Category: Broadband

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) […]

Point Topic has released its latest update to broadband affordability with data up to May 2025. In their affordability tracker, they have looked to work out the lowest price broadband tariff available that consumers can purchase in every postcode, irrespective of technology. The price range is quite vast, with the lowest option being a fibre-to-the-premises […]

As mentioned in our earlier article this morning, It has been announced today that VodafoneThree will add the Community Fibre’s full fibre network to its portfolio allowing it to sell services to customers in areas without alternative coverage from its existing wholesale partners such as Openreach. This will provide access to 1.3 million homes in […]

The Independent Networks Cooperative Association (INCA), which represents the UK altnets has set out its proposals in response to the consultation on Government’s Digital Inclusion Action Plan. INCA showcases a few examples of how altnets are going beyond simply rolling out new coverage to help communities, such as WightFibre’s free/subsidised broadband on the Isle of […]

thinkbroadband analysis of Superfast, USC, USO and Full Fibre Broadband Coverage across the UK, its nations and regions for premises In descending order of Gigabit coverage – figures 7th June 2025 Figures in ( ) are the change since 7th May 2025 Area % full and partial fibre based i.e. VDSL2, G.fast or FTTP or Cable  % superfast 30 Mbps or faster Gigabit % Full Fibre […]

BT CEO Allison Kirkby is accepting lower wholesale market share for higher profitability, divesting international operations to focus capital on the UK. She predicts altnet consolidation to 2-3 nationwide wholesalers within 2-5 years.