Category: Internet Service Providers

Over the weekend, we covered that the Financial Times was reporting that Openreach was considering suspending provisioning new services to TalkTalk due to unpaid bills (which have since been paid). TalkTalk has been struggling for some time, but has restructured its debts. TalkTalk’s account with Affiliate Window (Awin) has been suspended. The Telegraph quite surprisingly […]

In a surprise move Hyperoptic has announced it is working towards selling Openreach full fibre in addition to operating its own fibre to the premises network. The new strategic plan is is expected to see Hyperoptic launching its Openreach GEA FTTP service in Q1 2026 with a footprint starting at 1 million homes and this […]

Over the weekend, the Financial Times (FT.com) reported that BT’s wholesale infrastructure division Openreach was threatening to cease to provide new services to TalkTalk (subscription required) following unpaid bills, although the FT reports these have now been paid. Openreach provides access to its fibre network on a wholesale basis to both BT Group’s own businesses […]

TOTSCo has announced that one-touch switching has delivered over 1.13 million successful broadband switches and that there are now 332 different brands live on the system. The following graph shows the number of completed switches that have occurred by day and identifies the 1M switches point in early May. TOTSCo have also confirmed that following […]

It has been announced often enough, but it’s now finally possible to order Sky symmetric full fibre services across the CityFibre network. This means we’ve added the CityFibre wholesale network packages to our packages for Sky, with the main benefit for people being that the packages have the same download and upload speeds. Looking at […]

Hyperoptic is an altnet covering many city locations across the UK, especially blocks of flats has introduced mid-contract price increases to its products. It has long featured a policy of ‘no mid-contract price increases’, a feature many altnets have used to persuade consumers they are a better option than other providers. As reported by ISPreview […]

Our tracking of the Openreach full fibre rollout has reached 18.37 million premises Ready For Service (rfs) and the Virgin Media Gigabit footprint (i.e. where Gig1 is available) is currently at 18.35 million premises rfs. The criteria of Ready For Service is important as we know of at least two areas where Openreach is claiming […]

Widnes is the latest new place where we’ve mapped availability from Grain Connect and hopefully over the coming weeks and months the footprint will expand further. Grain Connect focus on urban rollouts and has a footprint of over 250,000 premises across Great Britain. The footprint in the Warrington area including Widnes is currently at 6,365 […]

The BT Group results for the year ending 31st March 2025 have finally been published. The headline for broadband being that take-up of the Openreach full fibre services was running at 6.5 million subscribing premises back at the end of March 2025. BT Group delivered strong progress against its strategic priorities in FY25, as we […]

GoFibre is now powering Kinghorn Community Library and has managed to see the charity reduce its broadband and phone bills, cutting them in half. Not only has the service from GoFibre been terrific, but we’re also grateful to the company for providing a donation to support the launch of our new STEM activities for children […]