Category: Broadband

Dame Nia Griffith, Wales Office Minister, has been out to visit an Openreach telephone exchange in Newbridge to see how engineers are installing Full Fibre Broadband to replace the older copper network that has been used for many years. Openreach is investing £300m in building a Full Fibre network across Wales with a reach of […]

The work to determine which new homes have been built is a continuous job. This is reflected in the reality that on Wednesday we reported a figure of 104,615 new premises mapped by thinkbroadband and linked to the financial year 2024/2025 and today the same period is sitting at 112,168 premises. The jump of almost […]

Richard Tang, CEO of Zen Internet, continues his interview series with the CEO of Country Connect, Mark Tomlinson. Country Connect (not to be confused with County Broadband) is a niche alt-net operating in South Wales. It was set up nine years ago to get broadband to Mark’s father-in-law’s home, who had no Internet. They began […]

It has been a long time since we last summarised our new build property coverage but we’ve finally managed to get around to summarising what is happening for new build properties in the broadband world. In the gap between June 2023 and today a significant change we’ve made is to align the data so that […]

Mobile network Three has apologised to users today after issues affecting voice service have been occurring this morning. The mobile network, now part of the joint group VodafoneThree, still operates as a separate network. Downdetector, a website that crowdsources information about problems on websites or other services has shown a large spike in people experiencing […]

The villagers in Bramley (Surrey) have been suffering effects on broadband and phone services following a petrol leak from an Asda petrol station, and it’s been a long journey. This has meant villagers have been unable to get some services installed or fixed when needed. It has also affected business in the local area as […]

The slowdown as FTTP networks focus on overbuilding each other has really hit. The jump from 77% to 78% full fibre coverage has taken fifty-four days. To put this into context, at the peak of the FTTP rollouts, we were adding a point of coverage every 20 days or so. The slowdown is history repeating […]

The Data Use and Access Bill has received Royal Assent today, meaning that the bill has become an Act of Parliament. Whilst this is not strictly related to broadband, it does impose new requirements for Government to keep a register of all underground assets and make this data available to other parties. This means that […]

Lesley Cowley OBE has been appointed as Chair of Building Digital UK (BDUK), the public body co-ordinating Project Gigabit and the wider support for the UK broadband rollout. She will start the new role in July. Lesley was Chief Executive of Nominet (the .uk registry) following which she was Chair of the DVLA, Companies House […]

The national security review is expected to announce that government spending on broadband should be classified as defence spending, helping the government to reach a 5% target of GDP to be spent on defence. This would include Project Gigabit with a £5bn budget to bring broadband to hard-to-reach areas. Details revealed in The Telegraph (paywall) […]