Category: Broadband

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 […]

Virgin Media O2 has announced they have launched O2 Satellite, its direct-to-device service using Starlink to improve mobile coverage in the UK. This is the first service to launch in the UK, albeit on a limited basis, not supporting standard voice calls (WhatsApp calls should work). Several networks have been running services in other countries […]

BDUK has released its monthly tracking of progress for the contract-level data for Project Gigabit builds, which shows that across all areas, 21% of properties have had fibre built to them. The snapshot of data provided is dated 16th February 2026, but BDUK notes there is a time lag in the delivery of these premises […]

BDUK is reporting that the last quarter saw the various Government Gigabit programmes deliver 56,000 premises with Gigabit capable coverage. The break down between the three Gigabit programmes is: Since inception of the Gigabit programmes the total estimate for premises delivered is running at 1,373,800 premises which is 4.1% of the premises in the United […]

The acquisition of Netomnia (Substantial Group) and the retail customers of YouFibre and brsk is set to be a big change in the Altnet market, so what is Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) going to gain? The £2 billion purchase brings them the Netomnia full fibre footprint, which we have mapped at 3.07 million premises. It […]

At the beginning of the year, Storm Goretti which hit the UK and Channel Islands caused some extensive broadband outages, with Jersey Telecom reporting issues due to both power outages and damage to overhead cables. What none of those people anticipated is an ongoing problem lasting into mid-February with five-week outages. BBC News today reported […]