Category: Broadband

The period 12th May to 12th June has been an average month for mapping Openreach full fibre ready for service (RFS) premises with us adding 259,240 to the footprint which is now standing at 22,776,815 premises. The goal of 25 million premises passed by December 2026 means another 2.25 million premises need to built and […]

Our broadband maps have been updated and now feature the data from the Project Gigabit Open Market Review with the data being collected in January 2026 and released as a 31 million row data set in the last couple of days. The January 2026 data joins the previous sets from Sept 2025, May 2025, Jan […]

The latest BDUK delivery performance report has been published by BDUK. The data shows how many premises in the UK have received a gigabit-capable broadband connection due to a BDUK subsidy. The data covers the period April 2025 to March 2026. The headline estimate for the number of gigabit broadband capable connections that BDUK has […]

BDUK has advised that the National Rolling Open Market Review (NR OMR) has now closed. It collected data from the 6th January to 6th February 2026, with BDUK requesting suppliers to submit their national broadband infrastructure plans so that they can confirm where gigabit broadband exists and where providers plan to build it over the […]

AST SpaceMobile, the company that is building a satellite network designed for direct-to-device (D2D) connectivity for mobile devices, has announced that it will be launching 3 new satellites in June. Liftoff is targeted for 2:39 am on June 17th, onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The three satellites, known as BlueBirds 8, 9, and 10 […]

Availability of full fibre broadband across the UK continues to improve, but the roll-out pace is still massively slower than a couple of years ago. A lot of this is networks focussing on getting people signed up to premises they’ve already passed, and the long term hope there is that showing good take-up figures will […]

Broadband provider Aquiss has announced the launch of its 1.2 Gbps and 1.8 Gbps Openreach-based full fibre (FTTP) broadband services to complement post-Gigabit services offered through CityFibre, Full Fibre and Freedom Fibre. There are still comparatively few ISPs who are offering Openreach-based FTTP services above 1 Gbps. When comparing, it’s worth noting that whether the […]

Zen Internet adds FTTP services from MS3 Zen Internet has started offering Full Fibre services from altnet MS3 Networks. Details can be found in our broadband listings with a promotion active offering the Full Fibre 900 product for the same prce as the 500, until the end of August. MS3 launched to try and break […]

If you’re about to sign a new broadband contract, be cautious if there’s any risk you might need to move out during the likely 18- or 24- month contract period which most new broadband connections these days come with. The Renters’ Rights Act has made changes to rental agreements, so you have at least a […]

Private firms invested £36.44m in digital connectivity in the Swansea Bay region in FY2024-2025, according to a report released by Farrpoint for the region. There was also £2.2m from Swansea Bay City Deal and £6.14m from wider public sector investment across the four counties that form the Swansea Bay City Region, i.e. Pembrokeshire, Swansea, Neath Port […]