Category: Broadband

We hope that Voneus and BDUK mutually agreeing the Project Gigabit contract for Mid West Shropshire is just a one off event, and all the other contracts will continue and deliver.

The latest TOTSCo data from its operational hub suggests that Monday 17th December was a spike for migrations completing and suggests after a big spike in switch orders on 2nd December that migrations take around two weeks currently.

Opensignal have looked at the fixed broadband market and examined which providers off the best services over a range of categories.

The OneTouchSwitching system has completed 300,000 switches since launching in September 2024.

The period of April 2023 to March 2024 accounts for BDUK have been published and while improving Gigabit coverage is no surprise, the break downs from the body overseeing Project Gigabit and the finances are important.

Our tracking of over 100 different full fibre roll-outs has seen the roll-outs now extend to 73% of the premises in the United Kingdom.

Its not clear exactly why, it could be everyone placed switch orders the previous weekend, Storm Darragh causing chaos or people just prioritising other things in the run up to Christmas but the last weekend saw a drop in the number of broadband switches started.

Another month has passed and its time to see how much has changed across the nations and regions of the United Kingdom in relation to broadband footprints.

For those without access to a full fibre or Virgin Media cable the news that the average (mean) download speed in the UK is now 223 Mbps will feel like a distant dream.

Black Friday is now in the past and while a good many broadband offers still have time to run, the statistics from the One Touch Switching platform reveal for the first time the scale of public interest.