Category: Broadband

Some 4,400 premises in the eastern part of Gloucestershire are set to benefit from Gigaclear full-fibre in a £16 million contract.

The vast bulk of the 1 million premises in the announcement by Government is not via the big Project Gigabit contracts, in fact the bulk will be from the old Superfast contracts and gainshare extensions..

An estate that has Virgin Media part-fibre and Openreach VDSL2 services is trying to stop brsk rolling out its full-fibre service to the estate.

The company TOTSco formed to act as the intermediary for a massive upgrade to broadband switching in the UK has now launched its production environment and full support services.

The jump from 62% to 63% UK full-fibre coverage has taken us 18 days to discover and map. If the rate of change from the last nine months continues we expect to be reporting on 85% full-fibre coverage in July 2025.

Homes that already have full-fibre via the Openreach network appear to be upset about works to tidy up paths and are complaining about ruined views from windows in their properties.

The start of 2024 has seen a big jump in full-fibre availability with an almost 2 point jump in coverage in the last 31 days.

A bumper day for Project Gigabit contracts, suggesting that the delays caused by the Christmas and New Year holidays are definitely a thing of the past and hopefully we can look to many more contracts in the coming month or two.

Our investigation into social tariffs has shown that broadband providers are often making it very difficult for consumers to find them, unless they specifically go looking for them, leaving many eligible householders on various state benefits paying more for broadband than they need to.

The January 2024 Broadband Report is here. We have analysed the state of broadband in the UK and released our latest report which looks at how different areas of the UK are performing in terms of broadband, gigabit and fibre coverage. We also have a special feature examining Social Tariffs.