Category: Broadband

People in Devon are urged to sign up to the government’s Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme before the deadline in August is reached, with a report to the Devon County Council committee highlighting issues in the area around getting broadband rolled out. The GBVS scheme is due to end in August, and there are currently no […]

Loyalty is complicated and way overrated in many cases, at least with the largest providers. These days many of the larger operators (a few Altnets and Zen Internet aside), have price escalator clauses that kick in each April to increase your subscription costs every year. This triggers many to look at switching providers with a […]

A few pieces that may be of interest this week: Some in Orkney Islands are without internet access due to an undersea fibre break Around 500 customers in Orkney are offline due to an undersea fibre break between Evie and Westray in the Orkney Islands. The cause for the fibre break has not yet been […]

The migration from the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) over to Digital Voice has now breached the 3 million household milestone, with BT working to replace the 40-year old infrastructure with new modern systems before its switched off at the end of January 2027. “Upgrading the UK’s digital backbone is essential to make sure everyone […]

A few news pieces that we didn’t manage to get into a full article this week: Ofcom gives an update on the AVS Group investigation Ofcom has given an update on the AVS Group investigation in relation to breaches of the Online Safety Act. We covered details on this originally here. The update confirms that […]

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 […]