharti has in the BT Group they are allowed to appoint two non-independent non-executive members to the BT Group board and the two appointees are Sunil Bharti Mittal, Founder and Chairman of Bharti Enterprises and Gopal Vittal, Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Bharti Airtel Limited. “We’re delighted to welcome […]

Our weekly brief covers news items we didn’t cover in the past few days but we think are noteworthy nonetheless: Which? release mobile coverage map Consumer champion website Which? has released a mobile network coverage map based on Opensignal app data to help people find the quality of mobile networks. EE announces 17 new areas […]