Category: Internet Service Providers

Scunthorpe residents on some streets now have another Gigabit broadband option to add to the existing Openreach, MS3 and Virgin Media services. Grain Connect has been spotted live in a number of streets in the Crosby area of the town, and hopefully will surface in more streets over the coming weeks and months. Pricing for […]

We recently became aware that broadband provider Exascale and Squirrel Internet have ceased offering new services over Altnet Gigaclear’s network which spans quite a wide area of suburban and rural South of England. This follows reports of Gigaclear’s retail business undercutting its wholesale prices when customers look to migrate away from its direct services over […]

The recently launched Virgin Gig2 hybrid (part fibre) service we started tracking just before 9th August 2026 has grown from an initial footprint of 250,000 to over 750,000 premises with the service available. This means Virgin Media is able to supply an asymmetric 2 Gbps service to a footprint of 9.86 million premises, with 9.1 […]

The latest altnet on our broadband maps is Go Internet who until recently was just offering a fixed wireless service but in the village of Chale they now offer full fibre. The Isle of Wight is no stranger to full fibre, as both Openreach and Wight Fibre are deploying on the island, but the most […]

An error by the Welsh Government led to the contract announcement for a £10 million broadband contract omitting Broadband 4 Wales Ltd (BB4W Ltd). A change notice has been issued correcting this. The Contract 2 Lot 2 that aims to deliver broadband speeds of at least 30 Mbps to areas of under 1,000 premises is […]

Exascale bundles a WiFi 7 router with their full fibre services, and there is now a discount available for those who can supply their own router that supports the VLAN and DHCP on its WAN interface. The vast majority of the public will prefer to use an ISP supplied router, as this makes support queries […]

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 […]