Category: Broadband

While the rollout is said to have been completed in January 2026, we suspect the wait until July for an announcement from Wessex Internet and Connecting Devon and Somerset (CDS) was due to the auditing process the Project Gigabit contracts undergo and the release of the Project Gigabit OMR January 2026 data a few weeks […]

We covered our Openreach full fibre tracking hitting the 23 million milestone back on 4th July 2026, and now it is time for our regular 12th of the month summary of the Openreach FTTP rollouts. The pace of 1 million premises going Ready for Service a quarter appears to have been broken, and while the […]

A round up of some news that wasn’t covered this week. Onecom win contract to provide broadband for MPs A contract to provide broadband for MPs has been awarded to Onecom at a value of £2.58m for a three-year term. This gives an average price of £110 per month. Onecom have wholesale deals with Openreach, […]

DSIT, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with LSBUD, Line Search Before U Dig, to help improve safe digging practices. The signing marks a joint commitment between the two to help reduce accidental damage to the UK’s critical underground infrastructure. DSIT run the NUAR, the National Underground […]

The UK Government has announced that 50 masts have now gone live in Scotland as part of the subsidised Shared Rural Network (SRN) which extends 4G mobile coverage to more rural communities to tackle mobile not-spots for mobile phon and data services. The SRN is a joint initiative between the Government and the mobile network […]

The news is that the UK has finally made it to 91% Gigabit broadband availability, through the combination of the full fibre rollouts and Virgin Media O2 cable network coverage. We reported on hitting 90% back in February 2026 so that additional point of coverage has taken 5 months. The expectation is that future point […]

Good news for FTTP availability as our tracking of the many full fibre footprints is showing 85.05% of UK premises are now covered by one or more Ready for Service options. The time taken to go from 84% to 85% is a lengthy 78 days. The slow down in the full fibre rollouts from almost […]

VodafoneThree to use Vyntelligence in network upgrades Vyntelligence will be used by VodafoneThree to help support engineers to upgrade thousands of mobile sites more efficiently and safely. This follows other companies such as Cornerstone (mobile tower site operator on behalf of Vodafone / O2) and Gigaclear, who are both looking at the technology to improve […]

*** UPDATE SAT 27 JUNE 2026 AT END OF ARTICLE *** The FIFA World Cup is one of the most watched live sports shows and when England is playing, the viewership skyrockets. As it seems does latency in some cases. When a network link congests, packets are often lost and/or latency will significantly increase. This […]

Our weekly news brief covers things that didn’t make it into our news this week. ITS Technology announces network expansion to 13 locations Altnet ITS Technology Group has announced the next phase of its network build, which will allow more businesses to connect. The company is focusing on its business network, delivering Ethernet over FTTP. […]