Category: Broadband

London based fibre network G.Network has undertaken research into the impact of broadband speeds on business productivity. A poll of over 500 decision makers in London-basec companies highlighted that a significant majority (71%) of businesses believe slow and unreliable broadband is having a negative impact on their business.

The full-fibre roll-outs continue at pace. In the last 12 months FTTP coverage has risen from 42.81% to 58.17% and is on track to reach 85% in September 2025.

The clocks have gone back but the amount of full-fibre being found has jumped ahead as we have seen the UK go from 57% coverage to 58% coverage in just 3 weeks.

With well over 600 properties in Pluckley now able to get full fibre from retailers who use the Openreach network the village which is the most haunted village according to the Guiness World Records book resident should not suffer any spooky broadband issues anymore.

While there has been a wave of full-fibre builders saying they have slowed down their builds we are still seeing the overall figures increasing. Could this be down to some providers who are willing to pay the civils contractors the increased prices that inflation has brought about?

We could have posed the classic headline question where the answer everyone already knows is no, but we wanted to say a bit more about why this article exists.

Residents of a village near Great Cransley, Kettering in Northamptonshire using alt-net Gigaclear's full fibre service have been without broadband for almost a week now due to a fibre break taking the village offline.

With the pace of the many broadband roll-outs identifying the slowest places is a puzzle that keeps changing as you assemble it, but Broadband Genie is the latest trying to highlight slow streets.

The pace of the full-fibre roll-outs and future plans analysed by Ofcom suggest that if all the plans are delivered FTTP will be available to 91% of the UK by May 2026.

The UK has nudged the level of full-fibre coverage from 56% to 57% in a period of 30 days and if we can keep finding more newly built network at the same pace as the last nine months will reach 85% in August 2025.