Category: Internet Service Providers

Quickline was awarded its Project Gigabit contract for North Yorkshire back in June 2024 and has delivered full fibre to some 10,980 funded premises. With the delays in getting press releases put together this is likely over the 11,000 premises milestone now. The altnet has a total of four contracts in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire and […]

In a move aimed at simplifying its operating model and deliver a laser focus on selling services that utilise the CityFibre network footprint the big altnet is selling Entanet and its non-core off-net business to Tom O’Hagan. The sale means Entanet will become a strategic wholesale partner of CityFibre while also utilising other networks where […]

The Competition and Markets Authority has started its phase 2 investigation that will delve into the detail of the acquisition of Substantial (Netomnia i.e. Brsk and YouFibre) by Liberty Global, Telefónica and InfraVia (nexfibre). nexfibre and Substantial asked the CMA on 11th June 2026 to fast track the phase 2 investigation and has started the […]

Zen internet is one of the long standing independent broadband providers which has been operating for over 25 years, making them popular with many technical users. One of the features they offer is IPv4 address blocks, something most mainstream providers have never offered, as well as static IPv4 addresses which don’t change. Remember, if your […]

As part of a national awareness campaign that will run for a week from 4th July 2026 INCA has announced July 4th as Broadband Independents’ Day. The aim of the day and subsequent awareness events is make people aware of the options that are available to them. Some 3.6 million broadband connections are already up […]

As part of its Responsible Business planning Virgin Media O2 has revealed its Green Transition Plan which aims to both reduce its impact on the environment while also making its network and services more resilient to the climate crisis. “Our Green Transition Plan is a milestone in Virgin Media O2’s journey to become a more resilient, lower […]

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 […]