Category: Broadband

The UK Government is apparently delivering broadband upgrades at the fastest rate since the Project Gigabit contracts started in 2021. Slightly oddly while it is the case that Openreach is the largest contract holder now in Project Gigabit via the Type C contracts the press release fails to mention the other altnet broadband providers are […]

TOTSco, the body which runs the broadband One Touch Switch (OTS) platform, believes there are improvements that could be made to OTS performance and has launched a consultation to engage with providers to facilitate collaboration in making these improvements to the system. The system is now 18 months old and has handled around 2.5 million […]

Eight days since our tracking of broadband coverage across the UK hit 90% Gigabit availability and the broadband rollouts have continued with the UK Gigabit figure now sitting at 90.17%. Not all is perfect though as we thought we’d added enough coverage from multiple networks during the course of Friday to hit 83% full fibre […]

The weekly brief for this week with a couple of extra stories that we didn’t cover. Openreach tweaks FTTP expedite charges Openreach has updated their price list ot adjust the price of FTTP Expedite. From the 1st of March, the pricing of this option, which can speed up an FTTP install, will rise from £125 […]

EE have announced areas where a trial of next-generation XGS-PON will take place through Openreach. The technology has been used by altnets for some time now, with some like YouFibre offering 8Gbps for a couple of years. Pilot wholesale pricing for the services was announced in January, and now people in Guildford, Woking and surrounding […]

O2 has announced that they expect to spend £700m on network investment this year. This reiterates their existing Mobile Transformation Plan, rather than being an announcement of new funding, and continues the spend level seen in 2025, which was also announced at approximately £2m per day, or £700m. Considering inflation, this could actually mean that […]

A look at a few bits of news that have also come out this week. PXC reveals major updates to 1Portal PXC has updated its wholesale platform, 1Portal, focusing on end-to-end automation. The platform allows providers to order services including Openreach SOGEA, CityFibre FTTP, Community Fibre and Freedom Fibre, with further altnets in the pipeline […]

The Project Gigabit contract that FreedomFibre held for Cheshire until a mutually agreed termination was reached in eleven months ago has now been recreated as a Type C contract with Openreach set to deliver. The new contract is Call Off 8 and is said to be aiming to deliver Gigabit capable (i.e. full fibre) to […]

Our tracking of the UK and its constituent councils and 650 constituencies has the UK at 90.04% Gigabit broadband coverage as of 25th February 2026. 90% Gigabit coverage is a significant milestone on the way to the political ambition of 99% Gigabit for 2032, and follows on from the UK reaching the 85% milestone back […]

GoFibre was awarded a Project Gigabit contract for North East Scotland last summer with a contracted value of £105 million to deliver Gigabit capable broadband to 63,000 premises. The altnet full fibre operator who has an existing network in North East England and Scotland has announced work starting in Stonehaven, St Cyrus, Laurencekirk, Auchenblae, Letham […]