Category: Internet Service Providers

Telecom Acquisitions is to take on 13,500 residential broadband and telephone customers from TalkTalk, with the customers being moved to its Fleur Telecom brand the beginning of September 2026. The affected customers who have started to be notified by TalkTalk about the change will not see any changes to their pricing or terms. The company, […]

We knew it was on the way and now we have mapped the first 250,000 premises where Virgin Media O2 has launched a 2 Gbps service that utilises its old DOCSIS 3.1 network. The footprint we’ve mapped so far is just 250,000 premises and while we expect there for be more it is clear this […]

The Government has issued a press release to highlight the work of several Project Gigabit contracts across Lincolnshire and Yorkshire which are all held by Quickline. Quickline is deploying a full fibre network to rural properties, along with a commercial rollout. 60,000 homes and businesses are able to access full fibre (Gigabit capable) broadband across […]

Aquiss Broadband has announced that they have switched-off the last of its ADSL customers after the connection was disconnected on the 3rd of August as part of a migration to a full-fibre FTTP service. ADSL, for those who may not remember, was the preceding technology to VDSL (fibre to the cabinet/FTTC) and launched in the […]

EE is now offering 2.3 Gbps and 8 Gbps options utilising the upgraded Openreach full fibre network which is now able to deliver XGS-PON in parts of the UK. The launch still has something of a soft launch feel to it, as you need to register rather than sign up via the usual EE pages. […]

The latest financial results from Virgin Media O2 show a declared footprint of 18.8 homes and the full fibre rollouts and upgrades are available to 9 million premises, so almost at the half way mark as the operator moves to embrace XGS-PON and full fibre rather than coax. In terms of customers, the level of […]

The end of the quarter on 30th June 2026 means its financial results time during July and BT Group has issued a short trading update. A fuller set of results is expected in October. A key take-away is that full fibre take-up continues to grow with the group now having 9.4 million premises connected via […]

How does paying less per month compared to always having the top-tier product sound, with a default much slower speed, but if you are using the service a lot, your speeds can increase all the way to the top tier? This is what a new product TalkTalk is offering seems to be doing with TalkTalk […]

When the broadband USO became reality back in 2020 with a 10 Mbps download sync speed it was hoped it would lead to lots more full fibre appearing in hard to reach areas, but for many the reality was actually a 4G fixed wireless service. Leap forward six years and ISPreview is reporting that Starlink […]

Moody’s has published a report that takes a look at the UK broadband and compares penetration and take-up rates with the collective EU+UK. For years the UK was lagging seriously with regards to full fibre availability compared to the EU 27, but since around 2024 when the UK drew level rollouts have continued. Of course […]