Category: Broadband

A couple of short pieces of news this week: Two changes to the Project Gigabit Call Off 1 contract this month This month, we’ve seen two updates to the Call Off 1 Contract for Project Gigabit. CO1 includes parts of West Berkshire, West and Mid Surrey, North Wiltshire & South Gloucestershire, Hertfordshire, Staffordshire, Lancashire and […]

Lots of changes to the contracts CityFibre has been awarded as part of Project Gigabit, the end result being that CityFibre is now aiming to deliver full fibre to 226,000 premises via subsidy. This includes the 70,000 subsidised premises already delivered. The total number of CityFibre addresses built in the Project Gigabit contract areas is […]

Openreach has been working to electrify its fleet to help it cut carbon and reach its net zero goals – aimed at being a net zero business by 2031. The company started its journey moving away from diesel in 2019, and since then has deployed over 7,000 vans. This equates to around 30% of its […]

A round up of some news bits that we haven’t covered this week. Virgin Media O2 launches responsible business plan to reach net Zero VMO2’s new responsible business plan, as part of its Environmental, Social, and Governance strategy, will see the company plan to keep 500,000 low-income households connected. The new plans also see the […]

Broadband Altnet Community Fibre covers much of Greater London (up to the North and South Circular plus a bit towards the M25) as well as patches in the South East generally. Our Community Fibre Broadband Map is available. They recently launched the latest Community Fibre broadband deals for consumers. This week they announced a 3-month […]

While the King’s Speech does not include the words broadband or Gigabit in it two key things in it should help with people getting Gigabit (usually full fibre) broadband as we move from the easy to rollout areas to more complex addresses. ISPA issued a statement highlighting what the changes should mean: “We welcome the […]

Ofcom has issued its analysis of data collected using its regulatory powers back in January 2026 and they put UK residential coverage at 89% in January 2026. We announced our Gigabit tracking hit 90.04% for all UK premises on 25th February 2026, if we filter for just residential premises our figure is 0.5 points higher. […]

DSIT has announced an additional 9,500 premises in Essex will be upgraded to Gigabit-capable broadband through Project Gigabit. This is part of a plan to target specific ‘full fibre blackspots’ in both rural and urban areas and is financed by £8.3m of government support. This allows Openreach to increase its rollout plans to cover these […]

Virgin Media sets broadband traffic record during Champions League Virgin Media O2 has recorded the biggest broadband traffic spike in its history during a Champions League semi-final match this week, with peak downstream traffic hitting record levels between 8pm and 10pm on 5th May. The peak was 17% higher than the average of Tuesday evening, […]

Another month and as its the first month of a quarter as usual the additions are subdued as the Openreach rollout peaks each quarter in the third month of the quarter. The big news is that Wales (88.14%) now has a higher percentage of Gigabit connectivity available than South East England (87.89%). thinkbroadband analysis of Superfast, […]