Category: Broadband

We’ve expanded our tracking of the many fibre to the premises footprints to now try and track how much each of the Project Gigabit contracts are delivering. This is possible due to the Open Data from DSIT on Project Gigabit i.e. we are now doing analysis on the millions of addresses in addition to just […]

The UK, along with most European countries, charge Value Added Tax (VAT) on most goods and services. The ‘standard rate’ for this in the UK is 20% having previously been at rates of 17.5% and 15%. What most people may not realise is that there are goods and services taxed at lower rates, typically as […]

A new report issued by ISPA ahead of its annual Parliament and Internet Conference has revealed some stats showing how important the broadband is to UK consumers. The report marks the 30th anniversary of ISPA and covers a range of key issues affecting the telecoms sector, such as broadband rollout, online safety, fraud, and digital […]

Lots more full fibre found in the last four weeks as the UK has gone from 77.73% coverage to 78.60% compared to a much smaller amount the previous month, whether this pace is sustained only time will reveal. The overlapping of the many full fibre networks continues to grow at pace with 31.55% of UK […]

The second tranche of Project Gigabit Open Data from DSIT for England and Wales was released earlier this week. After data ingest on Thursday and changes to our mapping systems everyone can now see the 30 million UPRN on an interactive map. As of 9:45am on Saturday 5th July the tile rendering is on zoom […]

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 […]