Category: Broadband

Background This article refers to some publicly made statements by former employees of Vitrifi and Vorboss. Both companies have Fern Fibre Limited registered as owning more than 75% of shares and voting rights. Fern Fibre Limited appears to be majority owned/controlled by Fern Infrastructure Limited, which in turn, is majority owned/controlled by Fern Trading Limited. […]

Normally when an area reaches its Stop Sell date and coverage of full fibre is above 75% in an exchange area the FTTP Priority Stop Sell rules are applied across the exchange. This means if you have full fibre via Openreach ready for service outside a property you cannot order copper or part fibre products. […]

Ofcom has announced that it is launching an investigation into both BT and Three following network outages in the summer that caused widespread disruption to call services, both mobile and landline (in BT’s case) and in particular, access to emergency services. The incidents that occurred were, firstly, on the 25th June 2025, an outage at […]

TOTSCo, the messaging platform that underpins the One Touch Switching system for broadband services, has reported record-breaking activity on Cyber Monday (1st December 2025). The surge in consumer demand around Black Friday and Cyber Monday broadband promotions translated directly into the highest daily volumes TOTSCo has seen since launch. Over the 24-hour period: The spike […]

Here is a round-up of some news pieces which didn’t make it into a full news article on our site this week. CityFibre appoints Neil McRae as its new CTIO Neil McRae, ISP veteran and current Chief Network Strategist at HPE Networking, will take on a new role as Chief Technology Information Officer. McRae has […]

BT is working its way through modernising its network, and there are several large components to this, which include switching off the copper PSTN network (PSTN switch-off), migrating users over to full fibre in place of the copper last-mile, and closing down its old telephone exchange buildings (Exchange Exit Programme), which have been the linchpin […]

Our tracking of Openreach full fibre rollout shows it is now covering 62.1% of UK premises and we saw it grow by 353,433 premises since 12th November 2025. The footprint is 20,681,690 premises Ready for Service and we’ve a list of around 2,500 premises where Openreach says service is live but several major retailers are […]

There has been a change to areas that are part of the Gigabit vouchers scheme with Shropshire now removed from the map and areas that are part of the GBVS. For those looking to use a broadband voucher as a way to speed up getting Gigabit broadband, remember that you need to form a project […]

The pace of the full fibre rollouts in terms of people seeing their first full fibre broadband option arrive continues to slow down. Oddly though there is still a lot of actual full fibre construction going on. The issue is that lots of the build spotted each month is now overbuild. A big reason for […]

Some news from this week which didn’t make a full news article. Truespeed partners with Bath Rugby A multiyear partnership has been announced by Bath-based Truespeed Communications with Bath Rugby, with the company sponsoring a stand at the club’s home ground, The Rec, to be named ‘The Truespeed Stand’. Fans will also benefit from free […]