Category: Broadband

Our weekly news brief covers things that didn’t make it into our news this week. ITS Technology announces network expansion to 13 locations Altnet ITS Technology Group has announced the next phase of its network build, which will allow more businesses to connect. The company is focusing on its business network, delivering Ethernet over FTTP. […]

It has been 11 years since Tesco had a name in broadband, but that could be about to change as the company is reportedly (FT/paywall) in discussion with Virgin Media O2 / nexfibre about retailing services over their network(s). Tesco Mobile is a joint venture between Tesco plc and Virgin Media O2, with the network […]

Some news bits here that might be of interest from this week. Opensignal ranks the UK last in their European Network Excellence Index Opensignal has released an analysis of mobile networks across Europe, focusing on the experience of 4G and 5G networks. Of the 29 countries listed, the UK came last. This seems to be […]

It has been a long time since we looked at the state of new home statistics and starting in 2023 it looks like the UK has been hitting 99% full fibre availability in new-builds. Previously we used to present data based on calendar year, but we re-worked the analysis to shift to financial year, so […]

InfraVia Capital, which jointly owns nexfibre with Virgin Media O2’s shareholders Liberty Global and Telefónica, has warned (via The Times, paywall) that there could be a risk to investment in broadband if Openreach is allowed to monopolise this market. The company has said that its plans to invest to reach up to 20 million premises […]

A few brief bits of news from this week. Extending High Speed Broadband Framework Agreement for Wales signed The contracts for the Welsh Extending High-Speed Broadband (EHSB) scheme have now been signed. This is a project with two Lots defined to split contracts into projects with more than 1,000 premises and those with fewer than […]

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 […]