Category: Broadband

Here are some shorter articles that we haven’t covered otherwise this week: TOTSCo 2026 pricing TOTSCo have confirmed that pricing for using the switching platform will remain unchanged for 2026, and stay at the current £0.28 unit charge per residential customer and £350 subscription fee per RCPID. River Severn Partnership Completes Mobile Coverage Survey The […]

Virgin Media has announced some precise figures for its full fibre rollout in 5 urban areas: Immediately on seeing the Belfast figure we knew the figure was a mistake by Virgin Media O2 or they are counting the combined footprint from the nexfibre joint venture XGS-PON roll-out, and the Project Mustang upgrade programme overbuilding the […]

TOTSCo launched with live broadband migrations in September 2024 and in the next few days they should hit the 1.5 million switches completed milestone. This is around 4,500 switches completing each day, and hopefully as the amount of network competition grows the volume will grow further. Apparently the match rate is edging upward, failed matches […]

AlphaReal a specialist assets investment manager has agreed a bespoke lending solution for Highland Broadband that when combined with £10 million from the Scottish National Investment Back gives the altnet full fibre provider a total of £50 million to invest in rural communities across Scotland. To date our tracking of the Highland Broadband (many may […]

The UK Government has today announced a £9.5m Digital Inclusion Innovation Fund to tackle digital exclusion and inequality to help get the remaining population online. Local councils, charities and research bodies will be able to bid for grants of between £25,000 and £500,000 to deliver grassroots initiatives such as tech workshops and run schemes to […]

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 […]