Category: Broadband

There’s one conference we have been attending for the past few years due to the number of operators, vendors and government representatives (from Central and Local Government) in the room — Connected Britain 2025 will take place on 24 and 25 September 2025 at London’s ExCeL Exhibition Centre. The event often attracts senior ministerial keynotes […]

Virgin Media O2 added some 480,200 mobile connections in Q2 2025 taking the groups mobile footprint to 46.2 million connections. Broadband customers appear to be voting with their feet with 51,400 leaving them with 5.6 million broadband connections. “Against a tough trading environment, we have continued to be disciplined delivering growth in profitability which means […]

DSIT has published its own analysis of what the various Project Gigabit contracts delivered in the period April 2024 to December 2024. We believe we can do better in terms of indicating what is going on much more recently. We are using the Open Data that was released by DSIT as part of its Open […]

The fibre to the premises rollouts continue and the combination of commercial and Project Gigabit rollouts has seen the full fibre footprint go from 78% of UK premises to 79.01% in 35 days. While we are finding ourselves spending more time mapping footprints from different providers that are bringing the second or third FTTP network […]

Starlink with its large low earth orbit clusters provides a key service to many people and as of 9pm UK time Starlink posted a short status message on X saying “Starlink is current in a network outage and we are actively implementing a solution. We appreciate your patience, we’ll share an update once this issue […]

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 […]