Category: Internet Service Providers

B4RN with 15,700 premises actually connected looks to be running at around 49% take-up with over 32,000 premises covered by the network. “When we set out our ambitions in 2019, we knew there was enormous untapped potential within rural communities, but what has been achieved by our very own volunteers and communities since then has […]

The common link seems to be Openreach based availability, but the public Openreach checker seems to be working. EE and BT as of 10:50am are saying we are fixed things, Sky is reporting issues, Vodafone appears to work in at least some Openreach areas, along with CityFibre, Zen Internet appears to be working but it […]

Olilo who describe themselves as broadband redefined for speed-freaks, sysadmins and home lab heroes has signed up to the Telecoms Consumer Charter. Three key parts of the consumer charter are: For Olilo the mid-contract price rises is easy, they don’t appear to do mid-contract price rises and even offer a rolling monthly contract for those […]

Some call it Project Mustang, some call it FibreUp but the programme Virgin Media O2 has underway to upgrade old coax DOCSIS 3.1 areas to XGS-PON full fibre has been underway for a while, but now with giffgaff selling its full fibre services using the nexfibre wholesale platform in some Project Mustang areas the landscape […]

The Telecoms Consumer Charter aims to build on the legal obligations imposed on all broadband providers by getting providers volunteer to be fairer and clearer with their customers, without all the extra work and cost of even more Ofcom legislation. Hyperoptic has been announced as signing up to the charter joining BT Group, Virgin Media […]

In the less than two years since the One Touch Switching platform started handling migrations it has seen 3 million switches completed. In May 2026 alone there was 147,894 switches completed. While the average match rate for matching someone to the right provider when an switch is started is still fairly low at 62.93% in […]

The Financial Times is reporting that troubled broadband provider TalkTalk has received a bid from VodafoneThree (FT.com subscription required) for its consumer retail operations. Back in March 2026, TalkTalk Group announced £115m of new funding from existing shareholders and lender group to support the company’s working capital, and it was actively seeking buyers for different […]

A TalkTalk study looking at how we all use our mobile phones suggests that many of us will pick up our phones to fill in gaps of just 30 seconds, and that the total average screen time per day may be 3 hours and 18 minutes a day. This is double the screen time of […]

We could have reported on this earlier but it was possible the issues we were seeing were genuine updates happening during the day, but now with the problems now ongoing for a few hours we are adding a news item. It is not clear exactly what the full scope of issues are with BT Consumer […]

The latest BT Group results are in and for the public a key takeaway is that revenue drops due to lower volumes of voice traffic are partially offset by in contract price rises and improved take-up of full fibre. Key points made by BT Group are: “FY26 was another year of strong delivery against BT’s […]