Category: Broadband

Our weekly brief is out with some articles that may be of interest this week. Telecoms Consumer Charter signatories update Following the announcement of the Telecoms Consumer Charter this week, which aims to make mobile and broadband providers treat consumers fairly, the government have updated the list of signatories to the charter to also include […]

A community-owned broadband network, which has been running for 21 years, is planned to be turned off this summer. The network operates on the most westerly Hebridean island, Tiree and serves the island community, which has a population of around 650 people. Openreach has worked to install full-fibre broadband across the island under a Scottish […]

In the last week, we have seen some 14 addresses where we had previously seen Openreach make full fibre available, but subsequently remove the ability to order full fibre, and now these addresses are able to order FTTP again. Confusing, we know, but important for those living on these streets. That we are seeing addresses […]

Our usual weekly article on some broadband-related news that we didn’t cover in a full article. Broadband ISP Vispa ceases trading Manchester-based ISP Vispa has announced that it has ceased trading and will commence liquidation proceedings, with customers advised that they need to find an alternative provider. This will, of course, cause some upheaval but […]

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 […]