Category: Broadband

A slightly quieter month in terms of the Openreach full fibre additions with 286,500 premises mapped since 12th August 2025 to give a total footprint we know of 19,522,129 ready for service premises. We suspect that somewhere in Openreach someone is getting ready to announce the 20 million premises passed milestone and Connected Britain on […]

The size of the broadband switching market in the UK is now clear that we have the first years figures for the Ofcom mandated One Touch Switch process. In the 12 months since the messaging gateway launched supporting a seamless switching process between providers some 1.6 million broadband and landline customers have switched. Broadband switching […]

Zen Internet as part of its partnership with Neos Networks has just upgraded its connectivity between Manchester and London to 400 Gbps. The upgrade is utilising part of Neos Networks’ nationwide fibre network and will help to ensure growth in bandwidth driven by many factors is able to continue. The obvious driver being increased takeup […]

Work has been announced to start on another 12 exchanges that will eventually allow Openreach to vacate the exchange building completely. Engineering changes are set to start in Q3 2025/2026 i.e. in 12 months time and expecting to take place over the nine to twelve months. The rough dates are given so that communication providers […]

Lots of addresses with full fibre added to our databases in the last month but the end result has only been a 0.47 point increase in full fibre coverage in thirty one days to 79.74%. We know we’ve been adding a lot more than that as we’ve been kept as busy as ever the give […]

As usual, our weekly brief covers news items we didn’t cover in the past few days but are noteworthy nonetheless: Eight Advisory appoints Nicholas Collins as Senior Advisor Telecoms consultancy Eight Advisory has appointed Nicholas Collins as a Senior Advisor to assist with digital infrastructure projects across Europe. He is a former member of the […]

The official BDUK annual progress report has been published showing how much Gigabit broadband (full fibre usually) has been delivered by the current three main strands the Government department overseas. The three strands being full fibre delivered by the old Superfast contracts, Hubs combined with voucher schemes and the Project Gigabit contracts (GIS). The headline […]

A round-up of other news bits that we didn’t cover this week. LSBUD – Digging up Britain Report LSBUD’s (Linesarch before U dig) annual report on Digging up Britain has analysed the activity across the country and found that more than 1.4 million underground asset searches occurred on their data from the telecoms industry. Banks […]

One would have hoped that, given the resources of the BT Group that BT Consumer would have consistent and accurate messaging when communicating with customers, particularly those who are vulnerable. Alas, we have seen an email to an elderly customer saying full fibre has “arrived in your neighbourhood” when it is not yet available at […]

Fibrus, which has been rolling out FTTP across Northern Ireland, has confirmed they have completed Project Stratum – delivering next-generation broadband access to over 81,000 premises. The project finished in June 2025. Almost £200m of funding was provided for the project, including £150m from the UK government, £15m from the Department of Agriculture, Environment and […]