Category: Broadband

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

Freedom Fibre has connected it first customer in North Shropshire as part of Project Gigabit funding by the UK Government.

We look at what is involved when digging underground to build broadband infrastructure in the maze of cables, pipes and other subterranean assets.

The BT Group results to the end of 31st December 2024 are now available and we take our dive into the BT Consumer and Openreach statements.

After a break over Christmas its time to look at where the roll-outs of full fibre have been happening in terms of whether in the areas Ofcom thought would have lots of competition (largely urban) and the less competitive rural areas.

A combination of slowing roll-outs, Christmas break and overlapping full fibre networks has meant the jump from 73% full fibre coverage of the UK to 74% has taken 39 days.

TOTSCo has announced ahead of its weekly statistics update that Monday 13th January 2025 set a new record with 9,500 switch requests on a single day.

Eight Advisory has today published its report looking at full fibre take-up across the five largest UK broadband bands and various players in the alt-net market.

The copper switch off is not just a UK issue, the latest report from the FTTH Council Europe shows how far different European countries are on the path to being able to say no broadband is using copper in the form of ADSL or part fibre services.

While some broadband roll-outs have slowed down there is still plenty of roll-outs continuing and our regular look at the differences between the regions of the UK shows where full fibre coverage continues to improve.