Category: Internet Service Providers

1,600 addresses spread across three North Yorkshire villages now have full fibre from Quickline.

Plusnet is the last of the providers in the BT Group to adopt the same £3/m price on the 31st of March each year formula. This is actually a 12% price rise for people on a £24.99/month service with Plusnet, when inflation is running at around 2%.

Virgin Media O2 is highlighting that its nexfibre service is now available to over 20,000 homes in Milton Keynes. Given that Openreach and CityFibre is widely available it is a surprise to see Virgin Media also claiming their service is 26 times faster than the local average.

Hyperoptic will use £150m of funding from the UK Infrastructure Bank to boost rollout of full-fibre broadband

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Yeovil now has three full-fibre networks available to around 8,000 homes now, with nexfibre (Virgin Media O2), Jurassic Fibre and Openreach all present, and a once you count the Gigaclear footprint there are 3,000 with four different network options.

Fibrus is busy rolling out its full fibre service in various towns and villages across Cumbria in addition to its much larger footprint in Northern Ireland.

The last quarter has seen an additional sixteen communities gain access to Wessex Internet FTTP spread across Dorset, Somerset and Hampshire.

Turning the tables on the the latest interview series on Zen Internet CEO Richard Tang has asked Neil McArthur, Chairman of Freedom Fibre, to interview him.

The rate of inflation may have dropped to a less scary figure of 2%, but this does not mean price rises for UK broadband are going to be any smaller in 2025.