Category: Broadband

We’ve just published a guide on the PSTN/Analogue Switch Off, the move by BT Openreach to transition from copper-based technologies to full fibre. Eventually, copper-based phone lines will be removed completely, but the first step of this process is to migrate the telephone service (voice calls) from being plugged directly into your phone line to […]

The latest BT Group trading update has been released, covering the quarter ending 31st December 2025. On the one hand, we have a record rollout of full fibre and some 8.2 million premises connected and subscribed to a full fibre service. On the other hand, we see declining revenue of 4% compared to the same […]

Broadband services tend to be sold on the basis of 12-, 18- or 24-month initial contracts. Sometimes you need to renew these for equal terms to avoid switching onto a higher tariff, a bit like “Standard Variable Rate” mortgages. In other cases you can stay on reasonable costs after this time, without tying yourself to […]

Back in September, the Independent Parliamentary Standard Authority (IPSA) which regulates and manages the business costs of the 650 or so Members of Parliament, announced a public procurement for a broadband service/broker to manage the broadband services and ‘IPSA-funded living accommodation’: “IPSA would like to put in place a contract to provide high-quality reliable broadband […]

A summary of some articles that we didn’t write about this week Zen CEO to climb 5-storey HQ building for charity Richard Tang, the Zen Internet CEO, has announced that he will be climbing the 5-storey Zen HQ building in Rochdale to raise money for the Women’s Housing Action Group, based in Rochdale. In the […]

The latest regular update from BDUK on the progress of its Project Gigabit contracts has been published, and given for those actually affected this will invariably be the first full fibre broadband available they will already know if they now have an option they did not before. The number of premises is rounded to the […]

The last week has seen the total of full fibre coverage in Plymouth, Devon, drop from a peak of 80.21% to 79.15%, and while it’s not the first council area in the UK to see footprints change in a negative direction, we felt an explanation was worthwhile. This is a long way from the first […]

West Midlands Police arrest gang stealing Openreach copper West Midlands Police have posted a video showing a gang of suspected cable thieves at work in Birmingham city centre who were arrested on suspicion of theft after officers were alerted by members of the public. A van carrying cables was also recovered by the officers. Virgin […]

We’ve ingested the 30 million addresses for England and Wales from the latest DSIT Open Market Review released in January 2026 and the maps have been rendered and interactivity updated to let everyone browse the data. DIST collects the Open Market Review data every four months, i.e. January, May and September of every year and […]

Jeff Bezos’s space company Blue Origin, a rival to SpaceX, has announced plans to launch a satellite network that will be capable of supporting 6 Tbps data services between points on the earth. It will use optical links to provide high bandwidth services, but home users should not get too excited yet, as the technology […]