Category: Internet Service Providers

CityFibre is continuing what seems to be its single handed battle to convince the UK public that full fibre is better than any other type of broadband and a new survey of 1,000 serious games throws a number of soundbite facts into the mixture.

Our summary article for the ratings our visitors have given for customer service, service reliability and overall satisfaction with their broadband service for September shows the usual trend of small providers out performing the larger providers continues.

Now the dust has settled on the Virgin Media problems of Monday it is possible to look at what the various impacts were by using our broadband quality monitor that pings your broadband router to build a picture of latency over time.

We are aware of people reporting that Virgin Media is down in some areas of London and it appears to be an outage rather than slow speeds from looking at the latest speed test data.

Virgin Media is running a double speed promotion on four of its bundles for people signing up before 19th November 2018.

Sky is now just promoting one 'fibre' VDSL2 service its Sky Fibre Max product with an average download speed of 63 Mbps and with a lower price point at just £27/m.

Birmingham has been on the Openreach Fibre First hit list since the scheme was announced but its near neighbour Coventry has been added to the list on the same day as the Digital Minister was caught splicing some fibre in Birmingham.

IDNet has joined the select group of broadband providers selling the G.fast service and has also tweaked its other ultrafast FTTP packages.

The Openreach ultrafast footprint which comprises of G.fast and Fibre to the Premises is expanding quickly and has crossed the 1.4 million premises mark on its to a total of 8.7 million by the end of 2021.

The final piece in the puzzle of what Openreach is meant to become has happened as 31,000 BT Group employees have been moved over to Openreach.