Category: Broadband

The very latest summary of where the UK and its constituent regions stand with regards to broadband availability has been published. Bad news for the South West region as they've now slipped to be the least Gigabit covered region of the UK.

Its unfortunate but a mutual agreement has been reached between Freedom Fibre and BDUK to terminate the contract that was in place to rollout full fibre to 15,000 premises across Cheshire.

There are signs on spring but time to look back at how the broadband picture changed from January to February in relation to the Ofcom competition areas.

The full fibre rollouts continue and while a lot of overbuild is going on the footprint is still expanding and could reach 95% FTTP coverage in another two years.

A Project Gigabit contract bringing broadband to around 11,000 premises across the Scottish Borders and East Lothian has been announced. These form part of a £26m contract awarded to GoFibre by the Scottish Government.

More changes on the the TOTSCO board with a new appointment and another resignation.

Building Digital UK runs Open Market Reviews every Jan, May and September and we've added the September 2024 data to our mapping system so that the public can easily see what status their property is.

One Touch Switching started in September 2024 and to date half a million switches have been completed.

As we enter 2025 we can report that the various full fibre roll-outs continue but with the increasing degree of overlap the overall pace is slowing down.

Octopus Energy is offering gift cards from £100 to £200 on sign-ups to selected Cuckoo broadband packages.